The investigation and research was three-fold, analysis of available public data, interviews were conducted with 3 parties and two different questionnaires were submitted for each group; travel agencies in Iceland who sell bicycle tours overseas on the one hand and Icelandic cyclist on the other.
Rannsókn höfundar var þríþætt, greining á fyrirliggjandi opinberum gögnum, viðtöl voru framkvæmd við 3 aðila og tvær mismunandi spurningarkannanir lagðar fyrir sitt hvorn hópinn; ferðaskrifstofur á Íslandi sem selja hjólaferðir annars vegar og hjólreiðafólk á Íslandi hins vegar.