Quickest of introductions: I'm Jake, a product manager at Pinkbike. My day job is finding little and big ways to improve the site and user experience, without burning the place down. I'm a longtime PB dork, mediocre rider, and by total happenstance, Levy and I enjoy very similar overpowered shitbox classic cars.
Last week we made some changes to the categories and filtering on Pinkbike BuySell. It was a long overdue cleanup, prompted by requests from users going back years. Thank you for your continued patience. The goal is to make BuySell more intuitive and accessible to folks on desktop and mobile devices, and to make the most popular items easier to find. This is among the first of a string of tweaks planned.
The most notable change made is the addition of a “Trail” category for complete mountain bikes, and mountain bike frames. After speaking with Kaz and the tech team, we moved all 120mm-150mm rear wheel travel bikes and frames to the new ‘Trail’ category to seed the category.
That said, we're not trying to establish a hard and fast rule of defining bikes by travel alone. Sellers should list bikes wherever they are most appropriate. Buyers, before rushing to flag ads you think are misplaced, please send the seller a note. We all want to make it easier for buyers to find what they are looking for and for sellers to collect their cash/doge/N64 games. If you're feeling particularly heated, please write up a proclamation as to why the Kona Process 111 should actually be in the Trail category, and then send it to
Incognito Robin. He is eager to hear your feedback.
We gave Levy an opportunity to present a case for using “Downcountry” but it turns out the name is nothing but a conspiracy
to sell more Pinkbike merch. Levy was waving angrily at the camera, but his tinfoil hat seemed to be interfering with the microphone signal. So we went ahead with ‘Trail’ which is familiar to casual and experienced mountain bikers alike. (and a little company called Google)
Now, commenters angry and armed with 800mm Chromag bars:
• No, this won’t cost you money.
• No, this is not a request from corporate overlords or prudish lawyers, motivated solely by boosting profit margins and mitigating liability.
• Yes, you will still be able to quickly find and haggle over a used and worn EXO+ Assegai
• Yes, you can still list your iPod and Zune 120
hereStill angry? Take a break and enjoy this totally unrelated song from David Bowie.
Thoughts? Ideas? Please comment below, or leave feedback in our dedicated BuySell
feature request thread.
Affectionately,
Jake, not from State Farm
As a buyer I would love it though.
In Europe, i have an R5 alpine and i used to have a Megane 3 RS, i have to wait a few years to import one in BC.
JDM cars in BC are super cheap got an Evo 5 for $10k and my daily is a 330hp Subaru B4 RSK that i paid $5000 a while ago.
When I look for components etc. near me 80% of the results are China based Ebay sellers with a distribution site in the Portland area that post 100's of items for sale that are actually not available for local pickup and often not even available for weeks since they are being shipped overseas:
Example: seller ronde-sport
I switch to desktop mode via the bottom at the very bottom of the page. But still a pain
A. Hardtails
B. Full suspension mountain bikes (allow user to pick range of travel).
C. Downhill Bikes
D. Fatbikes
E. Road/Gravel/CX Bikes
Why: So I can search for seatposts that are not Reverbs!
This unlike a million other websites.
If I am interested in finding a 142 Hope rear hub, it’s exceptionally easy to apply filters and look at exactly that.
NOICE.
And thank you for the trail section ~ it's appreciated!
How about Mullet options in the wheels and rims category?
Agreed fork offset would be great too.
Canada/USA is a big difference in price and shipping.
Unless I'm doing something wrong. (I use my phone so that might be why)
I don't have the App or Desktop just the .com
version. It's all good. I'm over it.
Air / Coil Rear Shock categories
thanks
When there could simply be a repost all button is all I’m saying …@speed10:
www.pinkbike.com/buysell/3441953
m.pinkbike.com/buysell/3437737
www.pinkbike.com/buysell/3288613
That being said, is Incognito Robin really Outsides CEO?