Cycling motivation survey - looking for participants

[richards]

I clicked on your poster and what came up was “that page doesn’t exist”. What have I done wrong?

[freiston]

I clicked on your poster and what came up was “that page doesn’t exist”. What have I done wrong?

You missed the window of opportunity . . .

Many thanks to everyone who kindly took part. I've now closed the survey with 240 responses collected!

[Jdsk]

Thanks for coming back with the poster. And the resolution's fine.

How did you get from the results to identifying five groups? Cluster analysis? Or did those groups exist before this study?

And why do you only show results for two of the five groups?

Hello,

Thanks for your questions!

The five groups (factors) were found through exploratory factor analysis. I'm only showing the results on two scales simply due to lack of space. But daily cyclists score significantly higher on all scales except 'Sports and socialising'.

I think that ever was the case - at one end of the spectrum you have ne'r-do-wells (like myself) who are content with seemingly trivial mileage on machines that many wouldn't be seen chucking into a skip, but who cycle on a (almost) daily basis and at the other end those cyclists, whether touring, or racing but will only do so in groups and perhaps only on a weekend when there's no chance of rain.. but when they do cycle, attempt heroic feats such as distance cycled, speed and altitude climbed...

Certainly it's possible someone to occupy more than one place along this spectrum but usually due to the maturing age and attitude of the rider...

Aren't these groups of factors rather than groups of cyclists?

Jonathan

[almostvegancyclist]

Many thanks to everyone who kindly took part. I've now closed the survey with 240 responses collected!

Here's a poster showing what I've found. The responses show there are five groups of motivators for cycling. Daily cyclists scored higher on all except 'Sports and socialising' compared to non-daily cyclists. Please feel free to share what you think about the results! (Sorry, can't make the resolution any higher)

[almostvegancyclist]

I clicked on your poster and what came up was “that page doesn’t exist”. What have I done wrong?

Updated the post to show the image, thanks for the alert

[almostvegancyclist]

Thanks for coming back with the poster. And the resolution's fine.

How did you get from the results to identifying five groups? Cluster analysis? Or did those groups exist before this study?

And why do you only show results for two of the five groups?

Jonathan

Hello,

Thanks for your questions!

The five groups (factors) were found through exploratory factor analysis. I'm only showing the results on two scales simply due to lack of space. But daily cyclists score significantly higher on all scales except 'Sports and socialising'.

Jimin

I think that ever was the case - at one end of the spectrum you have ne'r-do-wells (like myself) who are content with seemingly trivial mileage on machines that many wouldn't be seen chucking into a skip, but who cycle on a (almost) daily basis and at the other end those cyclists, whether touring, or racing but will only do so in groups and perhaps only on a weekend when there's no chance of rain.. but when they do cycle, attempt heroic feats such as distance cycled, speed and altitude climbed...

Certainly it's possible someone to occupy more than one place along this spectrum but usually due to the maturing age and attitude of the rider...

Hello,

Thanks for your comment. The five factors represent different motivators for cycling, so as you said it's likely that cyclists may be motivated by more than one.

[almostvegancyclist]

Hello,

Thanks for your questions!

The five groups (factors) were found through exploratory factor analysis. I'm only showing the results on two scales simply due to lack of space. But daily cyclists score significantly higher on all scales except 'Sports and socialising'.

I think that ever was the case - at one end of the spectrum you have ne'r-do-wells (like myself) who are content with seemingly trivial mileage on machines that many wouldn't be seen chucking into a skip, but who cycle on a (almost) daily basis and at the other end those cyclists, whether touring, or racing but will only do so in groups and perhaps only on a weekend when there's no chance of rain.. but when they do cycle, attempt heroic feats such as distance cycled, speed and altitude climbed...

Certainly it's possible someone to occupy more than one place along this spectrum but usually due to the maturing age and attitude of the rider...

Aren't these groups of factors rather than groups of cyclists?

Jonathan

That's correct, so it's likely that cyclists have more than one group of motivators for cycling.

[Jdsk]

Thankyou

Jonathan