Sport Fishing Asia
For information on saltwater or freshwater fishing in Asia this is the place to go. The active forums and picture galleries are used by members from all around Asia.

About Motorcycle Asia Net

WHO?

WHY?
Throughout most of my managerial working life I had always been in a position where I could do the work of any of my staff and trained most of them. After a few years of building teams and divisions which in turn built very large Web sites like globalsources.com and worldroom.com I realized that most of my staff were doing things I couldn't do or were at least technically more knowledgable than I was in their field of expertise so in 1999 just for the sake of learning I built the Motorcycle Philippines Web site without any help at all.

When I first decided to go back to riding bikes it took me months to find a few dealers and a bike I liked. Then when I needed a mechanic it took months to find one. My intitial plan was simple, just list the dealers and mechanics, etc and get the riders to share information.

By 2001 it was clear that users of Motorcycle Philippines were from all over the world and that expansion to cover all of Asia would make sense. I registered Motorcycle Asia Net and started collecting content from all around Asia. The Motorcycle Asia domain was set to point to Motorcycle Philippines so when the content was ready I just needed to change the name on the Web site for the Asia wide site to be fully active. I made agreements with people and organizations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand, etc to supply content. but unfortunately as I was close to the final stages someone decided to cash in on the success of Motorcycle Philippines and start a competing site, copying the concept of Motorcycle Philippines and using the Motorcycle Asia name I had registered nearly three years before. Their site is very small and not very popular but I decided to concentrate on Motorcycle Philippines while retaining this site because it is already well established on search engines and links around the world. Maybe later I will reactivate the Asia wide agreements and include all the content on this site.

WHAT?
Of course, years of building web sites and before that many years in publishing teaches you what the users want, what makes them come back and what grabs their interest. Putting this experience to work on Motorcycle Philippines along with a lot of experience working with search engines resulted in a web site that rapidly grew far beyond my expectations. The site became the communications center for a huge number of riders and is a community in itself.  A number of motorcycle clubs have been formed by members meeting through Motorcycle Philippines.

Motorcycle Philippines was usually between number 5 and 20 in the Philippines top 100 most popular web sites with around 200,000 visitors monthly and between them they download about 6 million files (nearly 500Gb) each month.

In January 2006 I decided to give away the Motorcycle Philippines site and retire from managing huge sites that need a lot of time and cash to maintain. That is, until I was persuaded to build more sites like Sport Fishing Asia, Deep Field Relaxation and others.