Ride-out® -
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.
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Ride-out® has over 750 members and its membership list continues to grow. 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® 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.
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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® 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!
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Unlike other biker sites,
Ride-out® 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® 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
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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.
Ride-out® has evolved over the last seven
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, then click on Topics or Today. I guarantee you’ll
enjoy the experience ………….. and hope to see you soon on a
Ride-out.
Regards to you all
Paul Gibson, Webmaster |
