Oops, I shouldn't post after my bedtime...
>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