Every so often, you see something really special - a gorgeous bike or beautifully-thought-out photo for example - and you just want to share it!
Starting today, we'll be featuring bikes on Pedal Room! Awesome bikes, bikes with great photos, bikes that are unique, etc. Be sure to check back often to see what's featured, and give us a shout if you see something feature-worthy!
We just released a neat new feature for you guys! You can now view
stats on your bike, including bike pageviews and how many people (and
who) have favorited your bike. Just login and view your bike(s) and
you'll see the info on the right side of the page.
If there are any other stats you'd love to see for your bike, let us know and we'll consider adding them!
We also fixed a couple bugs and did some small tweaks here and there, including automatically linking URLs in bike profiles and cleaning up the home page a bit.
Visit Pedal Room to check out the new stuff!
Over the weekend, we did a lot of work on Pedal Room.
Most noticeable are the new formats for notification emails. They now are sent out in HTML (and text as well for older email clients/phones, etc.) which makes the links work better and the emails in general work better.
The other work this weekend was all behind the scenes. We switched over to a more powerful unit testing framework (SimpleTest for those who are curious) and wrote over one hundred new tests. The new framework and tests allow us to release code more rapidly, because testing lots of functionality is now done quickly and automatically. This translates into better stability, fewer bugs, and more features, so stay tuned!
Hey everyone,
Coomer here. It's time for a little story.
For two months, my knees have been bugging me. Ice and Ibuprofen after hard rides helped, but not enough. Eleven days ago, in pain, I stopped riding completely. The pain steadily got worse and worse, prompting a doctor's visit. I was told me there was no serious damage, but that I can't ride or even walk for three weeks.
Since then, the pain has only gotten worse. I can't even stand to cook or work on a bike, walking two blocks to the bus stop to go to work is out of the question, I sleep only two hours at a time due to awakening pain, and my ass is sore from laying around all day every day. So today, I'll be making the saddest purchase of my life - a used wheelchair.
The good news is not only that I'll be back on a bike in hopefully about a month, but that I'll have tons of time to work on Pedal Room while I'm stuck off my feet. So stay tuned for more updates coming soon!
It's probably a good idea to stop riding and see a doctor when your knees first start hurting.
When a doctor asks you how bad the pain was walking to the appointment, don't say five out of ten. Then they don't prescribe you the good painkillers.
We just released some new notification options! You can now get email notifications when you receive new messages or comments!
We've also added the ability to view your sent messages and enhanced the reply-to-message page so that the message you're replying to is displayed. Let us know what you think!
We just received our first shipment of professionally-made Pedal Room stickers! We're pretty happy with them - super cheap yet made of outdoor-quality vinyl.
Want some stickers? Post here (leave some sort of contact info) or contact us and we'll hook you up!
Welcome welcome! Pedal Room has been steadily growing since its launch, and we're excited to start a simple blog!
Here's where we'll be posting all sorts of stuff...site updates big and small, ideas we want to share, Pedal Room related photos, etc.
Stay tuned and enjoy!
