The fixed-gear cycle There are so many types of bicycles we know: a child bicycle with 3 wheels, regular bicycles for adults with “woman” and “man” frames, sport bicycles of any type and so on. Now I want to describe another one type of a bicycle which I use for my out-door wheeling. It’s called a “fixed-gear bicycle”. At the first look the fixed-gear bicycle seems as a regular little bit old-fashioned bike with a thin frame and simple design. But it is only at the first look and I’ll try to explain main differences in few grammatically-incorrect English sentences. So, it needs to remember that the pedals, a chain and a rear wheel are the one system. It’s applied for all range of bicycles, and it’s applied for the fixed-gear bike. But in the case of the fixed-gear bike it has one significant difference: the sprocket of the rear wheel of the system has a lock. Consequently, the rear wheel has no free rotating relatively of the sprocket, that is to say it is “fixed”. In other words, when you rotate the pedals in one direction, the rear wheel start moving in this direction, if you start rotating in opposite direction, the rear wheel does the same and rotate in opposite direction. Of course braking on the bike with this type of gear is not much comfortable for novices. I guess it is not comfortable for the major part of all bicycle riders, so to do efficient braking many riders have additional brakes on the handlebars. The reader of this article should ask me for now: “So, what the point of using this incredible machine? Why do the people choose this type of bicycle with strange design?” Well, I don’t really know what to say, although “just try and you got it”. When I sat on the saddle and start pedaling of the cycle at the first time I started feeling a strange and unusual thing: the bicycle drives of you, not you drive of it. It’s like the bike has its own character and you have to hear this character and interact with it. And I liked this sense that is reason of my choice.