That's where the couple keeps their road, mountain, fixed gear and cyclo-cross bikes, a workbench and bins for a host of accessories.

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And London-based architect Andy Martin teamed up with furniture company Thonet to design a gorgeous bentwood fixed-gear bike.

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Instead of stepped gears like a conventional transmission, it has a fixed planetary gear, and changes engine speed by adjusting the generator electric load.

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On the other hand, the fixed-gear bike, currently popular with hipsters and cycling purists, is rather too Spartan, not to mention tough on the calves.

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State Bicycle builds those fixed-gear bikes that hipsters love.

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Our approach was simply to get a meaningful down-payment and gear fixed monthly payments to a sensible percentage of income.

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But the momentum of WiMax means 802.20 could be a dead duck, says Zvi Slonimsky of Alvarion, the leading maker of fixed-wireless gear and a strong backer of WiMax.

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