Originally Posted by
uncle uncle
Was there still enthusiasm for track racing in the USA by the 1960's? For some reason, I put the late heyday years in the 1930's... of course, I could be wrong.
Dick Power made a track bike as late as 1963, for Arnold "The Governor" Uhrlass, who competed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
1963 Dick Power racing bike at Classic Cycle | Classic Cycle Bainbridge Island Kitsap County
and Power didn't pass on until the 70s. The NYC area was the home of several well known track bike constructors. That doesn't mean track racing was nearly as popular in the 60s as it had been decades before. But as others have said, apart from kids and paperboys, cycling was not much of a nucleus for enthusiasm in the 60s at all. Recovery from the Great Depression and industrialization meant that more people had cars, and suburbanization meant that they
had to have cars. I grew up in the 50s and 60s; I had 3 bikes in that time. Did I consider my self a cycling enthusiast, or even know any: no.