After 5 years of having our website in beta, Mazlow has finally been fully launched, with our site going live November 15th.  If you have visited our site before, you will notice that the logo and page design have been updated, but the main updates to the site have come in the bike finders and the updated bicycle database.

When we originally launched Mazlow, we made the assumption that someone looking to buy a bike would ask the same questions of any type of bike they were looking for, and designed a wizard around the main components of a bicycle.  We quickly realized that if you were looking for a mountain bike, you would be interested in the frame, suspension and brakes, but if you are looking for a road bike, you are really only interested in the type of frame since road bikes don’t have suspension and only use caliper brakes.  And, if you are looking for a kids bike, you really just care about the age of your child and which bikes will fit them.
The bulk of our update started in June of this year and was expected to only take a couple of months, but after several user experience changes and technology updates, here we are 5 months later.  We are excited to have 1,174 bikes currently in our database, however we were bummed to find out that 2009 models came out about a month or so ago while we were finishing up the programming.  Definitely search through the database as most 2008 models are still at your local bike shop, and know that we are hard at work loading the database with 2009 bicycle models. We will provide an update here when the 2009 bike models go live.

I don’t know about you, but we were surprised to find that there were over 1,000 bike models on the market from 70 plus manufacturers, in fact, the number is probably well over 2,000.  For now, we have loaded the database with the most popular bicycle brands on the market which include:

Trek

Schwinn

Specialized

Gary Fisher

Cannondale

Giant

GT

Mongoose

Diamondback

Electra

Haro

You are certain to find a bike shop near you that carries these bike models. We have an additional 70 or so brands to add to the database, luckily for us, most of them have fewer models than the list above.  Just so you know, some of the bike brands we will be adding include:

Magna

Marin

Bianchi

Fuji

Lemond

Next

KHS

Columbia

Huffy

Jamis

Klein

Pacific

K2

Kona

Iron Horse

Univega

Jamis

Thanks for stopping by, and please let us know if you like the website, or if you have thoughts for how to improve the experience.  We do have several new features in the works, but any additional suggestions are definitely appreciated.

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