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Author Message   Xl1200r Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 01:35 pm:        Same here - book on order.   Mikef5000 Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 04:05 pm:        I'll be ordering mine tonight!   Naustin Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 07:21 pm:        Pre-Order Placed. Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,444 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #1 in Books > Nonfiction > Transportation #1 in Books > Nonfiction > Automotive > Motorcycles > History (Message edited by naustin on March 24, 2008)   Lastcyclone Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 09:02 pm:        Bout time fellas. Cool.   Lastcyclone Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 09:27 pm:        If the order could be moved up a week, maybe a guy could bring it to Homecomming. Anything you boys (Court & Dave) can do?   Dtx Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:01 pm:        I'm getting this book!   Daves Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:04 pm:        Remind me to order one tomorrow Too cool Court and Dave! I can't wait to get mine.   Davegess Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:09 pm:        We have no control over printing. Whitehorsepress.com is giving a ship date of June 2008. They may be shipping a little earlier than Amazon as they are the actual publisher. The are offering the same price as Amazon so you might try and order there. http://www.whitehorsepress.com/product_info.php?ma nufacturers_id=4&products_id=5822   Nevrenuf Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:24 pm:        just ordered one too. just as interested in his early endeavors with harley as anything else.   Blake Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 11:45 pm:        "I'll bet that 90% of the traffic is generated by <200 folks." My big chance for a windfall has finally arrived! What would you be willing to bet on that Court? Are you wondering if I'm still living and trying to bait a reply or what? In February, BadWeB served up approximately 2.26 million pages. If 90% of that is attributable to less than 200 folks, then each of those folks on average would need to have browsed through more than 10,000 pages each month. The math follows: 2.26E+06 pages * 90% / <200>10,170 pages each month. Even I don't come anywhere close to that level of activity here. Who has the time? Further, even assuming that your estimated "<200 folks" are surfing the BadWeB every single day of the month--I sure don't--that amounts to 339 pages per day, every single day. Again, even I don't come close to that level of activity here myself. Who has the time? We currently have over 1,200 active BadWeBrs who have elected to receive emailings of board posts. In the past 30 days, 2,331 registered users have logged-in to BadWeB. A greater number have visited without bothering to login. In the past 365 days a cool 5,902 registered BadWeBrs have logged-in on BadWeB. Monthly Statistics for February 2008 Stat Quantity Total Hits 14,398,619 Total Files 9,031,018 Total Pages 2,257,253 Total Visits 257,241 Total KBytes 82,060,994 Total Unique Sites 55,977 Total Unique URLs 112,641 Total Unique Referrers 53,512 Avg Max Hits per Hour 20,687 36,951 Hits per Day 496,504 574,107 Files per Day 311,414 352,775 Pages per Day 77,836 93,481 Visits per Day 8,870 9,836 KBytes per Day 2,829,689 3,858,150 The BadWeB server employs a file compression scheme which reduces the bandwidth from 40% to 50%. The actual html content being served is thus much greater than what bandwidth figures show. Prior to implementing the compression scheme in mid-August 2007, our BadWeB server had hit a high of 193,644,870 KB (193.7 GB) per month in content served. Thanks for the opportunity and impetus to review our stats and share the good news. Dave, you once inquired about sponsorship in order to promote the book here. What happened to that? I just ordered mine direct from the publisher. It sure would be great if your publisher could see fit to sponsor our little community of Buell enthusiasts here. If not, then just send me a banner, we'll put it up, just like we did for your photo sale.   Blake Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 11:49 pm:        The current tally of registered active BadWeBrs is closer to 13,000, not 15,000, but with between 200 and 300 new registered users every month, we'll soon crest the 15K mark. We do periodically cull inactive accounts which may explain the disparity between your 15K and the current tally of registered active BadWeBrs.   1313 Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:40 am:        Hmmm... I thought I was doing the 'right thing' by ordering my 4 copies (1 for the aforementioned Frank, 1 for my buddy Scott in Frankfurt, 1 for my reading/reference copy, and an extra 'just in case') from the Whitehorse Press. I guess the way to go more mainstream is to go more mainstream... 1313   Crusty Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 06:15 am:        I thought I was doing the 'right thing' by ordering my 4 copies ...from the Whitehorse Press You were.   Davegess Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 09:21 am:        Blake, I will hit him up again, he just got back from vacation which was well deserved after the made rush to get their spring catalog out. I think he should pop for the few hundred dollars it would take. Sales from here have likely already paid for the thing. Brankin, no worries on where you buy, Whitehorse makes a little more when you buy from them but Amazon gives them wider exposure so either way is OK. I wonder how long we can stay at the top? We are still number 1 in Motorcycle history but have fallen to number 2 in Transportation. We remain in the top 2000 overall.   U4euh Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 10:18 am:        Got mine!! Direct from the publisher of course. Gotta get that sponser on here. Thanks for posting he link Dave   Reepicheep Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 10:39 am:        Doesn't amazon have an affiliate program? I believe newenough does as well. If the sponsorship rules ever get updated, that should be considered.   Court Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 03:29 pm:        >>>we'll soon crest the 15K mark. That's an accurate statement and thanks for taking the bait and doing my demographic research for me . . . . Engineers are so gullible since they branched out from just driving trains! It's wild . . . and, assuming that just a splinter of those afourmentionatiated Badwebbers order up. . . Dave, on the cusp of being jobless and me. . . well, just lazy by nature, will be smoking fine Cubans (Rich C tell them about the tradition that Johnny Mikosh and I have observed for 20 years at Homecoming) and flying about in the Elf-Jet. By the way . . . I'll ante up for the ad . . I think it's only fair to insure a uniform application of the rules. In the meantimean Dave and I will continue working on the publicator . . ever tired to convince anyone in New Hampshire of anything? By the way . . . for those of you, long familiar with the "Mature Adult Father Gess" . . I've gotta tell you . . . when you read his tale of the S-1 you'll be spewing coffee all over your screen. In the meantime, you can start guessing what manufacturers came to Buell rescue to make certain the S-1 was able to attend it's own birthday???? Cool stuff! Brankin, don't let those copies leave the country before you talk to me. Court   Wolfridgerider Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 03:44 pm:        Hey Blake, What are the stats on that calendar thingy?   Blake Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 04:34 pm:        It'll be out before the book. The good news is that it will be free, in electronic form.   Ezblast Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 06:53 pm:        LOL - already ordered mine from the publisher! EZ   Pdxs3t Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 07:58 pm:        Latest Amazon.com stats Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,045 in Books #1 in Books > Nonfiction > Automotive > Motorcycles > History #8 in Books > Nonfiction > Transportation   Irideabuell Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 06:00 am:        I ordered mine yesterday from the publisher and immediately received an e-mail say it was on back order. They made it clear during the order process that it wouldn't be available until June, but the e-mail said it was on back order until 5/2/08. Weird.   Court Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 06:33 am:        It just, within the last 10 days, actually went to the printers. I understand this is generally a 3 month process but I wouldn't be surprised if they come through quicker. I ordered one too.   Buellinachinashop Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:10 am:        "I understand this is generally a 3 month process." Nothing should take three months to print and bind. How many copies are being run? The longest part of the process, as many Buell owners have found out,is shipping the product to dealers. 13,000 to 15,000 members? Isn't that close to 10% of all the Buells made so far? Maybe we should be 10%ers?   Blublak Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:14 am:        Well, I ordered mine.. and if the Gods smile on this tome.. I'll have it in time for the 25th.. and then, I can try to hunt down Court and Dave for the (hopefully) complimentary customization via signatures. I can't wait for it, I really want to finally get some of these stories Court keeps wanting us to remind him to tell us sometime..   Buellinachinashop Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:17 am:        I'm stoked for this book. If Court's and Dave's enthusiasm on this board are any indication of how good the book is going to be, I'm sure it'll be a hit. Congrats on the project fellas.   Davegess Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:46 am:        Buellin, I think the process is long mostly because of getting in the schedule. The printer orders paper when they have approved page files in hand as well as an order. It takes a few weeks for the paper to show up and it takes a couple of weeks for the books to make to the warehouse from the printer. Some of the time is in the proofing and approval process, this can take a couple of weeks also. It should be shipping in plenty of time for Homecoming. We paln to have books there for sale.   Buellinachinashop Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:57 am:        How many pages is it Dave?   Mikej Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:57 am:        " We plan to have books there for sale. " Neat. I actually prefer to buy over the counter whne I can.   Wolfridgerider Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:59 am:        I'll pick mine up in E.Troy!