Bike Cleaning Questions

damo2576

Hi,

Third time lucky!

I'm posting a survey on bike cleaning, the respondents to which will be entered in a draw to win £50 cash, the winner will be announced here.

To mods: please check with Nicklouse or Matt Coles before removing as this post has been approved!

The survey is here: http://bikecleaning.questionpro.com

It will take less than 4 minutes to complete. I'm asking the questions as I'm researching launching a new brand of bike cleaner and associated products.

I would really appreciate your help and it would be fantastic to have the communities feedback in potentially bringing a great new product to market and great to have the forum be involved onwards from there.

Thanks!

nicklouse

done, but i dont think my answers will help.

damo2576

washing up liquid man are you?! you can be converted!

weeksy59

Done..... now, where can we buy it ?

damo2576

We're formulating at the moment have have some exciting things in the pipe line! Sit tight! I'm confident we'll have something that will be a superior cleaning experience!

nicklouse

damo2576 wrote:

washing up liquid man are you?! you can be converted!

nope. just water, meths and beer.

more of a luber than cleaner.

damo2576

nicklouse wrote:

damo2576 wrote:

washing up liquid man are you?! you can be converted!

nope. just water, meths and beer.

more of a luber than cleaner.

Typical Yorkshireman!

lockrobnkel

Done, but I want something that magically cleans my bike for less than £5.99

Petty Vagrant

Done but why wasn't there a question about the cleaner smelling nice?

A mix of Fenwicks and GT85 is a s good as aftershave!

damo2576

There would have been - but I was limited by number of questions... It will smell nice by default.

Should have asked about colour too!

The Northern Monkey

nothing about washing my bike in the bath?! lol


Completed!

cooldad

Washing up liquid here.
One important question missing - I wash my bike after I use it, not at specific times.

damo2576

cooldad wrote:

One important question missing - I wash my bike after I use it, not at specific times.

Hi,
I could have asked that or given it as an option but I can derive that from other answers - that's why I ask how often you ride - if your answer to how often you clean is the same then I know you clean every time you ride etc. Asking both questions enables me to see the correlation between the two variables.
There were actually a lot more questions I should have asked but I prefer to keep surveys short to reduce drop outs. I would have liked to have asked a lot more demographic questions but felt people might be a lot more reluctant to give that information, age, earnings, location, occupation etc.
Thanks

j_l

Done, instead of 50quid how about two years supply of bike cleaner

Mr Dog

This forum is not for the purposes of market research.

projectsome

Mr Dog wrote:

This forum is not for the purposes of market research.

On what grounds? It's a bike product and this is a bike forum is it not?

Mental Mickey

I still don't get why some of my old Raleigh bike chains lasted 10 years at least without a single clean or lube and NEVER went rusty, yet stuff of today? Well, must be made of cheese.... :?

projectsome

done

Mr Dog

Ok, why dont we open it to every commercial entity with an interest in selling its' products to cyclists. The companies who pay to advertise on this site would then follow suit and you have no website.

projectsome

Mental Mickey wrote:

I still don't get why some of my old Raleigh bike chains lasted 10 years at least without a single clean or lube and NEVER went rusty, yet stuff of today? Well, must be made of cheese.... :?

How thick and heavy etc was it compared to your current chain though. bet it was tank like

timpop

Survey done.

Get over it Mr Dog. You're spamming the forum with useless drivel.

mak3m

done and shared on fb

gl

damo2576

Thanks guys.

Any more takers?

Bobhellen

done hope it gose well m8

thenarrowwizard

Done

Good luck with it

oh and for other people, it takes less than 2 minutes to complete

flipp

done ,best of luck would be nice to try you're product .I use Autoglym and Muc-off as I work for a motorfactors and we sell both these products.

Andy525

Done,

matt@theforce

I've done the questionaire too. I really should clean my bike more often, the brakes currently sound like your strangling a pig

damo2576

Thanks all for the responses, its been really great. I'll probably close survey this week and announce winner of draw towards the end of it.

You can see some of the results on a blog I've started http://dirtwork.posterous.com/.

Thanks

damo2576

You can also follow my progress on formulating etc at http://twitter.com/dirtworkuk

I'll be posting updates on both and also opening the call for testers!

damo2576

Ok, so as promised I have made the draw and the lucky winner has been emailed - check your email!

I've asked for their permission to announce here before I do as I though it was the right thing to do - I'm sure they'll want to brag though!

So well done to the winner, and thanks to everyone for the great response.

If you didn't complete the survey, you still can, it's just the draw that is now closed. The survey is here and takes less than 3 mins. http://bikecleaning.questionpro.com

Everything is progressing well, moving from sucessful lab test to tests in the wild this weekend, you can follow progress on my blog here, I'll also show some aggregated survey results there which are quite interesting: http://dirtwork.posterous.com/

And on twitter here: http://twitter.com/DirtWorkUK

Would be great to keep you involved.

Thanks again