Bike fitment is a standards problem wearing a compatibility costume. Brake mount, axle spacing, drivetrain speed, frame size — get one wrong and the part is going back. Four cascading dimensions you name yourself, so the filter matches how your catalog actually decides fit.
Standards as dimensions. Free to 50 products. Template 06: Brand / Series / Frame / Drivetrain — Trek › Domane › SL 7 › Disc.
Two Trek Domanes from the same year can take different brake calipers, because the build spec varies. The standard is the fitment fact; the model is just how the customer finds it. So the useful filter is Brand → Series → Frame → Drivetrain, where the last dimension carries the thing that actually decides whether the part bolts on. Automotive-shaped schemas have three levels and a trim field, and neither slot holds a brake standard.
Seatposts, dropper posts, bars, stems and forks all key off frame geometry. Treating size as a Shopify product variant means the shopper has to already be on the right product page to discover it does not fit them. Treating it as a cascading filter level means they never see the wrong one. The Frame slot holds 52 / 54 / 56, S / M / L, or the size names your brands actually print.
Bosch, Shimano EP8 and Brose are motor systems, and parts key off them the way drivetrain parts key off Shimano or SRAM. You can put motor system in the Drivetrain slot, or define a custom template with an explicit Motor dimension from the $19 Starter tier. Either way, e-bikes and analogue bikes live in one catalog and one filter rather than in two collections that drift apart.
Some bike brands change spec annually and some do not touch a platform for four years. ViewForge does not force year into the first dropdown — or into the schema at all. You get four dimensions and you decide what they are. Drop year, use all four for standards; or keep it and use three for the bike. The template is yours to shape, and reshaping it later does not mean re-importing everything.
Cycling catalogs tend to be broad and shallow — many SKUs, high compatibility overlap. Professional is the common landing spot, mostly because Smart Parse can lift standards out of the spec text suppliers already give you.
Install freeOne where you name the dimensions, because bike compatibility is decided by standards rather than by vehicle identity. ViewForge ships a bicycle template of Brand / Series / Frame / Drivetrain and lets you rename all four from the $19/month Starter tier, so the last slot can carry brake standard, axle spacing, drivetrain speed or motor system depending on what your catalog turns on. Fitment is stored as Shopify metaobjects.
Yes, and they are separate cascading levels rather than product variants. The default template runs Trek → Domane → SL 7 → Disc, where Frame holds size or geometry designation and Drivetrain holds the standard — Disc or Rim, Shimano or SRAM or Campagnolo, 11-speed or 12-speed. Because they are filter levels, a shopper never lands on a product page for a part that cannot fit them.
Yes. You can use the Drivetrain dimension to hold motor systems such as Bosch, Shimano EP8 or Brose alongside traditional drivetrains, or build a custom template with an explicit Motor or Type dimension from the $19/month Starter tier. Either approach keeps e-bikes and analogue bikes in a single catalog and a single storefront filter.
No. ViewForge gives you four cascading dimensions and does not reserve any of them for year — unlike automotive-first apps, where Year is the mandatory first dropdown. Bike platforms often run unchanged for several seasons, so many shops drop year entirely and spend all four dimensions on brand, series, frame and standard. You can change the schema later without starting the import over.
Free up to 50 products with fitment, no trial clock. $19/month Starter for 1,000 products with custom templates, CSV import and the coverage dashboard. $49/month Professional for 5,000 products plus Smart Parse, which can pull standards out of the spec text suppliers already send you. $240/month Premium for unlimited fitment records.
Cycling has more incompatible standards per product category than almost any vertical in retail. Disc versus rim, thru-axle versus quick release, 11-speed versus 12-speed, Boost versus non-Boost. A three-level filter cannot express that. Four dimensions you control can. see ViewForge →