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Author Message   Daves Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 12:38 pm:        According to my Badweb calendar Feb 3rd is Badweb's 8th birthday.   Brotherbuell Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:27 pm:        Wow..that's commonly thought of as "the age of reason". Does that mean we have to start acting reasonably?   Djkaplan Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:29 pm:        The best internet forum ever. Congratulations, Blake.   Buell_892 Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:51 pm:        in for the win! great job guys!   Rubberdown Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:27 pm:        Many Happy Returns of the Day!   Jerry_haughton Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 03:18 pm:        happy birthday to us! FB&D   Ted Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 03:20 pm:        kudos & congrats to all !   Spiderman Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 04:49 pm:        TOO COOL!! BadWeb 8 this month, I am going to the Red Wings game tonight, I turn 26 this month and my bike is bike of the month over on the Austrailan BBS... Man what a great month!   Newfie_buell Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 04:56 pm:        Congrats BadWeb. And Spidey - It don't take much to make him happy   Ebear Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 05:25 pm:        Happy...Happy...!!!!!   Buellin_ri Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:05 pm:        Who's bringing the beer?   Rocketman Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:19 pm:        BadWeb's older than 8 years isn't it? Rocket   Jerry_haughton Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:43 pm:        Rocket, look here (Motorcycle Online). you'll have to scroll around a bit, but it's pretty entertaining reading. FB (Message edited by jerry_haughton on February 01, 2006)   Spatten1 Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:12 pm:        Great job! I'd like to thank all of the moderators and founders that have put in so much work.   Jerry_haughton Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:20 pm:        Blake's first post on the MO "Open Bikini Bike Shootout, before he bought his Buell and started all this BADWEB mess: Blake Thu Jan 15 23:20:26 PST 1998 Howdy all. I'm currently stuck on four wheels and am looking with fervent eagerness to get back on two. So much so that I've been spending the last few evenings trolling the internet trying to narrow down my list of prospective bikes. After reading the entire series of commentaries above, I am more positive than ever that a Beull is the beast for me. I do however have some questions: 1. I'm 6'3". Is my right knee going to argue with that (the only thing I don't like on the Beulls) massive airbox? 2. I plan some serious mileage. When I ride long distance my legs screem for highway pegs (I fully expect to get lambasted for asking this); any well designed highway pegs for an S3, M2 or S1? Any other tall Bueller's out there that can comment on highway ergonomics? I definitely prefer to lean on the bars at highway speeds rather than hang on; of course a neutral stance is optimum. 3. What kind of deal can I expect on either a new '97 or a new '98 Beull. 4. Anybody got a spare $13,000 they can let me have for a new S3T? now Blake's got his Buell, and he's got it bad: Blake Tue Feb 3 22:02:05 PST 1998 Anyone interested in joining/forming a newsgroup/email list concerning Buell motorcycles send email stating such to me at "b&mrudy@...". I've searched far and wide and have not found a Buell specific group. If anyone knows of one already in existence, please let me know. Thanks, Blake and: Blake TYR11370@... Tue Mar 10 22:05:44 PST 1998 A few of us have formed an informal Buell email group. Everyone is welcome and the group would appreciate the chance to gain additional viewpoints. Mostly we discuss technical stuff and mods to improve performance and ridability or just to enhance the appearance of our particular model of Buell. If you are a Buell enthusiast and would like to get on the email list, just send me an email at "b&mrudy@..." (for some reason this BBS won't accept my chosen email address so I have to show the ISP version) stating so. If you like I can also send the archive of our postings since we began a mere 5 weeks ago. Torque to ya later, Blake (major torque-a-holic) and starts putting the word out: Blake tyr11370@... Thu Apr 2 21:28:06 PST 1998 ...Anyone interested in Buell talk is welcome to join the recently formed Storm Riders/Bad Weather Bikers email group (we haven't quite decided on the name yet). Just drop me a quick email stating such and you're enrolled. We're just a bunch of super enthusiastic Buell riders and wanna-be-Buell-riders talking tech and whatever else Buellistic that crosses our minds. Any and all others are also welcome, (Jimmi?); no two wheeled snobs allowed. To borrow from a new friend: Rid toe long . . . ? er Bribe to clean . . . ? oh yeah - Ride to Lean! Blake Ferris joins in on the promotion: Jerry Haughton PACBOG@aol.com Wed May 27 16:38:19 PDT 1998 Greg and all-- We'll have our new Buell-dedicated BBS up and running soon. I'll post an announcement here when it happens. Ferris Bueller PACBOG/Sport Bike USA http://members.aol.com/pacbog/index.html and Henrik makes it official: Henrik Bo Pedersen Tue Jul 7 12:46:24 PDT 1998 There is a new Buell BBS up and running thanks to Blake Rudy. "Bad Weather Bikers" can be found at http://www.badweb.com/bikerBBS/board.html Blake, thanks for gettin' this place up on two wheels, and for keeping it there!!! ride to lean, Ferris & Denise (Message edited by jerry_haughton on February 01, 2006)   Whodom Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:29 pm:        Ferris, Thanks for the great history lesson for those of us who are relatively new to BadWeb. Happy Birthday Badweb!   Whodom Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:36 pm:        Ha- it's amazing what you can find out there on the web. Set your internet time machine back to 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19981201175215/members.aol.com/pacbog3/home.html   Rocketman Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:36 pm:        Hell, I thought for years I was here since 1997! I'm getting old. Thanks Ferris, and thanks Blake. Happy freekin french fries!!!!!!!!! Rocket   Jerry_haughton Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 08:59 pm:        Ha- it's amazing what you can find out there on the web. Set your internet time machine back to 1999: wow, what a rush - i haven't seen that stuff in FOREVER! thanks Hugh. FB   Patrickh Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 09:33 pm:        been here since 2000. I actually changed my name once because I forgot my password and logged on as someone else under a new email address because I needed an answer to a technical question. Without question this is the best website with the most helpful people...thank you to all my fellow bad-webbers. Thank you Blake for moderating us. You seem to be good man. Maybe some day I'll get a chance to shake your hand.   Blake Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:27 pm:        Seems like just last week we were sending email all around and I was scrambling to get a web based discussion board up and running. Check this out, a new all time record for BadWeB... For the month of January 2006 we served up over 111 Giga-Bytes of BadWeB content via 1.25 Million page requests by over 40 Thousand visitors (unique IPs). For those who count hits, BadWeB garnered 11 Million. BadWeB server traffic has averaged well over 300 kb/s for the past year with frequent peaks to 1Mb/s. January 2006 outgoing traffic was up by over 40% compared to January 2005 and up by 214% compared to January 2004! Folks from just about every nation on Earth are bumping into our little online community here. BadWeB's visitors hail from... # Country 1 Algeria 2 Angola 3 Argentina 4 Aruba 5 Australia 6 Austria 7 Belarus 8 Belgium 9 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 Brazil 11 Bulgaria 12 Canada 13 Chad 14 Chile 15 China 16 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 17 Colombia 18 Costa Rica 19 Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 20 Croatia (Hrvatska) 21 Cyprus 22 Czech Republic 23 Denmark 24 Dominica 25 Dominican Republic 26 Ecuador 27 Egypt 28 El Salvador 29 Estonia 30 Faroe Islands 31 Fiji 32 Finland 33 France 34 French Polynesia 35 Gabon 36 Germany 37 Ghana 38 Greece 39 Guatemala 40 Honduras 41 Hong Kong 42 Hungary 43 Iceland 44 India 45 Indonesia 46 Iran 47 Ireland 48 Israel 49 Italy 50 Japan 51 Jordan 52 Kazakhstan 53 Korea (South) 54 Kyrgyzstan 55 Latvia 56 Lesotho 57 Liechtenstein 58 Lithuania 59 Luxembourg 60 Madagascar 61 Malaysia 62 Malta 63 Mauritius 64 Mexico 65 Monaco 66 Mongolia 67 Morocco 68 Namibia 69 Netherlands 70 New Zealand (Aotearoa) 71 Nicaragua 72 Niue 73 Norway 74 Oman 75 Pakistan 76 Panama 77 Paraguay 78 Peru 79 Philippines 80 Poland 81 Portugal 82 Qatar 83 Romania 84 Russian Federation 85 Samoa 86 Saudi Arabia 87 Seychelles 88 Singapore 89 Slovak Republic 90 Slovenia 91 South Africa 92 Spain 93 Sri Lanka 94 Sweden 95 Switzerland 96 Taiwan 97 Tanzania 98 Thailand 99 Tonga 100 Trinidad and Tobago 101 Turkey 102 Turks and Caicos Islands 103 Tuvalu 104 Ukraine 105 United Kingdom 106 United States 107 Uruguay 108 Venezuela 109 Viet Nam 110 Yugoslavia 111 Zambia The top 20 according to traffic are... # Country 1 United States 2 Canada 3 Australia 4 Netherlands 5 France 6 Italy 7 United Kingdom 8 Belgium 9 Finland 10 Japan 11 Sweden 12 Portugal 13 Hungary 14 Germany 15 Switzerland 16 New Zealand (Aotearoa) 17 Brazil 18 Norway 19 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 20 Denmark Sponsor banner exposures are up significantly too, currently garnering well over 6,000 exposures per day. That reminds me... time to send out some invoices. We should probably start thinking about another major performance upgrade for the server. A dual server system maybe. I've noticed a slow-down of late. We can't have that. BadWeB should be one of the best handling discussion boards on the web. Thanks to all who have made BadWeb a fun, positive, informative, and just plain enjoyable place to check in and talk Buell, bikes, or whatever (yes I'm talkin' about you Char ). Here's to another eight fun and informative years. Now, y'all send me a bunch of calendar pics! I need some nice pics! Send to blake at badweatherbikers dot com.   Sparky Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 01:03 am:        Wow, "So. Cal. Buell Night  at Dennys in Corona, CA." from the URB'n Assaults link in the PACBOG web site. I remember that night! Met Tat and the Birdman with his graphics-laden S3, and the original founders of the SCAB riders -- still going on today! Actually this Thursday, 2/2/06, is a SCAB meeting! What a legacy!! Happy Birthday BadWeatherBikers! Blake, you are a prince among men for making this website happen for the rest of us! Sparky   Seanp Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 04:49 am:        You can add Kuwait to that list, Blake. I have been coming here since 2003, and it seemed to me like this thing had been going since the dial-up BBS days, the way it's so well-organized. Congratulations, and here's to another 8, and another 8 after that, and...well, you get the point.   Steveshakeshaft Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 05:42 am:        Many happy returns to Blake, BadWeb and all its members. Time certainly flies by. UKBEG has been around 8 years on 1st April 2006. I put it on the web as ukbeg.org.uk the 31st December 1999. I must be getting old.   Jb2 Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 12:03 pm:        In 1997 I had just purchased an S3 and was actively searching for an S2 and some buddies to go riding with. I stumbled on to some cat in the great North-wet named Ferris Bueller and the trouble began. I bought a computer to go with the Buell so I could stay up on PACBOG stuff and then I got dupped into this e-mail group called BadWeB. Another thing I can blame on Ferris. Since those apparently innocent beginnings I have purchased numerous Buells, worked on the Team Elves effort, painted many Buells, rode across the country several times and have become a real motorcycle gypsy. All of which I can blame on Ferris. Even Blake, under the guise of BadWeB administrator, can take credit for some of my motorcycle problems but I'd bet that his influence was also Ferris's fault. Hell one of my best friends named their bike "Ferris's Fault". Okay. Rant over. Happy birthday BadWeB and thanks Blake and Ferris.   Jerry_haughton Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 12:25 pm:          Ebear Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 12:31 pm:        What Sparky and JB2 said....Thanx forever you guys!!!....ssoooooo whassupp you two???..Sorry 'bout the phone call the other day Ferris...my Battery died during our talk...Think I can retrieve those before I leave for Daytona???I'll burn onto disk for you before I leave for posterity??   Ebear Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 12:34 pm:        Hey Blakester....what kinda pics you looking for for your Calendar??wan't them at full res or xat'ed????   Blake Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 07:21 pm:        Full Res. Any calendar worth Buell-related pics. Bikes not people so much but both is okay if its a really great pic or has some famous guy named Buell in it or something like that, or any Buell racing pics.   Newfie_buell Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 07:25 pm:        Hey Blake, How about Newfoundland as its own Country????? Please, Please, Please.