Hey KS,
as a long time member here, I'd like to thank you for your participation. You bring a balanced and sensible view to our (as in all of our) forum. I enjoy your input. I noticed you have over 100 posts - Congratulations!!

Thank you BI - you're a solid and you get treated as such. I personally went to bat for you to be re-instated and now that this subject came up you and the rest of the members deserve to know. You truly are a Harley Rider and this forum is the better for your contributions. I enjoy and look forward to your new threads & responses and point of view. You have a real sense of adventure and I live vicariously through you my friend.

In the mater of Tourist, I watched the whole situation unfold. I had PM's with Tourist on a regular basis and he often requested me to call him by sending me his phone number and asking for mine. I have first hand knowledge of the damage he caused to our forum (and several other motorcycle, cooking, knife and the list goes on forums) and the good members just like you, Kickstand, he bullied until they no longer returned. He was starting on Eddie and he was PM'ing other members who complained about him. The list is over 50!! He is the only member here in our entire history to be banned for a very good reason.

The whole atmosphere here is friendly again, the way it was in the beginning. We have a good membership now- no bullies will ever be tolerated here again. Because of him we now have a Moderator. We never needed a moderator before because it was friendly here. And I haven't seen the mod even on??? I guess we don't really need him anymore???

As for the private partition - we are all adults here - you want to say something private, PM someone. I believe the rule of "IF you don't like the subject - stay out of the conversation" much more.

I consider the matter of the Tourist closed. He chose his handle very carefully, and then lived up to it.

BI - I know you guys are close and I'm not saying anything I can't prove in detail.

Thank you for reading,

Thank you and why I still post here, effort to be contributing and joke around a little too.

I was really hoping both Tourist and I would find a home and settle in and he did to.