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Hey All,
I know this topic has come up recently, but I think it's time to visit it again.
I am increasingly frustrated with the way the forums are split. We have the "Twin Talk" forum , which is dedicated to all of the vertical twin Triumphs, including the Bonneville, Thruxston, Scrambler, Bonneville America, and SM (what does that even stand for?). Then we have the "Club Cafe" forum, which is dedicated to the Thruxton and anyone in the Bonneville camp who wants to turn their Bonneville into a Thruxton.
The problem is that no one uses the Club Cafe forum, and everyone who posts into the Club Cafe forum must also post into the Twin Talk forum if they hope to get any responses to their post. This need for redundancy makes it obvious to me that the Club Cafe forum just isn't doing anything. Time to get rid of it, I think, or else turn it into something more helpful.
My feeling about this latter option is that we need two forums; one dedicated to the Bonneville and its knockoofs (the Thruxton and Scrambler) and a second dedicated to the cruisers (the Bonneville America and the SM).
I know, we've had this discussion recently, and it was decided to keep things the way they are. This was based on the idea that all of the vertical twins are, in fact, the same engine, so let's keep them together. So why does the Thruxton get it's own departmenrt?
My feeling is that all of the people who own the Bonneville/Thruxton/Scrambler are going to be interested in the same things; how to improve their basic engine AND how to improve the entire Bonneville package. The Bonneville/Thruxton/Scrambler package is essentially the same--let's keep it together. In fact, many of the products that fir one of these bikes will fit the others. This isn't as true of the Americas and SMs.
Owners of the BA and SM should have their own forum, where they can read about dresser bars and handlebar bags and ape hangers and all of the topics that owners of the Bonneville derivitives, let's face it, just don't care about.
In essense, I suggest that insterad of basing our forums on engines, lets base them on bike styles. The Bonneville, Thruxton and Scrambler are close enough to be in the same forum, while the cruisers deserve their own forum. That makes much more sense to me than the underutilized (and essentially useless) Club Cafe forum.
Thank you.
Mancha
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