Best budget single-speed: The Fuji Track Classic is what you would call your bargain single-speed bike. ... So if finding a unique ride is your thing, you’re going to have to start swapping parts or ...

The glossy black $1,199 Soltera I received for review is a clever mix of old and new technologies. Like many old-skool single-speed bikes, it uses rim-grabber brakes (by Tektro) instead of discs.

Single-speed bikes are the cycling trend from left field, the impossibly illogical populist fad that has, in the past couple years, put hundreds of thousands of people on bikes with just one ...