17 Oct 2007
Bait Bus
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Today we're looking at a classic gay reality site, Bait Bus. Bait Bus was probably the original tricked straight guy site - I remember it from years ago and there's a good chance you've seen it, too. The setup is that a 2 or 3 guys ride around in a van with a girl and she acts as bait to get straight guys into the van by offering them a blowjob. Sometimes there are 2 guys and 2 girls but the theme remains the same - the guy they pick up wants some pussy and ends up getting sucked or even fucked by a guy. Yes, it's true - we've all seen this kind of site before, but what's cool about this site is was probably the first of its kind.
The main member page is a pretty simple layout, but it's a little confusing. The company that makes the videos is called Bang Bros and that is the name you will find on the home page link. Also the next link, which says Browse Our Daily Updates is very misleading, and I'll tell you why. Well, the obvious reason is the site doesn't update daily - it updates weekly. The reason it's there is the script that runs the site was made for the straight sites, and members of the straight sites do get access to daily updates. Basically since Bang Bus is the only gay site in the program, they didn't bother to change the script so it could have its own links.
Bait Bus currently updates once a week and has for months. Something I found interesting is that there are currently yet there are 73 episodes total with very regular updates from September 2006 and no updates at all from December 17, 2003 till August 11, 2006. It's hard to know what to make of this. Perhaps the site wasn't active for over 2 1/2 years or maybe they rotate the content - your guess is as good as mine but one thing is for sure - I was pretty surprised to find 73 episodes inside a site I've seen around for years.
Each episode has its own pages. When you first click on an episode, you are taken to a page with a nice juicy description of the scene plus links to the trailer, high quality pics, screencaps, downloads and the "Play movie" link, which is the streaming movie option. Below on the page are a few vidcaps so you can see what happens in the movie and below that is a place to rate each episode after you watch it. At the bottom of each episode page are ads for straight sites - go figure!
There are some nice video options here. You can stream each full video as a WMV and you can download or watch each video in quarters or in clips in either WMV or MPG formats. You can also rate each quarter video or each clip and you can add any one to favorites so you can revisit it later. There are advantages and disadvantages if you choose to play the movie rather than download it. One advantage is speed. I'm sorry to say that the downloadable vids didn't download as fast as the streaming videos played.
The newer videos - the ones from August 2006 or after - are good amateur quality when streamed in the embedded player where the older vids don't look too good and you're better off downloading them. That's because the videos are resized by the player and look better at their original size. The older vids, when downloaded, are shown at 320x240 where the older ones are better quality and shown at 640x480.
The link on the video download page that says "Click here to download the full movie in 1 large file" does not actually allow you to download the video - it sends you to a page that streams the full video. It was the only video option that did not turn out to be downloadable, and the player constrains the full videos so that rather than being able to watch them at their natural size, the vids are shown at around 450x340. The older videos look pretty bad at this size although the newer ones look good. You can go full screen with the videos in embedded players, although I strongly recommend not doing that with the pre-2006 vids.
Picture lovers are destined for disappointment at Bait Bus. Links to the high quality pictures all lead to a page that says "sorry, no pictures found for this shoot". That does leave us with screencaps, and each shoot comes with a LOT of them. These are vidcaps and they are amateur or low amateur quality depending on which episode you watch. The normal blurriness and other issues associated with vidcaps are to be found there, and although I've seen worse, these aren't great.
Are the guys really straight guys being tricked? Well, be fair - are they ever? At least a lot of the newer guys here seem like they could be straight although a couple of the older ones will take a lot of imagination to imagine straight. I must say that there's a level of casual professionalism to these videos. They have a feel of amateur work but the lighting issues and other issues so common to real amateur porn aren't present and the sound is good. There are plenty of closeups at the right moments so you can see the guys' cocks getting sucked and except for maybe an older vid or 2, the penetration and cumshots are well caught.
Bait Bus offers their videos at better quality than a lot of reality sites do, and that's a big plus. I'd be happier if the site had more episodes but content is king and I like the newer videos a lot. There are no bonus sites offered to Bait Bus members, which surprised me. I'd say the site could be worth joining for the current episodes, but the trial probably offers limited access and if you join by trial, the monthly price is $16 higher per month than if you simply join for a month. If you're looking for a straight guy reality site with exclusive content, why not check out Bait Bus and see what they have to offer!
Things we liked:
- Exclusive content
- Reality theme
- Videos downloadable
- No DRM used
Things we didn't like:
- No bonus content
- Trial recurs at much higher price than monthly membership
Membership prices ( Paycom )
- Trial: $4.95 (3 days recurring at $39.95 monthly)
- Monthly: $23.95 (recurring)
Fer | 09 Jun 2008
My rating:
hey i also like this site, is fake, but is really fun and hot, but i have a question, i read in some forums that some of the guys have appeared in other sites, and i want to know of one in particualr his name is gabriel, is from argentina and is really good looking, does anyone knows where i can find more videos where he appears??
Trevor | 27 Apr 2008
My rating:
I thought I would try Bait Bus and like other sites I try the "trial period" first and then if I like it I will continue. The trial period is only $4.95 and I signed up. ONLY TO FIND OUT TO VIEW THE SITE I HAD TO UPGRADE TO FULL MEMBERSHIP. What a fraud! They have my $4.95 but I hope I will be able to help those that fall in the same trap I did. I rate one because I cant rate "rip off".
Matt | 26 Mar 2008
My rating:
I didn't like the site very much and it is overpriced. Currently they update like 3 times a month, but the actors are rather ugly and the actual "action" is rather short and not really good. 70% of the movies deal with the tricking of "straight" guys and some obnoxious talking by the cameraman. While the actual concept of the site is interesting, the implementation is below average. None of the actors seem straight.
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