Mountain Biking Survey – your help needed!

mtbsurvey

If you’re a keen mountain biker, I need your help to learn about your experiences and opinions of mountain bike access to the countryside in England and Wales.

• What are your riding preferences?
• Do you want more places to ride your mountain bike?
• What are your experiences of mountain biking at trail centres and on public rights of way?

If you’re passionate about mountain biking and can spare a few minutes to help with my research project please visit:

https://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/mtbsurvey

The questionnaire only takes a few minutes to complete and your input will contribute to research that may help benefit access to the countryside for mountain biking. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

This survey is being conducted by Matt Fitzgerald as part of a MSc Public Rights of Way and Countryside Access Management degree course at Sheffield Hallam University.

The research project is investigating mountain bikers' use and experiences of public rights of way (e.g. bridleways) and purpose built trail centres, and the implications this may have for improving both public rights of way networks and wider access to the countryside for mountain biking in England and Wales.

Please email mtbsurvey@gmail.com if you would like any further information.

mcnultycop

One of the better questionnaires that pop up on here, although some of the questions seem a little odd (grading public rights of way?).

However, one issue is the number of rides I have - it is somewhere between daily and weekly, but there was no option.

bartimaeus

Yes, I agree - good survey but the Daily / Weekly choice seems very odd as many of my friends ride on average twice a week.

cooldad

I ride mainly singletracks which aren't trail centres and don't seem to fall into your definition of PROWs, so I gave up confused. Maybe it's too late to think.

mtbsurvey

mcnultycop wrote:

some of the questions seem a little odd (grading public rights of way?).

Check out http://www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/visiting/things-to-do/cycling/mountain-biking for an example of how Exmoor National Park Authority have undertaken this.

cooldad wrote:

I ride mainly singletracks which aren't trail centres and don't seem to fall into your definition of PROWs, so I gave up confused.

If the singletrack you are riding doesn't fall under the category of PROW or trail centres it will fiit into the category of 'other' on the questionnaire - for example you may be riding on private land, public footpaths etc.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for your input.

LaurenceGough

Great survey, completed. Thanks!

Clank

A definate cut above the average user survey.

Actually completed!

Rockhopper_tm

Completed, glad to help.

chrisga

Done. Hope it helps.

mtbsurvey

The survey will close tomorrow at midnight. If you haven't yet completed it, I would be grateful if you could do so before then.

Thanks for your input everybody!

DodgeT

Done.

The Rookie

Done, well thought out survey, not the usual student rubbish!

bartimaeus

mtbsurvey wrote:

The survey will close tomorrow at midnight. If you haven't yet completed it, I would be grateful if you could do so before then.

Thanks for your input everybody!

You might earn some kudos on here if you post a summary of your findings... usually we get put up a survey with their very first post, and then vanish never to be seen again.

MDobs

done. interesting survey, do you have any personal opinions on the issue? expanding riding to footpaths would be a great move in my opinion, a lot of footpaths are hardly used anyway and so it wouldn't really have much impact on current users but open up large areas for mountain bikers.