RideSleepRepeat – Your Biker Stays Across Europe

[Con Hennekens]

Dear MyRoute-app friends,

Looking for a good biker-friendly place to stay? Sounds familiar: endless searching across different platforms, but never quite finding what you need. Time for something better. Meet RideSleepRepeat.eu – a free Bikers4Bikers platform covering all of Europe.

What makes it different?

• By bikers, for bikers
• free, as in free beer (donations are welcome)
• Easily add your favorite hotels, B&Bs, or campsites
• Smart filters (secure parking, tools, drying room, wellness, etc.)
• Clear map view
• And… available in (almost) all European languages

Adding a stay only takes a few clicks (often auto-filled via OpenStreetMap). You’ll help fellow riders and give owners free exposure. Win-win. We’re just getting started, so the database still needs to grow . That’s why we’d love your help: take a look and add your favorite spots! As a thank-you, your (nick)name will be shown on the listing.

Check it out: RideSleepRepeat.eu

Got feedback or ideas? We’d love to hear them: mail@ridesleeprepeat.eu
Ride safe & enjoy the ride ️

(posted with permission from MRA as part of a non-profit, pro-biker initiative)

[Con Hennekens]

I’ve added an import feature to the backend. So if you keep a list of your favorite hotels, I can add them under your name, and you’ll receive a link that lets you make changes yourself, upload photos, fill in the amenities, and so on. You can request an Excel template by emailing mail@ridesleeprepeat.eu

[Con Hennekens]

Yesterday big steps were taken to improve the user experience on small phone and tablet screens. This development actually makes the whole application perfectly usable on small screens and almost equal to the use on PC monitors.

We are currently on 32 submitted accommodations, but of course aiming at much more and across all of Europe.

Also I added a news page, where you can follow our progress in development. Available as usual in most European languages.

Do you have favorite hotels, B&Bs Campsites or whatever? Show them to your fellow bikers, submit them on RideSleepRepeat!

Missing something? Leave a message on RideSleepRepeat.eu!

[Con Hennekens]

I have been very busy making the app more usable and implemented much feedback from the early users. Changes of the past 10 or so days are:

Phone optimizations:

• The app can show your position on the map, making the app handy for searching accommodations during your trip! (you are asked for location permissions of they are not enabled).
• Added a visor button that "flies" to your location to show accommodations in your vicinity.
• The menu collapses into a hamburger menu on small screens (also small PC screens) and shows a nice slide-in menu panel if clicked.
• The mobile experience has been further enhanced by detaching submit and donation pages into separate ones. The main page now focuses on the search filter and map. The page was simply too long for usage on small screens.
• A "Navigate to" button has been placed on the accommodation details page. On PC it loads Google maps, on Android and iOS you can choose your navigation app of preference.

Overall:

• The search on keywords is expanded with the names of important areas and natural parcs. If you search on "Eifel", know area names with "Eifel" in the name are presented in a drop down box. If you click one, OSM is queried for a bounding box around that area, and all accommodations with coördinates within that box are filtered. This way owners do not need to maintain this parameter.
• Addition of accommodation type "Holiday Rental"
• Option for anonymous submitting (without email address, nickname still for you to make up )
• The submit form is enhanced to accept Google Maps coordinate pairs in one field, just in case auto geolocation does not work.
• Added a separate tab on the "How-it-works" page, to clarify some options
• We added diverse sharing options for social media. On Android and iOS the system share drawer can be used for sharing through whatever app you use.
• A new amenity tag is introduced: "Biker specialized". This one is hidden on the filter page, but a 3-way toggle is introduced. All = yeah... all...! Biker Special = only accommodations targeted specifically at bikers, and "Mixed Clientele", if you are looking for a biker friendly accommodation, but rather not one that advertises explicitly as such (not all riders fancy large groups of bikers).

I am especially proud of the way the web-application handles phone screens now, which was not even a thought when I started this platform! Check it out, share your favorite accommodations and help the biker community. Much appreciated!