Alex

It was really frustrating, I was running a training course in Essex and got a text from a friend to say the site had been hacked! Couldn't do anything until I got home :-( Oh well at least it was only a couple of hours.

Hi everyone sorry the site has been down today, someone thought they would be clever and hack my server. All users details, passwords etc are entirely safe and weren't compromised. They hacked my server and replaced a few files which brought the site down but there was no access to any of the databases. Anyway after a lot of work it's all back up and running! Ahmen.

To keep you all updated, I'm waiting to hear back from Simon Belton the head of marketing with Yamaha in the UK. He needed to email someone else outside of Europe. In the meantime what type of stickers do you want? Planning on getting two types created.

The person i needed to speak to wasn't there, so waiting for a call back. Typical.

Hi guys, thanks to those of you who have been giving feedback via the feedback tab on the left of the screen, and for those of you for putting up with it. It's not going to be up for much longer as the new software will be out at the end of the year. In the meantime we are still trying to collate as much feedback as possible about the use of this forum/functionality etc to ensure that the new board is much more user friendly. We are looking to simplify the forums and add additional areas so please let us know your thoughts.

Actually asking Yamaha may be a possibility if i can get hold of the right people, Yamaha have given us the right to use all their imagery and brand content from their website. I will send them an email now. I'm not worried about being sued, as surely that would seriously compromise Yamaha's brand value by sueing a owners club who promote their products. The real typeface is obviously much better than me hacking another typeface to look similar. *EDIT* My email was bounced. They have removed the email contact I had, and from looking on their site they no longer take email enquiries! Will try and call tomorrow.

I want to start a "good" product reveiw section, I know other forums have them but they are all pretty basic and not great. I am going to run a competition to write a product review to get this started. The product review must be for something related to your bike and have been purchased this year. I will pick the top 5 reviews, these will then be put into a poll for you guys to vote. If we start getting lots of reviews quickly (20+), I shall end this within a couple of weeks, if not I will wait until we have at least 20. The winner will receive $50 transfered by paypal. Now get writing!

OMFG!

Hi guys, I already have a contact who have agreed to make stickers for the club who use a very high quality 7 year vinyl which will not fade or peel overtime. Which is the problem with cheap vinyl decals. The reason I never went ahead was purely based on the amount which needed to be made at a reasonable cost, as the userbase is now a lot bigger this shouldn't be a problem. Maybe we should have a competiton for the best sticker design, I imagine we will need a couple of types. Maybe a smallish one, and one for trailing arms etc. And yes ShoKz your right the Yamaha Typeface is really hard to get hold of, the typeface I used in the forum header logo isn't the right typeface. It's just been manipulated to look as close as! If you guys can decide on colour/size/etc I will then re-contact the supplier and see what they come back with. Also we also have www.yamclub.com would you rather the shorter or longer URL? (Just reminded myself i need to update the DNS on it to point to yamahclub.com)

Hi mate, as Oldgit just said welcome aboard!!!