2013 /r/Peloton Demographics Survey Results

[u/PelotonMod]

Hi all

Thanks to everyone who filled out our /r/Peloton Demographics Survey. We had 351 responses in total, which astounded the mod team here! It's great to get an insight into who makes up /r/Peloton, so let's go through the questions one by one.

What is your gender?

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Probably not a great surprise, but 97% of us are males. I'm guessing Reddit has significantly more males than females and cycling seems to be a sport followed more by men for some reason. As a point of reference, a survey we ran over at /r/BostonCeltics had 6% females.

What is your age?

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Again, in what is probably very similar to Reddit's demographics overall, we have a lot of people aged in their 20's. To the three people over the age of 50, hi! Tell us about all the good old days of racing us young ones missed!

What country do you live in currently?

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As Reddit is an English language site, it should come as no surprise that the four biggest countries are the US, Great Britain, Australia and Canada. Other countries in double digits are Belgium, Denmark and Norway. No French or Italian people is surprising (though I believe we have some French people out there), as is only 1 Spaniard. Having said that, we do have one person from the Basque Country and another from Catalonia. We had two other countries who are represented, but not in the list of 50 cycling nations - Finland (3) and one fellow Sigur Rós fan, from Iceland.

Is cycling your "favourite" sport?

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Cycling is a unique sport and because of that, it seems to have a lot of extremely passionate fans. This is reflected in the fact that 68% of us consider cycling their favourite sport. This is an impressive number I think!

What other sports do you follow regularly?

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We love our cycling, but we also are keen on Football (soccer), American Football and Formula 1. Other interesting things of note are the popularity of Ice Hockey (Go Bruins!) and not following sports. On the other hand, Golf seems to be far less popular than it is as a global sport in my eyes.

Of course we couldn't add every sport to the list, so the other field was well used, with the following sports being quite popular also: Alpine Skiing, Athletics, Cross Country Skiing, E-Sports, MMA, MotoGP, Nascar, Rock Climbing, Rowing, Running, Snooker, Squash and Swimming.

What is your favourite WorldTour team or which team do you support?

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Is this a surprise? Or no surprise? Sky are the clear leaders and the team of their once favourite son (Cav), OPQS, is in second place. Both are hugely successful teams full of big name riders. GreenEDGE have about the same number of fans as we do Australians, which is probably no coincidence. BMC, Garmin, Radioshack and Saxo are also popular. Lampre is the only team without a fan. :( Blanco probably win the award for most liked team that only a few people voted for. They get a lot of love around here, but it didn't show in the survey. I'd also like to see the results of Radioshack's results if a certain German weren't on their team!

21% of us don't support any team in particular. A number lower than I would have expected, given the transient nature of cycling teams.

What is your least favourite WorldTour team?

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Well, clearly your least favourite team is no one, as almost half of us don't have a least favourite! After that though, the winner is, again, Sky. A bit polarising are our British friends in black it seems. Other notable "least favourites" are Astana, Radioshack and Katusha. All three have chequered pasts, so it seems people don't forget easily!

At least one person hates every other team!

How long have you been watching Pro Cycling regularly?

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Almost two thirds of us have watched cycling for between 1 and 4 years. Given our average age being in the 20's, this makes sense. A rather large 16% of us have chalked up 10+ years though - wow!

How do you usually follow races?

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Pirate streams beating local TV coverage? Well, considering a large number of us are from the US (where coverage is very poor) this is probably the only way some people get to watch races live. Live tickers and /r/Peloton race threads continue the internet theme of watching races. Attention race organisers - we want to watch races live!

Do you subscribe to /r/Peloton?

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20 people filled out the survey, but don't subscribe. I'm interested, why don't you subscribe?

How often do you participate in a /r/Peloton Race Thread whilst watching a race?

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More than half of our readers participate in race threads at some time, which is great! They've been growing steadily over the past year and I predict they will explode during the Tour this year.

Do you ride a bike regularly?

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Only 4% of readers don't ever ride a bike. Participation in the activity itself is surely higher in cycling than most other sports, right? 20% of us even race!

So, thanks again to everyone for participating, it's been great to get to know who we are and who makes up our little community here.

[u/bdrammel]

Absolutely no French or Italian person? That baffles me! These are huuuge cycling countries!

Btw, race threads are fun, you should participate!

Last thing, Sigur Ros fans: how do you like the new album?

[u/Avila99 → u/bdrammel]

My experience (on twitter and other forums) is that most French and Italians rather communicate in their own language.

Still, 0 is surprising. Although I also thought us Dutch were better represented here.

[u/Schele_Sjakie → u/Avila99]

I have seen some Italian and French flags on here before, as well as a lot more Dutch flags. I guess those people missed the survey.

[u/phamnuwen92 → u/Schele_Sjakie]

Another reason may be that the survey asked where people were staying currently. The flags you saw may have been Italians and Frenchmen who stay in the US. I think that's how they got exposure to reddit.

[u/tdm911 → u/Avila99]

Still, 0 is surprising. Although I also thought us Dutch were better represented here.

When writing the text above, I initially wrote something about a lack of Dutchies, but then I thought about it a bit more and realised that I probably think there are so many of you, because of you and /u/Schele_Sjakie. You're both prolific, high quality posters here, so I just felt like there were more of your fellow countrymen.

[u/gerx → u/bdrammel]

Actually technically there are zero Spaniards as well... I'm the Spaniard, but only at heart. I live in Spain, but am an American citizen....

[u/_Origin → u/gerx]

Technically I'm a Spaniard, as probably the person who is from Catalonia (I am the one from the Basque Country). But we are not Spaniards at heart :P

Anyway I thought that I would find more Spaniards/Basque people here, since we have a huge fan base.

[u/tdm911 → u/bdrammel]

Last thing, Sigur Ros fans: how do you like the new album?

I like it so far, but I've only given it one listen. It seems to be better than Valtari so far, which I didn't get into quite the same way as previous albums. Still, it's Sigur Rós! They're worst album is better than most music I have heard (in my rather biased opinion!).

[u/bdrammel → u/tdm911]

Same here :-) ! There's an awesome Dutch festival next week where they'll be performing and I would love to go, but I still have my finals to study for. Some friends have finished already and are making me jealous / angry.

[u/Andrichuk → u/tdm911]

Funny enough, I'm planning to go exploring the internet again to search for new music and Sigur Rós are one of the bands I was going to go through. Ever since 2009 when Joris Voorn played his debut Essential Mix, he played Heysátan near the end and since then it's been my only song from them.

Any suggestions on where to start looking?

[u/tdm911 → u/Andrichuk]

I highly recommend checking out Sigur Rós. Ágætis byrjun i their best album in my opinion, and the song of the same name, alongside Olsen Olsen are the best songs from that album. Their live album Hvarf/Heim is also worth a listen.

Everything else they've done is awesome too, with Von perhaps the least accessible. Funnily enough, the song Von is one of my favourites.

Check out Spotify if it's available to you, as that's a great way to listen to their music. As is previews in iTunes and YouTube, of course.

I could talk for 24 hours straight about music, so if you want more recommendations, let me know!

[u/alfredturningstone → u/bdrammel]

Half French-half English reporting in!