Why I do not like regular motorcycle forums

While I am trying to move all of my previous posts to this blog, I thought I would put together something that I have been thinking for a while.

I have been riding motorcycles close to 10 years. After all those years of riding to different places with different people, I have nothing to show or remember things by, like photos, videos etc.

Therefore, I started joining different motorcycle forums, it was interesting in the beginning but discussions are hard to follow. If I start a thread when I come back after few hours, I have to look for it and search it, big PITA.

Sometimes, I do not want everyone checking my threads and discussions, only my friends, talking about friends, pretty much none of the motorcycle forums have any decent feature that makes it easy to add friends like Facebook.

Forget about posting photos and albums, which are very important for me, but none of the forums, have easy features to create albums or adding videos.

I ended up posting some videos on Youtube, some photos on Flicker, my favorites on Del.ici.ous and numerous topics on various forums and blogs. Now I am having difficulty keeping track of these sites.

Therefore, I started looking for sites that are specific to riders where I can post pics of my rides, forums, blogs, maps, trips, create albums, store videos, invite friends, make friends and basically share my riding experiences, memories and keep connected.

The only site that meets my criteria is ridesNroads.com , check it out and let me know what you think and any other sites that are good for riders.