Statistik - utvärdering
Nu finns resultatet av touringcykelenkäten här:
http://www.cyclingaway.com/Touring/2003SurveyIndex.htm
Och en liten sammanfattning:
This web page contains references to:
- the survey in the form of a web page and an Excel spreadsheet
- lists of bicycles, tires, saddles, racks, and pannier/bags
- various other summaries about the bicycles, wheels/tires, gearing,
bags/racks, and accessories
Here are some basic results:
- 227 responses from australia, canada, UK, france, germany, NZ, slovenia,
south africa, spain, sweden, the netherlands, and US with most from the US
(171), canada (24), UK (10), and australia (8).
- most bikes were singles with 16 tandems and 1 triple
- there were 138 touring, 28 mountain, 21 road, 21 recumbent, 11 hybrid,
and 2 trike
- treks and cannondales were the most common at 33 and 18 respectively
- most common frame/fork was steel (155) and aluminum (35)
- most common brakes were cantilever (96), v-brake (58), caliper (45)
- most common shifters were bar-end (87), integrated brake/shifter (67) and
grip & thumb 25 each
- SPD pedals were far and away the most common at 122 followed by platform
(with and without clips) at 61
- Brooks saddles were the most popular at 90 (40%) followed by Terry at 22
- most bikes had triple chainrings and 1 tandem had a quad
- 8 and 9 speed were almost equal at 70 and 78 and 38 with 7 speed
- 126 wheels used 36 spokes and 26 used 32 spokes with 116 using straight
14 gauge spokes and 39 using 14/15 gauge (and a fair number of folks didn't
know how many spokes or what gauge)
- continental was the favorite tire brand, used by 1/3, followed by avocet,
irc, panaracer, schwalbe, and specialized, all in the 10-15 count range
- arkel, cannondale, and ortlieb were the favorite handlebar bag brands
- blackburn was the clear rack favorite followed by tubus and then jandd
- arkel was a slight pannier favorite over ortlieb followed by jandd
- the BOB was the clear trailer favorite (24 out of 43)
- 2/3 used mirrors, fairly evenly split between glasses, helmet, and
handlebar mounted mirrors
- cateye was the clear computer favorite (87) followed by avocet, sigma
sport, specialized, and vetta in the 12-20 range
/Eva
