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  • Poll failure
  • z1ppy
    Full Member

    http://singletrackworld.com/

    What brand(s) of bike do you own? Pick all that apply

    “Maximum number of choice allow: 3”

    Really? Only 3? 😯

    Dave
    Free Member

    Chipps says you can only have three favourites.

    z1ppy
    Full Member

    but But BUT this is STW, where n+1 for number of bike you should own is (or should be) in the rulz! 😉

    … and anyways all my bikes are special to me! If Chipps heart isn’t big enough to love all his bike, why are we penalized? :mrgreen:

    asterix
    Free Member

    too many categories – too few responses!

    midlifecrashes
    Full Member

    No Scott, Surly or Salsa? That’s just the ‘S’s. Going to be a winner for ‘Other’

    shermer75
    Free Member

    +1 no Surly!!

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    Was about to say no Scott.
    Best if my selection of “Other” is interpreted 3 times 😉

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    My 3 favourite brands aren’t listed.

    *feels very niche*

    swavis
    Full Member

    No Salsa for me either, at least I got my Singular in.

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    No Dartmoor either… feel insecure now.

    midlifecrashes
    Full Member

    Should we just keep voting in batches of 3 until we get them all in?

    asterix
    Free Member

    +1 for no Scott

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    at the moment Orange is the top scoring named manufacturer, so good to see STW stereotypes enforced…

    Would it have hurt to sort them alphabetically?

    chipps
    Full Member

    Naming all the larger bike brands in the UK was harder than we thought, so we’ll add more as we realise who (else) we’ve missed out. We’ll add a few votes in for the missing ‘S’ brands…

    As for only three brands? We had to draw a line somewhere as we’d get too many votes for pub bikes, road bikes and rusty heaps in the back of the shed 🙂

    brakes
    Free Member

    6 bikes, three brands, all represented apart from ‘chinese eBay special’ frame.
    this is an interesting poll, but then we were due one… 🙂

    warpcow
    Free Member

    Why am I gfetting “Maximum number of allowed choices: 1” when I try to pick the three I actually own then? I know my bikes are all similar, but they’re from 3 different brands.

    stumpyjon
    Full Member

    It just told me I could have only 1, sounds like my wife, she’s wrong too.

    miketually
    Free Member

    Only allowing one for me too now.

    swavis
    Full Member

    Lol @ stumpyjon 😀

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Chipps says you can only have three favourites.

    I would have thought Chipps was too busy trying to track down the owner of a ’03 plate green Vauxhall, than wasting his time laying down poll rules?

    amplebrew
    Full Member

    No Jones, Dekerf or Mosaic; so all mine are an ‘other.’

    Thought Jones would have been an option, there seems to be a few on here 😀

    chipps
    Full Member

    03 plate… 🙂

    Jamie
    Free Member

    timraven
    Full Member

    Why am I gfetting “Maximum number of allowed choices: 1” when I try to pick the three I actually own

    Me Too!

    warpcow
    Free Member

    Works now.

    MostlyBalanced
    Free Member

    Merida and Tomac account for four of my bikes and are also missing. They’re more mainstream than some that are there.
    Also Dean who I will accept are rather niche.

    ir_bandito
    Free Member

    I clicked “other” and it gave my vote to Ellsworth. I can’t afford an Ellsworth…

    vinnyeh
    Full Member

    Looks like Fisher has been written out of history as well..

    soobalias
    Free Member

    dialled

    /cough

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    Oh. Interesting.

    I voted Cotic and Other, but I see Cotic and Salsa in bold italics.

    (edit: and Scott appeared as an option only after I submitted)

    Speeder
    Full Member

    Dialled +1

    I’d like a Keewee too but think that’s probably a bit much to ask being as they’ve not made anything for at least 5 years.

    brakes
    Free Member

    it’s rigged I tell thee!
    RIGGED!

    Tracker1972
    Free Member

    And no Claud Butler… I mean, for my mate you understand, his commuter…

    TPTcruiser
    Full Member

    Knock at the Dawes?
    Would lead to a Revolution.
    That would be the Pinnacle.

    PJM1974
    Free Member

    The only thing remotely niche that I own is a Marin – only 4% of STWers have them. In fact, it’s rarer than Turner, Lapierre or Yeti.

    nbt
    Full Member

    Apparently, I own a Salsa.

    I don’t and never have done (but would like to)

    I do own a Gary Fisher and a Dawes, neither or which were on the list when I submitted, and for both of which I chose “Other” which doesn’t appear in my list

    TPTcruiser
    Full Member

    Sheesh, hope your advertisers are all represented!
    Ridgeback
    BMC
    Merida
    On the wish list, not owned by me.

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    You need to see the daily mail for proper Poll failures – they ask questions can’t be answered by the options they offer – and their readers answer anyway


    So to conduct the poll in Daily Mail style would be:

    Q What brand(s) of bike do you own?

    A Yes / No

    and two thirds of us would answer ‘Yes’ 🙂

    spawnofyorkshire
    Full Member

    Is my Boardman too niche for Singletrack?
    Or is it niche that it’s a Boardman that actually gets ridden off road and doesn’t live in a garage all the time?

    kelvin
    Full Member

    Naming all the larger bike brands in the UK was harder than we thought

    This fills me with cheer!

    Back in the day, it was boutique USA, or better built Taiwanese, or a few UK framebuilders who were a bit roadie still really.

    Good to see UK builders, and UK brands sourcing abroad, getting plenty of attention these days.

    Oh, and Orange should be RIGHT up there in my opinion.

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