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View Poll Results: Blogs - Ride Reports - What do you want to see?
1. Proper blogs as on the Travellers Stories now (with updated software) 3 9.09%
2. Proper blogs as Travellers Stories - but in chronological order 8 24.24%
3. Ride reports - short ride reports on a HUBB Forum AND blogs as 1 above 7 21.21%
4. Ride reports - short ride reports on a HUBB Forum AND blogs as 2 above 9 27.27%
5. Ride reports - short ride reports on a HUBB Forum ONLY 3 9.09%
6. Who wants to read others stories? - I don't! 3 9.09%
Voters: 33. This poll is closed

 
 
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Exclamation Trip Reports - where's the good stuff?

Thanks to Grant and Susan and the team, Horizons Unlimited has become the best online resource for two-wheeled travel - most helpful, most informative, most relevant. 'Thread on the HUBB' has even entered the conversational lexicon of adventure motorcycling. 'How do you know that?' Thread on the HUBB. 'Where did you meet them?' Thread on the HUBB. Sociable, too - I've met and made life-long friends here.

So - helpful, relevant, social. But I feel it's missing something. People come here, use the site as a resource to answer the questions that really can't be answered anywhere else, but have a tendency to post elsewhere when it comes to the good stuff - the actual ride reports. It feels like we do all hard work, but someone else gets the benefits. We eat our greens and another site gets the ice cream pudding. And that doesn't seem right.

So Grant - any chance of setting up a ride reports section? I know we have the travellers' tales, but boy, are they awkward to navigate. I never got the hang of the art of reading backwards and upside-down, and I know that a lot of others also struggle with their layout. Is there a technical issue or financial constraint that prevents us from running ride reports in the easy on the eye style of advrider? Is it simply money and bandwith?

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