Savannah, ga, has a pretty strong ridership in this age range, as SCAD has completely transformed the city. Other than the exceptionally wealthy Chinese international students who mostly drive various imported luxury/super cars, most students ride bicycles. as a board member for the city’s bike/walk advocacy group, I’ve seen an amazing array of bicycles and female ridership is at least equal to male, if not higher, city wide. As far as fixed gear is concerned, there are a lot of cheap fixed gear bikes, such as ‘purefix’ and Other cheap bikes with those ridiculously deep anodised rims, but if you pay close attention, most people have them set up as a ss. I’ve not seen a single, proper classic track bike anywhere. the three bikes that reign king here are the cheap ‘fixie’ (most ss), the beach cruiser (we are a coastal town) and the ‘classic-ish’ european type city bike, usually with a shimano Alfine IGH, such as those by Linus bikes and Pure Cycles city bikes. The step through models being the most popular for men and women. I don’t find european style city bikes being the most popular all that surprising though, being an art school town. There are some classic road bikes around. Some of them converted to fixed or ss, some of them original and there are some modern track inspired fixed gears, such as aventon and Fuji and some other more ‘serious’ bikes. There are of course the typical modern hybrids as well. All in all though, you see a lot of ‘fixie’ style bikes, but very few are actually fixed, so I would say there isn’t much fixed gear culture here.

Electric bikes are popping up more and more though. I’m seeing more of them all the time. We have two bike share programs here as well, so there’s always a plethora of those, and one of the programs uses electric assist bikes. We also have an electric bike rental shop, so a lot of people are really taking to them.