Should KiwiBiker be actively promoted?

[MSTRS:Me]

but it seems others who have already made it are ready to kick out the ladder from under them.

Only SpankMe can kick the ladder out from under them. The rest of us are only allowed to give it a decent shake when reqd :sly: Let the victims (oops, I mean new members) find this place like the rest of us did

[James Deuce]

Yes but the KB members of a year ago felt exactly the same way and if poised with the same question would have probably had the same response.

My question is who's to say things can't get even better???

You have to take the good with the bad and sure we will get more idiots but for every new idiot there is another 100 potential great members. I'm all for doing anything within our power to reach these new people (especially if its for free) but it seems others who have already made it are ready to kick out the ladder from under them.

You really get an idea in your head and then shake it to death, eh?

[NC]

I think this is a great site, no stalkers, no tards and no psychos....apart from myself. But I'm harmless...

[avgas]

i actually found this site via altavista, while looking for GB stuff 2 years ago - it wasnt till i saw a KB sticker on a bike that i bothered to come back here......oh that and i had a broken leg an no other entertainment cept the computer and dvds

[NordieBoy]

We seem to be quite good at managing with one or two dickheads at a time, however, what would KB look like with, say, 50 dickheads posting all at once...

Like General on VD?

I wonder what would happen if we got to be as large as, say, Visordown, which, quite frankly, I find too daunting to spend too much time on. Too many threads to keep up...

I just go into "Supermoto" and "Carlito's Amsterdam Style Coffee Shop" in Test, It seems his old one got demolished... :disapint:

[MadDuck]

I guess it has all been said but I vote no!

When I first stumbled on this site (and a big thanks SpankMe) there were only 500 odd members. They come they go. I am not a big poster as I am more a reader of the great info and advice that is (ahem sometimes) given on the site. I have met some GREAT people and would hate to see it commercialised.

We promote the site by riding sensibly and having fun. Word of mouth imho is the bestest way to get people along here.

Hell will I ever get to 1,000?

[moko]

I`ve used loads of the bigger UK forums,and they dont do a lot for me.Only one I use as well as this one is Realclassic.This one was started by a couple of people in the Bike mag business in the UK while "taking a career break".This was always a small fairly tight-knit forum with people that met up,helped each other e.t.c.Now these guys are old hands at the mag business and know their stuff,they actually bought out a Magazine that emanated from the web-site rather than the other way round and apart from that it`s unique in that it can only be bought by subscription or at bike rallies.They`ve now got nearly 3000 subcribers ,purely through word of mouth ,and rising fast plus one-off sales at the rallies,shows e.t.c. Point is the forum has stayed exactly the same,people have come and gone but the numbers stay fairly steady,same people still meet up.There`s been the odd dork but they just get totally ignored and give up pretty quick.The web-site and the mag are separate but linked if that makes sense.Not everyone`s into the net,RC has something like 30-odd regular posters and sales of nearly 4000 a month for the mag.When UMG was going only about 10 people used the BB on a regular basis,2 of which I`m still in touch with years later.Point is it dosnt nescessarily follow that publicity in KR will lead to an onslaught of new members,people buy bike mags because they`re into bike mags,not because they`re looking for web-sites,I`d hazard a guess that you`d get maybe 20 max that would come and stick around,probably find a masive increase in lurkers for a while.I know many bikers of all ages,the majority look at MCN and other bike sites if they have the net but most are not interested at all in BBs so anyone thinking there would be 36,000 people suddenly signing up are way off beam.Dosnt really bother me what happens to be honest,not trying to influence anyone either way,just a few observations from my experiences elsewhere.

[Jantar]

....I'd say most of KR's readers are dirt fans (i'm not buyin it again coz the road bit sux)... we dont have that big of a dirt thing here at the moment..

For a true kiwi road bike magazine try Bike Rider Magazine. Click here http://www.brm.co.nz/trial.asp for a free issue.

[Blakamin]

For a true kiwi road bike magazine try Bike Rider Magazine. Click here http://www.brm.co.nz/trial.asp for a free issue.

I should edit that bit to say "it sux for the price" and the logo actually reminds me of some aussie magazine a mate used to read... "dirt bike" or somfin.. Like I said, only bought one issue, nearly everything that wasnt BMW was dirt.... and even the BMW shit was adventure bikes... not my style.... it has a target audience and it aint me at that price... motorcycle trader is more my style (hate the "bikemart" or whatever in KR too)will try Bike Rider... cheers Jantar

[FROSTY:Me]

I'm of mixed emotions here. I'm of the firm opinion that growth is good because evolution is needed to avoid stagnation.
But i too hate the idea of total tossers that don't actually ride getting on this forum and fucking it up.
Ive made some really good mates on here and i'd hate it to go the way other internet forums have

[The Preacher]

Likewise I found KB while searching for nz motorcycle sites. Spent a few nights reading the pages, had quite a few laughs and decided to register.

My thoughts are: stay with the same

[moko]

But i too hate the idea of total tossers that don't actually ride getting on this forum and fucking it up.

Ridersite went that way,dont know about now,and dont care,but the majority of people that were using that last time I looked were office-workers killing time,seemed like a few of them were bikers and a load of their mates were using it as a kind of network during office hours to shoot the breeze with each other.Shit threads like "It`s raining today" and stuff that had been on t.v. the night before.

[Silage]

As a relative newbie, I got to this site from a Goooogle search for GS1200 and got hooked. It is great and I have mentioned it to a number of others to try. This is a great way for the site to grow - concious directed search and by recommendation. Open promotion would get too many loosies.

wrt annoying loosers, mebee when it looks like something is getting out of hand, have a poll to boot the problem off/stop the problem threads. If the majority agree - whammo. Doesn't stop returns under a new name or thread but might retard it. Some things are just good humour and some is a pain esp when it intrudes into a good discussion.