Call me an A-Hole, whatever.

[Dirtcrasher]

I just cannot hold anyone's hand anymore.

There are FREE DOWNLOADS all over the net.

If you wanna know how to get something apart, the torque or fluid capacity, PM someone else.

I'm shutting mine down.

If you guys wanna play games with 25yo machines I love, I'm done helping.

[obijuan]

Ahole





srsly though, we need a "read the damn manual" smiley.
im not here alot, but its half the front page of searchable questions.
DC has this stuff down, but theres no reason you cant look for it just like he does.

[Dirtcrasher]

I don't mind sharing and helping but the recent crap I've got emailed or PM'd to me is crap. I'll still gusset frames and fix 350X heads but forget the rest, go see your local shop...............

Guess I/'ll never reach 10K posts, boo hoo..............

[Thorpe]

Its a shame DC... You will be missed. I appreciate all the help in insight you have given me.

[factoryX]

this is a true shame.

[NINJA]

There's a reason I don't answer my phone. Unless Steve, Cade, Andy, or Harry calls, that is. I feel your frustration and exasperation man, we now have a sign at work on the service desk that says, "Ask a mechanic is now $5.00 per minute." The worst is the a-holes that disregard the "Employees Only!" sign and walk into my shop to ask me how to fix their chit. I tell em to GTFO! It's not like they're going to bring us work anyway. Another thing that gets me revved up is when somebody tells me they can get the parts they need off eBay for half the price. I always reply the same, go buy it then, but when you bring it in and I figure out it's worn out or broken, you're getting charged for that wasted time.
Sorry for the tribulations you've had to endure lately.

[tanks350x]

you're joking right?. Just don't help these idiots with their stupid questions...

[SWIGIN]

I don't mind sharing and helping but the recent crap I've got emailed or PM'd to me is crap. I'll still gusset frames and fix 350X heads but forget the rest, go see your local shop...............

Guess I/'ll never reach 10K posts, boo hoo..............

I know right, how did we ever learn back in the day before computers..........WE CALLED A SHOP OR JUST LEARNED THE HARD WAY.

Kids today don't learn nearly as much these days IMO because anything they need to know is just handed to them.

[harryredtrike]

just take a break dc.i prescribe a mandatory vacation.i have booked a flight on northwest flight 792 out of boston to glorious hawaii.you will be there for 7 days and 6 nights.a rental car is included.

[SYKO]

someone has sand in his vagina! good luck with all that DC your still allright.

[Dirtcrasher]

Sorry guys, it's just got way out of hand lately.

How many new members do we have in the last year? They all want easy fast answers to the problems WE had to figure out without the internet. Not ALL of them but a large percentage.

There are some serious - well above me - talented guys on this forum, those were the fun times. Swapping ideas/thoughts/sharing etc.

Now we may as well call it "3Wheeler Ask any question without even looking at it and get an answer World". I think we've become the Google of trikes.

Worse thing I ever did was put up my email; If you can't look up a part number but your 10X better than me on a computer, we have a problem..............

I never get a picture, never get a diagram, just questions that don't make me a dime. I'M TRYING TO MAKE MONEY GUYS!! SAVE MY HOUSE GUYS!!

In time as trikes phase out, the diehards will remain and the rest will ride wheelbarrows of whatever turns them on, please don't ask me for the part number of front wheel........

[whyzee]

DC !! hang in there! , i am guilty of asking stupid questions myself, my latest question is " what do you mean they won't modify my mortgage" ?

[fabiodriven]

Nobody wants to say it, but the amount of newbs on this site is insane lately. That's who I blame. It's not necessarily that they're asking stupid questions, it's just that they're going through things we did 15 or 20 years ago and it's only now new to them. Like has been said, when we had these problems we just tackled them. There wasn't much more you could do back in the day aside from getting a friend with more experience than yourself to come by and take a peek at it. These days people don't even take the time to think. They just jump on the computer and ask away. I've been ignoring a lot of the newbs, but it's getting to the point where they're the majority of those who post. It appears to me that a lot of these people shouldn't even be allowed to hold a wrench. I know what's coming next, "We all had to start somewhere", blah blah blah... So do like I did- go get yourself some free crap, lawn tractors, dirtbikes, whatever, and go dick around with them until you figure out how to spin a wrench. If you don't understand the basic principles of the four stroke engine, there is no sense in starting a post about "Why is my 200S smoking?" because the original poster isn't going to know how to fix it anyways. Then people ask for pics of these machines and once you see what the machine looks like it becomes quite obvious that the they have a lot more to worry about than whatever the one thing is they're asking anyways.

Just do like I do DC, ignore all these newbie bozos. We're all doing it. Just look at the post counts on most of the threads in trikesylvania. There are threads started by "Jimmy1234" or whatever the f**k that have been up for three days with 15 views and 2 replies, then there are threads started by known members on here that get two or three pages of replies in a matter of hours.

[Mosh]

Everyone gets to "this point" on an internet forum. Especially one that they have been on for a number of years trying to help out.
It gets frustrating trying to lead the horse to water, just to have them not drink.
I can usually sniff em out, therefor I wont reply..And questions that have been answered 1000's of times.......Use the search feature!

I dont know what cranks me more.
Questions that have could have been answered with a search.
Someone who wont listen.
Or someone that never reports back the fix.

I think the biggest nerve wrecker to me, is the Postwhores...

Post count of 3000 in less than 2 years and 90 percent of the replies are "Cool" "Nice trike Dude"

"The ever constant 10 smiley reply"
Some folks need a post count reset!

And classified pimps. They really stain my panties!

[jrwebb8324]

Sorry to hear that DC. Hope that the stupidity of a few poeple is not going to ruin this site for all of us (newbs) as you guys call us. I have only been on hear a few months and have learned a lot just by reading posts that others have put up. I am by no means new to 3 wheelers, but there is always more to learn.