First, @Jin, I appreciate your work as the designer, and I know that presenting anything based solely on one's own ideas is difficult.

However, the overall feel of this design is more fantastic than I would prefer, especially since we are supposed to be a site for solid questions with concrete answers.

Pros:

1. The color scheme gives a nice soft feel to the page. It reminds us that we are ll here because we have one thing in common, at least.
2. It's rider centric, and not machine centric only. It doesn't leave anyone with the impression that all we care about is what you ride, or how much it cost.
3. It does a good job of incorporating bicycle based elements without every button being a mini component of some kind.

Cons:

1. I hate the heart as logo. I'm not a 13 year old girl drawing the headbadge of my bike on my Peachie cover, and I don't want to look like one. I would be embarrassed to use that as a logo or link badge on most sites I frequent. And while I don't want to prevent 13 year old girls from participating, neither do I want to turn over our brand identity to one.
2. I would much prefer our logo to look like a headbadge, or some similar cycling themed item. C'mon, it's our logo! Shouldn't it define bicycles.se better than that?
3. I'd like there to be some element that reminds us that there is a technical side to cycling; that riding is gestalt of man and machine, and that in a way cyclists the original cyborgs. This captures the zen side of cycling quite well. What about the other side? Are we ignoring it? Because most of our questions are far more focused on the technical than the zen of it all...
4. As was stated in the earlier answer, fix the cyclist's position. He looks in pain. And a tree or 2 on the page would be nice.

First, @Jin, I appreciate your work as the designer, and I know that presenting anything based solely on one's own ideas is difficult.

However, the overall feel of this design is more fantastic than I would prefer, especially since we are supposed to be a site for solid questions with concrete answers.

Pros:

1. The color scheme gives a nice soft feel to the page. It reminds us that we are all here because we have one thing in common, at least.
2. It's rider centric, and not machine centric only. It doesn't leave anyone with the impression that all we care about is what you ride, or how much it cost.
3. It does a good job of incorporating bicycle based elements without every button being a mini component of some kind.

Cons:

1. I hate the heart as logo. I'm not a 13 year old girl drawing the headbadge of my bike on my Peachie cover, and I don't want to look like one. I would be embarrassed to use that as a logo or link badge on most sites I frequent. And while I don't want to prevent 13 year old girls from participating, neither do I want to turn over our brand identity to one.
2. I would much prefer our logo to look like a headbadge, or some similar cycling themed item. C'mon, it's our logo! Shouldn't it define bicycles.se better than that?
3. I'd like there to be some element that reminds us that there is a technical side to cycling; that riding is gestalt of man and machine, and that in a way cyclists the original cyborgs. This captures the zen side of cycling quite well. What about the other side? Are we ignoring it? Because most of our questions are far more focused on the technical than the zen of it all...
4. As was stated in the earlier answer, fix the cyclist's position. He looks in pain. And a tree or 2 on the page would be nice.

First, @Jin, I appreciate your work as the designer, and I know that presenting anything based solely on one's own ideas is difficult.

However, the overall feel of this design is more fantastic than I would prefer, especially since we are supposed to be a site for solid questions with concrete answers.

Pros:

1. The color scheme gives a nice soft feel to the page. It reminds us that we are ll here because we have one thing in common, at least.
2. It's rider centric, and not machine centric only. It doesn't leave anyone with the impression that all we care about is what you ride, or how much it cost.
3. It does a good job of incorporating bicycle based elements without every button being a mini component of some kind.

Cons:

1. I hate the heart as logo. I'm not a 13 year old girl drawing the headbadge of my bike on my Peachie cover, and I don't want to look like one. I would be embarrassed to use that as a logo or link badge on most sites I frequent. And while I don't want to prevent 13 year old girls from participating, neither do I want to turn over our brand identity to one.
2. I would much prefer our logo to look like a headbadge, or some similar cycling themed item. C'mon, it's our logo! Shouldn't it define bicycles.se better than that?
3. I'd like there to be some element that reminds us that there is a technical side to cycling; that riding is gestalt of man and machine, and that in a way cyclists the original cyborgs. This captures the zen side of cycling quite well. What about the other side? Are we ignoring it? Because most of our questions are far more focused on the technical than the zen of it all...
4. As was stated in the earlier answer, fix the cyclist's position. He looks in pain. And a tre or 2 on the page would be nice.

First, @Jin, I appreciate your work as the designer, and I know that presenting anything based solely on one's own ideas is difficult.

However, the overall feel of this design is more fantastic than I would prefer, especially since we are supposed to be a site for solid questions with concrete answers.

Pros:

1. The color scheme gives a nice soft feel to the page. It reminds us that we are ll here because we have one thing in common, at least.
2. It's rider centric, and not machine centric only. It doesn't leave anyone with the impression that all we care about is what you ride, or how much it cost.
3. It does a good job of incorporating bicycle based elements without every button being a mini component of some kind.

Cons:

1. I hate the heart as logo. I'm not a 13 year old girl drawing the headbadge of my bike on my Peachie cover, and I don't want to look like one. I would be embarrassed to use that as a logo or link badge on most sites I frequent. And while I don't want to prevent 13 year old girls from participating, neither do I want to turn over our brand identity to one.
2. I would much prefer our logo to look like a headbadge, or some similar cycling themed item. C'mon, it's our logo! Shouldn't it define bicycles.se better than that?
3. I'd like there to be some element that reminds us that there is a technical side to cycling; that riding is gestalt of man and machine, and that in a way cyclists the original cyborgs. This captures the zen side of cycling quite well. What about the other side? Are we ignoring it? Because most of our questions are far more focused on the technical than the zen of it all...
4. As was stated in the earlier answer, fix the cyclist's position. He looks in pain. And a tree or 2 on the page would be nice.