WOW over 500 members

[Kevin Mahoney]

WOW, I missed congratulating our 500th member. We have grown more quickly that I anticipated. What a great community!! We are not yet the largest Royal Enfield forum, but if you count posts we are the most active.

[indian48]

Although its not easy to measure this, I'd think that the quality of the posts is pretty much the best around too.

[RagMan]

I like the fantastic quality of posts this board has - with much more activity; given a long run, we will have much more going on than the rest.

[Thumper]

WOW, I missed congratulating our 500th member. We have grown more quickly that I anticipated. What a great community!! We are not yet the largest Royal Enfield forum, but if you count posts we are the most active.

Smartest too!

[fredgold52]

and the best looking.

[Sixty5inILL]

I have bailed on all other RE forums because of the constant infighting and bickering.

This is how it should be!

Happy (or Solemn, depending on your religion)  Holidays to all who are in a holiday season.  To the rest of you, Happy Friday!

[Chuck D]

Much better dancers.

[VMAX]

What other forums!    As far as I'm concerned this is the only one I need. Everyone here is great. Quick to respond, non-judgemental, good sense of humor, willing to step up if someone miss-reads or is offended. Just a great class of folks. 

Lets look to the new years & more great members. 

[indian48]

Does anyone here have any theories as to why this one has turned out so different?

[Foggy_Auggie]

Does anyone here have any theories as to why this one has turned out so different?

It could be the relative average age of the members plus past bike experiences.  And maybe the personality that goes with liking the Enfield and British bikes in general.  Our testosterone levels have stabilized and seasoned with age!

Regards, Foggy

[cyrusb]

I belive foggy has it. How can you be an Enfield rider and a fighter? I know I dont have enough time for that.

[VMAX]

I like the old addage, which I feel pertains to RE owners/riders:  "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."  Our ages vary quite abit, as does our experiences, but there is enough balance to mellow us all out.   

I see a difference between our RE riders & others that ride the modern, sleek machines,  today that parallels that of the fighter pilots of WW1 and the jet pilots of today. That may be a bit to glamorous, then again I think our machines are glamorous. 

[Foggy_Auggie]

  today that parallels that of the fighter pilots of WW1 That may be a bit to glamorous, then again I think our machines are glamorous. 

A big "Roger" to that!  I was a WWI pilot in a past life!

Regards, Foggy

[indian48]

I hear all that is being said, and I agree,,,but the question still remains about other RE sites on the net not being as mellow as this one, I thought?

[fredgold52]

I have no explanation for the difference.  I have noticed the friendly, non-confrontational nature of this board as well.  I have a couple other experiences that are similar.

I belong to a couple of scooter groups, neither is Yahoo based.  One is inhabited, it seems, by people who are looking for the opportunity to show off their superior technical knowledge or to pick a fight.  The other is of a somewhat higher level technically (as far as useful information to the user is concerned), and much friendlier to be a part of.

I've found the same sort of thing in guitar forums.  In fact there is one group who got fed up with the bickering and nastiness on the original forum, so they broke away and started their own forum which is much more laid back.

As far as this group goes, if you look at the pictures of the bikes and their people it's hard to miss the age group we seem to represent.  Lots of grey hair and beards in this group.  I fit right in age and appearance wise.

I think there are a couple basic truths about internet communication that most on this board seem to know:

1.  The harder I work to expose your ignorance, the stupider I look.
2.  There's nothing dumber than an internet arguement.