Hello STW

As part of our effort to make geometrygeeks.bike pay for itself we’ve now got affiliate links on the site, i.e. where we beg folks to click a link and buy something; if they do so within a few weeks, and we’re the last such link they clicked, and they don’t return it, we get paid 1-4% of the ex VAT sale value… about 4-6 months later!

We’re now attracting about 25% of our audience from the USA so we want to link up with the biggest US retailers. Can anyone tell me who the CRC/Wiggle/Evans equivalents are in the US?

We’ve joined the Jenson and Competitive Cyclist affiliate programmes and so far (in 8 weeks) they’ve yielded a whopping $23 from 4,000 unique US visitors. Can’t help but think we could be doing better.

Bonus points for identifying the Canadian, Aussie and German equivalents too.

Cheers!

Bob

I’m in Canada. I buy from CRC or Jenson when I buy mail order. Customs duty and the vagaries of delivery in a big, sparsely populated country combined with a good deal at my LBS mean I don’t do it very often though.

Jenson and Competitive are the big ones I think.

Cambria Bike Outfitters are one.

Is Nashbar still a big US retailer?

German equivalents

bike-discount.de?

bike-components.de
hibike.de (hibike.com)
bike24.de (bike24.com)
r2-bike.de

Oh and re: you’re geometry geeks calculator, can you enter you’re preferred dims and see which frames match it or come closest?

Thanks, team.

@Stevet1: not yet. It’s one of our most-requested features, up with a visual comparison. We’re working towards it, with a lot of work behind the scenes on data quality both in the database to date and in ‘guiding’ users adding new bikes. We’ll get there.

I never thought I’d say this about a website but I think you need to make it a bit more obvious on the whole support us thing. I just visited your site for the first time and I was actively looking for the links (based on your above comments) and even then it took me a little while to see / find the links.

I’d put it at the top of the page next to geometries / bike fit as most people have no need to scroll down.

@sweaman2: thanks. Is it a British thing that we don’t want to be too forward?!

It’s a bit more in-your-face on the ‘compare’ page, logic being that by the time you’re there, you’re using the site as it’s meant to be used.

A lot of traffic arrives from google to an individual ‘bike’ page and we want to give folks useful info before begging for help!

Universal cycles.