Hello I've been reading hubb from some time. Finally I register and I would like to share with you an idea that finally I made reality

I'm from Málaga, Spain with a BMW G650X challente and love off-road travels. I have visited several time Morocco, Portugal, France and of course a lot of travels in Spain.

After a lot of years traveling I tought that it would be very useful a system to permit contact rapidly riders traveling when they are in trouble or need something with other riders that are not traveling and they are at home. I thought in a solidarity system, "riders helping riders around the world".

I created http://www.spot-riders.com with this in mind. Basically you can send a spot and an email will be send to all riders 50 miles around you. For this to work it's necessary that there is registered users on www.spot-riders.com near your spot (50miles). This is why I share this project with you, it need riders!

I want it to be a free project now and forever, without third party publicity (aka adsense, etc) and without any paid service for riders nor any unethical way to get money.

My English is not so good (as you can read) but I do my best effort. I've done the website in English, I think it's the most universal language for travelers but sure I made a lot of mistakes so any help in this aspect is welcome.

I hope you love the idea and your feedback is important to improve spot-riders.com. You can read more in spot-riders.com website . I have a lot ideas to implement to improve it...

http://www.spot-riders.com

Await your opinions, Thanks!

Gran idea, Amigo

Great idea. I'll check out the website later and may be able to help with the English, as that's what I do for a living.

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That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing...

I'm just added my "spot".

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Jan Krijtenburg

My bikes are a Honda GoldWing GL1200 and a BMW R1200GS

My personal homepage with trip reports: https://www.krijtenburg.nl/
YouTube channel (that I do together with one of my sons): motormobilist.nl

Nice idea - but, (and not wishing to dampen your enthusiam), this already exists here, on Horizons, under 'Communities'.

Hello Bertrand I didn't know about "communities" here in HU. Good to know about similar iniciatives. The basic idea is the same but implementation is different.

More options, better for all us

I have implemented a new option in profile. Now you can indicate the type of assistance you can provide. It will be displayed in riders map so it will be more easy for rider to plan a trip.

Indicate the type of assistance you can provide.

There is anoter two new options in profile:

"FindMeSpot Device Name" and "Emergency Phone"

The first is to indicate and link with your findmespot.com device (if you have one). When you press "help" buttom and if an email (from spot-riders.com) is in the list for help notifications it will create a new spot in spot-riders.com and send an email to all users 50kms near with your location without need of internet. If you defined an Emergency Phone it will be attached to created spot so other riders can contact you.

I will enter in details soon, it's almost finished!

Well... it's done!

Now it's possible to link SPOTs devices from findmespot.com with spot-riders.com

Use your FindMeSpot Device with spot-riders.com

With this, it's not necessary internet to request help...

As always, any sugestion is welcome.