General Cycling Discussion - Survey!! new product research... please fill out!

Greetings all. I am Justin, and am attending Purdue University. I am conducting a product research survey for one of my classes, and was hoping you all could please reply with your selected answers. Its only 12 questions... thank you much. Enjoy.

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
a. Truck
b. SUV
c. Sedan
d. Compact
e. Others (specify)

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking
d. Sailing
e. Team Sports

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
a. Yes
b. No
c. What is a receiver hitch?

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
a. Never
b. Rarely (two times a year)
c. Seldom (twice a month)
d. Often (more than once a month)
e. Frequently (once a week or more)

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
a. Bicycle Rack
b. Trailer/Towing
c. Water Sports (kayak, canoe, ski)
d. Barbeque grill
e. Others (specify)

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
a. Yes (specify)
b. No

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
a. Difficulty to attach/remove/assemble (Not user friendly)
b. Difficult for full rear access of your car
c. Difficult to store
d. Not attractive
e. Ergonomically incorrect
f. Expensive and not worth the price
g. Not durable i.e. easily broken or bent
h. Too Heavy
i. Nothing, I am satisfied with my back rack
j. Others (specify)

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
a. Yes
b. No

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack
b. 1 bike
c. 2 bikes
d. 3 bikes
e. 4 bikes
f. > 4 bikes

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
a. Mountain
b. BMX
c. Road
d. Children
e. Others (specify)

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
a. Easy and secure attachment
b. Easy but insecure attachment
c. Difficult but secure attachment
d. Neither easy nor secure attachment

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
a. Yes
b. No

I have bikes that I place in my truck bed and I have a receiver hitch that is solely for the purpose of hooking up my Airstream Travel trailer.

Sorry, I don't have time to put this in line with the specific questions but hope it helps anyway.

Scott

Okay, I'll bite. And I'll expect my free subscription in the mail :D




Greetings all. I am Justin, and am attending Purdue University. I am conducting a product research survey for one of my classes, and was hoping you all could please reply with your selected answers. Its only 12 questions... thank you much. Enjoy.



1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
a. Truck


2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking


3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
a. Yes


4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
e. Frequently (once a week or more)

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
a. Bicycle Rack
b. Trailer/Towing

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
b. No, not that i would want.

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
i. Nothing, I am satisfied with my back rack


8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
b. No

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack
b. 1 bike
c. 2 bikes

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
a. Mountain
c. Road


11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
a. Easy and secure attachment


12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?

b. No

Okay, I'll bite. And I'll expect my free subscription in the mail :D

Whoa Mike,
You have way to much time on your hands..... :D

Sitting home sick sucks. I missed the Tuesday night ride due to a cold, and a pulled neck muscle....arrrggg. what else am i supposed to do? :(

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
d. Compact

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
c. Biking
e. Team Sports

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
b. No

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
a. Never

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
N/A

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
N/A

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
N/A

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
a. Yes
b. No

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack
b. 1 bike


10. What kind of bikes do you use?
c. Road

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
a. Easy and secure attachment

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
b. No

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
a. Truck
b. SUV
c. Sedan
d. Compact
e. Others (specify) Bicycle

1.c
2.c
3.b
4-8.n/a
9. Dont use
10.c
11.Dont use

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
b. SUV

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
b. No

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
N/A

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
N/A

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
b. No

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
N/A

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
N/A

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
a. Mountain
c. Road
e. Others - hybrid

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
N/A

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
N/A

What kind of class is this? Sales 101? :p

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
d. Compact

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking
e. Team Sports

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
b. No

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
a. Never

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
N/A

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
N/A

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
N/A

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
N/A

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
a. Mountain

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
N/A

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
N/A

actually... it for a mechanical engineering design course. i'm not a sales major at all, which is why the survey kinda seems cheesy and dumb. thanks for the input though.

actually... it for a mechanical engineering design course. i'm not a sales major at all, which is why the survey kinda seems cheesy and dumb. thanks for the input though.

Going on the gist of the survey, I'm guessing that you're trying to find out if there's a market for some cunning new bike rack. Seems to me that this market is pretty much tapped out with designs already on the market to suit everyone's needs. For the record, I've got one that I'm prefectly happy with, and am not inclined to get another, no matter how clever it is.

If you want to design a new product, then come up with a new product, preferably one that fulfills a necessary purpose. I for one could use a front fender that mounts to a Cannondale headshock fork. No-one makes one of them.

Finally another Boilermaker! Ah I remember my Mechanical Days back in 97'. I'll do just about anything for and to be Alum.

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
b. SUV

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
b. Hiking
c. Biking

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
a. Yes

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
b. Rarely (two times a year)

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
b. Trailer/Towing

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
b. No

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
i. Nothing, I am satisfied with my back rack
j
8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
b. No

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack (Roof Rack)

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
c. Road
a. Mountain

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
c. Difficult but secure attachment

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
a. Yes

yeah... that's basically the gist of it. our assignment was designing a new reciever hitch/trailer hitch accessory. our group moved toward the bicycle rack end of things. maybe incorporating a rack that would be able to be marketed towards more than just bikers. like campers or adventurists as a whole. that's what the survey is for... to get an idea of what the consumer wants.

btw... HAIL PURDUE!

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
a. Truck

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
b. Hiking
c. Biking
z. hunting

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
a. Bet your ..oops I mean yes

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
e. Frequently (once a week or more)

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
a. Bicycle Rack
b. Trailer/Towing
e. Others (specify) ball hitch for contact point to hook up chains, rope to drag limbs, tree logs etc for wood cutting. 4WD truch BTW- holds boom for liquid chemical sprayer

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
- yep definitely.




7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
c. Difficult to store - I use a 'boom pole sprayer' in my hitch on my farm, a real pain to handle.


8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
a. Yes depends
b. No depends
z. Price and useability decides.

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
b 1 bike

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
c. Road

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
a. Easy and secure attachment

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
e. Others (specify) car with glued on baseball bat

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
e. Helping college students in need of valuable data

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
c. I glued a baseball bat to the hood...it looks cool now

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch (aka-glued on baseball bat)?
b. Not often - it's glued on, but you should see it...friggin cool

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
d. Barbeque grill
e. Others (specify) Counseling - my insurance does not cover mental healthcare costs. The bat does just fine

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
a. Yes (specify) More bats and glue. Is this my world?


7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
d. Not attractive
j. Others (specify) At times, my glued on baseball bat is shy and unresponsive. Maybe I should feed it? Please advise

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
a. Yes - Mr. Johnny #1 Superbat best friend with sparkle glue (available in Hokkaido only). Man, that thing would be sweet

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
g. Huh? I am talking about a bat and you feel the need to change the topic? How am I supposed to help you when you do that?

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
e. Others (specify) Louisville slugger, about 9 years old. Elmer's wood glue. Beyond that, you lost me on this one

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
e. bats bats bats bats bats bats bats...

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
a. Yes only from the front
I hope this helps!

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
e. Others - a bike

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking
d. Sailing (kayaking, actually)

3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
a. Yes (sort of)

4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
c. Seldom (twice a month)

5. What do you use the hitch for?
Please select all that apply
b. Trailer/Towing
c. Water Sports (kayak, canoe, ski)
I use it to tow a kayak trailer with the bike.

6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
a. Yes (specify) Probably, but I don't know if there's demand.

7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
Please select all that apply
i. Nothing, I am satisfied with my back rack

8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
b. No

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
e. Others (specify) Hybrid

11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
N/A - no bike rack

12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
No, I cannot. This may be due to the fact that I don't own a car or a bike rack.

--J

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
e. Minivan

2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?

b. Hiking
c. Biking


3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?

b. No
c?

9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
a. No bike rack

10. What kind of bikes do you use?
a. Mountain
c. Road

1. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
d. Compact
e. Others - bike
2. What kind of activities do you enjoy?
a. Camping
b. Hiking
c. Biking
3. Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch?
b. No
4. How often do you use a receiver hitch?
a. Never
6. Do you think there are other items which can be carried by a hitch accessory which is not currently available on the market?
a. Yes - bike repair stand
7. What are the major problems of your hitch accessory?
g. Not durable i.e. easily broken or bent
i. Nothing, I am satisfied with my back rack
j. Others not secure enough
8. If there is an improved accessory which addresses your concerns above, will you be interested in purchasing one?
b. No
9. How many bikes do you usually put on the bike rack?
c. 2 bikes
10. What kind of bikes do you use?
c. Road
11. Does your bike rack provide easy and secure attachment?
b. Easy but insecure attachment
12. Can you access the back of your car with the bikes on the rack?
a. Yes