Originally Posted by
JimmyNH
Yeah TH, it's not just the Conejo. There is no more Ride around the Bear and as far as I know, the Tour of Poway is dead too. The rides that still exist, don't get even half of the participants they used to get just 5-6 years ago. And compared to the hey-days of cycling back in 2005-2008, today's rides look like a small bunch of drinking buddies who got together for a ride.
A couple of years ago I posted a poll about this.
Is recreational cycling dying in SoCal?
From the 31 guys that responded, 21 said "cycling is alive and well", but it looks like the 4 pessimists
will end up being right. I personally, don't see much of a reason for the decline. Maybe I'll start a thread
about this. Or you can start it?
Let's see what people think.
I was apparently one of the optimists.
Whoops. Maybe everybody is a "why pay to ride the roads I ride all the time" style curmugeon now, who knows.
I don't get it either. Well, I'm doing TDPS in a week and they USED to get 11k riders until they moved the ride to January. It'll be "interesting" to see what they get this year.