Hello everyone

I’m getting quite a lot of feedback about the new site through one channel or another. One subject is coming up more frequently than anything else, and that is the adverts being restricted to members only. The thinking was to try and keep machines and parts within the club, with the hope that people interested in buying an MZ would join first. Howver, the counter-argument is that people are more likely to buy a bike first, and then join the club. If machines for sale through the club are offered to non-members, we might convert them into members. There’s obvious merit in that point, and I don’t have objections to making the change.

However, an objection has been raised, that members may be more willing to sell their bikes at a reasonable rate to fellow club members, whilst not wanting to see a non-member take advantage of that lowewr price and immediately resell on well-known auction sites (no names, no pack-drill). So the idea of a restriction applying for, say, thirty days has also been suggested, before the advert is opened to all.

Yet another option is simply to run two lists: one open to all, and the other restricted to members-only: individual sellers can then choose the option they prefer.

Please let me know in the comments which if these options you prefer, or, indeed, if there’s another way forward you can see that hasn’t been mentioned above.

Congratulations Ian on a superb looking new website. It must have taken many hours of work to get this far, and I hope all runs smoothly as you finish migrating over all of the material from the old one.

Well done, and keep up the good work.
Del
MZ Rider Editor

Well, here we are at last, on the new-look website. I don’t know about anyone else, but I got my latest club mag on Saturday morning, which was a bit of a shock, as I’d hoped to have this weekend to put the last finishing touches together before the mag went out with my foolhardy promise that the site would be ready by the time you read about it.

Anyway, here it is, blinking and squinting in the sunlight. It is early days, yet, and while I would love to hope we can hit the ground running, there will inevitably be teething troubles. I’d be grateful if you could draw my attention to any you spot by leaving a comment below this post or, if you prefer, emailing me at webmaster@you should not see this arbitrary anti-spam textmzridersclub.com.

Any other comments, suggestions, brickbats or bouquets are also welcome, via those same channels.