CycleTrader: Shop Motorcycles Reviews

by Erik Bloch

I had used the previous version of CycleTrader, and was disappointed there is no way to search locally (the location or zip based search never worked). I’d narrow the search down to my state, which was ok to give me a ballpark price and selection.

Today I updated CycleTrader , and now it opens to the red screen and hangs. I deleted CycleTrader and reinstalled and same thing.

There aren’t many apps for shopping for motorcycles, and it’s too bad this one hasn’t been able to get its act together for years. What a missed opportunity. 🤷‍♂️

by JohnnyBravo2nd

Ever since posting my motorcycle here, I have had daily texts from numbers outside of the state I am in. Numerous texts are from people who are “deployed” or “on business trips” and they want to buy the bike. It is so frustrating to see an app that cannot have some type of firewall against scams. There needs to be a prior authorization built in that allows the seller to specify which type of people are allowed to text buyers varying by location. I can’t think of anyone in their right mind who would buy or sell a bike out of state.
There also needs to be a place in CycleTrader to REPORT any suspicious numbers from “interested buyers” so that cycle trader makes sure that continuous scams are not taking place and ruining CycleTrader any further. Completely disappointed with CycleTrader and I doubt I will ever use it or sell from it again.

by Wjthornberry

I gave up on the mobile app a few months ago as it would often hang, freeze, or crash with great frequency. It was unusable. I switched to the web app, which was much better.

On a whim, I decided to give the mobile app another try today. After I started it, it showed that it was initializing some process for over two minutes—the progress wheel kept spinning, but nothing was happening and I had no idea if it was rebuilding a database or updating itself or what (if a user doesn’t understand what’s happening, that’s bad UX).

I restarted it and it ran fine. An announcement popped up that mentioned that it had been updated to fix various bugs and performance issues. I thought that was promising.

However, after using CycleTrader for a few more minutes, I was letdown again.

It still freezes, still hangs, and still crashes. I’ve never had such a bad experience with a mobile app, especially one from such a well-known company. I love some of the UI enhancements they made, but if your app doesn’t work, attention should be diverted elsewhere to make sure it functions before making it look slick.

My phone is an iPhone 6 running iOS 11.4.1.

(I’m writing this review because I care and I truly hope the developers can rectify.)

by Excitermike

App is most of the time useless. You type something into the search and press return and it doesn’t search for what you entered. Even when sometimes it does come up with the right results if you change search filters it will give you random results go bikes nowhere near the type location or price range you wanted. Overall CycleTrader has potential but it’s too confusing to and glitchy to be useful.

Fix CycleTrader and I would be happy but it simply doesn’t work the way it should.

by Mean Mug Man 22244435564

Not sure what happened with the last update. I used to be able to browse with no ads popping up. Now as soon as I filter through some motorcycles I get six different ads that pop up. They start playing and then they stop with one second left and then another ad pops up and repeats six different times. I have to let them all play and when the last one is done I can close each ad and resume for about another two minutes until the ads pop up again. Please fix. Can’t search for bikes if I keep fighting the ads.

by Buy It Sell It

SO I FLIP BIKES AND THE MORE PLACES I CAN MARKET THE BETTER BUT CycleTrader AND THE WEBSITE IS JUST TRASH, I wanted to use CycleTrader but when I put in all the information about the bike and wanted to input the pictures but when I pressed the next button nothing happened and then I kept pressing it until it froze, now the website was a little better but still garbage, when I try to checkout it says “please enter a description” even though I have a 500 word subscription overall it’s just absolute garbage complete trash, if I’m doing something wrong please let me know and I may change my review but until then it sits at one, I wish I could put it at negative 2 stars that sounds more correct than 1

by Ineed911

CycleTrader would get 5 stars from me if it were not for the following issues:

iPad - I find that the bike images don’t always load when I view this on my iPad. I never have issues from a PC with site loading but, with my iPad, I am normally frustrated by this.

iPhone X - CycleTrader just crashes and never even runs. This may be because I do not allow location tracking? Whatever the case, there are some coding issues that need to be addressed.

by Doug1965

Love the site & app, and have used it for many years. Recently an update was made to remove the filter option for color. I can’t imagine what (expletive deleted) decided this would be a good idea, but they obviously don’t love bikes. I am irritated and frustrated now every time I use the service to window shop, and have to scroll through so many bikes I wouldn’t consider.

Please add back the option to filter by color, and as an added bonus, add the ability to exclude certain colors.

by ...I'm Notta Tool...

If you want to find good bikes at a great price, you’d be better of going to craigslist. this app shows me 3 results for the manufacture I want $6000 and under within 250 miles. Craigslist is showing me close to 100. I don’t know if this app charges some kind of fee to post on there site but whatever it is they need to fix it because I can see someone that’s not craigslist savvy buying a bike listed on here and becoming a brand detractor when they realize they could’ve found more budget friendly options on craigslist. Again, app works fine, there’s just not a wide selection to choose from.

by Epicness2727

CycleTrader is.. okay. It’s good most of the time, but I am looking for a motorcycle for $3,000 and under, you’d think you would just be able to search for that but noooo. It does let you adjust the price range of bikes you want to see BUT it only lets you do it in increments of $2,000 which is just silly. So now I am browsing and 50% of the bikes I am seeing are way out of my price range and it is just so annoying and time consuming to scroll through them.

Update... another bad bad bug.... on the favorites section every time I remove a motorcycle from it the entire app freezes up until I close it and restart.. very annoying.

by TriumphR

CycleTrader is ok to use from an interface perspective. The filtering functions also enable you to get to the specific motorcycle your looking for quickly and efficiently, however my biggest issue is a lot of times the motorcycles that are “for sale” (especially new) are not when you then call the dealer. Seems like the dealers and this app need to have a more frequent way of synchronizing their data, as it is disappointing to find “the Bike” then to only find it does not exist.

by CaptainMed57

Should I even give this crappy app a two rating if it doesn’t work? From an iPad Air running IOS 13.3, YOU CANNOT ACCESS YOUR LISTINGS. You cannot see your bikes you register either. This was true on previous versions as well. Cannot even place an add from my iPhone 7+ when signed in. What good is CycleTrader? Well you can search for items to buy or find from those devices I’ve mentioned but the search engine is very basic and lacks good features to ease your effort. I could list all the functions CycleTrader should have or what is actually broken and why but why waste my time because these things have been broken for a long time. Dos everyone a favor fire the developer and hire a developer that can make CycleTrader work, Dah!

by OneWickedWolf

Love CycleTrader ! But could use a few minor tweaks . For example , when looking up bikes , specifically models . If I search for a ninja zx10r , then a ninja 650r should not show up in the search . Also when I search for unspecific bikes like Sportbike , Harley’s show up . One other thing is not all adds show mileage . Maybe you could force sellers to complete that input before allowing to post .

Like I said, I love CycleTrader , but it has some very minor issues to me . Thanks this app !!!

by Abel Goddard

... for the picture viewing. If I turn my phone sideways the pics automatically become full screen, which is nice, but you can’t pinch and zoom with any picture on any listing. The pics themselves can occasionally be a tiny bit blurry, but even then I want to be able to zoom into some small area to see a particular detail of a bike. I’m sure all the pics used were of a decent digital size but were reduced in size/quality for fast loading, but I wish the originals were accessible also - on demand. Let me decide to download the larger file size in order to get better detail.

In distant second place in terms of priority, I wish folks were more forthcoming with details about each bike But it seems that there’s only a small amount of info required in order to make a listing. I don’t know exactly how CycleTrader could fix that, but it’s on my wishlist for things I’d like to see happen.

Overall I like how easy it is to use CycleTrader and filter and sort my searches. I just really want to see the pictures better.

by TBearSF1

The this app app provides a really comprehensive nationwide search. No, it doesn’t have every bike for sale, but it seems to be the single largest source (that I’ve found). I have two complaints, neither of which have ever driven me away:

1. At least on an iPad Pro 10.5 running ios12, you can not zoom in on any photos using the normal two finger enlargement. You can bring up a fairly big photo, but if you want to zoom in to see what buttons a bike has on the handlebar (the ASC or ESA button on a bmw r1200 for instance), you’re SOL. You can usually click over to the dealer site and enlarge the photos there. Perhaps that’s the very intent of disabling that feature in CycleTrader .
2. On rare occasion, CycleTrader will slow down after a lot of searching. This isn’t the only app to do that. Perhaps there’s some sort of data loop or leak, making CycleTrader much heavier on your device than intended. A quick close and app
restart solves that for quite a while.

Overall, it’s a good app that could be great, but isn’t. Still, it serves its intended function well. 4/5.

by Red121212

I really do like CycleTrader it works better than auto trader. Occasionally it likes to signed me out, and at least on auto trader I can use my iPad password and quickly sign in with four digits, unlike cycle trader making me type a bunch of things. And could you please delete every item for sale that does not have an actual physical picture of the motorcycle and at least 10 minimum. Come on you expect me to spend $15,000 on a bike but you’re too lazy to take a few pictures and post it on cycle trader. Basically I’m saying clean it up so I don’t have to waste my time sorting through so much crap.

by JayPRFade

When you had the other app for this it wasn’t good I decided to try it again and I love it you can see the images of the motorcycle clear and big very easy to use thank you for the improvement

by Be You, Everyone Else Is Taken

I’m a cyclist and I’m always curious about what good bikes are on sale for cheap, and I’m always on the lookout. I’m thinking about getting a 2001 SV650, and I search it on CycleTrader... I have found a couple for actually around $2,500 to $3,000... not bad actually. I use the website from time to time, but then I remember that it’s just easier to get CycleTrader , so I did. It’s better: you can search for bikes faster, and can get faster results on the actual website.

by Tobeus

I had issues with full screen video ads that wrecked the shopping experience and I deleted CycleTrader , frustrated. Dev responded and said they communicated with ad department to fix it. Good customer service. I’ll let you know if I see any more full screen video ads and thanks for resolving the issue. I don’t mind supporting you revenue stream with static ads but please don’t ever interrupt shopping with full screen vids. It totally breaks the shopping magic. Changed back to 5 star review.

by Andrufus Ombudsman

This is a great app that features listings from dealers and private sellers. You can customize your searches with a lot of specific detail. Search for bikes within a custom range of miles from your location. Filter the searches to show you the prices from lowest to highest (or vice-versa), bikes nearest to you, or newest. There are a lot more filters but those are the ones I like and use the most. You can save the bikes you are most interested in and track their pricing and availability. CycleTrader lets you know if a saved bike has been sold / removed from CycleTrader . Very helpful.

by SDMapper

CycleTrader seems to hang every time you start it. Thought it was just a bug, but after many new versions, the problem is still there. You end up staring at the start screen waiting for something to happen. It’s terrible. It’s trying to load an ad at the splash screen and just hangs there. Worst app I have ever seen. Seriously. So frustrating. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted CycleTrader etc. Sometimes it works but 90% of the time it hangs. I have an iPhone. Nothing unusual.

by Zephyr.Lorenz

This pass week I’ve not been able to open app. Seems frozen at launch screen. I only see a red screen with this app logo from now on. Even after deleting app, power cycling phone, and downloading again. Please send update or fix quickly. Planning on make a move on a recent listing. However, unable to follow up without seller contact info through your app. Thanks 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

by Perry.stevenm

Application freezes every time. Click on a saved vehicle that is no longer available and then remove. Then when attempting to click on another's saved vehicle or perform a search... Nothing happens. This should have been caught very easily by testing. Please fix the application among the other various bugs that persist for your paying customers and users.

by Cav68W

Been a great app and have been using for awhile the only problem is that when I launch CycleTrader , it sits at the logo screen with the red background and white outline, I tried stopping CycleTrader and turning my phone off and then even uninstalling and reinstalling CycleTrader but nothing’s working, if y’all could fix this is give 5 stars no doubt, thanks for your time!

by IsaiahM33

I don't seem to have the problems some of these others have. CycleTrader works great except for several bikes that are no longer available for sale are still listed as available. I've ran into this problem while checking on several different bikes. Also not crazy about the new format.