Whew! We’re done!

With the addition of Cherry Pocket Steak & Seafood in Lake Wales Florida, submitted by "Skyking96w" on Feb. 2, 2012, the last non-reviewed Ride To Eat destination was bumped off our database. We are now 100% rider reviewed.

So the 1K project is complete. Thanks!

It took considerably longer than I expected, but we got there. I have now lifted the 1000 destination limit and the number of good places to ride to eat on our list will start to grow.

The 1K project originally came about because I started the site by gathering restaurant data from several sources that I thought made sense. Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, Feasting on Asphalt, and some others.

But once the site was underway new data comes only from riders like you.

When we hit 1000 entries I decided that was a good place to stop growing until I got rid of all the original sites… dropping one unreviewed site every time a rider added a new review.

The thermometer to the left took over 2 years to hit the top. We were at 24% when I started the project in January 2010. We hit 90% in early 2011 but took a whole additional year before finally crossing the finish line in February 2012. Still lots of holes in the map though – DC is empty, only 1 entry from North Dakota, still 6 empty Canadian provinces (ok, maybe I can understand Nunavut), and for some reason I can’t find anyone to enter Zeitgeist in San Francisco. So please keep adding great new places to ride to eat. Just click “Add New” up above here and it’s easy.

"The Pace" podcast folks interviewed me about RideToEat.com recently. You can listen or download it from here: 

http://thepacepodcast.com/archives/387

It starts at the 3 minute mark. This will satisfy all of your burning curiosity about RideToEat.com.

The Pace is a weekly podcast covering general interest motorcycling stuff.