we really want your opinion

Zimluo

Hi, we are students from the University of Birmingham and now conducting a survey about cycling industry in the UK. We think you may be familiar with this area and your opinions will be really important for us. Would you take a little bit time to fill in this questionnaire for our survey? We appreciate your time a lot!
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We are very sorry for posting an unprofessional questionnaire before. Thanks for all your comments, we've improved our questionnaire as following:
* we improved the wording for the questions and options to make them more understanable.
* we eliminated unnecessary questions and options to save your time.
* we reorganised the order of questions to make them more logical.

If you're still willing to help us, please use the following link to access the new version of our questionnaire.
New questionnaire link: https://coventry.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/cy ... ey-final-3
Thank you sincerely for your precious time and kind help!

Angus Young

Not a bad survey compared to some of the tosh we see here on a weekly basis. Not perfect, but not bad. Done.

supersonic

Done. Not many age ranges!

Angus Young

supersonic wrote:

Done. Not many age ranges!

Young guys at University. Anything over 25 falls into the 'old' category.

philcubed

Some pretty poor grammar, but I'm just pleased to be in an age range that starts at 25, rather than 45!

supersonic

But we are still in the oldest group ;-).

Though I reckon 95% of the responses will be.

Crazyjenkins01

Did it yesterday, not a bad questionnaire but very road-centric to be honest

Zimluo

philcubed wrote:

Some pretty poor grammar, but I'm just pleased to be in an age range that starts at 25, rather than 45!

Sorry about the poor grammar, we'll improve it ASAP.
Thank you for your comments and participation.

Zimluo

Thanks all of you for participation, sincerely.
the reason why we don't set many older age groups is that we believe all the cycle enthusiasts have young spirit .

Zimluo

Crazyjenkins01 wrote:

Did it yesterday, not a bad questionnaire but very road-centric to be honest

Thank you for your opinion. May I ask which question(s) give you this impression? we'll try to improve.

Crazyjenkins01

Much better. The questionnaire has changed since I first did it. There are still some answers missing however.
"How much would you spend on a bike?" that isn't a simple answer. How much do i have? What do i want to buy? What time of the season do i want to buy? How much do i want the bike?.

An answer of depends on the bike would be useful. Also, not enough age ranges, and a text box for what brands do you know? is a bit irrelevant as the next question asks if you know these then gives an option of other which you then have to fill in.

LimitedGarry

Questions 10 or 11 ... come on. Some of the questions are pretty strange, but hey, someone put a bit of thought into it so I give it a pass as a university project.

LimitedGarry

Crazyjenkins01 wrote:

Much better. The questionnaire has changed since I first did it. There are still some answers missing however.
"How much would you spend on a bike?" that isn't a simple answer. How much do i have? What do i want to buy? What time of the season do i want to buy? How much do i want the bike?.

An answer of depends on the bike would be useful. Also, not enough age ranges, and a text box for what brands do you know? is a bit irrelevant as the next question asks if you know these then gives an option of other which you then have to fill in.

That question I think wants to ask "what's the maximum cash you'd dish out for a new bike?" And it has some validity for common people, as when you spend more than 2K on a bike, you're leaving the realm of mortal beings.

Zimluo

Crazyjenkins01 wrote:

Much better. The questionnaire has changed since I first did it. There are still some answers missing however.
"How much would you spend on a bike?" that isn't a simple answer. How much do i have? What do i want to buy? What time of the season do i want to buy? How much do i want the bike?.

An answer of depends on the bike would be useful. Also, not enough age ranges, and a text box for what brands do you know? is a bit irrelevant as the next question asks if you know these then gives an option of other which you then have to fill in.

Thank you so much for your detailed suggestions, we'll have a group meeting ASAP to discuss how to revise these questions.

Zimluo

LimitedGarry wrote:

Questions 10 or 11 ... come on. Some of the questions are pretty strange, but hey, someone put a bit of thought into it so I give it a pass as a university project.

Thank you for your comments, we'll try our best to improve the questionnaire.

figbat

Every survey tool I have used allows you to configure questions such that if you only want one response per line, you can limit it to a radio box rather than a tick box (i.e., you select one and if you select another it deselects whatever you previously selected). So either the tool is bad (unlikely) or the question type and configuration is wrong.

I also agree about the redundancy of the "Other" option in the "Have you heard of these brands?" question. Any brand mentioned in the previous question ("List any brands you have heard of") that is subsequently not in your list of brands is, by default, in the "Other" category.

I've written a fair few surveys and I know it takes a lot of thinking to write questions that get the data you are after, as well as defining the question logic, question types and so on.

6/10, good effort but needs more thought.

Zimluo

figbat wrote:

Every survey tool I have used allows you to configure questions such that if you only want one response per line, you can limit it to a radio box rather than a tick box (i.e., you select one and if you select another it deselects whatever you previously selected). So either the tool is bad (unlikely) or the question type and configuration is wrong.

I also agree about the redundancy of the "Other" option in the "Have you heard of these brands?" question. Any brand mentioned in the previous question ("List any brands you have heard of") that is subsequently not in your list of brands is, by default, in the "Other" category.

I've written a fair few surveys and I know it takes a lot of thinking to write questions that get the data you are after, as well as defining the question logic, question types and so on.

6/10, good effort but needs more thought.

Thank you so much for your helpful comments. We'll revise the questionnaire accordingly ASAP.

Wooderson

Happy to help - and the revised structure is an improvement.

rockmonkeysc

Which city do you live in resulted in a fairly meaningless answer from me I'm afraid. I don't live in a city (or town), can't stand people or traffic.
Questions seem very much aimed at road/touring. For me, rear suspension is one of the most important features when choosing a bike. I really don't like Trek's rear suspension, for that reason I'd never buy one. I really like Devinci's rear suspension which is one of the reasons I'm considering buying a Devinci Wilson. Frame material is also important, so is frame rigidity. I also don't want any of the ridiculously pointless new gimmicks like plus size wheels, boost axles and 170mm dropper posts.

mrbubbaman

Got to page 2 and gave up, sorry but the page load times were too long

FishFish

Loading times are just too long and that is at 5:20 am. Will try again later.

BOSSNUT.DAVE

All depends on what sort of bike rack system your using.