Nick Garland Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) Hi Me and my friend Alex have started a new site for biketrial reviews. Its not complete yet but I thought before I completed it I should find out if anyone thinks its a good idea otherwise making it then it being a flop would be bad. This is what Ive managed after two days and it needs alot of work but the main idea is there. Any comments welcome and new ideas please? Thanks hopefully everyone will like the idea. Linky EDIT: The reviews would be written by you lot not me and alex btw. Edited February 17, 2005 by Team War Rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Good idea. Trialsworks.co.uk had a massive review section at one time. It all vanished though at one point, at which point trials-forum was discovered by the masses, so it never really recovered. As i said, good idea, however, it would'nt work. Trials-forum is all you need. It has reviews on most things, if not, you can ask. By all means try it out, im sure some people will use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Bleech Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) If it was fairly comprehensive, had weights, prices, useful links (manufacture website where to buy) and most importantly good reviews of pretty much the full sprectrum of trials products. street/natty/20/24/26 then it could be very useful, maybe with some sorta user comments box too! go for it :) mike maybe even include useful maintainence/setup tips too Edited February 17, 2005 by leedstrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 What it needs if its going to work is a very detailed review on each and every item, but in turn, it has to be easy and understandable to navigate and get to the item of interest. And all the reviews should be done in the same layout, it winds me up the wall when you find a review thats the right layout, and then the one for the item your interested in is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted February 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 If it was fairly comprehensive, had weights, prices, useful links (manufacture website where to buy) and most importantly good reviews of pretty much the full sprectrum of trials products. street/natty/20/24/26 then it could be very useful, maybe with some sorta user comments box too! go for it :) mike maybe even include useful maintainence/setup tips too ← What it needs if its going to work is a very detailed review on each and every item, but in turn, it has to be easy and understandable to navigate and get to the item of interest. And all the reviews should be done in the same layout, it winds me up the wall when you find a review thats the right layout, and then the one for the item your interested in is different. ← Thats the sort of replies I was hoping for Ideas on how to make it work. I was already thinking about putting in the weight, prices and where to buy it from at the top of each page for the product. As for the layout being the same, it is for every catagory, I just havnt got round to finishing it yet. I thought it would be best to see if there is any interest with the idea and a rough guide of what it will be like than to make it and find everyone thinks it sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Trials-forum was going to add a section like this in the past but we realised that theres no such thing as a fair review with bikeparts as there are far too many factors to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 I think the reviews should be moderated then, with only factual reviews being used, for example, "This stem makes the bike feel higher and longer" and not "this stem makes the bike feel crap" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted February 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Lucky the Reviews can be checked before they are added then. So shall I continue with it, biased reviews might appear but then again if its someones experience it will give you an idea of the product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfboy Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) *cough* mtbprice Beta*cough* edit: click on SuttonFreeride.com->mtbprice fully automated and admin controllable, I designed this software to be better than the bikemagic review system. Check out those specs. Should be fully up and running in two weeks. Edited February 17, 2005 by sfboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted February 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 That looks good. Very good. Ah well another idea and someone does it better again. Typical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 That looks good. Very good. Ah well another idea and someone does it better again. Typical. ← You might as well go for it, that other site will have unpatterned reviews, because of the way they are structured. On the example, the travel on the forks was in the "comments box" rather than it being a specific review box for sus forks. i guess to make it work you need to have a specific review layout for every little thing that appears on the chainreactioncycles side menu, that would be a good list to work from. Go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 *cough* mtbprice Beta*cough* edit: click on SuttonFreeride.com->mtbprice fully automated and admin controllable, I designed this software to be better than the bikemagic review system. Check out those specs. Should be fully up and running in two weeks. ← Shame its in phpnuke. I would drop that now. As in, like, now. Its beyond bad. Nice ideas though :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Just check out the Pad Review thread in Trials Chat, and say 'hello' to a whole world of problems with people not knowing what's good and what's bad :huh: The thing is is that it's easy enough for people to just ask on here about what's good/bad and do a search for it than go to another site which has only got static reviews (i.e. you can't ask the author a specific point like you can on here), so it's just not going to be as versatile enough, I'd have thought. Plus the reviews might be shonky just 'cos as Danny said there are too many factors to take into account. Someone might say some forks were flexy because they had a knackered stem/headset/steerer, but not know it and so attribute it to forks or whatever. Shitty example, but people are seriously sketchy when it comes to reviewing products. Not to mention the fact most people won't be arsed to actually write a decent, useful review? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted February 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 I can see everyones points, probaboly wont continue with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfboy Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Just to keep you aloof of whats going on with mtbprice (the reviews, pricing and catalogue database us a mtbfreeride are working on). Its practically finished, it just needs auto email and dream bike feature before the beta version is operation, here are some more screen shots, let us know what you think. PS sorry for the crap data used here, i'm sure your views and opinions will be alot better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Good effort heh. Maybe make it look better, but your features list sounds good, so does functionality :blink: However, as i said earlier. Don't use phpnuke, it is wank. Nothing will ever convince me otherwise, ever (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 I'd rather see a site with component listings... Full spec. listing, weight, RRP and so on. Reviews are almost always very biased.. It's easy for a big or small company to give a bit of a discount in exchange for a good word in reviews. I'm not naming any companies, but you know what I mean. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Something like this then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 www.biketrials.com has a massive review section which is pretty goooood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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