What bike shop has the WORST website?

[Hitcher]

Check out Yamaha New Zealand's website.

1. It's slow and unnecessarily complex.
2. It has most odd categories for bikes.
3. It only has a limited range of bikes shown. Every official dealer in NZ sells models that aren't listed here.
4. There's no RRP information. If you want to know the price of a new Yamaha you have to use Trade Me.
5. It's largely a cut-and-paste of the Yamaha Australia's site -- which provides a complete model list (see 3. above).

[Swoop]

For the record I cannot stand the Cycletreads website

The colour and design are TERRIBLE; not to mention piss-poor functionality.

Everytime I Google Search a product and I'm forced to load their website to check specifications or a local price, I die a little inside.

+1.

Sadly.

[AllanB]

Fastbikegear has a fairly decent website. Made several purchases.

[Berries]

The only NZ website I have used is Motomail when the local shops do not stock something. Have noticed recently that the images are so big you cannot see them all on screen so now I don't bother going there. Never looked at Cycletreads before but a quick Google gave me this result -

[R650R]

cycletreads emails with their special sales. Its in some fancy font that is too hard to read.

[release_the_bees]

I love Cycletreads as a company and have had nothing but good experiences with them. However, I also try to avoid their website at all costs mainly due to the lack of search success (try searching for all tyres of a specific size).

Regarding the online ordering system, the one time I tried to order something online, it was still somewhere out back two weeks later when I dropped by the shop for something unrelated. I ended up just picking it up myself.

Also, the online service booking forms are a great idea but it doesn't seem to actually connect with the actual booking system that they use. (If you need your bike worked on at short notice just ride in and tell them that you booked a service using the online booking system a couple of weeks ago!)

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[nzspokes]

I love Cycletreads as a company and have had nothing but good experiences with them. However, I also try to avoid their website at all costs mainly due to the lack of search success (try searching for all tyres of a specific size).

Regarding the online ordering system, the one time I tried to order something online, it was still somewhere out back two weeks later when I dropped by the shop for something unrelated. I ended up just picking it up myself.

Also, the online service booking forms are a great idea but it doesn't seem to actually connect with the actual booking system that they use. (If you need your bike worked on at short notice just ride in and tell them that you booked a service using the online booking system a couple of weeks ago!)

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Went in there to look at helmets last week. When asking what the differences were between helmets it became obvious the staff member had no idea. No wonder people import themselfs.

[Dave-]

Winner. http://www.hamptonmotorcycles.co.nz/

Hampton Honda Christchurch. Been like this for at least two years.

That's like that because of this:

I suppose it's cost and integrating with some archaic accounting/stock/database system.

We use to rock trade me anyway, why the fuck would you want to build a website when all the buyers are on trade me?

Then you have 3 databases to maintain.

[EJK]

+1.

Sadly.

CT website? I thought it was just a spreadsheet!

[nzspokes]

That's like that because of this:



We use to rock trade me anyway, why the fuck would you want to build a website when all the buyers are on trade me?

Then you have 3 databases to maintain.

Yeah all those extra sales would suck.

[Maha]

Bike shop web designers should use a template similar to FC Moto.

I find the Motomail website easy to use.

[Voltaire]

Bike shop web designers should use a template similar to FC Moto.

I find the Motomail website easy to use.

but surely this is your 'go to' bike website


http://www.wotcycles.co.nz/

[Maha]

but surely this is your 'go to' bike website

Nawwwwww that's a lovey website.

[AllanB]

Hampton. NO - that is shocking. I remember years back when setting up a company website with a provider - rule one - NEVER have a link saying under construction or similar. It's like shutting the door to anyone interested.

Hampton have a huge range of motorcycle gear - they now specialise in this as apposed to bikes . If this is not a company that could benefit from a decent website fuck me.

[eldog]

We use to rock trade me anyway, why the fuck would you want to build a website when all the buyers are on trade me?

Then you have 3 databases to maintain.

Dave why not put a comment like "see our listings on trade me" would be so much better.
and try not to use the past tense. Better to say that "We rock Trade Me"

One integrated database would be the go....

not all buyers are on trade me.
a lot of stuff I buy is still not available in NZ

its strange that I will be shortly in the market to setup a customer parts list, stock control and purchasing/sale database etc for my work.