hello everyone, I'm Pete.  (petemaster5000). 

I started this site a while ago for many obvious reasons.  But mainly my big ambition is to create a network of riders within all motorcycle diciplines (street, dirt, stunt, cruiser etc...) and offer one robust social network for all of us to meet more people, share photos and stories, and get companies in our industry all together to help make our industry better.

There's one thing we all have in common that we love to ride motorcycles, thus the slogan: "ALL RIDES WELCOME"

Please bear with us as we finalize our business plan and get financing/investors to fund this project.  We have a ton of ridiculously cool motorcycle specific features planned for this site that all tie together in some amazing ways that we are all going to love.

So far FTR is all funded by me.  And trust me it's not a small or cheap project involving a little HTML.  It's a robust system we've built using PHP and with big plans.  I myself have spend hundreds of hours that I don't get paid for, and many dollars out of my own pocket for programming expenses.  If you would like to help please contact me by sending a message, or if you'd like to make a donation to help cover expenses you can do so here:  www.friendsthatride.com/donate.html

A little more about me:

I've been riding since I was about 12 when my dad put me on a 1967 Ducati and showed me how to ride it.  I've been addicted ever since.  I love riding motocross and sportbikes, but have also been known to ride a cruiser/harley once in a while too.

My occupation for the past 10+ years is web design and marketing.  More of my work can be seen here:  www.stealthindustries.net.

I'm also a pretty good photographer and have many photo shoots under my belt including models, portraits, scenery and action sports.  Although I'm not shooting so much lately because other projects like FTR have me overly busy, I plan to get more into photography again in the future.

I live in Buckeye, AZ, where we ride street and dirt. More dirbikes than anything lately though... I live right by a huge dune and tons of trails around the white tank mountains. Checkout my photo-galleries for pics of our riding areas and let me know if you want to come ride with us. We ride just about every weekend and some week nights.

I have lots of plans for FTR get togethers and events but I need help planning them and more people to help execute these ideas.

Some of these include: Group Rides, fund raisers, clean up our riding areas campaign, stunt shows, races and more....   If you have some ideas or just want to get involved and help grow Friends That Ride, please send me a message.

That's about it for me.... Now that I've broken the introduction ice,  who's next?  

Well Hi there!

My name is Mae (sxyvxnsf)
I am 27yo and I live in Denver, Co.
I started riding after I found how much I liked being passenger (in 2006 after my 2nd ride) and decided that I'd perfer to be responsibile for my well being on a bike then someone else. I then took the MSF course (on 4/20/07 haha) and a friend let me play in the parking lots on her older FZR600. Because of ID theft I wasn't able to get my bike as quickly as I wanted, so in the meantime I began to severely educate myself on riding, bikes, how accidents happen, what people did to correct their mistake before it turned into a crash and just overall general knowledge of riding. It wasnt until exactly a year after my last ride on her bike (or any bike for that matter) that I finally could afford to get my own.
I have a 2008 SV650SF which I got in late Aug of 2008. I started out VERY rusty and took 60 miles of putting around my nearest 5 blocks or so before I would go out into traffic. My first day outside of my neighborhood I doubled my mileage. Same with the second day. In less then a month I was in the canyons. I rode alot last winter not only because it was a mild winter but because I didnt mind the cold & I wanted to ride. Since then I have put on over 8000miles and plan on having at least 10k on the odo by dec 31st of 2009 if not 10k for this year if the weather holds out.

I also enjoy being a dork and I have no sense of style and I just do/wear what I like. You only have one life afterall, try everything and enjoy it while you can!

my name is Dave Stiefvater

Great intro Dave!!   Rockin choice on the 2010 R1!!!!  Can't wait to find out how you like it.

Hey, my name in Travis. New to the website and Im tryin to meet some people to ride with.

Hey Travis...  I wish you said something sooner.  A few of us did a ride this morning from Buckeye, and put on just under 100 miles.  We plan on doing a Sunday Morning Ride *SMR each week.  checkout our group in the groups section and join.  we'll keep you posted.

Do you know my room-mate Clark from UTI ?

nice R1.  Check out my R1 in my garage.

hey everyone.. how are yall.. i am shelby

Hey im andre i think it was pete that referred me then stalled his bike in the drive thru right after nice man! haha

welcome to the site Andre!  Where did that happen?  Did I give you stickers? 

at mcdoanlds u said u were out ill have to get some and cover my bike with them though

heh, right on.  well i got more.  I'll send you a private message with my address so you can come by and get some.

woah those two ended up blank! agh!!

anyways, wut up everyone?! names Hank i live in buckeye, AZ. i ride a 07' gsxR 600 with most the fixin's an love it to death! hit me up!

Rock on!  Ride on!

I'm the original BamBam Baby...I roll on a Bourget and KTM 250. 

Touch base with me anytime.

xoxo....................................................................BAMBAM

hey bambam!!!  can't wait to ride with you!

Hi 5000........................let's do it!

Bam Bam

i heard youre gonna be in az.  i'll probably see you then one way or another.  ;)

Hay wats up all, Im Jason....AKA Chil Lax.....from North Phx., Az. Im in my mid 30s now, just started riding full time about a year ago on a 01' CBR 929 I got from a friend that dropped it...well his wife made him get rid of it so I jumped on the opportunity. It is such a sweet bike. Not the fasted and not the best handling, but it is mine and I Fn Luv It.

Yo, It's Da Boss here, but my real name is Dave... LOL. I am fairly new to AZ, Ahwatukee area, from Michigan. I ride a 95 Suzuki GSX'R named Gixxx'R. (hey!!! dnt make fun of me cuz u ddnt come up with a better name fer ur own bike...LMAO) I luhv to ride, the faster the better as long as we can and be safe bout it @ the same time. I dont have many ppl to ride with yet but have been meeting few new ppl and adding to the list. I will hopefully be seeing some of u @ bike week here in AZ if u have any specific plans, hit me up!!!

Hay sup Da Boss.

Im CHLX aka Jason from teh north west valley. No worries on the namin you wheels bro. I dubbed mine Ai aka Jigoku Shōjo; it means Girl From Hell. 

Being bike week I'm sure peps on here have plans maded up. Hay if you don't have plans for Saterday M.M.I is having there anual bike week event. Should be cool, Rob with F.T.R. will be out ther epromoting this site.  Things will pick up here after Wensday next week.

Welcome to the site.

Riding For Charity

My name is Andrew. I ride a '96 Suzuki Savage 650. I have been around bikes since I was 6 years old. I'm out in  Mesa, and looking to ride more.

Hello everyone,

  I am new to here but not to riding.  If you need any information on Kawasaki Ninja zx10r, I own that and I did all my research on them.  Just wanted to say hello!