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What do you think about the bicycle market?
My daughter, a college junior, is seeking free advice:
--------------------------------------------------------- I'm doing an informative speech next Friday, and I was thinking about speaking about the bicycle market. Maybe talk about why it's doing so well, and what problems bicycles have been used to solve. Or, should I talk about the variety of designs in bicycles? How they can be used for transportation, weight loss, or even portable vendor stalls? Maybe I could work that in... Anyhow, you being an avid bicyclist and marketing researcher, I was wondering if you had any good links or insights into this topic. --------------------------------------------------------- Why keep this opportunity all to myself? Chime in with your thoughts and I'll pass them along. Said daughter is reasonably bike savvy, and owns two road bikes, a hardtail mountain bike, and has our old Schwinn Twinn tanndem on permanent loan. |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
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My daughter, a college junior, is seeking free advice: ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm doing an informative speech next Friday, and I was thinking about speaking about the bicycle market. Maybe talk about why it's doing so well, and what problems bicycles have been used to solve. Or, should I talk about the variety of designs in bicycles? How they can be used for transportation, weight loss, or even portable vendor stalls? Maybe I could work that in... Anyhow, you being an avid bicyclist and marketing researcher, I was wondering if you had any good links or insights into this topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Why keep this opportunity all to myself? Chime in with your thoughts and I'll pass them along. Said daughter is reasonably bike savvy, and owns two road bikes, a hardtail mountain bike, and has our old Schwinn Twinn tandem on permanent loan. Some of the "best" bicycle shops in this area are ones concerned about repair and maintenance while the ones that make the most money are foremost in marketing to people who religiously follow the careers of professional racer heroes. Therefore, I think you might consider these aspects and decide which one you want to investigate. The one is almost entirely a marketing business in which the bicycle could just as well be an SUV or fine clothes, while the other cultivates trust and credibility in advice and mechanical expertise. Mechanical expertise was once largely wheel building and drive train adjustment, but today, as you can read in these threads, are no longer the mainstay of the business. In a way, it's like auto shops no longer adjusting valves and points, and replacing capacitors and a bunch of small stuff that no one expects to fail these days. Jobst Brandt |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
On Oct 31, 7:18*pm, "ZBicyclist" wrote:
My daughter, a college junior, is seeking free advice: --------------------------------------------------------- I'm doing an informative speech next Friday, and I was thinking about speaking about the bicycle market. Maybe talk about why it's doing so well, and what problems bicycles have been used to solve. Or, should I talk about the variety of designs in bicycles? How they can be used for transportation, weight loss, or even portable vendor stalls? Maybe I could work that in... Anyhow, you being an avid bicyclist and marketing researcher, I was wondering if you had any good links or insights into this topic. --------------------------------------------------------- Why keep this opportunity all to myself? *Chime in with your thoughts and I'll pass them along. Said daughter is reasonably bike savvy, and owns two road bikes, a hardtail mountain bike, and has our old Schwinn Twinn tanndem on permanent loan. Informative speeches in college level speech classes generally run somewhere around six minutes in length (or at least they used to ages ago). I'd think that would be just barely enough time to contrast the New and Old World markets with markets in the Third World and in more developed but still emerging economies. Commuters and what we refer to here as transportational riders might object but true transportational *markets* (markets, not use) exist only in the second category. Regards, Bob Hunt |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
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"ZBicyclist" writes: My daughter, a college junior, is seeking free advice: --------------------------------------------------------- I'm doing an informative speech next Friday, and I was thinking about speaking about the bicycle market. Maybe talk about why it's doing so well, and what problems bicycles have been used to solve. Or, should I talk about the variety of designs in bicycles? How they can be used for transportation, weight loss, or even portable vendor stalls? Maybe I could work that in... Anyhow, you being an avid bicyclist and marketing researcher, I was wondering if you had any good links or insights into this topic. --------------------------------------------------------- Why keep this opportunity all to myself? Chime in with your thoughts and I'll pass them along. Said daughter is reasonably bike savvy, and owns two road bikes, a hardtail mountain bike, and has our old Schwinn Twinn tanndem on permanent loan. She should keep her oratorio succinct and focused on a few (five is a good number) interrelated key points. In fact, the transcript could be structured around those points. The "bicycle market" as a topic can be approached from either of two P'sOV -- that of the purveyors, and that of the consumers. She should first select one of those, and then stick to it without crossing over to the other POV. The trouble with such broad topics is that they lead to the temptation to "ramble" in various directions, thereby losing the audience. So broad topics need to be narrowed, structured and focused. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
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Bob writes: Informative speeches in college level speech classes generally run somewhere around six minutes in length (or at least they used to ages ago). You've never had to endure the Twenty Minute Presentation, eh? I'm sure you've had to endure a /lot/ in your profession, but at least you've got one more (unexpected) blessing to count. I can think of all kinds of lovely, unfortunate demises of overhead projectors, along with the associated stoopid crinkled transparencies and out-of-ink pens. My favourite revenge fantasy about overhead projectors involves a bathtub. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
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"ZBicyclist" wrote: My daughter, a college junior, is seeking free advice: --------------------------------------------------------- I'm doing an informative speech next Friday, and I was thinking about speaking about the bicycle market. Maybe talk about why it's doing so well, and what problems bicycles have been used to solve. Or, should I talk about the variety of designs in bicycles? How they can be used for transportation, weight loss, or even portable vendor stalls? Maybe I could work that in... Anyhow, you being an avid bicyclist and marketing researcher, I was wondering if you had any good links or insights into this topic. --------------------------------------------------------- Why keep this opportunity all to myself? Chime in with your thoughts and I'll pass them along. Said daughter is reasonably bike savvy, and owns two road bikes, a hardtail mountain bike, and has our old Schwinn Twinn tanndem on permanent loan. I think the most interesting fact about the bicycle market is that while the greatest volume of bicycles is sold through non-specialty stores (ie department-store bikes), at least half the bike market by dollar value flows through specialty shops (mainly the LBS). Breaking down the market segments might be interesting, as you might be able to find some recent stats and see what exactly the bike market has done over the last 3-5 years, and what kinds of bikes are suddenly selling better. As someone else mentioned, a talk of this nature should devote at least a sentence or two to the third-world bicycle market. What it lacks in monetary value it makes up for in relative economic value to its users (ie a bike in the third world might be the owner's most crucial and valuable asset; it's trite to cite it, but the old Italian film "The Bicycle Thief" revolves around a bicycle as an economic tool). -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
Ryan Cousineau wrote:
As someone else mentioned, a talk of this nature should devote at least a sentence or two to the third-world bicycle market. What it lacks in monetary value it makes up for in relative economic value to its users (ie a bike in the third world might be the owner's most crucial and valuable asset; it's trite to cite it, but the old Italian film "The Bicycle Thief" revolves around a bicycle as an economic tool). Thanks to everyone for their advice (and feel free to contribute more). With regard to Ryan's point, I've got a number of pictures of economic bicycle use from my trip to India in 2006 that she could use. There might be a person or two from Ghana in the class, who could probably chime in on this later. |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
On Nov 1, 1:47*am, (Tom Keats) wrote:
In article , * * * * Bob writes: Informative speeches in college level speech classes generally run somewhere around six minutes in length (or at least they used to ages ago). You've never had to endure the Twenty Minute Presentation, eh? I'm sure you've had to endure a /lot/ in your profession, but at least you've got one more (unexpected) blessing to count. I can think of all kinds of lovely, unfortunate demises of overhead projectors, along with the associated stoopid crinkled transparencies and out-of-ink pens. My favourite revenge fantasy about overhead projectors involves a bathtub. cheers, * * * * Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca My "six minute" comment stemmed from my long ago experience in intercollegiate speech competition. Visual aids were not allowed. Thinking of my later experiences with overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations, I can empathize with your revenge fantasy about overhead projectors though I'd make sure the presenter was in that bathtub as well. Regards, Bob Hunt |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
I'm not expert on the topic, but I do happen to be the daughter who is
making the speech, so I'm an expert on that. My speech is 10-12 minutes long, and can involve a powerpoint projector (much to the dismay of those posing above, I believe). Upon further discussion with fellow students, I am leaning more towards how the bicycle has been viewed nowadays to be a cure-all for so many problems these days "Suddenly a bicycle seems like the remedy for many modern ills, from petrol prices to pollution and obesity" (Source: http://www.economist.com/business/di...ry_id=12270958) It would be interesting to comment on how Europeans seem to use them mostly for basic transportation, whereas becuase of the lack of bicycle trails (and lovely inventions such as the domesticated hummer) in America, Americans view it as more of a hobby. This is quite different from the third-world all-bets-are-off view of the bicycle as game for any use at all. In fact, one of the best inventions of water purification for third world countries invoved a bicycle contraption of some sort (http:// http://www.portlandonline.com/WATER/...82068&c=48449). You're totally right. It is very difficult to say anything of real insight and importance in a 12 minute speech. Whittling it down is what I really need help with. Thanks! Abigail p.s. this is totally off-subject, but I was just riding down to school when my derailer bent completely sideways. Now it's bumpin' up against my spokes when I walk it. Is this a normal problem? Can I just bend it back? I suppose this should be a seperate post... |
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What do you think about the bicycle market?
On Nov 2, 8:34*pm, Abigail Kruger wrote:
p.s. this is totally off-subject, but I was just riding down to school when my derailer bent completely sideways. Now it's bumpin' up against my spokes when I walk it. Is this a normal problem? Can I just bend it back? I suppose this should be a seperate post... You probably rode over a stick and it jammed up for a second, then broke away. If it's the derailer itself that bent, you can bend it back but it may be terminally weakened. If it was the 'hanger' that bent, it can usually be straightened with a larger crescent wrench. Either way, it should be taken to a bike shop for a better evaluation asap. |
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