bamabikeguy
Active Member
As you can tell from past posts, I am wordy. About the same time as Tom was building this site, I was re-connecting to the web, after a 7 year hiatus. And I'm old school, Texas Instrument 99 4 a (purchased for $250 dollars ONE WEEK before the price dropped to $99). The Atari/Commadore bulletin board days, Novell/rings/3 levels of dBase before finding Borland Paradox was better.
So, while Tom was attracting his first members, I was blindly searching for where the free-thinkers of MB were gathered, the meditations I get aboard Rocinante (Don Quixote's "Greatest of all Nagx") are really fun, thousands of reasons, plenty of ideas.
The funny thing is when I looked up Motorized Bikes on Wikipedia, if you look at the discussion/history, IT LOOKS LIKE THE MOST CONTENTIOUS POST IN THE HISTORY OF WIKIPEDIA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized_bicycles
Yesterday, when a robot/idiot was detected, democracy prevailed, he was identified/booted out by Tom. All's I hope, is if that verification is used, please make it NOT upper/lower case specific, my eyesight suffers.
But the "topic" remains, and as more and more users come on board, hundreds of topics might arise, making info less handy.
There are going to be Golden Eagle specific folks, and GEBE is not paying me to help the users, and I am guilty of taking squeaky brake pads to my grinder to solve twenty minutes of spacing and adjustment.
Then that guy causing all the Wikipedia dispute, from Ontario with his electric motors will come aboard, and THAT historical dispute looks like one I will snipe at from behind the trees.
Down the road, this whole under 50 cc/over 50 cc thing will become a differentiation for legal disputes in Tuscon and Topeka.
This morning I had to explain "Benedictines for Peace" in another forum, and I am not out to convince anybody of anything, just assembling the "bicycle meditations" with the Utopian dream.
SO, I hope we can keep this COOL forum neat and tidy to ease Tom's moderation. When enough GEBE folks arrive, we will petition Tom for a "group", to solve GEBE issues, not clutter up all the general areas.
Fully recognizing you 80 cc are the majority, I'm not "selling GEBE", IN FACT NEVER WANT TO DEAL WITH A NOVICE/WINDOW SHOPPER. Learn the hard lessons yourself, dude, I only pass on ideas that work, scrap stupidity and obvious questions pretty quick.
The common denominator is BIKES, and I figure once I give my rear tire seminar, and you add your suggestions, anybody needing complete tire knowledge will find it under "Building the Indestructible Tire for $50".
And I don't want to clog the topics myself, think I might post that durn manifesto I wrote this morning under one of my earlier topics.
I just write this to say if we jointly agree on a Utopian Forum, helping Tom keep it tidy, and MILLIONS of potential users find this "Source of All Knowledge", it won't prevent us from making it effective. I mean, once you get the Estonian road racers, the Bulgarian pornsites will quickly follow, then the Chinese dating services.
A MOTOR and PEDALS, the two requirements. MoPeds begone, surely they can find their own forum.
Because when you think of the potential: Scenic/regional route suggestion, trailer assembly, blinkers that really WORK and don't shake the batteries out at the first bump, etc.etc.etc.
I throw the matter up for discussion, WHAT IS OUR DEFINITION OF A MOTORIZED BICYCLE, and do we allow tricycles? I have no problem with them, in fact have to build my first one within weeks for a guy in B'ham, and will NEED YOUR HELP.
This "topic" is for we early on members to express what we would like the forum to be, how we can help Tom keep it "easy", then when he sell's out the site for a gazillion dollars, maybe he'll buy us a lunch.
Respectfully,
Paul
So, while Tom was attracting his first members, I was blindly searching for where the free-thinkers of MB were gathered, the meditations I get aboard Rocinante (Don Quixote's "Greatest of all Nagx") are really fun, thousands of reasons, plenty of ideas.
The funny thing is when I looked up Motorized Bikes on Wikipedia, if you look at the discussion/history, IT LOOKS LIKE THE MOST CONTENTIOUS POST IN THE HISTORY OF WIKIPEDIA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized_bicycles
Yesterday, when a robot/idiot was detected, democracy prevailed, he was identified/booted out by Tom. All's I hope, is if that verification is used, please make it NOT upper/lower case specific, my eyesight suffers.
But the "topic" remains, and as more and more users come on board, hundreds of topics might arise, making info less handy.
There are going to be Golden Eagle specific folks, and GEBE is not paying me to help the users, and I am guilty of taking squeaky brake pads to my grinder to solve twenty minutes of spacing and adjustment.
Then that guy causing all the Wikipedia dispute, from Ontario with his electric motors will come aboard, and THAT historical dispute looks like one I will snipe at from behind the trees.
Down the road, this whole under 50 cc/over 50 cc thing will become a differentiation for legal disputes in Tuscon and Topeka.
This morning I had to explain "Benedictines for Peace" in another forum, and I am not out to convince anybody of anything, just assembling the "bicycle meditations" with the Utopian dream.
SO, I hope we can keep this COOL forum neat and tidy to ease Tom's moderation. When enough GEBE folks arrive, we will petition Tom for a "group", to solve GEBE issues, not clutter up all the general areas.
Fully recognizing you 80 cc are the majority, I'm not "selling GEBE", IN FACT NEVER WANT TO DEAL WITH A NOVICE/WINDOW SHOPPER. Learn the hard lessons yourself, dude, I only pass on ideas that work, scrap stupidity and obvious questions pretty quick.
The common denominator is BIKES, and I figure once I give my rear tire seminar, and you add your suggestions, anybody needing complete tire knowledge will find it under "Building the Indestructible Tire for $50".
And I don't want to clog the topics myself, think I might post that durn manifesto I wrote this morning under one of my earlier topics.
I just write this to say if we jointly agree on a Utopian Forum, helping Tom keep it tidy, and MILLIONS of potential users find this "Source of All Knowledge", it won't prevent us from making it effective. I mean, once you get the Estonian road racers, the Bulgarian pornsites will quickly follow, then the Chinese dating services.
A MOTOR and PEDALS, the two requirements. MoPeds begone, surely they can find their own forum.
Because when you think of the potential: Scenic/regional route suggestion, trailer assembly, blinkers that really WORK and don't shake the batteries out at the first bump, etc.etc.etc.
I throw the matter up for discussion, WHAT IS OUR DEFINITION OF A MOTORIZED BICYCLE, and do we allow tricycles? I have no problem with them, in fact have to build my first one within weeks for a guy in B'ham, and will NEED YOUR HELP.
This "topic" is for we early on members to express what we would like the forum to be, how we can help Tom keep it "easy", then when he sell's out the site for a gazillion dollars, maybe he'll buy us a lunch.
Respectfully,
Paul