Wed Oct 16 20:53:50 1996
- Message No. 90
From: Michael Dipper
Subject: Re: AT in motorrad
Hi Achim,
Achim Muehlberger wrote:
> > The decoding of BILD yields: Bullshit Information at
> > Low-Density.
>
> In my opinion "Motorrad" is NOT like the BILD-Zeitung, because > sometimes
> they have really good tests in it (e.g. Textil-clothes-test, > helmet-test, ...)
I try to understand your and Thomasī opinion and Iīll try to give some
further statements. I wonīt say anything more about BILD Zeitung. Thatīs
everbodys own decision.
IMHO the problem is what we wanīt to reach with such a letter to
motorrad. Do we
a) wanīt to give tech. tips for other AT riders
b) do we wanīt to advertise for the ATIC, ATOC, XRVLIST, or whatever
it is called.
If it is the second, we should think about the possibility, that
motorrad isnīt interested in the - compared to other services - poor
outlook of our pages (of course we do it for free in our spare time, but
they will measure the look, not qualiity). So it may be, that if we
write that everybody with internetaccess should have a look at the
pages, that they say "no advertising, we asked for tech. stuff".
Thereīs no guarantee, that they are interested.
And, as stated before, every surfer should be able to use altavista (or
similar systems) to find the way.
In this case we would have to concentrate on our tech. tips:
But as Thomas mentioned, lots of them are not good for publishing.
Some examples:
- Raymonds improvements
really cool (congrats again), but without tech. drawings, ...
they will never print that
- Tyre experiences
yet printed
- CDI problems
yet printed
- leaded fuel or not ?
no chance in germany :-)
- clutch rattles
no problem, Ducatis do also ...
- windscreen
no single solution found
(achim riding 180km - but last week we talked to a guy, who got
the wind on his stomache ???)
- helmet
not AT specific
- battery cable
true problem, but whereīs the solution ?
My XT riding friend has to secure all of his screws every 1000km ...
- Tripmaster Speedometer
also cool, but is it of interest or just a bit fun ?
and : itīs DEFINITLY of no interest anymore if everyone hast it :-)))
- further problems:
none known. We donīt wanīt to make the AT worse than it is !
So, as a conclusion:
The problems we had are interesting to discuss but are there real
solutions for them worth printing ?
> look at Marco & Jörg: Jörg simply talked to Marco on the street on he > joined the meeting - so there are not only negative examples.
Thatīs definitly true. I would never exclude non-internet-users.
Thatīs a kind of racism (donīt know a better word). But I donīt feel
liking shouting out for other people. If you do any kind of advertising,
you always come into the pressure to provide "quality information" but
if I donīt have the time to work on my homepage I donīt wanīt to get
fooled for that.
Now, we have to decide:
Do we wanīt to publish our URLS or do we wanīt to give tech. information
? If the second, we should think about WHAT to send to them quite
quickly.
And, as I have seen no further postings, I ask myselves if the other
readers are generally interested in this topic.
Furthermore I think we should come back to the main topics for this
list:
Q & A to our beloved bike !
The last weeks I felt like reading the XRV-MEETING-LIST or similar. Of
course thatīs necessary, too, but we always should realize that it is
for 90% of the readers of the list of no interest, if we write to
motorrad or if we meet somewhen in the future.
> We always said that we don't like to found a club - there is no
> problem in my opinion in giving tips without being a club.
100% agree
Greets,
--- Micha ---
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