Worcester university cyclists study

[bianchi1]

Just posted this in Mountain Biking but will stick it here as well! As part of my University degree I am hoping to study the motivations and motivational differences present in road and off road cycling. At the moment i am just trying to find out how many people participate in both forms, be that in a competitive format or for leisure, road cycling in the summer and off road in the winter for example.

So out of interest are there any cyclists local to the Worcester/Malvern area that ride both disciplines and perhaps wouldn't mind being part of a dissertation?

Any information that I could get would be greatly appreciated and, this study is still in its 'feasibility' stage so no data is being collected or recorded.

Cheers.

 

[Mad at urage]

"motivations and motivational differences present in road and off road cycling. At the moment i am just trying to find out how many people participate in both forms, be that in a competitive format or for leisure,"
Are those the only two reasons people might participate in cycling? Or are you deliberately excluding other motivations?

 

[dellzeqq]

see if you can find a man by the name of Alan Lord. He's a cycle campaigner in your neck of the woods, and is well worth listening to.

http://www.bikepacker.co.uk/ is out of date, but it might be some help.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/classad...-24-22944&subj=Big+Angnes+Seedhouse+2+Tent+FS gives a contact number

 

[Zoiders]

There are no real differences.

The whole "road" verus "off road" thing is contrived.

 

[bianchi1]

"motivations and motivational differences present in road and off road cycling. At the moment i am just trying to find out how many people participate in both forms, be that in a competitive format or for leisure,"
Are those the only two reasons people might participate in cycling? Or are you deliberately excluding other motivations?

if i wanted to investigate all forms of cycling ie-commuting-track-downhill-fixed wheel-unicycling-tandem-touring-time trialing-road racing-cross country-ultra endurance-leisure-bmx-freestyle---the list goes on!! i would end up spending my final year doing a huge study that would result in data so confusing it would be meaningless. So yes i am deliberately excluding other forms of cycling, not really motivations though. Intrinsic / extrinsic factors may be present in all forms for example.

The idea is to expand on existing research that already exists (on Norwegian mountain bikers ) which indicates some surprising motivational factors present in riders that may not have been expected.

Having participants that undertake both 2 forms of cycling (they may do more) should give some interesting results.


I suppose in a nutshell the question would be do people go on a road club ride for the same reasons as thrash around a trail with their mates?

 

[bianchi1]

There are no real differences.

The whole "road" verus "off road" thing is contrived.

Hopefully the study i will do will go some way to proving this or disproving this.

 

[bianchi1]

see if you can find a man by the name of Alan Lord. He's a cycle campaigner in your neck of the woods, and is well worth listening to.

http://www.bikepacker.co.uk/ is out of date, but it might be some help.

http://www.ukcampsit...house+2+Tent+FS gives a contact number

Cheers. I will look into this.

 

[Zoiders]

Hopefully the study i will do will go some way to proving this or disproving this.

I rarely find that studies set out to find there was nothing to prove or disprove in the first place.

Bias will creep in because of that.