If you're reading this, you are either a biker, a wannabe biker, got the hots for a biker, hate a biker, are a regular pillion, or you are  just plain nuts about whatever crazy, stupid, romantic notions you believe bikes and biking have to offer. 

We know that all real bikers have had the shit knocked out of them in one way or another and none of us think so straight anymore. So, for the sake of our brother/sister bikers who've taken one to the head once too often, we've banged a few instructions together to help you get the most from our website.

Now listen carefully...

To move around the website point the arrow made by your mousey-thing on your computer screen on stuff on the MENU BAR (nah, you can't order booze or broads) that can be found on the top left hand corner of each page. Your LEFT arm is the one attached to your LEFT shoulder and is the bit that hangs down from the shoulder, ok?

Now, do you see the word UP? Click UP and you go to HOME PAGE, unless of course you are already in the HOME PAGE where there is no UP, in which case you can't see these instructions so it doesn't matter what the hell you do.  

If you are at the HOME PAGE, or some other pages, but not on this page, you may see some words other than UP in the MENU BAR. If you click any of these you will be teleported to the other crap we have dished up for your literary consumption and optical delight. Then you can click UP again, which, if you are lucky, will take you back to the HOME PAGE, or, if you are unlucky, you will be taken to some uncharted virtual reality backwater like the last time you took a long distance bike ride without a map.

Then, of course there's that mustard-coloured envelope drawing which links you ever-so-smartly to your email program and automatically puts our email address in the TO space, which is rather clever actually because then you do not make mistakes typing words like THE and RAG and TELKOMSA and NET.

And that's not all. There, at the bottom left hand side of the page are a whole bunch of images which, if you click on any one after you use your domesticated, desk-bound rodent to direct the arrow on your screen to that precise location, will take you to another website we want to introduce you to in the hope that one day these bastards will pay us for the free advertising. Don't forget (we did tell you before, right?) if words/phrases are underlined, it means that if you click on it you will magically be transported to another website or webpage. It's a bit like when you wake up in the morning having drank so much the night before that you have no idea how you got home, a phenomenon with which many bikers have more than just a fleeting acquaintance, we are informed. It's called a HYPERLINK...

Confused? Yeah, us too, but that is to be expected because Loone is our Webmeister. Maybe you should just do your own damned thing. Just read the stuff on the right of this page first...

Or don't. Like we care...

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ABOUT THE RAG - Here LOONE tells you a bit about what inspired him to create RHYDAR'S RIDER'S RAG (THE RAG) and then stuff up your life by making it available to read.
WEBSITE HELP - This is where your are now, numbnut! Do nothing. Just keep reading...
INTRO EDITION - This is the very first publication of RHYDAR'S RIDER'S RAG ever, published in September 2006. The real trouble starts here. We sent it to 700 bikers and they sent it on to several thousand more, who emailed us and said all sort of nice things that made LOONE cry - and write a whole lot more. So, it's all your fault, really.
CURRENT EDITION - The entire purpose of this website is to create a place to publish the CURRENT EDITION of RHYDAR'S RIDER'S RAG. Each article that makes up the CURRENT EDITION is published in a separate web page. A new CURRENT EDITION is published monthly and publication is circulated by means of a personalized email (containing an easy-to-use link to the CURRENT EDITION)  to our database of 10 000 plus (and growing) readers. Content is always bike/biker/biking related, although we never lose sight of the fact that "bikers are people first". Content is always entertaining and informative. RHYDAR'S RIDER'S RAG is the only full length bike/biker/biking magazine that is published in its entirety on the Internet. Enjoy. THE RAG is FREE to all. And comment. We want to publish what you want to read. All you have to do is hit the EMAIL BUTTON in the MENU BAR on the left hand side of every page. We've even put the bloody thing is the same place so you can find it!
ADVERTISE - Yeah, that's where the real money is, isn't it. Ask guys like Simon Fourie, bless his wonderful, successful soul. We've got it all to do, no doubt, but he's a fella from whom we can learn. In any event, here you will find our puerile strategy to pave our path to financial success - or if not success, a least sustainability. If you own/represent a business and care to buy-in, maybe we can both make some money. Have a look. Please. THE RAG offers several, affordable, innovative advertising platforms. It's all set out for you in this page.
SUBSCRIBE - THE RAG is FREE to all, but we're still going to ask you to make a voluntary subscription. We need money (really)...who doesn't? So THE RAG is asking you to pay us for something you are going to get for free anyway. Go figure. Absolutely bloody madness, but it is precisely the same insanity that gave birth to - and sustains - THE RAG. Go there, or we may be forced to hunt you own and with you with a brand new second-hand Harley drive belt!
GET PUBLISHED - THE RAG is a publication by bikers for bikers. That's YOU. Everyone has a story to tell. If you want to tell your bike/biker/biking (or even vaguely related) tale, take a look at this page. You might get famous (which is all you'll get 'cause we ain't buying) - and we score from a heap of potential publication material. 
FREE SMALLS - Instead of a "smalls" section in each edition of THE RAG, we have published your "smalls" advert on a web page dedicated to that purpose. And hey, we are not doff. FREE SMALLS is for the private advertiser. You may advertise items for sale, to swap, wanted, events and notices. FREE SMALLS is updated weekly, so no waiting for publication dates to get your smalls advert published. And our smalls will be sorted by category and within each category, alphabetically. (Why does that big hardcopy publication make you read through 30 disorganized pages to find that something specific you seek?).  And yes, FREE SMALLS are free. And you can include a photograph. For free. Madness!
SAFER BIKING - South Africa will always be blessed with the Freddie The Turd, battered leather jacket, scratched lid, unshaven, beer swilling biker dudes that only use the biggest, fastest bikes for transportation - and who speak in a unique dialect that will one day be the subject of a doctoral thesis of an enterprising anthropologist! But, it is the opinion of many in the bike/biker/biking publication industry that the majority of readers are "newbie" or "wannabe" bikers. Here we make an effort to introduce you to hints and tips that keep your bones knitted, your skin attached and that will assist you to choose the right bike for yourself. Many seasoned bikers will also benefit.
USEFUL LINKS - LOONE is a biker. What's more, he lives in the 22nd century where there's an Internet and stuff. The USEFUL LINKS page lists some of LOONE'S favourite bike/biker/biking-related websites. Or, maybe just a link to some bloke whose efforts are worthy of the attention of others. Or, just maybe, the link is published because LOONE wants to say thanks to someone who showed a kindness to THE RAG. It's a subjective thing, but you may find something of value in there.

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