Do you scrape Google or copy reviews?

No. Base details are seeded from OpenStreetMap, which is open data under the ODbL licence. We do not lift Google photos or review text, and we do not republish content we have no right to.

What does a blank field mean?

It means we have not confirmed that detail, not that we have guessed it. We would rather show less and be right than fill a gap with a guess. A blank field is the owner's cue to claim the listing and add it, free.

How do you decide what is independent?

Owner-run shops and small local groups are independents. Where a listing belongs to a national chain or a larger group, we mark it as such. Independents come first when listings are otherwise equal.

Can I get my business removed or corrected?

Yes. Email hello@everythingmotorbike.co.uk and we will correct or remove a listing. Claiming a listing is the fastest way to keep its details right.

How we list

A directory is only as good as its sources and its honesty. Here is exactly where our data comes from, how we check it, and the lines we do not cross.

A motorbike directory is easy to fake. Scrape a map, pad the count, sell the top slot. We have built this one the slow way instead, because the only thing a directory has to sell is whether you can trust it. Of 810 businesses we list, 290 carry a verified website link and 755 are independent or owner-run.

Where the base data comes from

Listings for dealers, garages, parts shops and gear shops are seeded from OpenStreetMap, the open geographic database, used under its Open Database Licence (ODbL). OpenStreetMap is mapped and maintained by a global community of contributors, which makes it the honest, licence-clean foundation for a public directory. We attribute it on our open data page.

From that seed we add and refine by hand: matching a shop to the right town, confirming the category, tidying names, and adding a website where we can verify one. We do not lift Google photos, we do not copy review text, and we do not republish anything we have no right to use.

How a listing is checked

Every entry is matched to a real, locatable business before it is shown.
We confirm the category, so a parts shop is not filed as a dealer.
A website link is added only when we can verify it points to that business.
If a detail cannot be confirmed, the field stays blank rather than guessed.

Owners can claim and correct

The people who know a business best are the people who run it. Any complementary trade can claim its listing free, fix the details, add opening hours, link its own website and upload its own photos. Claimed listings carry a verified-owner badge. This is how the directory stays current without us inventing anything.

Independents first

When two listings are equal on the facts, the independent ranks above the chain. We do this on purpose. Owner-run shops are harder to find, easier to overlook and more useful to recommend. Chains and groups are still listed, and marked as what they are, but they do not get a head start.

What ranking is, and what it is not

Order is decided on merit: verified data, completeness and whether a listing is independent. A paid Featured placement can lift a business within its own town and category, but it is labelled as featured and it never pushes a stronger listing below a weaker one. We do not sell the top of a list. Money buys a clearer presence, never a dishonest position.

The lines we do not cross

We never fabricate a business, a detail or a count.
We never present a guess as a fact.
We never let payment outrank merit.
We never republish content we are not licensed to use.

The one part of the trade we run ourselves, transport and storage and dealer delivery, is set out openly on our disclosure so you always know which hat we are wearing.

How we list, and what we will not do.