University of Salford - Bicycle Safety Project

grotesque

Hi everyone. Currently studying product design in University of Salford, Manchester. I'm currently doing a project about bicycle safety product and so need your help to do a short short questionnaire I myself have been cycling for almost 4 years now, from mtb to dh bikes to finally road bike and have been commuting to school for a few years and thus know the peril facing when cycling in-between the yellow lines. So i just hope you guys could help me fill up the questionnaire and either pm me, email me or just reply here. Thanks very much guys. My email is doestislooksinfected@hotmail.com

General
Question 1 - what's your age?
Question 2 - Male or Female?
Question 3 - How many times do you cycle in a week?
Question 4 - Do you usually cycle at night or day?
Injuries
Question 5 -Which part of the body do you injure the most?
Question 6 - What is your most serious injuries?
Accidents
Question 7 - Do you swerve or brake from accident?
Question 8 - What cause most accident? Debris, people or yourself?
Question 9 - Would you compromise looks and safety to gain speed?
Question 10 - Are you mentally prepared for the next accident?
Equipment
Question 11 - What are the absolute must have safety equipment?
Question 12 - Do you always wear helmets? If no, why?
Question 13 - How many blinkers do you have on you and your bicycle?
Buying product
Question 14 - What top 3 things you look at first when buying a safety product?
Looks? Price? Features? Weight? Material?
Question 15- What most expensive blinker you have bought in one purchase?
Question 16 - What do you look for when "setting up" your bike? looks? weight? price?
Hands signs
Question 17 - Do you use hand signs on the road?
Question 18 - Do you use hand signs to communicate to other cyclist?

THANKS EVERYONE! Really appreciate your time! Btw not all questions have to be answered but try. Thanks

bartimaeus

Try SurveyMonkey... people are more likely to fill in online. You will still get a fair few people asking why we should fill in a survey which is your first ever post (happens a lot) but such is life.

Blinkers... I don't use these. I do have front and rear lights which I set to their flashing mode when I ride on the road at night.

Gizmodo

grotesque wrote:

Question 13 - How many blinkers do you have on you and your bicycle?
Question 15- What most expensive blinker you have bought in one purchase?

What do you mean by a "blinker"?

grotesque

Blinker are front or rear light that flashes. Was hoping for a more focused survey. Thanks anyway

brettjmcc

No offense, but I went to Salford University and graduated in 1999... ah the good old days of the Pav @ Castle Irwell... anyway I digress.

Even back then they gave all students emails accounts that would be yourname@salford.ac.uk, I'm sure things haven't moved backwards since I left. So why are you using a hotmail adress to do valid university work?

Further, as others suggest above, why not get a software service to collate the responses. Christ, I even used a basic programme and an early webform to get the 480 reponses I used for my dissertation back in 1998.

Sorry, I've had a really bad day at work, but to pick up on one final point, do you 'actually' go to uni, or go you go to school, as you point out.

bartimaeus

General
Question 1 - what's your age? OLD
Question 2 - Male or Female? BLOKE
Question 3 - How many times do you cycle in a week? TWICE
Question 4 - Do you usually cycle at night or day? BOTH
Injuries
Question 5 -Which part of the body do you injure the most? MOSTLY SCRATCHES
Question 6 - What is your most serious injuries? BRUISED THIGH - DID NOT MISS HARD-TO-MISS TRAIL MARKER IN THE DARK
Accidents
Question 7 - Do you swerve or brake from accident? WHATEVER SEEMS BEST... OFTEN BOTH - CAUSING THE ACCIDENT
Question 8 - What cause most accident? Debris, people or yourself? TREE STUMPS... CAUSING UNEXPECTED RENDEZVOUS WITH HARD-TO-MISS TRAIL MARKERS
Question 9 - Would you compromise looks and safety to gain speed? NO I WOULD NOT WEAR A SKINSUIT
Question 10 - Are you mentally prepared for the next accident? NO
Equipment
Question 11 - What are the absolute must have safety equipment? BRAKES, A HELMET & LIGHTS AFTER DARK (this is a dumb question without context... if I ever did DH I would wear a full face, armour, a pressure suit etc...going down the pub, probably not)
Question 12 - Do you always wear helmets? If no, why? YES
Question 13 - How many blinkers do you have on you and your bicycle? TWO FLASHING LIGHTS AFTER DARK, NONE IN DAYLIGHT
Buying product
Question 14 - What top 3 things you look at first when buying a safety product? SAFETY, PRICE, FORM FACTOR
Looks? Price? Features? Weight? Material?
Question 15- What most expensive blinker you have bought in one purchase? £15... NOW I SPEND LESS
Question 16 - What do you look for when "setting up" your bike? looks? weight? price?
THE CORRECT TYRE PRESSURE AND SHOCK SETTINGS... you need to reword this one, mate.
Hands signs
Question 17 - Do you use hand signs on the road? YES
Question 18 - Do you use hand signs to communicate to other cyclist? RARELY

grotesque

Sorry about the email. My student email is J.Wang3@edu.salford.ac.uk. Can email it there too.

Thanks everyone. I'll just try my luck here.

tx14

Do you understand the concept of 'rubish in, rubish out' in statistics?

wishitwasallflat

Post it on Servay MOnkey or Bristol Online Surveys (most UK HEIs have an account with BoS) and I will fill it in but ain't copying and pasting and typoing it our sorry !!

paulus69

University tend to regard questionaires as a very poor and lazy way of gathering data. Have you thought about semi structured interviews or maybe a freedom of information request to find out about cycle related injuries from the hospitals and details of accidents from the police/insurers?

brettjmcc

paulus69 wrote:

University tend to regard questionaires as a very poor and lazy way of gathering data. Have you thought about semi structured interviews or maybe a freedom of information request to find out about cycle related injuries from the hospitals and details of accidents from the police/insurers?

Sorry, I have to slightly disagree, but it also then has to be measured by the fact that as the creator of the questionaire you have to ensure you can then measure the results to ensure you can then analyse and discuss within the project/dissertation you are doing. I had 460 respondents for my dissertation, which provided a significant enough population to be able to use as data point. At the time though there was not much research into my subject (Technophobia in relation to gender and age).

However, your point on the ability to access other data to be able to correlate and cross-reference to support/argue anginst hypothesis is more than valid