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A while ago we interviewed Faz about his Leader Kagero. He's still rocking the Kagero but now has built up a Cervelo R3, and we spoke with him about it. Check out the interview here!

The Bad:

The site has been in an awful, broken state for a couple days. It appeared that all messages, favorites, and even comments were gone. There were also issues adding photos, and random bad errors.

 

The Good:

It only appeared that way. No comments, messages, favorites, or anything else was lost. And the site is close to fixed now.

What happened was that over the weekend I was hard at work on the site, upgrading the site's software to the latest and greatest versions. The goal was to make everything better with the site, and ease development going forward.

However, it introduced an odd bug. Normally a responsible developer (usually me) would catch these before they ever went live. But in a rush to get released, I didn't do much testing of the site, figuring nothing would be terribly wrong since it was a basic upgrade that others had done several times over with no issues.

So I'm sorry about the issues over the last couple days! I won't let it happen again, through improved testing and not rushing stuff out to the live site.

I'm hard at work tonight fixing everything completely, and working on some new improved stuff too! Stay tuned!

-Coomer

We spoke with Faz about his new Leader Kagero x Pedal Consumption! See the full interview here!

Fixed, And Two was just released online today after last night's launch party! There's a ton of great stuff in there, including an interview regarding FourteenTeeth/Pedal Room!

Read the whole issue online here!

Today I'm happy to announce the launch of two big new features on Pedal Room - Bike History and Forums!

Bike History
Bike history allows you to track progress as your bike evolves over time. Every bike can have unlimited stages of history, each containing specs, info, and photos.

More info / FAQ on Bike history | See an Example Bike with History

Forums
As Pedal Room has grown, so too has the need for the site to become more social and powerful. We hope that the forums become a thriving community for all things bikes.

Visit the Forums

I hope you all enjoy the new features! I'll be working hard over the coming weeks to continually improve everything on the site as well as launch a couple new cool things. Stay tuned, and let me know what you think!

It was Saturday night. A great night for riding, as long as you can dodge the drunks and idiots. The last thing I remember was the car pulling out in front of me, and swerving hard to avoid it.

I came to on the pavement with four screaming girls hovering over me. "Don't move! Wait for the ambulance!" I don't remember a ton. I remember I tried to convince the then-larger crowd that I was fine. Judging by the blood, I even tried to grab my bike and leave apparently. There was panic. There was blood. And pain.

Long story short, I broke my clavicle in three places, and only needed fourteen stitches in my head. I was banged up from head to toe, but lucky. It could've been a lot worse.

Always wear a helmet people. I wasn't when I wrecked. I'm very lucky to be typing this here today, and you can bet that I'll have a helmet the next time you see me on a bike.

Bad news - I'm out for a while as my clavicle heals from surgery. Good news - I'm alive and otherwise fine, I've got more time to design/work, and big things are coming on Pedal Room.

There's going to be a lot going on soon. I'm on the verge of releasing some stuff I've been working on for months, and I can't wait for you all to see it. It will be quite the change, and it's coming within the next couple weeks.

Stay tuned, and ride safe!

We've got just a few stickers left! Let us know if you want some! Also, some new ones will be in the works soon-ish.

And completely unrelated but still cool, the Fourteen Teeth blog localization work is going well. Should be online tomorrow!

We just brought photo comments back! Now you can comment on specific photos as well as bikes themselves!

Thanks everyone for the feedback! It's much appreciated, as we're continually trying to make Pedal Room better!

PS, my next project is the FourteenTeeth local blogs stuff, which is coming along well. Stay tuned!

We've been thinking about photos a fair amount lately, and today we made it possible to link directly to an open photo on a bike details page. Simply click the "direct link" on any photo to get a URL that will link to that photo.

We're also thinking about bringing back photo comments, maybe like so:

What do you guys and gals think about photo comments? Are they a worthwhile thing to have? Should we bring them back? Or are bike comments alone good enough? Let us know - we want to make your Pedal Room experience as good as possible!

By the way, if you're wondering what ridiculously nice bike is pictured, it's gospastic's Ritte Bosberg.

You can now choose the "Photogrid" option when viewing search results to view them in a grid of photos - a nice mode for browsing bikes. We still have a few tweaks to make, but let us know what you think so far and what we can do better!

We had the opportunity to talk with Shidi from RatsKL about his sweet Kinfolk track bike!

Read the interview here!

Today we upgraded our photo uploader. You can now select multiple photos, as well as cancel uploads in progress (if you accidentally chose the wrong file for example). This is a prerequisite to a cool new feature that's coming soon. Check back soon!

We had some shirts made a while ago, and we're giving some away! More details here!

Update: We're not giving away shirts at the moment. We've still got a few lying around though. If you really want one, contact us and we'll get you hooked up for a nominal fee (just gotta cover printing/shipping costs).

Everyone should really store their bikes' serial numbers somewhere. This little bit of data can be invaluable if a bike is stolen, and we want to make it easier for everyone to keep track of it.

So now you can add your bike's serial number (or other identifying markings) on that bike's edit bike page. We'll store it for you, and only you will have access to it if you ever need it.

You can now order bikes by page views, popularity (though I admit our algorithm needs a bit more tweaking), and most-favorited! More bike browsing and searching improvements coming tomorrow!

We've got a lot of new stuff coming, and we want to make sure we get input from everyone as we continue to develop the site.

So on every page, we've implemented a feedback link in the top left corner. This pops open a little box (without leaving the current page) to leave some quick feedback. Leave as much as you want - good or bad, we want to hear it!

We just released code that allows bike searches to be ordered. This should make finding/browsing bikes a bit easier! Anything else you guys would like to see to improve the site? Let us know!

We just made a few nice little tweaks to Pedal Room. Just a few of many we plan to make in the next few weeks.

We added a quick bike search form on various pages to make searching for bikes easier. Pretty soon we'll have a nice quick bike search on every page. Oh yeah, we also fixed some bugs around search.

We also made comment author photos clickable, and added links to members' other bikes for members with multiple bikes.

We just released some updates to improve photo uploads! Now, once you choose a photo, it starts uploading immediately, showing a progress bar as it uploads.

This not only helps figure out how long it'll take for the upload to finish, but we also re-configured the server so that photo uploads don't slow down the server. We hope you guys enjoy it.

And we combined the add photos page and manage photos page into one, so managing all aspects of your photos is even easier!

P.S. We also fixed several bugs with various parts of the site. And we're working to allow for even higher-resolution photos to be saved and viewable by all.

Today we released our second round of search improvements. Now, when you do a bike search, we not only search the bike title, specs, and description, but we also search any tags associated with that bike. This should mean that you get more accurate search results.

We also added search boxes (and sometimes clickable search suggestions too - hooray!) to search results pages, so you can easily perform another quick search. We're thinking about expanding search options near the search box on search results pages, but we weren't sure. We'd love to hear what you guys and gals think and what you'd like to see!

Hope everyone has a good weekend! Ride safe!