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I’m sure this has been answered, but my searching skills seem horribly lacking at the moment.

I currently have a site dedicated to Harley Davidson. I have a section for the various motorcycles (natch). Currently my template structure is like this:

Template group: Bikes
Templates under Bikes: Decade, Year and Index.

This results in a url that looks like /bikes/decade/1910-1920 (which showcases the motorcycles from that decade) and when I select a particular bike, the url looks like /bikes/year/1907_7d (for example).

It seems I should be able to simplify that a bit. I’m looking to move it to /bikes/1910-1920/, removing the decade all together. And…not quite sure how to showcase the individual bike yet.

Do I need to create a template for every decade under bikes? So my template structure would look like:

Bikes
  >1910-1920
  >1920-1930
  >1930-1940
etc…

It seems if I want the URL structure I would need to do something like that, but it doesn’t seem very intuitive to me either.

Any thoughts?

One approach is to handle it all within the index template:

http://eeinsider.com/articles/simpler-expressionengine-urls-with-a-simple-template/

Thanks Mike - I *think* that’ll do what I need.

Is there a way to make Switchee work with three different templates?

I’m trying to get my url to look like /bike/index.php OR /bike/1910-1920 OR /bike/1903_single. Basically a landing page, bikes available in the decade, and then a detailed view of a particular bike in that decade.

Does that make sense?