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TrophyHunter has a great point.

RamMan4x4 - I personally fall in with your line of thinking. I would be interested in knowing who else might be in my area that is interested in the same type of riding as I am and can share some knowledge of potential trips or join in on some trips. I am not really big into group riding on my street bikes but my preferences for trail riding take me to some remote areas that you are better off riding with at least one other person. Having said that I also respect the privacy or riding prefernces of other riders.

Look, I don't mean to offend you and I'm not trying to be a smartass here, but what exactly is "fictional"? The Ozarks is a real place, most people know it's the mountain range located in northern Arkansas/southern Missouri. I didn't make it up.

I'm happy to discuss any and all complaints, as I'm doing here trying to explain this as best I can. I'm just not sure what you mean by 'fictional'. Are you saying that someone could lie about their location? Because it's just as easy to say 'Chicago' when one lives in Miami... a lie is a lie.

We're just trying to get folks to give us an idea of where they live while at the same time respect their privacy. Thus 'San Diego County is good enough, as is The Ozarks, SoCal, NorCal, West Texas, The Everglades, Puget Sound, The Mojave Desert, etc.

I suppose one could be a smartass and put The West Coast, but that wouldn't help someone who lives in Seattle know the spare DR650 engine they're interested in is in Los Angeles. At least SoCal lets the Seattle guy know if he wants the engine it's gonna be some serious shipping $$$ or a weekend road trip. Which might be fun, actually... Highway 101 is a beautiful drive!

[edit] Btw Trophyhunter... if I still lived in Point Loma and saw you lived in SD County, I'd probably invite you for a ride together... see why it's a good thing?

+2 for what RamMan4x4 said.
It's nice to be able to see what other DRriders are close by so we can swap parts, ideas, and hit trails together.

The Ozarks - Very General

Say ya live in Chicago & you live in Miami - Fictional

I get the point and agree it's nice to see where folks generally are.

We obviously have a disconnect on the rest.

Movin' on.

+1 It does far less harm than good. We had a number of complaints about "no location profile info in ads" from potential buyers. Enough that Ride actually had suggested regional ads. The work load would have been exponential for the admin/moderator level adding multiple ad sections to monitor. The simple way was to ask members to fill in their location profile so potential buyers could see right away that an item they might be interested in is "across the pond" and shipping might make it less than a bargain. This is the method we are asking members to use when posting ads on the buy/sell/trade forum. If this presents an issue for anyone posting in this section they should seek a more palatable media to place their ads in. As Dust Devil mentioned we can not please everyone so we must please the majority while carefully considering our own work load in maintaining the free ad service we are providing. We truly appreciate your understanding in this issue.