NEW BIKE/GEAR ADVICE SUPERTHREAD!

Hi everyone. I'm a BMW Motorrad employee working in Munich. Our department is working on improving our storage accessories, but has had a hard time collecting feedback on some of the shortcomings of our equipment. If you have a chance and would like to have some input on the next generation of our storage systems, answers to any or all of the questions below would be very helpful:

Your age?

What brand of bike you have?

When you were looking to purchase a bike why specifically did you choose the brand you did?

Do you own any storage accessories for you bike?

Did you buy those accessories through your bike retailer, more specifically do they have the same branding as your bike, or did you buy a secondary brand? Why?

Why specifically did you choose those accessories over others?

BMW is interested in improving how it serves customers who live an active lifestyle, more specifically customers who like to camp, hike, rock climb, surf, and many other outdoor activities, if you are someone who enjoys taking these types of trips, we are wondering if you have found your current luggage system to be useful or compatible with the kind of trips you take, and what things you have found to be less useful?

Do you have any specific suggestions as to what you would like to see improved in your storage accessories?

Would you mind giving me a rough list of the things you pack when you go on a trip?

Which of those things fit well into your storage accessories and which don’t?

If BMW were to release storage solutions that were specifically tailored to fit those items do you think you would upgrade your storage accessories?

If BMW were to offer these tailored storage solutions, would you value their brand more, or in other words do feel like you would be more loyal to BMW products rather than secondary brand?

Let’s say BMW formed a partnership with an outdoor equipment provider such as REI to produce luggage solutions specifically tailored or integrated into certain REI products, do you think you would be interested in purchasing those products?

Many thanks.

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