I've recently become a memeber on the forums at Thirdgen.org a website a set of boards devoted to third generation Camaro's. These guys run some good boards too, and I've noticed something I really like with there site. They have a section of things that are "common knowledge" type things. A huge FAQ I guess you could say, covering like "How to fix your leaky T-tops" to "How to install subframe connecters" and everything else in between. A lot of questions that arise on these boards, the newbies (Such as myself) are just directed to this FAQ, and can get their general information there.
With this site, I feel that this sort of thing would be very helpful, a collection of articals on all sorts of commonly asked bike questions. Things like "The easy way to change a tire," to "Jetting for the novice," and everything else. People that feel they have an important artical to submit can add to this archive, and a lot of good data could be found in one place. I know its not terriblly difficult to just search the forums, but its often hard to find what your looking for. Example... Sunday I'm going to undertake rebuilding my first dirtbike carb on my friends XR200 thats started giving him fits with flooding. I searched for some good info on rebuilding carbs... and can find little bits here and there, but a nice FAQ artical would have been sweet. Just thing of how many times issues like "Whats the best mix of oil?" or "How do I jet?' come up. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to say... "Just check out the FAQ, there's a great artical on that." Then the person can read it, get all kinds of good information, and just be generally smarter, and have a good understanding.
I don't know how practical this is for the website, I know the administative guys must be terriblly busy, and would dread one more thing to deal with. But if there was a place where these "Tech Articals" could be posted, I'm sure there are a couple of us that could proof-read, and check for accuracy. Its a thought anyways, and might be a nice addition to consider for the site.
And yes, I know I mis-spelled "articals" a million times in this post, but I just can't remember the right way tonight. :aj:
With this site, I feel that this sort of thing would be very helpful, a collection of articals on all sorts of commonly asked bike questions. Things like "The easy way to change a tire," to "Jetting for the novice," and everything else. People that feel they have an important artical to submit can add to this archive, and a lot of good data could be found in one place. I know its not terriblly difficult to just search the forums, but its often hard to find what your looking for. Example... Sunday I'm going to undertake rebuilding my first dirtbike carb on my friends XR200 thats started giving him fits with flooding. I searched for some good info on rebuilding carbs... and can find little bits here and there, but a nice FAQ artical would have been sweet. Just thing of how many times issues like "Whats the best mix of oil?" or "How do I jet?' come up. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to say... "Just check out the FAQ, there's a great artical on that." Then the person can read it, get all kinds of good information, and just be generally smarter, and have a good understanding.
I don't know how practical this is for the website, I know the administative guys must be terriblly busy, and would dread one more thing to deal with. But if there was a place where these "Tech Articals" could be posted, I'm sure there are a couple of us that could proof-read, and check for accuracy. Its a thought anyways, and might be a nice addition to consider for the site.
And yes, I know I mis-spelled "articals" a million times in this post, but I just can't remember the right way tonight. :aj: