The Wheel Atlas

G’day,

I’m slowly building out a website (The Wheel Atlas) that has many of the current wheels, with the ability to filter and sort. Each wheel entry has the usual info like price and weight, but also hub and spoke details (what bearings they use, spoke lengths are etc) with the aim for each entry to exist long after the wheel/wheelset is no longer available.

www.thewheelatlas.com is it’s home.

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This is really nice! I’d rather use it to find new wheels. Therefore I’d prefer sliders for ranges rather than dropdowns with given ranges.

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And I couldn’t find the 303s because I had set the „wheelset“ tag. I think there’s sth off.

Hi there. Thanks for the compliment and feedback. I am unable to replicate the 303s issue. Did you end up finding them?

Do they show up with this link?

You can delete individual filters and also favourite individual wheels, which you can then sort to bring them to the top (I used to have and am rebuilding a separate table for favourited wheels). I’d use that to keep track of wheels you like.

That is strange! I’m now on desktop but unable to reproduce the issue. Checking in on mobile the „wheelset“ tag just reproduces no result (iOS, safari)

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This is great :+1:

Is it possible for others to contribute and help build the resource?
Im regularly replacing bearings on all sorts of wheels and freehubs.

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Such a great resource! Agreed with this, it’d be great to be able to contribute or flag incorrect info etc, wiki style.

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That bug is fixed now. Thanks for the screenshot and finding it be a mobile issue. That made things a lot easier.
I added an info icon beside the search after you asked for a slider - it explains the commands you can use in the search bar now. eg <1000g, less than $1000, more than $5000, 1000-1200g

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Thanks Alex. I hadn’t considered the idea of contributors, but it would make sense. I need to think more about this!

I will ‘soon’ have all sites archived so if a link dies it automatically switches to the archived page for posterity (and to make a mechanics life easier!).

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Appologies moderator team, I may have flagged this thread. That was a mistake, still trying to get to grips with bookmarking.

Hi @Chris_Webb, any further thoughts on contributions to the database? Just wondering as I’ve been working on a few wheels lately and could add some info on bearing sizes.

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Hi Alex, I’ve been mulling it over and yes, I now plan to open it up in some way so experience can be captured for others. How I go about it? Not sure yet!

In the mean time you can email me at chris@thewheelatlas.com and I can see what you have. If you have any ideas on how you’d like the site to work for you, shoot those through too. I’ll see what I can do.

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