In our quest to make ESR as thorough of a motorcycle site as we can, we are endeavoring to ensure that there is as much good content as possible. There are 3 main areas for where this content will come from, that for the sake of discussion I’ll call: (1) user generated, (2) 3rd party [...]

Ads and “corporate” partnerships can be a bit of a contentious issue for some people when it comes to community oriented sites. But, from day one we knew that this would be the way that we would hopefully be able to fund the ongoing development and day-to-day running of ESR. So yes, there will be [...]

The final piece to the main navigation bar is simply called “Bikes”. Yes, it’s just what it sounds like. It will be an ever growing collection of motorcycles, with photos and descriptions. The idea here is that it’s not only a great resource for photos and specs of bikes, but is also a way of [...]

If you’ve ever searched online for reviews of a product before making a buying decision, you’re certainly not alone. One of the great things about peer recommendations and the ease of which we can find them now, is that you don’t need to wait for a magazine to write a possibly (probably) biased review of [...]

The next piece of the puzzle to cover off is what we’re calling “News”. Once again, we haven’t developed anything groundbreaking with this piece, but this is definitely one to file under “yes, that’s pretty damn useful to have integrated with a motorcycle social network”. While the majority of the content on eatsleepride will come [...]

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 [...]

I’ve hinted at this one already and it’s definitely one of the features I’ve been busting to write about. We know that we’re not the first motorcycle site to offer a way for bikers to share their favorite routes to ride, but we do think we’ve done it right!
If you’ve read any of our recent [...]

Through our countless internal discussions as we were designing eatsleepride, we decided that there were a few different tools that we wanted to include in order to provide users with the ability to organize themselves in any number of different ways. We feel that it’s an important part of a community that aims to cater [...]

Before getting into the more enticing features we’ve included, I thought it best to cover off a couple of the “basics” first. Namely, text posts and media (photo and video). But, first I want to share a few icons. These are 3 of the icons that make up part our main navigation bar, something that [...]

One of our main goals with eatsleepride has always been to make the user experience simple and intuitive across the whole site, without sacrificing functionality. We don’t want the site to get in the way when creating, sharing and commenting on content and hope to ultimately foster an environment where users want to contribute enough [...]