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What's new

Every time we update the site, we add a note here in plain language — no jargon, no technical shorthand. If you're wondering what changed since your last visit, start at the top.

  1. 6

    The wheels they brought, and a hint of rim depth

    The Wheels section now lists every wheel make and model riders named — grouped by make, with the rim material and depth beside each — and the rim-depth plate shows the counts it does have as a small chart, still labelled a hint. The duplicate wheels plate in Drivetrain is gone.

    • A roster of wheel makes and models under the rim-material verdict, each row tagged like the frame roster's frame types: Carbon · 45 mm, or whichever half is known
    • The rim-depth caveat carries a count-only histogram of the bikes that do state a depth — no percentages, no busiest band, because under half the field is not a verdict
    • Drivetrain no longer repeats a wheels plate from the free-text field; the Wheels section is the one place for wheels
  2. 5

    Rim material now charts for every edition

    A data-only update. More wheelsets could be read into a rim material — from manufacturers' own spec pages and from riders' captions — so the Wheels section's rim-material plate moves from a caveat to a chart on 2025 and 2026. Rim depth is still on record for too few bikes to chart.

    • Rim material is now known for 65% of 2024, 59% of 2025 and 56% of 2026 bikes (was 65%, 46%, 46%)
    • Nine 2025 riders who described their wheels only in their caption now have a wheelset on record
    • Makes that sell both carbon and alloy rims are deliberately left unknown — the page never guesses a material
  3. 4

    Wheels get their own story

    The wheelset data from version 3 is now on the page: a Wheels section on the home page, a ninth panel on the bike drawing, and a spec sheet that groups what a rider shops for.

    • A Wheels section sits after Rubber — rim material, rim depth and wheel make, each shown only as confidently as the data allows, plus the Indonesian-built makes in the field
    • The painted bike has a ninth panel: Wheels, pointing at the rear rim, while Tyres now points at the front wheel
    • Every bike page's specification is grouped into five bands — Bike, Wheels & tyres, Drivetrain, Contact points, Kit — and the wheelset row shows the rider's own words beside what we read from them
    • The rider's name and cap number no longer repeat inside the spec table; the heading and the credit already carry them
  4. 3

    Wheelsets are now structured data behind the scenes

    Every wheelset a rider wrote down — "ZIPP 303s", "Fulcrum Racing 5 DB", "Reserve 40/44" — has been read into a make, a model, a rim material and a rim depth, checked against manufacturers' own spec pages. Nothing on the pages changes yet; a Wheels section and a wheels panel on the bike drawing are next.

    • 182 of 250 bikes now have a named wheel make, 118 a rim material and 84 a rim depth, derived from what riders wrote and a cited catalogue of 67 wheel models
    • The original wheelset text is kept beside the derived fields, so you will always be able to see what was actually written
    • Ten wheel sizes written as 700c (29") are now simply 700c
    • Indonesian wheel makers in the field were checked one by one: Entity, Pertual, Polygon, Strummer and Wdnsdy
  5. 2

    The what's-new page is on the live site

    Version 1 described this feature before it shipped — it is live now. Tap What's new in the footer on any page.

    • The What's new page is published and ready to read
    • The footer now shows Version 2 so you can tell when the site last changed
  6. 1

    We started keeping a what's-new log

    You can now see what changed each time we update the site.

    • A new Updates page lists every version in plain language
    • The footer shows which version you're on