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Biker.ie

Just to let y'all know about a new website called www.biker.ie

Didn't seem to be much along the lines of a focused Irish motorcycle enthusiasts hot-spot (despite a proliferation of car forums) on the ol inter-web, so if you're a biker (or thinking about becoming one) why not drop by and say hello.. any comments, suggestions and/or criticisms welcome.

Thanks,
Brendan
www.biker.ie

Ps. mike/borz, any chance of adding this to the Guide sticky ?

causal

Biker.ie wrote:

Didn't seem to be much along the lines of a focused Irish motorcycle enthusiasts hot-spot (despite a proliferation of car forums) on the ol inter-web,

Fair play to you Brendan setting it up but...
There is an existing Irish Bikers Forum.
There is also a 5+ year old Yahoo Group Motorcycle Ireland

causal

jiffy

Thanks for the plug Causal

www.irishbikerforum.com is setup to work in conjunction with the Yahoo mailing list that you also mentioned.

On the site there is a file upload area to upload photo's and documents etc and a live chat area. I'm also open to suggestions for other functionality that anyone wants.

Matt

Biker.ie

Oops, I hadn't realised there was another (nice site btw) as a quick google on 'bikers ireland' had returned various dating agencies, blackwidowsireland.com (seriously) and even 'the b@stard brothers' from kildare kinda stuff, so I figured on even 1% of the 25,000? or so bikers in Ireland being (even mildly) interested in something like this it'd be worth it, seems you got there afew months before me.

It's funny because the little known about www.viewmybike.com had preceded www.irishbikesales.com [free plugs everywhere today] by afew months also- and they're both living within a stones throw of each other.

Shir tis all good as the man says, Suppose its all down to publicity & awareness at the end of the day,

hey I'm organising free booze and a wet t-shirt competition next week

jiffy

Hi,

I've written a new (2 month old) site for Irish Bikers, it's main focus is a board based forum.

Feel free to take a look and register.

www.irishbikerforum.com

Matt

Borzoi

Threads for new biker forums (fora?) merged. A good kicking awaits anyone with new a thread to promote their biker forum

J.Daniels

whats you got against bikers borzoi

Jiffy, It doesn't seem quite as simple and well laid out as www.biker.ie maybe you could lose the distracting (free?) adverts as they serve no real benefit to the site. This is run from your home PC, is it on unix or something ?

I'm hosting it myself over a 2mb line that I have into my house. It's an uncapped service to doesn't matter to me how many people look at the site.

jiffy

It's running on a Linux Xeon Server.

The ad's are things that people may find useful, motoring organisations, shops that give out good service etc. And yes they are free. I don't make anything form the site.

As for layout, that's a personal thing. It's a board based sytem and I can't see how I can make it simpler, you go to the site and there are all the boards, what's hard about that ?

Matt

J.Daniels

Calm down, its called 'constructive' criticism.

jiffy

I'm not 'uncalm' just pointing out my own opinion as did you.

If you can tell me how it could be more simple then I'm willing to listen. Generic comments such as it's not as simple or well laid out are not constructive.

Matt

Borzoi

J.Daniels wrote:

whats you got against bikers borzoi

Absolutely nothing - you're a fine group of potential organ donors

jiffy

Not funny ! We face enough problems on the road without having comments like that publically posted. I have lost one friend to a bike accident but know of more people killed in cars and coaches.

Matt

saobh_ie

Borzoi wrote:

Absolutely nothing - you're a fine group of potential organ donors

Not really... the crash that kills us would typically render our nice juicy organs... errr... well, ever hit a tomato with a hammer?

Borzoi

jiffy wrote:

Not funny !

Apologies for offence, but it's a term I picked up from a friend who works in an Accident & Emergency ward of a hospital - apparently they refer to all bikers as organ donors. Make of it wat you will.

jiffy

If you go by statistics, we make up something like 3% of road users and 25% of all fatal accidents (something along those lines anyway). The VAST majority of those fatalies and accidents are by no stretch of the imagination the fault of the biker.

Most of us know the risks we take when we gear up each morning and responsible riders take as much precaution and care as possible.

We don't need to be reminded that the odds are stacked against us. I was involved in an accident recently and a rider with less experience or one paying less attention would quite likely have ended up in the category you mentioned.

Anyway, we both have a point and have made it so fair's fair

Matt