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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:48:05 -0400
To: classic list <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>
Subject: [CR](no subject)

Brandon (the original)"monkeyman" asks:
>If fixed bikes we're so popular in the form of path racers into the
>60's why did their popularity go away?

My assumption on the matter is that most of the fixed gear enthusiasm was from Great Britain. Until the late '50s and early '60's automobile ownership was still not common there, so bicycling was popular for a longer time. They're still popular, just with fewer people. ;^)

Roy "rode both my fixed gears today" Drinkwater Lititz "still crazy after all these gears", PA