Ah, the motorcycle forums. Truths, half-truths, and outright lies. When I worked for CSC, I used to watch the forums regularly for people who posted about CSC so I could answer honest questions and take on the trolls. After doing that for 10 years, I concluded there are a few mean-spirited people posting stuff on the Internet who don’t have a clue (I wrote an entire chapter about that in 5000 Miles at 8000 RPM). It didn’t take a full 10 years to reach that conclusion, though. It took about 10 minutes.
Having said that, there are three forums I enjoy visiting, and here they are.
ADVRider.com. This is the first forum I ever read. There are more than a few folks there who are full of what drops from the southern end of a northbound horse, but there are a lot more who are knowledgeable and helpful. My screen name on ADVRider is Gatling. If I had it to do over again, I would use my real name, but I chose Gatling several years ago (mostly because I wrote a book about the Gatling gun). My favorite threads are the Shiny Things thread, the Thumpers thread, and the Electric Motorcycles thread.
Chinariders.net. ChinaRiders is a much smaller forum focused on Chinese motorcycles. Yeah, there have been a few yahoos on that forum (as is the case on all forums), but the ChinaRider monitors do a good job and the flakes don’t last long. My screen name on ChinaRiders is CSCDude. I picked that name when I was working for CSC. If I had it to do over, I’d use my own name.
ElectricMotorcycleForum.com. My newest favorite forum is appropriately titled ElectricMotorcycleForum.com. It’s also a small forum, but it’s picking up speed and I like the place. It’s a good source of information on all kinds of things related to electric motorcycles. My screen name on that one is Joe Berk.
If you have a favorite forum and you’d like to suggest it, please include it as a comment to this post. We’d like to know about it.
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