Bike 3D Configurator

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About Bike 3D Configurator

Project Bike 3d Configurator created so that you can build your existing or future bike with modern technology and 3D graphics. Bike customization has never been so quick and easy, change components, experiment with colors, see how suspension works, show your friends, create the bike of your dream. In the future, we see the project as a online shop or service with which you can easily build and then purchase your bike. Also plans to add other types of bikes, more hardtail, dirt, dh, cross country bikes, road and city bikes.

We make option to paint the components that might be painted by custom colors: bike frames, wheel hubs, spokes, hydrolines, rims, grips, pedals, stems, handlebars. For such components as: bike forks, tyres, headsets, brakes, saddles, chain guides, brake rotors, shocks, derailleurs, cassettes, we leave only those colors that provided by the manufacturer. If you want to see your bike in our configurator, please vote on the project page for a new frame or fork you’d like to see in the future updates.

The project is free for everyone, however it’s future depends directly on your help. So please share an app and your own design with your friends, this is the best contribution you can make for this project. Another way to help us is to leave your feedback on Apple AppStore.

Features:

- Change components

- Change colors, frame size, fork travel, wheel size

- Demonstration of fork and frame suspension travel, with actual dimensions

- Save your designs and share them with your friends in social networks

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What happens when bike nerds get AR tools

Found Bike 3D Configurator while looking for ways to visualize my next bike build. Free app, AR mode, 400MB download - seemed promising. Then reality hit.

The app basically lets you build mountain bikes in 3D, swap components, change colors, and if your phone supports it, view the bike in augmented reality right in your living room. Cool idea, right? Well...

First problem: it's mountain bikes only. No road bikes. No gravel bikes. No e-bikes. Just downhill and trail bikes from 2014-ish. If you want to configure a modern Canyon Aeroad or Trek Domane, you're out of luck.

Second issue: the component selection feels frozen in time. The newest frame in here is probably from 2016. No modern drivetrains, no current generation forks. It's like building a bike in a time capsule.

How it stacks up

Actually using this thing for a week

Day 1: Downloaded, opened, immediately confused. The interface looks like it hasn't been updated since iOS 7. Picked a Santa Cruz V10 frame (discontinued years ago) and started building. The color customization is actually pretty neat - you can paint individual spokes if you want.

Day 3: Figured out the AR mode. Holy crap, seeing a full-size bike in my apartment is genuinely cool. Walked around it, checked proportions. But then realized the bike I'm building doesn't exist anymore. Can't actually buy these components.

Day 5: App crashed four times trying to save a design. The save slots (you get 4) don't sync anywhere. Lost my "dream build" when I cleared app cache to fix the crashes.

Last day: Tried finding a single current-year component. Nope. The newest SRAM derailleur is from their 2015 lineup. No SRAM AXS, no Shimano 12-speed, nothing modern.

What the internet thinks

Reddit barely knows this app exists. Found one thread on r/MTB from 2018 where someone called it "neat but pointless." That's... pretty accurate.

App Store reviews are weird. Either 5 stars saying "amazing!" with no details, or 1 star complaining about crashes and outdated parts. One guy wrote a novel about wanting road bikes added. That was in 2016. Still no road bikes.

Google Play reviews are more honest. Recent ones all mention the same issues: limited selection, old components, crashes frequently. Someone pointed out you can't even add modern wheel sizes properly.

XDA Forums had the developer posting updates... in 2015. Radio silence since then. The website bikeconfig.com still works but looks abandoned. Last Facebook post was 2019.

The pros and cons

My testing disaster

Spent three days trying to recreate my actual bike in the app. Couldn't. My 2023 components don't exist in their database. Tried building my dream bike instead. Also couldn't - none of the modern stuff I want is available.

The AR feature almost saves it. Pointing my phone at my garage floor and seeing a life-size bike appear is genuinely cool. You can walk around it, check clearances, see proportions. But when the bike you're viewing has components from a decade ago, what's the point?

Worst part: the app promises future shopping integration. "Build then purchase your bike!" Yeah, good luck buying a 2015 Santa Cruz with discontinued components that haven't been made in years.

Real alternatives that work

Here's the thing - actual bike manufacturers have better configurators now. Canyon's website lets you spec real bikes with current parts and actually buy them. Trek's Project One is expensive but gives you legitimate custom paint and components. Even Specialized's app, while focused on e-bikes, at least uses current technology.

This app feels like someone's abandoned university project that somehow stayed on the App Store. The AR gimmick is fun for five minutes, but when you can't configure anything relevant to modern cycling, it becomes pointless fast.

Honestly? Use manufacturer websites. They're free, updated, and you can actually buy what you build.