Andy wrote:However, there are plenty of people here who can answer (having been on the forum for many years, and seeing countless recurring topics!), but generally it's expected that only a handful of us should!

I will just say one last thing while I'm on this crusade, again, please try to think of it as trying to help rather than criticising:
I think that the senior members may have possibly unknowingly created an environment in the forum where less senior members are put off replying to topics with actual real useful information, for fear of stepping on the (potentially financial) toes of the senior members.

Certainly, when I replied to Andyo with info about his crankshaft (above), I felt that the moderators may "tell me off" for encroaching on their realm of the £25 inspection fee.
So I took the bull by the horns, and climbed to the morally high ground.

If I lived in the UK, and regularly met the senior members at track days, I would not be so bold as I am here. (I live in NZ and can hide amongst the sheep)
I most certainly would not want to get offside with such a potentially useful group of people. So I would say nothing and just "get along".
Sadly, I suspect that this is the case for many NSR fans in the UK.

This site could be an excellent one if this type of environment was just "cast out" and everyone would, in turn, get more out of their NSR's.
At the end of the day we are all bikers and we are all addicted to NSR's and the smell of Castrol TTS!

Please don't take offense Andy. I sincerely am just trying to help. Really.
You can always say that "if people don't like it, they can go somewhere else". Just like the the big supermarket chains, huh?
With monopoly, comes the responsibility of fairness; in a morally correct world anyway.

Final comment: I take my hat off to you Andy for doing an EXCELLENT job here. Please keep it up, and continually seek out ways to improve this forum.
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