New 4wd For Sale / Wanted Forum added - anything else?

[lorraine]

Well Walkabout, that's the main problem. In some countries, there are less than FIVE official campsites, and you can drive for DAYS never finding anything! It really is a huge problem. Or, I found it so driving through Central America, Colombia and Panama. VERY stressful. Which is why, pseudo garbage dumps began looking rather appealing.... :-(

Lorraine

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by lorraine

Well Walkabout, that's the main problem. In some countries, there are less than FIVE official campsites, and you can drive for DAYS never finding anything! It really is a huge problem. Or, I found it so driving through Central America, Colombia and Panama. VERY stressful. Which is why, pseudo garbage dumps began looking rather appealing.... :-(

Lorraine

Still a bit off the main thread about the 4 wheel question, but the campsite information would be even more relevant and potentially important if it has a rarity value within a particular country.
Basic campsite info for, say, Europe, can be found quite easily via the web or guidebooks (but there could still be value in a section similar to that for recommended accommodation - places that 2/4 wheel travellers have found to be good/better/best for camping facilities).

Camping guides for riding/driving in those countries that have few facilities for suchlike should be of great value, so start with them?

[stanoverlander]

I agree with keeping it simple but with a few mods.

The tech would good broken up as suggested as to have a section on vehicle preparation is i think the main thing that is missing- how about vehicle prep as a main subject but broken into 2wd / 4wd / truck ?

Whichever way its done there is always a cross over of interest and like someone said its about thread title..

[Alexlebrit]

How about a section just dealing with

4 wheels or more?

And really not bothering about how many of them are driven?

I think it's great when things aren't too split up to be honest, as people have said, the more clicks you have to make before you get to what you actually want, the less likely you'll bother. And of course for people on the road those useless clicks can cost money.

So I'd suggest something like this:

4 Wheels or More Wheels:

Vehicles - vehicle specific advice.
Accessories - touring and camping equipment advice
Travelling - advice specific to touring with 4 wheels or more.
For sale/wanted.

So really only one more section, and hopefully that'd mean people can find things easier without undue clicking.

And then that should hopefully cover most people, without making too many distinctions between a Landie, a 2CV, or one of these.

Which is our current favourite in the silly vehicle to drive to China poll.

Mind you, out of all of us who works there way through the different sections and who just clicks on "New posts since last visit"?

[onlyMark]

Talk of 2 wheels, 4 wheels, 2wd, 4wd is all well and good but where do I fit in when I want to do the same as these two girls http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...g%20vieng.jpg?

[Alexlebrit]

Lunatic Fringe?

[JulianVoelcker]

The biggest problem with splitting the forums at this late stage is that there is a ton of extremely useful information in the existing 4wd forums that is easliy searchable, etc.

If you start splitting the fourms up further and don't split the existing information your are faced with the decision of where to put it - trying to split the existing info will be just too big a job.

I would be more inclined to keep the existing structure as it is and then consider what additional forums we need on the 4wd side of things.

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by onlyMark

Talk of 2 wheels, 4 wheels, 2wd, 4wd is all well and good but where do I fit in when I want to do the same as these two girls http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...g%20vieng.jpg?

That will be the 3 wheel, 1 wheel drive section that would have a space specifically for sidecars, including 2 wheel drive Urals.

With such a forum title it would be able to accommodate "Trikes": this particular one seems to be "in far away places" but it is very clean!

In reality, there have been a number of cases of discussion of sidecar rigs within the various bike threads.

[onlyMark]

And when I have a motorized monocyle, 1 wheel, 1 wheel drive?
Photos of Unicycles You Sit Inside - Motorized Monocycle (pictures, images, etc.)

P.S. where do you put the top box?