If there’s one thing that most motorcyclists enjoy, it’s buying stuff for their bikes or even better, buying a new bike. Naturally we felt that having classifieds was a great feature to add to the site, but it wasn’t a simple decision about whether or not we would actually include this feature right away and furthermore, if we did, how would we approach it. There was a bit of apprehension knowing that until we have enough users, the classifieds section will likely be a bit sparse and that’s almost worse than having no classifieds at all. But, we eventually agreed that it was a valuable feature to offer and if in the end no one is using it we’ll just turn it off.

We haven’t re-invented the concept of a classified section, we wanted to keep it simple and straightforward. It goes without saying that the classified ad integration with the rest of the site is seamless. New ads show up in your feed, ads can be commented on and your connections to other users will help you find ads that may be of interest to you. As you would expect there’s ways for you to browse and search all of the ads or if you’ve got something taking up space in your garage you can post your own. The ads have some defined criteria for the basic stuff, like a price, location and somewhere to indicate what it is that you’re selling. The rest of the detail is up to you, with an area for a description that can be as long or as short as you like and you can also add photos of what you’re selling. Ads are split up into 2 sections: “motorcycles” and “parts & accessories”. We haven’t included a “general” section as we don’t particularly care to have people selling old lawnmowers and such (that’s what craigslist is for), though perhaps if your lawnmower is powered by a RevTech v-twin it would be ok to stick it in the parts & accessories section.

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