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In my humble opinion The Cone turned into exactly what I suspected it would. A political bashfest with finger pointing and name calling.
Several no it all's that could never see the other persons view points or understand the concept that their own view points are simply theirs and might not be correct.
These are members that have/had similar interests in Triumphs and those same interests brought them to the BA.Com family.
With the addition of the cone it seems some of those same members now could not stay in the same room with one another.




Everybody expected that to happen. The great thing about going to a forum or any area of a forum is you don't have to go there. If you go there, get your feelings hurt, and lash out, nobody made you read it. We are in that room for real every day of our lives. There are always different opinions.

But your post has absolutely not a thing to do with getting newer members posting and making BA.com a more active place. 8000 members and about 80 posters is what I am asking about. I have ridden my bikes all over the country. Was thrilled to do SWTF twice and even had a good time being rejected for weather once or twice. I had the honor of meeting and making two friends that later died on their Triumphs. They are connections made on this board. Two weeks ago Dwight and I talked for 30 minutes on the phone. have not seen him since 2011. But the bonds are still there.

I don't think it is our (people here for years) responsibility to keep it going, fun, or interesting. It is everybody's responsibility. If the few 500 folks that joined but didn't post for last 3 years even once don't care, its not my fault. I love Triumph motorcycles and everybody that loves being on two wheels. 0 posters have to leave those ranks, join in with the discussions and make some of their own. Or not.

This forum contains technical stuff. But it also contains friends you have yet to meet and bonds waiting to happen.


Well said.

I have only one point. I have bantered lively in debate with a few of members here and you would think that we hated each other. However when I met some of them in person we had a good time. We even had a good laugh or two about some of those debates. What happens in the forum of which we don't speak stays there. I like every member of this forum, and appreciate the differences. What a bori g place it would be if we were all the same.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe