so now that there’s another article about the kona bike survey on the main page, i’m wondering why dan does it every year. it’s been going on for ages, intermittently - i remember reading it in triathlete mag back in the early-mid 90’s.
i’d be interested in hearing from slowman himself, but whoever else has input, too. what i’m wondering is, it seems like dan goes to great lengths to gather all his data, and then spends ages poring over it very carefully, all to more or less post it up here for free. why? they don’t affect his readership here at slowtwitch at all, especially compared with articles on drafting rules or training or whatever.
so does dan do it because he loves it? maybe the fact that i’m a bit lazy makes this perplexing for me. does he sell data that doesn’t get posted here? is this just his ‘pet project’ now that he doesn’t actually have to do the ‘bike company thing’ to put food on the table?
-mike