What killed fixed gear?

I went to RHC in 2017, and have to say it wasn't as busy as I was expecting. Maybe the weather had something to do with it, but it just wasn't busy enough for a major company to see a positive ROI on sponsorship etc, possibly. It was 2017 I last attended.

I understand a lot of the content will have gone on social media, blogs and cycling print, so quite a lot of exposure. This isn't a dig at RHC at all, I thought the event was fantastic and well put together, but I just didn't find it that exciting.

This is 100% brand perception with no hard data, but I think the general public have lost their interest in RHC, and I doubt it'll be back again.

I really loved the branding of RHC, it's what cycling has needed for a long time. Again, another opinion, but the TDF is incredibly boring, as are the spring classics. I watch them because I feel I should, but then turn off.

Maybe the weather had something to do with it

The gale force winds and sideways rain? Yeah that will have had an affect.

Ooops, my mistake. I thought it was 2018 still. I didn't attend 2018, so I can't comment on it.

There wasn't a London one last year

Ride to work killed fixed gear..it suddenly became economically viaable to buy brand new cervelo.

Ride to work killed fixed gear..it suddenly became economically viable to buy a plastic chariot and become a MAMIL.

ftfy

This is a red hook crime saga, the names have been changed to protect the guilty...

Felt it needed posting...

https://youtu.be/7AETXnx_UkE

Yep.. too sad.
I know someone who flips a new bike every year turning a small profit and and never needs to service them.
Fantastic for the retailer and his Instagram account.

Ronnie Pickering ruined it for everyone.

who?

A government insider has leaked that it was actually Jeremy Corbyn that killed fixed gear.

Dani King's recovery ride RHC victory was top lolz

A page late but yeah.

hosers

Still scared to google this word.

It means "chirpy socialist suburban bicycle man wearing beret and cape"

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And his kid too

chirpy socialist suburban bicycle man wearing beret and cape

Who you callin chirpy?

blows kiss

August 2012

Fucking Olympics, showing fixie skidders how they're meant to ride. Not a cut down riser, arrospok or whipskid to be seen and nothing was bloody NJS, was it?

I know someone who flips a new bike every year turning a small profit and and never needs to service them.

You know @Dick too?

He's my mate, sold him a little speccy Mtb for his daughter in the summer.

"Premium Rush was released on August 24, 2012"

Do the beckhams not know how to strap in?

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He must be on here