Bimota Forum

[oily]

or does anyone else find it quite amazing that this forum has got over 130 members yet it's the same handfull of members posting.
I've noticed there are always loads of guests reading the posts so they are either members who can't be arsed to log in and contribute or genuine guests who can't be botherd to join because there arn't enough people contributing.
I personally find it quite sellfish of people coming here to sort through the posts, solve their problems and then not contribute.
Am I just having a bad day
KEITH, is there a facility on the forum to make certain sections of the forum (i.e. everthing except general chat) only available to members?
This might encourage more people to join at least.
Seems to me, this is how it works on other forums that I'm a member of.

RANT OVER

[GeeKay]

I think you will find this true of most forums - I visit quite a few other bike forums and could probably recall 90% of the posters on them from memory. That said - you have to have something to say or ask - it's winter time and my Bimota has been off the road for a month now and I haven't laid a finger on it, so I haven't much to write or ask about.
Other forums busy themselves with idle chat - the inevitable (and tedious) "What are you wanting / getting for Xmas" threads are beginning to surface now. Although the 2-stroke forums I visit are always busy with bike-related issues (wonder why!)
Restricting access to non-members comes over as elitist to me me, but is prevalant on a lot of forums. Some people are genuinely interested, but like to read, rather than participate. I run an open information website
http://www.sow-uk.org
the reason it's open to all is because there are so few of these bikes in the UK, I realised that membership and a forum would be a waste as traffic could only be expected to be sporadic at best. And so it has proved!
Statistically, 2 members posting on here (1.5% of membership) gives a better average than a website I visit that has over 10000 registered members and yet only attracts posts from 0.7% of them.

BTW - I would like a Tesi 3D Carbon for Xmas - you?

[oily]

So what your saying is.... it is just me
All your points are taken on board and not all are agreed with.
Even a controversial thread like this only gets one reply, that smacks of fence sitting or apathy at the very least.
For christmas, I'd settle for a SB8

[Pompey]

Good answer Geekay! Oily, its you... you grumpy old git... you sound like a 3 badge stoker on dog watch up channel night looking for stranded dolphins on the flight deck.

p.s. make mine the new db!
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Pomps
Bimota's Db2, Db5 ,Ducati's 851' 92, 888' 93, Honda blade' 93, Triumph speed triple' 07, kawasaki zxr 750 k1

[oily]

LMFAO

[GeeKay]

you dare to disagree? - your just being controversial for the sake of it, aren't you?
case in point - here's a link to another forum I browse where the sound of tumbleweed is prevalant...........
http://www.srx400.co.uk/forum/

the clue is in the number of members - about the same as this forum. There are usually more "guests" browsing than members.
Which reminds me, whatever happened to Jo Guest?..................

[oily]