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A motorcycle community and an iOS app for finding people to ride with. Built by a guy who waited 30 years to start, then found out the bike was the easy part.
You’re on the list — we’ll be in touch. Now go ride.
Free to join. No spam, no pitch.
Thirty years. I wanted a bike since my twenties, and I found a reason not to buy one every single year until I turned 50. Money. Timing. Kids. The look I was going to get across the kitchen table. Every one of those sounded responsible at the time, and not one of them was the real reason. It was fear wearing a nicer outfit.
Then I finally bought the bike.
And here is the part nobody warned me about. I had the bike. I had the gear. I had the license, the safety course, and a garage full of good intentions. What I did not have was one single person to ride with.
That is the thing that almost ended it before it started.
You can do it. I did it, for a while. You roll out early, you take the same loop you always take, you stop for coffee by yourself, you come home. It is fine. It is genuinely fine. But there are only so many conversations a man can have with himself inside a helmet before he starts losing the arguments.
What I actually wanted was the thing I had seen my whole life from the outside. Four or five bikes moving together. Somebody in front who knows the road. Somebody behind you who notices if you are not there anymore. That is the whole reason I wanted a motorcycle in the first place, and it turns out you cannot buy it at the dealership.
My sister-in-law happened to know a couple of guys who rode. That is the entire story. Not skill, not nerve, not some clever plan I put together. One introduction, and inside a month I had a Sunday crew and a standing reason to be up at six in the morning.
That is luck. Luck is not a plan, and I cannot hand it to you.
Because here is what bothers me. Those riders were always there. They were sitting at the same lights I was sitting at, taking the same canyons on the same Sunday mornings, wanting the same thing. We were all right there, and without one lucky introduction I would have gone another year on my own. Maybe I would have quit. Plenty of people do, and they never say why.
RideWolf is a motorcycle community and an iOS app for finding and joining group rides near you. It exists to close that gap on purpose instead of leaving it to somebody’s sister-in-law.
Open it up and see the rides happening near you, when they leave, and where they are headed.
Tap in. No application, no club dues, no proving yourself to anybody first.
Meet at the spot, roll out together, and come home with people who know your name.
| What it is | A motorcycle community and iOS app for finding and joining group rides near you |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Riders who want people to ride with: new riders, returning riders, and anyone who just moved somewhere new |
| Founded by | Johnny, who started riding at 50 |
| Based in | Los Angeles, California |
| Platform | iOS |
| Status | Pre-launch. Early-access list is open |
| Cost | Free to use |
| Started as | The RideWolf YouTube channel, documenting a beginner’s first year honestly |
| What it is not | Not a rideshare, shuttle, or paid transport service. This one is about motorcycles |
Community first. The riding is better with people. That is not a marketing line, that is the entire reason this thing exists.
Safety without the lecture. Full helmet, gear that does something, daytime, weekends, take the course. I ride like a guy with three sons at home, because I am one. But nobody here is going to talk down to you about it.
No tribalism. Harley, sport bike, adventure, scooter, whatever is in your garage. To each his own. We can all ride together.
Honesty about where we are. RideWolf has not launched yet. You will not find download counts, star ratings, or testimonials on this site, because there is nothing real to show you yet. When there is, you will see it.
If you have wanted a bike for years and keep finding reasons. If you have the bike already and it is sitting there because riding by yourself lost its shine. If you rode in your twenties and stopped and you are wondering whether it is too late. If you moved to a new city and left your whole crew behind.
You are the person I was, and you are exactly who I built this for.
I am not the fastest guy out there and I am not the most hardcore. I am the guy who waited three decades, got scared, went anyway, and found out the only thing that made it stick was other people. If I can save somebody else 30 years, that is worth building. Come ride with us.
— Johnny, founder of RideWolf
RideWolf is a motorcycle community and iOS app that helps riders find and join group rides near them. You see the rides happening around you, you say you are coming, and you show up. There is no club to join, no membership, and no waiting for somebody to invite you. It is currently in early access.
RideWolf was founded by Johnny, a rider based in the Los Angeles area who did not start riding until he was 50. It grew out of the RideWolf YouTube channel, where he has been documenting the beginner experience honestly since the start.
Los Angeles, California. The route content and the first city guides cover the LA area and Southern California, because that is where Johnny actually rides.
No. RideWolf has nothing to do with rideshare, shuttles, or paid transport. It is a community app for motorcycle riders who want people to ride with. Other companies use a similar name; this one is about motorcycles and group rides.
Yes. RideWolf is free to use, and getting on the early-access list is free as well. Enter your email and you are on it.
The first release is iOS. Get on the early-access list and you will hear when anything changes on that front.
No, and that is rather the point. RideWolf was built by a guy who started at 50 and was nervous about all of it. New riders, returning riders, and riders who just moved somewhere new are exactly who this is for.
Thank you for reading all that. Honestly. If you have been sitting on this for years like I was, I get it, and I am not going to pitch you. Get on the early-access list, keep an eye on the rides, and when it opens up you will be first through the door.
The last thing you want is to be lying there someday wishing you had got on that bike. So put that first foot forward and just do it. We will see you out there.
Peace.
— Johnny
