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ridesNroads

2009-04-20T13:20:00.001-07:00

Meeting New Motorcycle Riders

2009-03-25T11:29:00.000-07:00

The best way to meet new friends and motorcycle riders is to join a motorcycle forums or motorcycle social community sites like ridesNroads.com online. You learn about different rides to go on, places to go, where to find the best parts for your motorcycle, and much more.

There is nothing like getting on the road and feeling the wind in your hair and being free. People who do not ride will never understand the experience. Most people, who like to ride, enjoy meeting other riders because there is so much to talk about. The best place to go to meet other riders is through a motorcycle forums or motorcycle social community sites like http://www.ridesnroads.com. I am not a big fan of a regular motorcycle forums as conversation tend to be one dimensional and most of them do not let you post photos, videos and blogs. For me sharing riding adventures and experiences is main aspect of being part of online motorcycle community or motorcycle forum and social community sites like these make it easy, by letting me add others as my friends.

When you join a forum or site, you can upload and share your motorcycle photos so everyone can see the bike you are proud to put on the road. You may have put many long hours putting your motorcycle together and want to show everyone. A motorcycle community understands the sweat and tears put into a bike and they love to view and share photos of their own bikes. That is one of the reasons I will be moving my blog to http://www.ridesnroads.com soon.

We all love to go on motorcycle rides. When there is a run nearby everyone wants to know about it and be a part of it. A forum is the best place to go to learn about the different runs and rides. You can view photos of the best and most relaxing rides to go on and the most scenic routes too. Planning a motorcycle ride can be done with other riders in your local town and in other cities.

Everyone likes to meet new friends. Joining motorcycle forums is the best way to meet new riders because you already have something in common. You can meet friends who have the same interests as you and even meet them at runs around the country.

Another excellent thing when you join a motorcycle community is that if you ever have problems with your motorcycle you can post questions about your bike. Other enthusiasts are always happy to help with the best places to find parts and get advice on ways to fix things too. You can troubleshoot issues and enjoy getting tips and tricks from other motorcycle builders like yourself.

Motorcycle forums are the best places to go when you want to meet other enthusiasts like yourself. Not only will you meet lifelong friends but you can learn about new motorcycle rides that you can go on, get tips and tricks, view photos of some amazing motorcycles, and much more.

Reproduced from http://www.ridesnroads.com/ with permission.

Regular Motorcycle Forums are PITA

2009-03-12T10:20:00.000-07:00

While I am trying to move all of my previous posts to this blog, I thought I would put together something that I have been thinking for a while.

I have been riding motorcycles close to 10 years. After all those years of riding to different places with different people, I have nothing to show or remember things by, like photos, videos etc.

Therefore, I started joining different motorcycle forums, it was interesting in the beginning but discussions are hard to follow. If I start a thread when I come back after few hours, I have to look for it and search it, big PITA.

Sometimes, I do not want everyone checking my threads and discussions, only my friends, talking about friends, pretty much none of the motorcycle forums have any decent feature that makes it easy to add friends like Facebook.

Forget about posting photos and albums, which are very important for me, but none of the forums, have easy features to create albums or adding videos.

I ended up posting some videos on Youtube, some photos on Flicker, my favorites on Del.ici.ous and numerous topics on various forums and blogs. Now I am having difficulty keeping track of these sites.

Therefore, I started looking for sites that are specific to riders where I can post pics of my rides, forums, blogs, maps, trips, create albums, store videos, invite friends, make friends and basically share my riding experiences, memories and keep connected.

The only site that meets my criteria is ridesNroads.com , check it out and let me know what you think and any other sites that are good for riders.