Just some early notice that there's going to be some changes to the forum structure.  The forums below the bold headings will be merged into the bolded forum.  The for sale section will have all posts older than three months deleted. 

General Duscussions - bike related:
    Biker Women
    Ride Reports
    Press Articles
    Forum how to's

Workshop General:
     WorkShop EFI
     Reference Docs/How to's

Photo and video gallery - private:
     Member Video Gallery
     Artwork

Parts wanted
     - Bikes/cars/vehicles wanted

Business directory - bike related
    - Business directory - other

The following forums will have all posts older than three months deleted:
 Bikes.. for sale
 Bikes.. wanted
 Parts for sale
 Parts wanted

This makes the site easier to navigate as the number of forums is reduced by 10.  All topics and posts from the merged sections will still be in the new sections.  Aside from the deleted for sale posts which in most cases are no longer needed.

What about stickies KC. Do you think they might be worthwhile

While the suggestions are coming in, any way to add a "first unread post" button? 

lookin good kc,anything that makes life easy is good.cheers

Appreciate your work KC .

Good changes for me with the exception of the Product Reviews being merged as i like to look through that for items that a keyword search doesn't show.

Some further refinements, the following forum will be merged:

Parts wanted
     - Bikes/cars/vehicles wanted

Business directory - bike related
    - Business directory - other

Thanks mate. Its an excellent reference and comes up often on google searches.

I'm also thinking that "Take it outside" should be merged into "Off topic - members only".  Then a new forum be created called "Off topic - public".  I can then seed the new "Off topic - public" with many of the threads that exists in "Off topic - members only" that really shouldn't be in a members only section.

Sounds ok. I'm fine with off topic, but do not read topics in the take it outside section as i don't agree with most of the sentiments expressed. I like the fact that the bulk of that stuff is grouped in one section so that those people who don't want to read that crap can choose not to.

While you are taking suggestions

About the bright background??
I am on a Spyder forum that lets you choose your background, is this an option here

Spyder Forum

left side, "Choose a Theme"

I've deployed the content merge and updated the forum to v1.0.0.8.  Main changes are:

- Forums merged as described above.

- Site search has been greatly improved.  An audit of search revealed that not all post history was included, so I've fixed the issue and re-index the whole site.  All posts from day 1 are now in the search.

- Also included were various internal bug fixes.
- Some performance improvements which should make the site slightly quicker (it was pretty good already).

Let me know if there are any issues?

Hey KC, you have done a great job, thank mate. 

No questions KC, just a big THANK YOU for organising a great forum. Your work is appreciated.

Thumbs Up...... if we had that option.

Cheers Roo.

Yeah, I'm with Roo Ted. Thank you for your time and trouble KC. People (not here though) are quick to complain but very slow to praise someone's efforts.