Dear Jape,

Interesting, and certainly not off topic since I launched the thread to thank the administrator and moderators for their fine efforts to keep this forum healthy.

It's certainly a legitimate concern.

At the turn of the year, the founder and administrator of my awesome hometown motorcycling forum, North Bay Sport Riders, pulled the plug on the site after 8 years and a quarter million posts by 900+ members, saying it had grown to be far too much work and had long since drifted from its founding intentions. The straw that broke the camel's back was a thread on whether we Californians should be allowed to carry concealed weapons, and it got really ugly -- a big pissup about handguns in a motorcycle forum! Typical, but inexcusable anyway. I hated to see NBSR go, but i completely understood his logic and decision. "I make a nice forum and allow you all in, and you start pissing and shitting on my carpet, leaving me with the reputation for hosting a crappy forum. Go find somewhere else to defecate."

So this MCM forum is all the more important to me now. Let's all do our best to keep it legit and safe and, to the greatest extent possible, focused on our affection for Chinabikes and for riding in China.

Thank again!
Jeff