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@ Ali in Austria

Nice one! Been to Ramsau myself a couple of times, if only for a coffee on the way through. Some great riding round there! Dientner Sattel I always enjoy 8-)


Checked your Fb page, liked it and sent a friend request... Next time I'm round your neck of the woods I'll be sure to drop in!


@ Six30

Because we plan our tours on the fly rather than follow set in stone routes regardless of the weather we don't get the cheap hotel stuff (unfortunately!). Our aim is to be flexible, provide a great experience in fine weather on great roads - prices all inclusive apart from lunch/dinner.


I've already amended the "roughing it" and camping bit to good B&Bs and hotels but also stated that we are not 5 star hotel folk.


@ Joeman

Too true. We also reckon that most people will hire a bike here rather than ride down themselves. Having said that, crime rates in Austria/Italy/Germany are truly negligible when it comes to bikes but we always pay attention to secure parking when out and about. Personally I always leave my gloves in my helmet which sits proudly on the right mirror. Nothing has ever happened. Ever.


Wtf is an "Authority Site"??? Listening to it at the mo and hope to understand what they are on about. Many thanks for the hint!


And since you do seem to be a potential punter, have a look at our season starter special :lol:


@ Gerontius

Yep, we expect people to fly to Munich. We pick'em up, take them to their hotel, spend the evening with them to talk about their hopes/wishes/expectations, give the some advice on how to ride safely in groups and get to know them. The next morning we get the bikes and off we go. No bother for them at all. Extra luggage will be stored in a safe place, we even provide weatherproof bags and straps for the bike if they haven't got it.


@ raesewell

Taken your thoughts into account and adjusted prices and accommodation stuff accordingly. Thanks for the tip!

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@ Ali in Austria

Nice one! Been to Ramsau myself a couple of times, if only for a coffee on the way through. Some great riding round there! Dientner Sattel I always enjoy 8-)


Checked your Fb page, liked it and sent a friend request... Next time I'm round your neck of the woods I'll be sure to drop in!

 

 

Kettle is normally on. Something stronger in the Bar :cheers: :D


We are only small ( 5 x Double Rooms) but just in case you hit a problem in our area we have a Bike Garage and tools. My mini bus can recover a rolling bike and I have a tame mechanic nearby :)

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We are only small ( 5 x Double Rooms) but just in case you hit a problem in our area we have a Bike Garage and tools. My mini bus can recover a rolling bike and I have a tame mechanic nearby :)

 

but do you have Bars and eateries with in walkin distance ? :?:

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Kettle is normally on. Something stronger in the Bar :cheers: :D


We are only small ( 5 x Double Rooms) but just in case you hit a problem in our area we have a Bike Garage and tools. My mini bus can recover a rolling bike and I have a tame mechanic nearby :)

 

As long as you got Puntigamer :wink:


Been out and about Saturday/Sunday. Weather is slowly getting there though still funny seeing people doing cross country skiing right next to the road :shock:

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We are only small ( 5 x Double Rooms) but just in case you hit a problem in our area we have a Bike Garage and tools. My mini bus can recover a rolling bike and I have a tame mechanic nearby :)

 

but do you have Bars and eateries with in walkin distance ? :?:

 

We have a small bar. Nearest restaurant is 200m away. Plenty of others around here. We do a free shuttle to various restaurants for Bikers.

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Kettle is normally on. Something stronger in the Bar :cheers: :D


We are only small ( 5 x Double Rooms) but just in case you hit a problem in our area we have a Bike Garage and tools. My mini bus can recover a rolling bike and I have a tame mechanic nearby :)

 

As long as you got Puntigamer :wink:


Been out and about Saturday/Sunday. Weather is slowly getting there though still funny seeing people doing cross country skiing right next to the road :shock:

 


Schladminger is our local brewery :cheers:


Another 4 weeks at least before I will wake mine up. More snow forecast next week :)

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Right, I've done a fair amount of work on the site.


- struck all incl. prices, punter now has a choice of dealers and we organise bike

- more details on tours, put prices, etc on tabs for respective tour

- more details on "the team"

- loads of other "little" stuff


Was also on (yet another) first aid course yesterday. What I didn't know was that it is ALWAYS helmet off, so there. Good course and it was about time that I'm up to date again.

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Site looks great on my mobile. Question, on the "What you need to bring" page, I'm not clear about the breakdown cover:

http://www.hi-motorbiketours.com/index.php/what-you-need-to-bring/


So are customers expected to have their own cover or is it provided? (It's not clear to me reading that)

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No, it is not provided. Riders should have their own breakdown cover. If, for example, you hire a BMW for a grand a week it is included. If you hire a KTM or Kawasaki half or less than half that respectively you will have to fork out between £50 and £80 for your own (if you haven't got one already).


Perhaps I should go over that site once more to make sure it is quite clear.


Anyway, thanks for the thumbs up!

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Yep, probably worth just clarifying that. I read the paragraph on your site a few times and it wasnt clear to me. What you just said make much more sense.

 


It's clear to me you have to bring your own ... You got a hangover :D

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Yep, probably worth just clarifying that. I read the paragraph on your site a few times and it wasnt clear to me. What you just said make much more sense.

 


It's clear to me you have to bring your own ... You got a hangover :D

Wish i did!

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Yep, probably worth just clarifying that. I read the paragraph on your site a few times and it wasnt clear to me. What you just said make much more sense.

 


It's clear to me you have to bring your own ... You got a hangover :D

Wish i did!

 


My hangovers last two or three days now ... Nasty things .

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Nice web site. The description of what you're offering is nice and clear.


Now this is probably a really dumb thing to say - but are you tracking the site's stats such as, number of visits a day, pages visited, time spent on the site? Because if you are then you can see how the stats changed when you changed the prices and the description of the accommodation - which pages were affected? Did any pages get noticably more people or people spending longer on them? And if there wasn't any change, then you would need to start looking at what is driving controlling the flow of visitors to the site, given that it's not the prices or the words. But like I said you're probably on top of all that already.

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@ Six30

Deary my, Bavaria being a place where beer belongs to the staple diet you'd be really up shit creek here. However, the general quality is so good that hangovers invariably stem from digesting other alcoholic beverages such as Schnaps. And yes, they can be a real stinker...

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@ bonio

No such thing as a stupid question!


The wordpress stats site is okay but doesn't tell you how long visitors spend on a page. All I get is views per day, countries, referrer and views per page. There must be a plugin available which collects the info you suggested. All I have to do is find it.


Interesting is the fact that both the six day tour and the weekend appear to be equally interesting/appealing to the potential punter. Both google and bing ad "specialists" (read salespeople) told me to ditch the weekend :up:

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I'm at a loss to understand how any person with a bike can't just pop a tent on a rack and simply head off around Europe. I'd certainly not be paying someone to lead me to a campsite that I could have Googled myself in 60 seconds.


Maybe if you were offering decent hotels that you'd vetted I could understand the service - but then there are websites for that too.


For those without a sense of adventure, there's the inbuilt routes in sat-navs. So I really don't understand the purpose of tour companies. Sorry.

 

Some people prefer to be led and some peoples personal bikes may not be a viable option to tour on .

You then have the fun of arranging european breakdown cover as a majority of companies will not offer cover on bikes over 15 years old .

If you wish to solo tour then yes self finding will be good but some crave social contact .

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Google analytics, Webmaster Tools are both very good for stats.


Also Statcounter gives some nice visitor stats.

Another nice tool is sumo.com

WordPress can easily be updated to integrate all of them into every page.

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Some people prefer to be led and some peoples personal bikes may not be a viable option to tour on .

You then have the fun of arranging european breakdown cover as a majority of companies will not offer cover on bikes over 15 years old .

If you wish to solo tour then yes self finding will be good but some crave social contact .

I understand other people do it, for reasons, just like some choose to go to the Costa Del Sol or on cruises. I simply can't process the why. Bikes are about discovery and adventure, seems to be the antithesis of that, to me. :)

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@ Six30

Deary my, Bavaria being a place where beer belongs to the staple diet you'd be really up shit creek here. However, the general quality is so good that hangovers invariably stem from digesting other alcoholic beverages such as Schnaps. And yes, they can be a real stinker...

 


I wouldn't get hangover when I'm away in bike , would have a couple and that's it, skin full of beer then riding a bike next morning don't mix .

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