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• mjw930
  Posted in the topic VICTORY seems to be missing??? in the forum Off Topic

  January 10, 2010 11:57 AM PST

  Lucky wrote...

  MJW, That is a good point and very well put. Just so you know the reason for not having all those categories while we are still growing...I just don't want a bunch of empty categories. The forum, like every area of the site is watched closely by us, and if we see any specific content taking over any general category, we immediately break it out into a category of its own. I really think that while the site is still growing, this is a good way to do it so our users see a lot more content in each of the categories.
  
  The entire garage category started as a sub-category of Biker Topics, it was then split to Street Bikes and Dirt Bikes, then further split to what you see now. Even though I ride a Harley, I am showing no preference by having a separate sub-category for it in the Garage forum, Harley just had the most posts in Street Bikes, so it was split to it's own sub-category. As soon as say Victory or Gold Wings have 4 or 5 posts, they will get a category.
  
  Just trying to keep the structure and layout as simple as possible until it NEEDS to grow.

  
  Lucky,
  That's cool and makes good sense.
  
  
• mjw930
  Posted in the topic VICTORY seems to be missing??? in the forum Off Topic

  January 10, 2010 2:19 AM PST

  I know this is my first post but I feel compelled to reply because I don't think the original poster really was able to make his point before he drifted off into a rant.
  
  I'm a motorcyclist, I've owned and ridden Harley's, Honda's, Yamaha's, Suzuki's, Kawasaki's, BMW's, Triumphs and most resently Victory and Can-Am.  Each and every one of them were fun and delivered on what I was looking for at the time.  I've never subsribed to the bashing mentality but I unserstand that sometimes people feel their motorcycle is an extension of them and to that point things become irrational and the name calling starts.  It's unfortunate but a fact of human nature (just try and talk Corvette with a Porsche fanatic if you want to see irrational behaviour).
  
  I do think that his main point was IN THE GARAGE FORUM there should be some more granularity.  Call yourselves what you want but by ONLY calling out Harley at the brand level and leaving everything else generic it looks like this is really just a Harley forum, one of thousands that dot the internet.
  
  If you really want to be "The Ultimate Biker Website" it would behouve you to segregate the garage into manufacturer specific sub sections.  Maybe those sections don't get a lot of traffic initially but having them there and letting Google see the links will drive people to your site who are looking for brand specific information.
  
  An example of a structure that would be more appropriate to an brand agnostic site would be:
  
  American Motorcycles

  Harley-Davidson
  Victory
  Ridley
  Indian
  Boss-Hoss
  Excelsior-Henderson
  Customs
   

  Metric Cruiser Motorcycles

  Honda
  BMW
  Suzuki
  Yamaha (Star)
  Kawasaki
  Triumph
  Other

  
  Metric Sport Motorcycles

  Honda
  BMW
  Suzuki
  Yamaha
  Kawasaki
  Ducati
  Triumph
  Other

  
  Ok, now that I've made a buch of friends with my first post I'm going to peruse the rest of this new site to see just how much trouble I can get into.....