Spikes and inspiration
When you share a bike publicly, visitors can react to it in two ways.
Both are a quick, low-friction way for riders to tell you they like
your build — and a nudge for them to create their own account.
- Spike 🗲 — a kudos. "I love this setup." It's the cycling
equivalent of a like: one tap, no comment, nothing to moderate. - Inspired 💡 — "this is shaping what I'll build." Marking a bike as
inspiration saves it to the visitor's own saved bikes, so they can
come back to it for reference (it shows under Wishlist in their
garage, with a link back to your build).
Counts are public on the bike page; who reacted is not shown
unless that rider has a published profile.
What visitors see
On any published bike (watchmy.bike/b/<bike-id>) the Spike and
Inspired buttons sit right under the title with their counts.
- Logged-in riders tap once and it's recorded. Marking a bike as
inspiration also saves it for them, with a link back to your build. - Logged-out visitors can still tap — their reaction is held for
a short while and saved to their account the moment they sign up.
This is one of the main ways new riders discover WatchMy.bike.
A rider can both spike and save a bike as inspiration. Nobody can
react to their own bike.
What you see as the owner
You don't have to refresh your bike page to know what's happening:
- Your dashboard shows a "your builds are getting noticed" card
with your total spikes and how many riders saved your build as
inspiration, a badge for anything new since you last looked, and a
per-bike breakdown — each with a Share again button. - A weekly email digest summarises new reactions across your
bikes (only when there's something new — never an empty "0 new"
email). Prefer daily? Set email frequency to daily in your
notification preferences. Don't want it? Turning off email in
notification preferences stops it too.
Getting more spikes and inspiration
Reactions only happen on bikes that are public, so:
- Publish your profile and share a bike.
- Share the bike's link — every share brings new eyes.
- Re-share from the dashboard card whenever the counts tick up.
That's the whole loop: share → riders react → you see it → share again.