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You stupid, fix it!
One can only hope. IMHO anything over:45 is a load of.....
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I can't believe this thread still lives!
I think this thread still "lives and breathes" because with next year in Sedalia, MO (a potential oven), members are looking for assurances / game plans that it will not be a carbon-copy of Bloomsburg, in terms of heat management.
If that is true, then I would say that the customers have voted and we should respect that. Does this not mean that the whole closing ceremony concept may need re-engineering?
Iv'e never been on a Harley forum but I wonder if they bash BMW's and especially the venerable GS's as much as this forum does them. Harley has some good bikes and some good people not only working for them but also as riders. Some of you need to get another hobbie.
Next election process starts in January 2013. Good luck everyone!
Where do we cut corners?
.....(snip)....all of this would not only raise funds but improve the rally goer experience.
ian
instead of cutting corners try focusing on increasing efficiency.
it would be confusing to get into a very detailed discussion here, but let me describe one example.
this year, we tried something new... big-screen displays.
we used these monitors during the day to show cool riding videos, as a jumbotron to give people a close-up look at the GS Giant trials, as a ride-in theater for watching adventure DVDs at night, and at the closing ceremonies to visually support the presentation.
but what if we took better advantage of those monitors during the entire hour that people assemble for the closing ceremonies? Put up names and/or numbers of award & door prize winners & givers, sell short promo spots to advertisers, put up video clips shot during the rally, put a remote cam reporter up in the stands.
during the rally, with enough pre-planning, we could also sell time on these monitors to advertisers, show what's on the rally schedule hour by hour, and make special announcements.
all of this would not only raise funds but improve the rally goer experience.
these displays were expensive, but we *almost* covered their cost with two sponsorships. what if we had 50 sponsors? if we plan far enough out in front, we could easily do this. Ted Moyer and Chris Hughes are that good! This year, the displays were a very last-minute decision. We did a lot with them, but we could have done a lot more.
This is just one example of efficiency vs. cutting corners. As you go about your planning, please think what can be done by getting double and triple duty out of things, as well as new things to do.
Which reminds me... we could really do something interesting with text messaging to rally goer's phones......
ian
most harley riders feel sorry for bmw riders.......................... having both brands i can be found in the harley ranks
Richard Sheckler said:Original Post on /2 list said:Subject: [slash2] /2 that are not restored right
Sorry I just need to say this. What is up with all these /2 for sale and there not restored right at all and there asking big money for them. Saying 100% restored and the bolts are rusted,wrong exhaust,and so on. To me they are not worth any thing at all. If you don't know how to restore a BMW right don't do it. Or better yet keep painting every part and making your bike look like that, then when I park next to u people will know what a true /2 looks like fully restored.... Sorry just had to get this off my cheast. Does anyone else feel the same way....
Only slightly, but those kinds of feelings pass quickly. Years back at a M/C shop where I worked, a customer broght in a KZ400 for tires, battery, oil change, new drive chain, and 'get it running.' When the boss arrived, (he always came in an hour after me) he called me up to the office and asked me to get started on the KZ. When I saw it, i thought I was being punished by the gods... The bike was pretty much junk. It was painted purple with a varying width yellow stripe around the Wixon frame mounted fairing. The 'artist' used regular exterior house paint and a broom to apply it. I got started with a diagnosis. It needed new or good used Kiehin carbs. The originals were shot. Fortunately, a friend in town who has a hobby of hoarding old parts had a like new pair for $90.00. Several weeks and $450.00 later, the bike ran. The timing chain was adjusted as far as it would go, and the cam was still too loose. But, it ran. I test rode it and found it to be reasonably safe for the year and model. The following Friday afternoon, the boss called me up to the office and told me to get the KZ started and warmed up, and parked on the slab out front. As I was rolling it out the door, the owner, a slight built man, about forty years old came up beside me with a grin from ear to ear. He turned to me slowly, as if childlike having to give up looking at a Christmas tree at first dawn, and said, "I painted it, I restored it. What do you think?"
I had to choose my words very carefully. I replied slowly, trying to sound impressed, "I have never seen anything like it." He nearly cried with joy, "I knew you'd like it, I knew you'd like it." I started it, he got on it and rode home. About a half hour later, the boss told me I had a phone call. It was the owner of the KZ. He told me his bike never ran as well as it does now. He said the ride home was the happiest time he could remember.
We live and learn. What I thought was a bike ready for the scrap heap turned out to be somebody else's most treasured possession. It wasn't my bike and it wasn't for me to judge whether it was beautiful or trash, or whether it was worth pouring money into. My job was simple: Install the parts the customer requested and get it running. The man saw his bike through his own eyes, and if I had said anything negative, would have robbed him of his moment of innocent happiness. RS
instead of cutting corners try focusing on increasing efficiency.
it would be confusing to get into a very detailed discussion here, but let me describe one example.
this year, we tried something new... big-screen displays.
we used these monitors during the day to show cool riding videos, as a jumbotron to give people a close-up look at the GS Giant trials, as a ride-in theater for watching adventure DVDs at night, and at the closing ceremonies to visually support the presentation.
but what if we took better advantage of those monitors during the entire hour that people assemble for the closing ceremonies? Put up names and/or numbers of award & door prize winners & givers, sell short promo spots to advertisers, put up video clips shot during the rally, put a remote cam reporter up in the stands.
during the rally, with enough pre-planning, we could also sell time on these monitors to advertisers, show what's on the rally schedule hour by hour, and make special announcements.
all of this would not only raise funds but improve the rally goer experience.
these displays were expensive, but we *almost* covered their cost with two sponsorships. what if we had 50 sponsors? if we plan far enough out in front, we could easily do this. Ted Moyer and Chris Hughes are that good! This year, the displays were a very last-minute decision. We did a lot with them, but we could have done a lot more.
This is just one example of efficiency vs. cutting corners. As you go about your planning, please think what can be done by getting double and triple duty out of things, as well as new things to do.
Which reminds me... we could really do something interesting with text messaging to rally goer's phones......
ian