Google Trends: “fixed gear” vs. “road cycling”
Posted on 20. Nov, 2008 in Bike industry, Trends
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.
Cool use of Google trends. If you zoom out even further (5 year period) you’ll see when fixed gear “took over”.
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Im going long offroad unicycling, short “fixed gear”.