Ride-out.com - Where motorcycle enthusiasts meet to arrange their ride-outs. Designed in 2001 to initially cater for the needs of North West England’s Bikers, the Website has inevitably grown in all directions.

The purpose of the site, unlike most general biker sites, is to specifically arrange ride-outs with like minded people. The Ride-outs are always fun and well organised. There are NO CHARGES to take part and website membership is totally FREE, and what’s more, you’ll soon be making new friends.
 

Ride-out has in excess 1000 members and its membership list is continually kept up-to-date. (We do not believe in having masses of user accounts registered on a whim but never used). Our members are encouraged to take part as riders or organisers and belong to a website that is very quickly becoming a motorcycling community and for some, a way of life. Our ride-outs get bigger and braver each year. For example, a mere scouting mission sent to the climbs of Southern Ireland has resulted in a yearly ride to the Emerald Isle on the back of cheap ferry fares designed for the NW 200 Race Meet. Trips into Europe each year are becoming the norm, together with weekends in Scotland and Wales. But let’s not get too carried away here. The main business of Ride-out.com is to get mutually minded bikers out on their bikes. Ride-outs predominantly start in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire and end up in Derbyshire, Wales, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Durham and Scotland.

Our rides are thereabouts every Sunday during spring, summer and autumn and during the ‘season’ Saturday and mid-week too. Rides are arranged by the members for the members and generally led by Ride-out Leaders (our more experienced or trained riders, or those who have demonstrated their ability to lead in the past). There are also rides that are family friendly! Yes, we do Pillion Rides, were riders are encouraged to bring their spouse or child as pillion. Understandably we tame these rides in terms of distance and style of riding.

How Ride-out.com varies from many of the rufty-tufty biker Websites out there is that we try to keep the language down, avoid over use of adult rated material and welcome family members of all ages. We adopt the policy of “would you let your child look at that”? We do have children as members and they actively participate – perhaps they will be the bikers of the future! For the times when things go wrong and tempers fray, Ride-out has a dedicated team of Moderators who step in to diffuse any unnecessary ‘hot air’. Yes we all have arguments from time to time, but generally ‘group hug’ afterwards!

Unlike other biker sites, Ride-out.com also does not condone the boy racer image of wheelie popping, knee down and stoppie is a must on the public highway sort of riding! We advocate sensible ‘there is a time and a place’ riding. We welcome all styles of motorcycles and believe in riding our machines to the best of our ability. We even have as a member an IAM Examiner / Police Class One Rider who can provide advanced training at a modest fee. Your riding and life chances will improve through training. For those times when the worse comes to the worst though, we have an arrangement with the Lancashire Ambulance Service for the provision of biker first aid training – First Bike on Scene Course.

Ride-out.com also has several additional features. You can get a free e-mail address and your own personal private mailbox. This can be accessed via you Web Browser or from Outlook. Private Messages can also be sent to other members. You get your own member profile where you can add your own information. Other members can then look at this to see who you are and what you’re about. The Site also has a Photo Archive picturing almost every ride we have ever done, all viewable in a user friendly format and can even be displayed as a slideshow whilst online.

You might be wondering about how can all of this be free? Simple really, all initial setup costs and running costs are met by the webmaster and donations or sponsorship is received on an annual basis from those members who feel they have received value from the site, or are able to contribute financially to the running costs of the site. There is no onus on any member to make a contribution and any monies gratefully received are made at the discretion of individual members. At the time of writing, the website has spent out about £1,000 since its creation and received about £600 in income. It is anticipated that over the next year or so the Site will break even [the Webmaster lets out a sigh of relief]

Ride-out.com has evolved over the last three years into a great place to be and the best thing about ride-out has to be the ride-outs! To register for an account click on the Register link, or just to continue to view the Site, click on Topics or Today. I guarantee you’ll enjoy the experience ………….. and hope to see you soon on a Ride-out.