Is the site healthy?

I deliberately haven't said: 'is the site dying?' but it's important that if anyone else feels that things aren't right that we sort it out while we are all still here. everyday lost is a day more folk leave the fold.

I'm thinking that there are dramatically less threads, posts, visitors, members joining.

over to others among you to say what you think but it 'feels' different.

regards

Taffy

I know that Json can give us site traffic numbers and stuff so perhaps he'll interject here.

I feel see need to see double the threads on the opening screen if we could.

Not sure what it is? maybe some little piggy is just trying to wind me up so I start an 'interesting debate!'. however, I'm sticking to my end of the deal (yet again).

maybe we ought to start a video section?

regards

Taffy

I have a little expression I say now and again and that is that '50 non-cooks' in a kitchen are still only going to produce beans on toast'. in other words, all the knowledge lays with a limited few.

Just because there are no more of the older bikes being made doesn't mean we have to lay down berger and judging from the layout here it would seem that that though is what we are doing!

Firstly, there is tons of room to develop the LDC bikes - i mean masses!!!!! but none of it HAS to be done out of NECESSATY. what about tuning? hardly touched! with the exception of one aussie I would say the bike has barely been touched. I lost count of the threads about gearing. they're all waiting for me!

I'm so busy I can't sit down and I have lost a lot interest in the site since the detrimental attacks of a year ago and FR3. the site was poorly led and now you're all seeing the results of it. don't blame me - look up.

as far as secrets go, well it could be argued, and rightly so: that I buggered up DL's line of work. If handled well, Dale could have had a great little business like I have (but bigger and better of course - he is from the USA) but he chose tuning and walked away.

I've discovered about 4 things - maybe more (how small is something before it's a 'tip' and not a discovery?) and you know the absolute secrets to three of them. the fourth: you know the benefits of it, just not where I get the product made. I don't have time for a lot of stuff now.

I do learn a lot more in the workshop though now inside each engine. only yesterday, one gearbox cluster laid longer than the other, I measureed everything with the vernier. the output shaft assembly was 0.5mm longer than the input. mmmmm??????? I eventually narrowed it down to the last two gears on the right, then the last gear and then i turned it around and the 0.5mm was gone! turns out second gear should have the numbers on the outside even though it does appear to be an unhanded gear.

But I have to say, if nobody is here this place becomes a self folding stack of cards. we must do something about it while we are all still here. over the years I have brought this very subject up time after time and regular changes have been made to get the site back on track and this is such a time.

technology has moved on over the years and we need to move with it. first things first, the site needs to feel that everyone has a share in it and a right to speak their minds, be listened to (without a slagging) and after due consideration (be completely ignored :lol: :lol: ) action can be taken.

I didn't say that the doc couldn't be added too, I haven't stopped anyone giving info to maddel and getting it all sorted. so some of you need to look at yourselves for not volunteering.

one of the first things I'd do given the way the site has gone when I've had these 'digs' is to change the moderators that aren't about and get some non-americans (as in non-USA) people involved. It always seems strange to me that a country so steeped in guns and lawlessness is so polite? a complete juxtaposition.

with a third of the site being european at least (possibly 40-50%) and a good 33% coming from oz: i think we need to spread this around a little....

But at the end of the day, there's nobody been inside a LDC yet so it shows the rather pathetic state of the new generation. at the end of the day, it's people that are the 'X' factor, the interest and not the bikes. it's the people that then make the bikes interesting.

it always amazes me how people can't just say: hey I miss dale? I don't think i've seen it written twice in the last three years.

I'm also lucky enough to be making my living out of all this, I can't understand why enginehardwear couldn't convert his ideas into currency? I think the trouble wasn't the language but that he was simply happy to write what was needed and only just that. a very scando way of doing things and entirely in character. but he also confided that he was exhausted with the 12-hour-day live-and-breath-husaberg lifestyle.

good god! there is another life out there!

regards

Taffy