My friend would be very grateful if some of you could take the time(5 minutes) to fill a survey looking at how people anthropomorphise bicycles i.e. give them names, attribute personality etc.
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Thanks in advance!

Done,

It was weird though.

Not enough to be monogamous.

*confused*
I was confused by the “bicycle helps me out” question until I remembered that it often prepares dinner and cleans the house for me, I’d have been in trouble if I’d forgotten to mention that.

Yeah some of the questions are a bit wierd if you’re a ‘bikes are just metal’ person like me. However I know a few people are a bit more sentimental.

Gonna produce some interesting result – a lot better thought out than many of these we see

fixed link so it doesnt go through facebook

done it.

Just weird

I gave up. What a pile of S****.

very odd….but done.

done

“my bicycle has saved me from crashing”

NO – it does what it does and just because it’s more capable than I expect sometimes it hasn’t actively saved me
(is that what the question is about ?)

Strange one that, unless you are a wierdo who names bikes and thinks they have feelings.

Interesting. A lot of typos that you simple MUST correct because they make it seem unprofessional.

Good luck with the study. Assume you will report back your findings?

It’s not my survey but I’m sure they’ll post something on here when it’s done. It’s a psychology study by the way.

NO – it does what it does and just because it’s more capable than I expect sometimes it hasn’t actively saved me
(is that what the question is about ?)

I guess there might be a difference between people that think the bike has saved them/has a name/has a personality and those of us who just see it as a load of parts. I dunno the specifics of what it’s trying to elucidate but I’m sure the research is informed from phenomena elsewhere e.g. motoring, other sports, musical instruments etc.

It’s a psychology study by the way.

No Poo!

Now I think about it I should probably have named them, might have made things a bit easier on the domestic front..

Me: I’m going riding at Gisburn this weekend
Mrs7: (feigning interest) Which bike you going to ride?
Me: The Specialized
Mrs7: Which ones that?
Me: The full suss?
Mrs7: Emm, no, which one’s that?
Me: Err, the Grey one?
Mrs7: ahh, ok have fun

Interesting. A lot of typos that you simply MUST correct because they make it seem unprofessional.

FTFY

😉

I feel affection toward them; think they are beauties; they have style and riding personalities and are animate when being ridden. But they still seem to be, very clearly, machines.

Is it wrong to love a machine?

Oof; you got me hungry monkey 😉

None of my bikes have names, other than the brand/make of the bike, but they are all definitely female. I love the fact they’re all machines. Shiny bits and bobs all together to make something greater than the sum of the parts. Bikes are brilliant aren’t they?

I gave up. What a pile of S****.

Agree.

That survey is actually a test of your logical consistency as several questions are the same but reworded.

so do people name, talk to and treat their bikes nicely so they will be nice back?

It wasn’t long before I found the exit button top right.

Mental. I like it.

Its much better than and apparently more thought through than the survey that asked if you were:
interested in/ hated gay people
interested in/ hated people of different ethnic origins
interested in/ hated those crazy psychedelic drugs like marijuana mannnnn….

Strange one that, unless you are a wierdo who names bikes and thinks they have feelings.

You never see them moving by themselves but you meet them in the least accountable places unexpectedly. Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser of a warm kitchen when it is pouring outside? Near enough the family to hear the conversation? Not a thousand miles from where they keep the eatables?

The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles…when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones

Done, good luck. I have to say though:

My bicycle cares about me

WTF?

when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones

Are you Eric Cantona?

My bicycle cares about me

Aye, there were a few questions that seem odd at first, but when you know what the study is about, they make more sense. Does anyone here anthropomorphize their bike? Or is just no one admitting to it?

Funnily enough this morning on breakfast tv there was a woman on there cos she no longer loved people, she loved objects instead, actually fell in love with buildings and objects WTF

I kid you not she dumped the Drum Kit and fell in love with the statue of liberty WTF

Done. 🙂

That was bonkers.. Mind you, I had to point out that none of my bikes are named, but my car is called Larry. Who’s bonkers now, hmm?

Has somebody been reading Flan O’brian?