I’m an officer in the LA and help run a series of events. We are seeing a significant decline in participation with slow but steady declines since a peak of about 6-7 years ago.
Our state 40k TT used to draw 250+ riders and now 60% of that. Genuine road races struggle as they are “too hard”. There are die hard crit fans but the level of dumb moves is on the increase and older guys don’t want to get crashed out so they race less or will only time trial.
Demographics, our time trial series is 12 races April through August, the largest fields are now 50+, 55+ and 60+ Some new guys coming into these age groups as they retire and/or family demands lessen and they have time to train and focus on doing a race series.
We also run some “casual” TTs. These events have maintained steady state pretty well last five years.
Seems to be the hard core competitive series and road races taking the hit as too hard or too long. The lack of younger riders is a real problem over time as are promoters aging and retiring or moving out of mid Atlantic.
CX is also down from peak. CX was a huge fad for 2-3 years but that is over. Mtn bike and enduro on the rise.
FWIW