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Re: RIDING SKILLS, SAFETY TOPICS??

Once again, I agree. WE NEED A SAFETY AND RIDING SKILLS FORUM. I'm very happy with everything that everyone put into "Be The Bunny" please keep it up, but we need a separate forum for this important subject.

 

Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

I've been lurking around a few of the other sportbike sites and almost without exception they have a separate forum for member evals of riding gear, luggage, accessories and other "farkles" not mechanically related to the motorcycle. This, along with a RIDING SAFETY forum are sorely lacking here...MODS???

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

Both are great Ideas. I don't think our moderators have the system authority to add forums. Probably have to get Sno to do it or delegate authority...

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

So what is the "Parlimentary Procedure" required to make that happen? Posting in the suggestion box in and of itself doesn't seem to have any effect.

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

I wish I new my friend - I support both ideas

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

Should one of us "PM" Sno or Rick and ask them to look at the suggestion box?

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

I sent an email using contact us today - I'll let you know if I hear anything.

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

That needs to be brought to the attention of "Mister Big"
Seems like a reasonable thing to do.

I think he's busy adjusting the Server, though.
Or whatever you have to do to de-bug the system.

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

He must be doing something... the system seems to have settled down nicely as of late.

BTW, I still think "farkles" sounds like a children's book, or a Saturday morning cartoon with rainbows and unicorns running around and stuff. Then your six-year-old daughter will be begging you to take her to Toys-R-Us to buy her the newest Farkles dolls and fashion accessories...

Join the Farkles Fan Club at 1-888-FAR-KLES ! (Kids, get your parents' permission first.)

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

It's Woot's word, not mine. He just did a big long post on Farkles, I kind of liked the term. A Farkle is an accessory or gadget you don't actually NEED but makes things a lot easier when you have it, like GPS.

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

I can't claim the word - it's been in the LD community for a long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_farkle

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

I wasn't so much giving you credit as blaming you...

 

I think that XJ Chat, General lounge, and XJ Modifications should be subdivided into a few more subjects. Some new folders may be: New Owners (with a better welcome), Appearance Mods, Performance Mods, Trip stories, Ride or Rally/Plans, Tips and Tricks.
I find a lot of misplaced posts in the wrong folders, it may help if more subject folders were added to the Forums.
My 2¢

 

I think this goes along with what I was going to suggest.

There's a forum for tech discussion of XJs, and a forum for "introduce yourself and everything else moto related"

There's no "general" forum where anything non-motorcycle related can go.. Those steak and hamburger threads in General lounge for example.

We might all love motorcycles but its not the only thing we want to talk about right?

 

Agreed, she needs an overhaul for sure. Plus, how many "what kinda oil?" or jetting for pods topics can we possibly have. Those need to be deleted ASAP!!!

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

So Fitz, where are you finding these Farkle reviews/evals?

 

Re: Gear, accessories, "farkles" Forum?

Farkle? wasn't that the name of the redheaded family on "Laugh In"? I guess that kinda dates me, yeah, I'm getting old! Still its a great idea to have a "product review" section. I'm always looking for a better product or, a cheaper place to buy quality stuff.

Cheers
Ken

 

"Gear, Accessories, "Farkles" is no where NEAR as important as a SAFE RIDING or SURVIVAL forum. (It could actually be part of a safe riding forum.) We need a separate channel for safe riding tips. A lot of our members are not only new to this site, or to their XJ, but new to motorcycling altogether. An equally lot of them will never take a MSF rider course; if we can provide a symposium here to pass along some of the basics of survival out there in the 4-wheel world, we need to. We REALLY need to.