Stick_n_Stones on the Bikeland forum posted this:

"Nope Shane, its pretty much always about money. I don't know how many thousands of dollars this guy spent to get his just started, bare bones website to come up #1 in search for Google, but I can guarantee you its not cheap! Or every single site would be trying it. Think it through: why spend that much money unless you are hoping to reap in the profits that the old website made???"

I would have responded to this gentleman on that forum, but found that the THREAD WAS LOCKED (AGAIN)! I don't know why folks there are putting up with that crap.

I will tell you exactly how much has been spent on this forum to this point in time. Software: $0. My time to set it up: about 5 hours so far. I am willing to spend more time to enhance it if we get enough interest (users) to warrant it. Google AdWords: $4.13 (about 60 clicks at about $.07 per click) -- that's why the ad is at the top of the page. Total cost so far $4.13.

This site is NOT ABOUT MONEY. No profit will be made here.

READ MY LIPS: I WAS A MEMBER OF THE ZX14NINJA FORUM AND I MISS IT. IF THE FOLKS WHO WERE THERE WANT TO START A NEW FORUM, THIS ONE IS AVAILABLE. THREADS WILL NOT BE LOCKED. MESSAGES WILL NOT BE DELETED. MEMBERS WILL NOT BE BANNED. THE SITE WILL NEVER GO AWAY. -bg

* Last updated by: bgordon on 2/6/2009 @ 3:41 PM *

^5!

I sighed-up for the zx14ninja.com site about 3 days before it turned into a G0-Daddy pop-up . I glad it`s back in this form . I`m looking forward to reading the posts and adding whatever info I can think based on the work I`m doing to my own 07 ZX14 . Thanks a lot

Interesting. I signed up for the zx14forums a few months ago, but was never accepted. Hopefully this will become my home.

All I can say is
Thank You Thank You Thank You

I bet this place will grow with a little time.

Bikeland blows, one of the worst layouts of any forum I've been on.
I don't like those places with anon-ass mods that arbitrarily lock/delete/ban. That's why I don't bother with 14.net anymore either.
Zx forums is..ok, but I don't care about 600/750s.
It's really to bad about ninja.com I really liked the place, ugly site, but a great/varied/active bunch.
What I found to be soooo lame was absolutly no heads-up it was going bye-bye, or any kind of explanation from the admin on what was going on.
So if you're reading this bob, you suck.

I agree with toecutter about ninja.com quitting without warning apparently no way to retrieve any data from the forum.

I'm not sure the moderators knew what was happening or had any warning about what might happen. I had contacted one of them with a private message offering to host it if they needed a new hosting service. He didn't seem to be aware of what was going to happen.

It may have been a case of a the site owner/creator pulling the plug without warning.

I dunno, but I would probably give the moderators the benefit of the doubt until we get more information (if we ever do). -bg

I am a moderator on the ZRXOA board and we are told what is going on or the admins will give us a call depending on whats going on. Short version is it is a good group over there but that board has been around since 1999. We have to do alot of clean up and as soon as you do you hear about 1st adminment rights and board nazis and ect but if you do not keep some kind of control it turns out like Labusas.
The bigger the board gets the more chaos goes down. There is fun and there is chaos and sometimes you are just gonna piss off the people no matter what you do.
People will follow to another board but lost info is lost info and info is part of what people look for in a board.

just signed up gordon. hopefully this site will be even more popular than the old one! tc's in tha house!

tc:

Cool! You just made may day.

Welcome! -bg

It may have been a case of a the site owner/creator pulling the plug without warning.

I dunno, but I would probably give the moderators the benefit of the doubt until we get more information (if we ever do). -bg

John:

Well, I didn't know that. I guess you just gave us "more information".

I hope that Bob will be very happy in his new home... -bg

* Last updated by: bgordon on 2/9/2009 @ 6:35 PM *

@ Benasaki:

I also tried to sign up for the old zx14 forums but was never accepted. Someone must have been missing things. I was trying to register to respond to a ZX14 For Sale post... seemed like a good deal but I never got to find out more about it.

Thanks to BGordon for setting this up for us refugees from the old site. I've been wondering where it went to for weeks. Luckily I had reevesmreeves' contact information, he sent me this way; thanks Mike! Glad to see my old pal ToeCutter in here, looking fwd to more banter over the months my friend! Hope more old members find their way here!

I had stated a few days ago that I had signed -up on the old site just before it shut down . I never got any confirmation , I just assumed I was in . I was lucky to print out the FLY removal post & actually make it through the whole deal without screwing my bike all up . I`m glad to see that same posting is here now for others to see . VERY HELPFUL ! Fordman

glad you made it over donny. i believe this site will be as big as the other in time.

whoever fish antlers is over on bikeland doesn't seem to like this at all. lol

whoever fish antlers is over on bikeland doesn't seem to like this at all. lol

reevesmreeves:

Just about anything you do these days seems to piss somebody off. Hard to avoid it.

It's difficult for me understand someone defending the old forum owners, given what they did. Think about all of the YEARS of great information that was there that is totally gone. There were things that they could have done to preserve that, and they didn't. At least we haven't seen any signs yet that they did. -bg

glad you made it over donny. i believe this site will be as big as the other in time.

Donny you need to fire up the SciFi, "Geek" thread again. Hopefully Blue will find this site so I can drool over his collection some more, LOL!!

whoever fish antlers is over on bikeland doesn't seem to like this at all. lol

I have been a member over there for several years but I think my post count is under 10, I.E. I never really cared for the layout of the site. And I don't know Fishantlers. But I can see where he would be upset if he is trying to make money off the site. At least he just locks threads V/S deleting them like that P.O.S., looser, G.P.W. on .net, LOL!!!

The sarge made it over, sweet, after all, when an alien lands in my backyard and I end up chuckin' his arse on the barby, who's gonna believe me but Donny? (there would be a smilie here, smiling, but there isn't.)

Another refugee here too ... very strange that they would just pull the plug the way they did ....very sad

Good to see you here Eric.

Oh hell. Donny, toecutter, reeves, steven and Phil. Good to see you again. I thought I was lost. Was that the hubster in here too?

* Last updated by: heathun on 2/15/2009 @ 7:03 PM *

Yes, the Hubster has been with us from the very beginning, which was only last week. Actually, he's done some new research since we started and posted it here in the HOW-TO and PERFORMANCE sections. Interesting stuff...

He has been helping me a bit to get things organized, as well. I greatly value his input... -bg

* Last updated by: bgordon on 2/15/2009 @ 7:20 PM *

Oh he has a wealth of knowledge in that melon. You just have to learn to read it. Jog on Hub. Good to see you