I am making a sports training system and this will be a great way to embellish the data for the bikes people enter in. I am 100% going to give this a try. I am also willing to share back the bike models that people put into my system that are not in yours.
Open source bike comparison and review
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#22Is there any plan on adding data for size/geometry? (arguably one of the most important things to look at when comparing bikes)
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#23Cool idea.
Would love to see frame weights added, along with complete bike weights.
Not seeing Raleigh, Focus, and a bunch of other brands listed. Will more be added?
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#24It is pretty good you have lots of brands already in your database, however the comparison UI is not much helpful. e.g. an end-user of bikes might not understand what 105, Tiagra, Ultrega means and just showing specs is not enough IMO. How about you also compare components one by one in rows of a table for each bike and then greens/reds tell us which one is better?
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#25Horray! This is an idea I had a few months ago, threw around in my head, and realized it's something I'd never have time to build. I'm thrilled that you have! For those of you who aren't super-familiar with the agonizing process of choosing the proper bike, I'll try to clue you in. Say you wanted to buy a Full-suspension 29'er from a well-known manufacturer for about $2,900. You'd narrowed your choices down to the Gi…
This is bike related, not tech related, but I couldn't see "Full-suspension 29'er from a well-known manufacturer for about $2,900" without wondering why the GT Sensor 9r Expert didn't make your list. I have the 2013 model, and it kicks ass if you're looking in that category.
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#26Great idea. Unfortunately, I believe that you've shared it too early. I poked around and found little except some image scrapping and possibly a link. I also think the idea of qualitative reviews or even ranked reviews could help tremendously. I love it on Amazon when people do their own product comparisons and post the results. Right now I feel like it stays to close the manufacturer catalog information. A great version of this would give good push back on that data with customer reviews and responses. Good luck with it. Show us again in a couple of months when it's nicely populated.
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#27Cool idea. Would love to see frame weights added, along with complete bike weights. Not seeing Raleigh, Focus, and a bunch of other brands listed. Will more be added?
Absolutely more will be added.
And any listing of bike weight is bullshit. You have to find the bike and weight it, because manufacturers weigh different things (and different sizes). So we won't be adding that.
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#28This is interesting. BikePedia is the site I'd currently go to for stuff like this. And at least for the bikes I have direct knowledge of, BikePedia has more of the bikes and fewer errors. For example, in 2005 we have the Trek 2100 WSD which you say has 700/650x25c tires (correct) but 650b wheels (incorrect). The 1500 WSD in the same year lists 700x25c tires only, despite that the smallest versions came with 650x25c instead--a critical distinction. And the derailleur specs are wrong too (BikePedia has the right ones).
I'd contribute corrections if it were right there on the page like Wikipedia, but probably not if I have to go dig for something to edit in GitHub. And I'm less motivated to contribute to a project which for some reason has worse initial data than the existing sites. I wonder where the errors came from.
Similarly, does the site simply rely on people adding whatever bikes they feel like? It seems odd that Detroit Bikes is a listed manufacturer but LeMond is not. LeMond was a fairly significant brand until a few years ago, and there are lots of used ones on the market--unlike Detroit Bikes which I imagine most people have never seen before.
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#29This is interesting. BikePedia is the site I'd currently go to for stuff like this. And at least for the bikes I have direct knowledge of, BikePedia has more of the bikes and fewer errors. For example, in 2005 we have the Trek 2100 WSD which you say has 700/650x25c tires (correct) but 650b wheels (incorrect). The 1500 WSD in the same year lists 700x25c tires only, despite that the smallest versions came with 650x25c…
Yeah, but bikepedia is ugly and isn't useable on mobile. It also, most importantly, doesn't have an API.
We actually asked bikepedia multiple times if they had an API, or if we could help build one and were told they weren't interested. So we built a prettier, more useable, open source solution. The kinks will work themselves out.
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#30Is there any plan on adding data for size/geometry? (arguably one of the most important things to look at when comparing bikes)
Yes