Hello All,

Introduction

So I know I keep spouting on about the updates to the forum, and yes these things take time.

I am not even through the first stages of these updates, but I've got plenty of ideas about what could be useful things to have.

I will take this opportunity to give a shout out to @Arite who has been spending time heading up designs for some of the systems more complicated features.

Scalar Vector Graphics

One of the things that I have been working on however, has started to take shape over the last couple of days.

The ability to view the parts diagram is no doubt an extremely useful feature, and it's probably one of the only reasons I use websites such as Fowlers.

I figured as this is the place for DTR's that we should in fact have our very own exploding diagrams.

Unlike all of the other parts diagrams available, I have instead opted to make these graphics Scalar Vector. Essentially what this means is that as you zoom in on the image, the image will redraw itself. This results in a crystal clear image every time.

Don't believe me?

Have a look at our Logo

Use Ctrl and the mouse wheel to zoom in on the image. Notice how it doesn't lose resolution

Integration With the DTR Forum

With that cleared up then, how is this going to be incorporated to the DTR forum.

I have created a dedicated section for these images to be stored.

Users will be able to navigate to this section, select the vehicle they're interested in, select the part, then explore the diagram in infinite detailing.

The beauty of having it in our community is that I have made it so that the parts are linkable to other members.

From the URL you can specify the bike and part that you are viewing, allowing you to help other members with the high resolution graphics.

This part is far from complete yet, there is still lots to do. I presume many users will be using their mobile devices, as such these high resolution images may impede performance. Work needs to be done to minimise the network payload too.

Since the SVG's total to around 120Mb per bike, I will have to ensure that alternatives are provided for those of you on lower power devices.

Conclusion

This is still very much in early days yet, the ideas will get revised and the layouts shuffled, but I feel that it's a feature worth investing time into.

I shall continue to make good progress on the extension to this forum, in due course time I will be releasing updates to this forum that should help keep the community alive.

Comments welcome.

Two long years

https://youtu.be/n8NCG4xdbqY

I would like to announce that @Mightyman has now become a moderator to the forum.

He's been with us since the launch of the new site and is always quick to spot things I miss.

Hopefully he can help out around here.

Cheers bud.

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the recent outages I've been upgrading the machine and forum software, consequently something bad happened and the box refused to come back on line.

Some things during investigation grabbed my attention so I saw to them whilst fixing the issues.

We're now on the latest version of the forum software, but I can already see some potential bugs and what not.

I will keep an eye on them, and upgrade at the latest opportunity.

For now just bare with any bugs we see.

Kind Regards,

Calum

There it is ladies a d gents, The DT Forum. And above it the bastard thing that burnt out earlier lol.

Wow, there is always something else am I right?

This forum is really suffering from instability issues at the moment I have no ideas why.

I can't see anything in the logs to suggest that there is something wrong with the machine but I will continue to investigate.

I have ordered a new machine and new hard disk, so I will look to migrate the server to this very soon. The machine is also slightly faster so should be able to handle more concurrent users.

Sorry for the inconvinience guys I will do my best to try and resolve the issues we're having.

Kind Regards,

Calum

@CYBER-NINJA So I am currenyly in the process of building a Hall of Fame section. Thisnwouod be a place where users can submit a photo of their bike to associate with profile.

Maybe this could be Owners Garage. Where users could up load photos of their vehicles along with information.

So unfortunately I broke my phone, but I borrowed a phone from a friend and took a few snaps of this little gem.

Not real, but had me ROARING!

https://i.redditmedia.com/dBYEWPGmI3mlSM3rcZUaeoCQK4ZNTaceF86ZQsJUvqM.jpg?w=320&s=341a165760895a28a27d2683bdbce76e

Soon, I am going to upgrade the forum software and buy a new computer for the forum and do a lot of other stuff.

Forum Update

There is going to be a forum outage at some point this weekend.

The forums software has become out of date and I may as well update the machine as well.

I don't know how long this will take, or when I will actually get around to doing it. Either way if you find you can't access the forum, that'll be why.

It will all come back up on Monday.

Emails

As has been request, I will also get around to setting up the emails on this server so that they actually work. I shall try and include this for the outage this weekend

Hardware Update

Also, I would like to note, there will be another outage in the next few weeks or so. The hardware I am using is going to be upgrade for a faster machine and just a general refresh.

URL Change

I also intend to move the location of the forum to dt125r.co.uk/forum and instead have a home page not related to the forum software. This change is going to be massive under the hood, as all of the links are going to need to be changed.

When I actually do this latter change I don't actually know. As said I will have to buy a new computer and stuff so it's whenever I got the spare cash.

Website Upgrade

I do want to shake the web site up a little bit and offer more content, this will come over the course of the year, but in order for these changes to be accommodated, I must first invest in some new hardware.

Ultimately the majority of this work is not going to happen overnight, significant time is going to be invested to ensure that we do not lose the hard work we have put into this forum.

If there are any questions be sure to let me know down below

Regards,

Calum

No livelier than usual to be fair.

@Louis-James Yeah I've been working on this and have put in a lot of time on this over the last few days.

But there is still lots to do.

@Mightyman Uh no.

The ability to list your item commission free using my infrastructure is strictly restricted to members who have earned this right.

Otherwise this forum ends up with these "breakers" that break perfectly good bikes so that they can line their pockets with our members hard earned cash.

I saw it happen on the old forum and it completely defeats the purpose of this community we have.

So sorry, selling items is restricted to members who have contributed to the forum.

So there was actually quite a few issues, and upon resolving these issues my IP address has been changed.

So for anyone having issues accessing this site on certain platforms, it's because your machine is using cached DNS settings for the old address. Since we have a new address you will need to refresh the DNS. This should expire in due course time and sort itself out anyway..

They have supplied me with a new router. I've been told it could take up to 10 days for all the changes to propagate through and I must reboot the router then as well. I am told the issues have been identified and are being resolved, which is good news.

Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully service will be resumed.

@Jens-Eskildsen I do it because each and every single one of you make it worth it.

A big thank you to everyone who contributes to the site. You guys make it all worth while.

Alright fine I will ring virgin tomorrow as this is unacceptable now.

I run a RFX Honda CR85 one cause my bike is black and red.

I expect they do Yamaha one for White and Blue, but my bike is Black and red so this ties in nicely

I also run black and red APICO footrests

Polish the combustion chamber, leave the piston crown alone!

Basically, the performance of an engine drops slightly when installing a new piston, when the piston crown is covered in carbon the performance goes back up.

The science is because Ally dissapates heat better. When you polish the crown you effectively build a resistance to carbon build up. When the carbon builds up it adds a layer. The layer of carbon is not very conductive, so heat takes longer to go through to the piston, and then to the cylinder walls.

In extreme cases this is bad, but when matched appropriately, the higher combustion tempertures causes higher combustion pressure, more pressure is then exerting on the piston, forcing it down and producing power.

However since the power is made in the combustion chamber, this wants be polished to resist carbon build up.

There is more science, if you're interested then I suggest you read Graham Bell's Two Stroke Performance Tuning.