CGW's first year of rebirth.

[dan filipi]

Amazing, it's already been a year!

Most here know we had a system crash just before Thanksgiving which brought CGW to it's knees.
It was a catastrophic event which wiped out most of the posts and all member accounts.

November 17, 2009 is when I started rebuilding the forums and creating the Gallery all over again from scratch.
On December 3rd, my birthday, is when the site was back up and I created my account, dan filipi.
Aapple followed just a couple hours later, then roncar a couple hours after that.

Aapple, Omega Man, and roncar have been instrumental in the rebuild and ongoing maintenance of the forums and deserve a big :thanks: from us all.

I thought it would be cool to list here some CGW stats of this first year back online.

(As of 4 PM November 22,2010) at Board age: 1 Year 0 Month 4 Days 23 Hours 43 Minutes

Total users: 836 (809 are active users)

Total posts: 16628

Total topics: 1314

Most users ever online: 50 (on Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:00 pm (A NEW RECORD!)

The most popular forum is the "General Forum",
followed by the "GL1100" Forum then the "New Member" Forum.

The topic "Average 35 MPG ? (How to increase fuel MPG)" has the most posts at 182. viewtopic.php?f=26&t=687

I could go on and on, if you want more I'll post them.

A big THANK YOU to everyone for your contributions to the forums with your ride pics, your stories, helping out a fellow biker.
I think we have a really good group here and I'm so happy for that because you guys have put this forum together the way I envisioned it to be right from the start.
I couldn't ask for more.

 

[Omega Man]

We love this place Dan, and I for one would probably still be lost if it weren't for CGF. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the mega sites like Saunders or even NAGF, are just way too much to find stuff on...it's just a little safer too. :razz:

Rock on dude! :rocks:

~O~

 

[detdrbuzzard]

congrats dan and thanks aapple, omega man, and roncar for the assist. dan, wouldn't the date be nov. 17 2009 when you started the rebuild of the site :grin:

 

[scdmarx]

I wish we could all live within a hundred miles of each other. :clapping:

 

[dan filipi]

dan, wouldn't the date be nov. 17 2009 when you started the rebuild of the site :grin:

Dangnabbit, and I proofread that post more than once :doh:

 

[AApple]

Happy Berfday, CGWF !!!!! arty: :yahoo: arty: :yahoo: arty: :clapping:
What I found to be neat is...it didn't seem to take very long at all to get most of the "lost" members back, as well as quite a few "new" members that signed up fairly quick. And most all of the critical info that got lost got re-posted, thanks to the original posters having either copies, or completely rewriting the posts. k:
It is what it is, and what it is, is prolly the bestest, most friendly place to go for info on these Classic 'Wings, and enjoy a little fun with like-minded folk.
Thank You DAN, for starting it in the first place!! :thanks: :good: :thanks: :good: :hi:

 

[joedrum]

this forum open me up to computers ...iwas only a member for a few months before the crash but had a thread going on the swingarm mods i was doing to my 79 1000 .....like ron iwish we were all closer .....this forum came back better than ever.....most of the time id rather converse here than with people i can look at ....because we are all scattered its maskes for a wide insite and knoledge that wouldnt happen anywhere else .....i know ive benifited from knowing all here ..thanks dan ....our wings benifit and we do to ....were all pretty well tuned and rounded here :mrgreen:

 

[Emil]

Thanks to all of you. It is a Super site. You've done one heck of a job. :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

 

[CBH]

Yep Dan...you have created a great web site for those of us that are addicted to the old Wings. Thanks for all of your effort, and also thanks to everyone that contributes. :clapping:

 

[mcgovern61]

It has been a GREAT RIDE Dan (no pun intended!) Thanks for taking the time and effort to get this site up and running in the first place! :clapping: :thank_you: :thanks:

 

[kah92340]

:thanks: Happy Re-birthday :thanks:
and thank you guys for all the work you do on the site :salute:

 

[slabghost]

As one who joined after the crash. I'm curious as to what has changed in the new site that makes it better than the site before the crash. This is a great bunch of folks. :good:

 

[joedrum]

i think nobody knew how good it was till it was gone ...and we all appreciate the hard work dan put back into bringing it back .... arty: :good: :mrgreen:

its been fun watch it grow and be a little different than other forums ....were small but have a good teck and info built up and good topics and how tos :mrgreen:

 

[dan filipi]

As one who joined after the crash. I'm curious as to what has changed in the new site that makes it better than the site before the crash. This is a great bunch of folks. :good:

Well I still have the old forum files and what was left of the database.
Might be a kick to upload it so we could all have a look at it.

 

[sledge]

Thanks to everyone who makes this happen........ I have learned so much from this site , and you folks .... thank you all. :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

 

[AApple]

As one who joined after the crash. I'm curious as to what has changed in the new site that makes it better than the site before the crash. This is a great bunch of folks. :good:

Well I still have the old forum files and what was left of the database.
Might be a kick to upload it so we could all have a look at it.

Nooooooo!!!!! :shock: :shock: Why take a chance on it happening again!! oh2:

:smilie_happy: :mrgreen: :smilie_happy: :mrgreen:
Actually, the look/scheme has change even since the re-birth. I absolutely remember the site BC....it was just as good a place to be as it is now, except now, it looks better, and has more features. And of course, we have some newer folks, but...we lost some of the old guard. :crying:

Three Cheers for Dan, and CGWF!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

[mcgovern61]

I do like the new look and many of the new features! This is much more interactive than the original site! (Although, if we could dig out some of the old posts, there was some really great information there!)

 

[dan filipi]

(Although, if we could dig out some of the old posts, there was some really great information there!)

Every post with information that could be dug out has already been restored.
That was one of the first things I did.

Quite a bit was saved, many are now stickies.

 

[toytender01]

:hi: Dan you and the others have created a safe place for our dumb questions which turn out to be very informative to all who had the question but diden't havw to ask it because someone else did ask and we all got not only the answer but also a complete class on the topic fron all who shares their inputs... Keep up the greay work Bob arty: arty: arty: arty: arty: arty: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

[OldWrench]

You have created a great site here and one to be proud of. I have learned from it and before coming here I thought I was the only one in the world that loved old Wings. What is so refreshing is how friendly everyone is. Thanks for the hard work all of you have put in, it is appreciated. :clapping: :clapping: