ADV WRR Monster Thread

Hey.. I LOVE ADVrider.com and everyone there is awesome (many which are here too), but man the WRR monster thread is out of control, its like being in a conversation with 50 people and everyone is asking questions at the same time

There's a lot of good stuff in that thread and continues to be, but in general, I see many good questions just over looked due to the large amount of traffic.. we need all those questions/answers over here so they are all broken up in categories and easier to search..

Ok.. just had to .. for a sec.... i'm gonna put this forum in my signature as well.. I don't see how one thread can house all the info going further on our incredible gem of a bike!

That was part of the reason why this place was uprighted, to streamline stuff so one could find stuff at a glance instead of having to go thru 500+ pages to find something that nobody answered.

YES!!

SheWolf wrote:

That was part of the reason why this place was uprighted, to streamline stuff so one could find stuff at a glance instead of having to go thru 500+ pages to find something that nobody answered.

Makes sense to me

It took so long to read through that thread, but it definitely persuaded me to get the bike after seeing it in the showroom most of the summer (and kept me away from that KaTooM which I still kind of want ).

I've more or less quit looking at that thread, it moves to fast for simple lil' me.

i must confess i get caught up in it.. i guess the only pro i see is you can see EVERY post ever in one thread

i will try to do better and post here and not be drawn in as much

MeefZah wrote:

I've more or less quit looking at that thread, it moves to fast for simple lil' me.

I think that's true of all of ADV. I have been following Sport-touring.net since 2002 or so, and it has just the right number of threads and posts for me to follow.

With this WR forum up, I now have two that I follow regularly.

I like the ease of use, and that the people on here are awesome. ADV is a great site but I found it hard to keep up if I couldn't get on every day. TT is another one, but I find there are a lot of questionable people on there, and a lot of stupid shit goes on in there.

SheWolf wrote:

I like the ease of use, and that the people on here are awesome. ADV is a great site but I found it hard to keep up if I couldn't get on every day. TT is another one, but I find there are a lot of questionable people on there, and a lot of stupid shit goes on in there.

Who are you calling "questionable" on TT?

I resemble that remark! Don't make me call my buddy SpaGuru on you.....

I said 'questionable' not 'loveable.' Wait a minute...did I hear SPAM again? Oh no, that was just a water logged rat.

I've been told in the past that I'm questionably loveable.......... but she doesn't live here anymore.

Her loss, man.

her then ---> me now ---->


But enough about my sex life. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread....

So my question is why the hell did the folks at ADV let such a thread get so out of hand? It should have been locked after maybe 20-30 pages and they should have setup a new section for this bike. But it's not all ADV's fault. People keep posting to the same thread instead of starting a new are just as much to blame. What would have been so hard about starting a few new threads over there? I wouldn't even think of posting to a thread that long, and HOPE that my question about a post 50 pages ago will be answered by the OP. I doubt anyone has the time now to sit down and sort it all out. Lots of good info IF you can find it. Hopefully many of those peeps will (or have already) posted the same info over here.

mwakey wrote:

her then ---> me now ---->
...So my question is why the hell did the folks at ADV let such a thread get so out of hand? It should have been locked after maybe 20-30 pages and they should have setup a new section for this bike. ...

ADV's top menu would be really difficult to navigate if each thumper had its own thread. Like so many other things in life, I'd guess that the WR thread follows the 80-20 rule. 80% of the posts come from 20% of the posters. If you eliminated the short lived "sub-threads" where someone pops up and says, "should I get a WR?", you would probably compact the whole thing to under 50 pages. That's bad enough.

It's not really that hard to find info in that thread if you know what you're looking for, just forget the forum search tools. Google is your friend. Just tonight I was remembering someone posting about using a Laminar lip for a KLR and I found the post in just a few minutes. I googled:

site:www.advrider.com laminar wr250r

Four of the first 5 hits took me to the discussion, 2 of them to the page of user Levity's original post. If Levity sees this, thanks! I just ordered one. ;-) You just have to come up with a good key word for your search. I was golden with "laminar".

ps. not to take anything away from this forum, it's all good, especially if its about R².

Both ADV and this forum are great for info. I check both fairly often. Keep up the good work.

good job
workin' in penticton and don't have my bike(i suck)
butt.. still can read

Oh no ! * HOME ALONE EXPRESSION * It's the beginning of a MONSTER THREAD about a MONSTER THREAD ! * scarey Halloween sound *

X-Racer wrote:

Oh no ! * HOME ALONE EXPRESSION * It's the beginning of a MONSTER THREAD about a MONSTER THREAD ! * scarey Halloween sound *

gordo,

Please holler back and tell us what you think of the Lip. I'd like something simple like that, too. Thanks also for the search tip.

Sarah

gordo5 wrote:

It's not really that hard to find info in that thread if you know what you're looking for, just forget the forum search tools. Google is your friend. Just tonight I was remembering someone posting about using a Laminar lip for a KLR and I found the post in just a few minutes. I googled:

site:www.advrider.com laminar wr250r

Four of the first 5 hits took me to the discussion, 2 of them to the page of user Levity's original post. If Levity sees this, thanks! I just ordered one. ;-) You just have to come up with a good key word for your search. I was golden with "laminar".

ps. not to take anything away from this forum, it's all good, especially if its about R².