Google Trends: “fixed gear” vs. “road cycling”
Here is an unscientific, apples-to-oranges comparison of Google Trends search volume over the last 12 months for “fixed gear” in blue vs. “road cycling” in red:
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There are lots of interesting things here, but two that jump out at me are how much of a bump “road cycling” gets during the Olympics around point C relative to volume during the Tour de France in July, and how quickly it falls off afterwards.
huphtur http://thehotcrew.com/
December 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pmCool use of Google trends. If you zoom out even further (5 year period) you’ll see when fixed gear “took over”.
And yur blog could use some akismet (comment spam blocker)
Rare Groove Rider
January 1st, 2009 at 7:22 pmIm going long offroad unicycling, short “fixed gear”.