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!

Today we released a new option that helps immensely in finding the right bikes on Pedal Room - The ability to match all keywords when searching.

This means if you search for "cannondale track" and choose the match all keywords option, only bikes which have both "cannondale" and "track" will be found. Very useful for searching for specific bikes! Stay tuned - more search improvements are coming soon!

Our new Pedal Room stickers are in! Let us know if you want some and we'll send some your way!

We finally finished up our new photo UI and released it a few minutes ago. Gone are the photo comments* and now the photos are loaded inline in the same page, which is faster and allows you to see the bike's details, comments, other photos, and of course, the current photo all in the same page! Let us know what you think!

* Photo comments aren't actually removed. They have been moved to the bike details page. Feel free to go through your bikes and remove any comments that don't make any sense in the context of the bike details page (which shouldn't be too many.)

We're currently working on some small changes that will help Pedal Room show up in search engines better, which will in turn help the site grow faster.

One of these changes is getting photos to show up more prominently in image searches, so we're redesigning the way images on Pedal Room work from the ground up. We're considering removing image comments to make things more simple and faster. What do you guys and gals think of that? We'd love to hear any feedback, so just let us know what you think!

Other changes coming soon include improved searching and bike browsing, both of which will be coming very soon!

P.S. Don't miss today's interview with Kyle about his custom pursuit track bike!

We've started interviewing some of our featured bike owners! We hope that you guys enjoy these interviews as much as we've enjoyed talking with cyclists!

Currently, we've got an interview with Fabian about his gorgeous Colnago Pista, and a couple days ago we interviewed Matthew Divita from iMiNUSD about his Green Cannondale Track.

We're always looking out for nice bikes and interesting content, so stay tuned for more and enjoy!

Last week was a busy week, with a lot of new work going into Pedal Room.

We started the process of redesigning our forms to be more accommodating. See below.

You've probably noticed this already - we redesigned our home page! It now includes featured bikes, which we'll be updating regularly, and a new layout. Oh yeah, the login box for visitors who aren't logged in yet moved to the top right of each page.

On the backend side of things, we've been fixing a few errors and bugs that have popped up as a result of our new site framework. We've also upgraded our logging and error delivery systems, so that our team gets notified more quickly when problems occur. Also, we improved some of our caching mechanisms, which should speed up the site a bit more.

Coming This Week

This week will be good. We have some sweet new bikes to feature, and we're starting work on our big new feature. We're incredibly excited about what's coming very soon (like within the next month) for Pedal Room, and we really hope you guys like it too. Also this week, we plan to roll out more form and general design upgrades. Stay tuned and ride safe!

We just released some new code that greatly speeds up the site! It's only on the home page right now, but we plan on implementing it on more pages very shortly. Let us know what you think of the home page speed, and if you find any problems!

Btw, we're also working on several other speed improvements, hence the "part one" in the title. Stay tuned for part two, coming later this week!

We just launched the rewrite of Pedal Room! Several bugs were fixed in the rewrite and the site should be running better, but the best part is that with this rewrite done, we'll be able to focus on building out new features and making the site better all around!

There might be a few bugs here and there, so please let us know if you see anything that seems off. Enjoy!

As some of you may know, we're currently in the process of rewriting Pedal Room in a much nicer framework/programming language. Just to give you guys an update, we estimate that we're about 70% done, and hope to release the new code within a couple weeks. Everything will look similar, but should be faster and have improvements here and there.

One thing that we're extremely excited about is our automated tests of the site. We've written almost as much automated testing code as we have application code. This means that every time we work on something new, we run our test suite. If we broke something, the test suite lets us know. This will prevent numerous bugs from slipping out to the site. Here's a breakdown of code that's been written so far: (warning - it's nerdy)

Stay tuned for updates and the new site infrastructure coming soon!