Well, one issue that is affecting things is something we can't do anything about, and that is time marches on! As times change, people change and their situations change and they have to adjust accordingly. I think most of us have read posts by Andre Ming on the list, mostly related to combat, Fox engines and such. I knew Andre from a Yahoo special interest group related to vintage enduro motorcycles called VINDURO that he owns, and I think I joined that group before Stunthanger came into existence. VINDURO was a hot and happening forum with tons of technical information on rebuilding, repairing, restoring and racing vintage off road dirt bikes. Many, many cool guys and many members are/were former factory racers, mechanics and such. I forget how many members it has reached, but like this site, had members from all around the world and I have been fortunate enough to have met some of them and able to call Andre and the others friends. But, like the subject of this thread, facebook comes along and a VINDURO facebook page gets started up and members start drifting over there. Action on the original Yahoo slowed to a crawl but it is still up and running and has seen some renewed interest as Andre has retired and has more time to devote to it, and others drifted back due to the same burnout on FB as others here have experienced. I have never participated on FB because mainly I don't have time to spend on it. I don't know how some of you guys do it, but sometimes I have trouble checking in here! But there is one huge similarity between Stunthanger and VINDURO, and I'm sure other groups share also, is the ability to archive information. I have done it on both sites numerous time to recall some tidbit of information I needed but wanted to make sure of. They can't do that on facebook, from what I understand. This site is a virtual encyclopedia of almost ANYTHING that you could want to know about building and flying a stunt model and all the other disciplines listed here with it. I don't think you can come close to that on facebook. And on top of that, it's a much SAFER site in many ways. The passage of time will tell the whole story of how things progress and I intend to stick around and watch it happen.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee