Horizons Unlimited Membership

Support your favourite website and
get additional privileges and goodies!

Why become a member?

Member Benefits incl HUBB Privileges

Pricing and Membership/Contribution Fees

Get Member Products, tshirts, DVD's and more at the HU Souk (store)

Why become an HU Member?

For those who may not be aware, we both now work full-time+ on the website / bulletin board / e-zine, usually 8-12 hours per day and 7 days a week. Grant has been full-time on it since 1998. We're not a big multi-national company, just two people who love motorcycle travel and have grown what started as a hobby in 1997, but quickly (by 1998) became a full time job and an unpaid labour of love.

You've told us how important this site and it's Community is to you. We intend to survive, and have been trying to figure out just how for a long time. Currently, the site is funded approximately equally from advertising, motorcycle travellers meetings and now sales of DVDs, t-shirts and other products with a very small amount from memberships.

We are very grateful to the advertisers we have, and hope to attract more, so if you know anybody who should be advertising with us, please send them around! Ad rates and information here.

Coming to a Horizons Unlimited meeting is a great way to meet fellow travellers, and your meeting registration fee also helps support the website.

When you decide to become a Member, it helps directly support the site, and is very much appreciated. In return you get additional privileges on the HUBB, access to the Members Private Store, and more to come on the site as we roll out new systems.

Member Benefits

There is no requirement to be a member to access the website, the HUBB or to receive the monthly e-zine. For now, what you get for your membership contribution is our sincere gratitude, good karma and knowing that you're helping to keep the motorcycle travel dream alive.

Members do get additional features on the HUBB, such as having more space for posting pictures. The table below summarizes the HUBB benefits for members. Please note that we have taken nothing away from the privileges Registered Users have, we have just added additional privileges for contributing members.

Details on additional Member benefits on the HUBB

HUBB User Privileges:

 

Table may not be up-to-date - see the HUBB for the latest.	Registered User	Contributing Member	Gold Member
Can View Member Info	y	y	y
Can View Others' Profile Pictures	y	y	y
Can Open / Close Own Threads	n	n	y
Can Rate Threads	n	y	y
Can Upload Attachments / pictures - size total allowed	1 mb	10 mb	25mb
Can Post Polls	n	y	y
Maximum Stored Messages	10	50	100
Maximum Recipients to Send PMs at a time:	2	5	5
Can Use Custom Title	n	n	y
Profile Picture Maximum Width (pixels)	50	100	100
Profile Picture Maximum Height (pixels)	50	100	100
Profile Picture Maximum File Size (bytes)	10240	25000	30000
Can Upload Custom Avatars	n	y	y
Custom Avatar Maximum Width (pixels)	0	50	80
Custom Avatar Maximum Height (pixels)	0	50	80

 

Suggested amounts to Contribute for Membership are:

Contributing Member: US$20
Gold Member: US$45

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Of course any amount you decide is fair for what YOU get out of HU is fine! All contributions are appreciated and will be acknowledged.

Pay by PayPal

NOTE you can use your Amex, Discover, Visa, Mastercard, e-Checks with PayPal - you do not need a PayPal account. And of course you can contribute any amount you wish in your preferred currency (or PayPal will convert automatically if you use a different currency):

New to PayPal? Sign-Up here, but it's NOT necessary - you can use any common credit card.

You can contribute to Horizons Unlimited via PayPal (just click the PayPal button above.) Sending money with PayPal is free to you. PayPal is secure - your financial information is never shared with us, and there's no risk of checks getting lost in the mail.

All contributions will be acknowledged and gratefully accepted. If you later decide you do want an item from the store, let us know and we will arrange it.

Pay by Cheque

You can send a check for any amount, in US$, C$, UK£ or Euros. (As I said, we've lived in a lot of places and have a lot of bank accounts ;-)

Please make the cheque payable to Grant Johnson, (NOT Horizons Unlimited!!), and mail to your closest address below:

USA or Canada	UK, Europe or other international
Grant Johnson 102-15910 Fraser Highway Suite 472 Surrey, BC   V4N 0X9 CANADA	Grant Johnson Suite 621 24 St. Leonards Road Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3BB UK

All contributions will be acknowledged and gratefully accepted. If you later decide you do want an item from the store, let us know and we will arrange it.

Good reading:

Libera Manifesto - The Libera Manifesto intends to speak for those who provide something online for free. VERY good reading for all.

Get Member Products, tshirts, DVD's and more at the HU Souk (store)

Thanks for your support!

Grant and Susan
www.HorizonsUnlimited.com