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hootsno1 - 27/3/11 at 06:34 PM

Can we have one, please dad, can we have one, i will be good promise. please can we have one. I will look after it, feed it, walk it and clean up afrter it, PLEASE CAN WE HAVE ONE???

gavin174 - 27/3/11 at 06:42 PM

NO!!!!

now go and tidy your room.........

hootsno1 - 27/3/11 at 06:53 PM

Pweeeeeeeees can i [/size]

Ben_Copeland - 27/3/11 at 06:57 PM

No their banned..

gavin174 - 27/3/11 at 07:12 PM

only decent... reputable kits get thier own section!!

hootsno1 - 27/3/11 at 07:15 PM

Better remove the GTS then to make way for the Zero

[Edited on 27/3/11 by hootsno1]

Ben_Copeland - 27/3/11 at 07:16 PM

Gav, Careful, Neville Jones wont agree


[Edited on 27/3/11 by Ben_Copeland]

Hellfire - 27/3/11 at 07:25 PM

I reckon we should have sections for other manufacturers, including Caterham, Westfield and GBS. Owners all have something to offer the forum IMO...........

Phil

gavin174 - 27/3/11 at 07:27 PM

you aint even got one Mark!!

hootsno1 - 27/3/11 at 07:32 PM

I will by Saturday I hope !

Andi - 27/3/11 at 09:13 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
I reckon we should have sections for other manufacturers, including Caterham, Westfield and GBS. Owners all have something to offer the forum IMO...........

Phil



Agreed!
Its all about distributing experience and tips methinks

loggyboy - 27/3/11 at 09:24 PM

been suggested many a time over the years for various different brands:

http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/18/viewthread.php?tid=149941

http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/18/viewthread.php?tid=130065

http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/18/viewthread.php?tid=123039

Never materialised though.

Alfa145 - 27/3/11 at 09:29 PM

Could always try http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?act=idx plenty of Zero knowledge on there too

gavin174 - 28/3/11 at 07:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Could always try http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?act=idx plenty of Zero knowledge on there too


Yeah Mark

Bugger off to Rhocar.

Don't want your sort around here!!

hootsno1 - 28/3/11 at 10:57 AM

Yer but no but I might
But this forum was better till now

gavin174 - 28/3/11 at 11:43 AM

No Mark.....

I'm sorry!!!

Please come back

Love you man!!!

ChrisW - 28/3/11 at 10:58 PM

Guys

Fozzie and I have had a chat about this tonight. Whilst we've no specific reason to exclude GBS, we're actually not sure on two things....

1. Whether the 'car specific' areas serve any purpose anyway, as people tend to use them as 'I'm building XYZ car so I'll post everything in here' rather than actually thinking first 'Is my question specific to this car or just to kits in general?'. All they seem to do is hide useful information away as people don't think to look in them if they're not building that specific car.

2. Only 1 person has said they actually want a GBS-specific forum. Is anyone else interested?

Note that this isn't a 'no', it's just a request for more information.

Chris

AndyW - 29/3/11 at 10:38 AM

Ive been a member on here now for quite a while, and Im building a GBS Zero. Although I would like a specific section for them, so far all the questions I have asked have been answered useing the other forum section. I suppose that a specific section would be good for, "how does this fit" or "how did you do that" with reference purely to the Zero. Which I think would help. Might also bring a few more peeps from Rhoc to our mighty world too.
I think now that GBS is a mainstream manufacturer and produces a very good kit, maybe it is time for "us" to have our little corner on here.

Just my thoughts.

Edited to say, I think your point about information being hidden in specific sections is true, I do not often look in other manufacturers section for answers. So maybe we all need to think where we put our posts.

[Edited on 29/3/11 by AndyW]

loggyboy - 29/3/11 at 02:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ChrisW
1. Whether the 'car specific' areas serve any purpose anyway, as people tend to use them as 'I'm building XYZ car so I'll post everything in here' rather than actually thinking first 'Is my question specific to this car or just to kits in general?'. All they seem to do is hide useful information away as people don't think to look in them if they're not building that specific car.


Why not just remove them all then?

Maybe add in a 'projects/ WIP' section to combine them all in?

David Jenkins - 29/3/11 at 02:26 PM

We don't even have a section for the car in the site name, i.e. the book-built Locost!

Quite a number of people on here have built a car either from Uncle Ron's book, or from the McSorley plans. In effect, our cars that started as a heap of metal tubing on the garage floor.

Not that I'm asking for a Locost-specific section - just keen that this site doesn't turn into a collection of manufactured-kit-specific forums.

...just my 2p's worth!

loggyboy - 29/3/11 at 03:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
We don't even have a section for the car in the site name, i.e. the book-built Locost!

Quite a number of people on here have built a car either from Uncle Ron's book, or from the McSorley plans. In effect, our cars that started as a heap of metal tubing on the garage floor.

Not that I'm asking for a Locost-specific section - just keen that this site doesn't turn into a collection of manufactured-kit-specific forums.

...just my 2p's worth!


Id would say it already is. id hazard a guess that more than 60% of users users arent building/driving a locost. And only a handful of them have owned/built one historically.