I have a question for you all...
Is this forum, its mods and members sensitive like little girls? It seems that the other forum has a lot of sensitive members and mods, and so threads get warned and locked down frequently. It is annoying.
I like COG a lot and I'm still a dues paying member, however I hardly ever post over there anymore.
It's a volunteer organization, but the people that step up and to volunteer to run things are (IMO) too, too and way too concerned with the COG "image".
Instead of letting the asshats be known to all, they prefer to ride herd and keep a tight grip on the forum. Unfortunately it's very
difficult to not let biases show through with that much control, even if unintended...which it may or may not be. The club slogan
may be the problem. "Join for the bike, stay for the people." However like any big group of people, some are just anal openings
and if you try to hide that fact with strict control then stuff happens.
Down the road COG will have the same problem that the MSTA did. When the C14 totally disappears there will be no bike to rally around. The MSTA
originated around a Honda model (I forget what it was), then that disappeared they became the Honda Sport Touring Assoc. now they are the Motorcycle Sport Touring Assoc.
The MSTA doesn't have much of a forum problem as it just doesn't get any traffic. It makes this place seem very high volume. They do make up for it though
with good turn out at events.