Originally Posted by
Yash Chandak
Hi All,
My name is Yash Chandak and I am currently pursuing my masters at UCD. I am doing an assignment on the commuter bicycle market in Ireland and the motivations and perceptions of people about it. One of my methods for collecting data is via netnography (internet etnography) which in simple words is browsing through forums and social media websites and looking for posts, comments and opinions of current and potential customised bicycle buyers. There are a few ethical guidelines I need to follow and they include me actually posting this on here so I can get your approval of using your posts as data. On top of that, I am hiding all information about people's names and post dates so everything stays anonymous. If someone is not ok with me doing this, please leave a comment and I will make sure not to include your comments in my paper.
Please help me by answering the following questions:
1. What do you love and hate the most about commuting bikes (solely as as a product, not their use)?
2. And why do you feel this way?
Thank you all,
Yash
I don't know how helpful this will be for your research, but I have commuted by bike for 20 years on at least 10 different bikes, not one of which was designed or marketed as a commuter bike. (Road bikes, mountain bikes, CX bike, fixed gear, and I've even ridden my TT bike to work.) I suspect that this applies to many of my fellow bike commuters as well.
University College, Dublin. Ireland. Do you really want the opinions of a bunch of Americans?
There's a street in Dublin named after my family (the respectable ones who stayed at least).