Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A transmission, usually by toothed wheels, in which only one pair of wheels or one pair of transmission elements is involved: usually one wheel and one pinion, for the gain of power and loss of speed or for a gain in velocity with corresponding reduction of power.
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Examples
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I noticed in the single-gear crew viddy, that the guy who didn't make it to the Brooklyn brewery was referred to as a "Momma's boy".
The State of Affairs: Sniffing the Winds of Change BikeSnobNYC 2010
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She said that some " European " comfort bikes, while attractive with their retro designs and colors, may have retro, single-gear set-ups that would be hard to ride in our neighborhood.
Pedal Pushers: Finding the Perfect Two-Wheeler Jane Hodges 2010
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Some riders are clearly adepts, like the ones riding fixies — fixed, single-gear bikes.
Archive 2009-11-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Some riders are clearly adepts, like the ones riding fixies — fixed, single-gear bikes.
Friday BSNYC Pleasure Examination! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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So much of my riding has been done in France, living and working as an expat for the last decade, and now that I'm back in the states, I'm mystified by the enthusiastic and recurrent scatalogical self-reference to fixies by people who ride single-gear bicycles, costumed in what appears to be contrived urban attire.
Something to Ponder: Bike Lane Ethics BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Retired construction worker Luciano Berruti is 64 years old, and still rides his single-gear Peugeot bicycle from 1907.
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I was riding a standard single-gear rental bike, almost 40 pounds of welded iron supported by cartoon-size tires topped with a duct-taped marshmallow of a seat.
SFGate: Top News Stories travel@sfchronicle.com (Bill Fink 2011
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In order to qualify for consideration, the airfield must have a runway that's 5,000 feet long, 100 feet wide and capable of supporting a 25,000-pound single-gear weight.
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That's the way it is with bike polo, an intersection for all kinds of cyclists: mountain bikers, single-gear "fixed" riders, the bike-as-transportation set.
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OK, actually, for the competitors, MBW VI really started a few hours earlier at the "Badass Challenge," in which entrants defied logic by racing their single-gear kid's bikes UP the hill
This Just In 2009
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