With Mustangs Passing. Can we protect the Tiger Triple site?

[London_Phil]

HI All

As you will see, we are waking up to the news that Mustang has died, which is a sad day in sad times.

We all owe him a dept of gratitude for making this site what it is, and providing a forum that not only helped us keep our bikes on the road, but also created a genuine, Cross continent meeting place.
I personally met another member on here, and ended up travelling to the USA from the UK to meet a new friend and family, and had one of the best holidays my wife and I ever had, and came away with a new friendship.
All due to this Forum.

I don't know the technicalities of the site, but I would like to see it continue on, both as a repository of information and help, but also as a Thank you to Mustang, who's contribution was invaluable, but also as a place to chat, even if its less busy than it was.

Do any of the Admins have any suggestions?

[Tiger-G]

Sad news indeed   

It would be a shame to see this site go, as there is so much valuable and unique information contained within it for Tiger owners. No doubt there will be a cost to running the site, and I have no idea how that cost is covered, but hopefully it will remain active for years to come.

[Chris Canning]

Yep it's been good too me over the years despite the blip some time back and change of ownership/Running of the board who ever and how many were involved.

[atokad]

Oh no! Shocking news. I am not sure I could keep the bike as long as I intend to if I lost this website/forum to rely on.  I love my bike and this has been my "go to" resource.  I was getting to the point of thinking I should get a Tune ECU to continue my upkeep of the bike with out having to rely on the lousy dealers near me.

I will keep an eye on this and would like to see it continue.  Not sure what I could do to help, I'm short on time and knowledge to run a site such as this.

RIP Mustang

[Nick Calne]

Sadly, we will need to ask Abruzzi (the site owner) to appoint new admins / moderators.

I think it will be hard to find people to do this as you need the skills, the time, the tiger knowledge and the inclination.

[London_Phil]

Mustang was so much part of this Forum, I just assumed he owned it!
Apologies to Abruzzi...

[Sidk]

If hosting is required i have plenty of space on my VPS server that i can offer free of charge for the hosting of the site.

[Lee337]

This is sad news. I hope the forum can continue. As has been said, there is a vast wealth of knowledge stored here as well as the pool of knowledge from contributors.

RIP Mustang, my thoughts go to all family & friends.

[Geoff W]

I am very saddened to hear of Mustang's passing. His depth of knowledge on Steamers was unrivalled. A knowledge built up over years of hard experience, which he was happy to pass on to mechanical neonates such as myself, saving me much time and effort as well as expense.
Thank you Mustang, keep riding wherever you are.

[Nick Calne]

If hosting is required i have plenty of space on my VPS server that i can offer free of charge for the hosting of the site.

That's an amazing offer if it needs to move. I dont knowing it does though. I msg'd abruzzi about a week ago. No response yet.

[PeteH]

Such sad news. Don't get on here as much as I used to but still point knowledge seekers here.

[bemusedinsojo]

What a loss.

[abruzzi]

sorry for not dropping by sooner.  I'm open to ideas on where to go next.  I've been pretty absentee for the last 10 years on the site.  Really whats needed is moderator volunteers.  Leaving the site on my server or transferring to someone else is an option but it doesn't solve the key issue which is someone (or multiple someones) to take over the moderation duties.

There are currently two members that are members of the "Global Moderators" group:

Sin_Tiger
ssevy

I don't know if they're currently active users, and want that responsibility, but if other's want to help, please let me know.

[Nick Calne]

Sevvy is still active, Sin not any more. He still has a couple of steamers though!

[Bixxer Bob]

Hi Abruzzi, I sent you a private message a while back. If the forum is staying up I'm happy to take on running it for a bit and see how it goes. There's too much pooled knowledge here to just walk away.

I can't spend, as much time on it as Mustang, but I'll give it a go.