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[Norm]

That is not just some scruffy outfit Adrian, that is a K and that is something special

[Adrian]

Norm, my father claimed he once borrowed a vee twin RE (not sure if it was a K or KX) in solo trim and managed to ride it all the way from Dover to Brighton without ever having to get out of top gear. A.

[Scalyback]

It's a K or KX and therefore the biggest RE engine, and it looks fantastic. The dent in the tank gives it history, and the generally worn appearance, hints at the many years that this combination have survived, and all that it has been through.



It's also scruffy.



A beautiful, and majestic piece of our motorcycling heritage, thank you for posting the photo!

[bernieke]

As annoying the lack of edit, linebreaks and preview is, what would be REALLY useful is a better search algorithm. (The current implementation searches for the literal string, so searching for "newby clutch" for instance, would only return posts with instances of that exact string, instead of all posts which contain both words.)

This would help finding relevant information, and prevent questions from being re-asked any number of times.

And this doesn't only apply to the forum, but also to the part store search!



Edit might be a little harder to implement, but linebreaks, preview and a better search should really not be that much work...



Really all that would be required to get linebreaks working for instance is to have the equivalent of input.replace('
', '
').replace('
', '
') in the part of the code that parses the user input. Literally a five minute job!



By the way, if you come across the re-login problem after posting, you can just go back one page and copy the post. (All modern browsers should remember form contents when going back.)

[bernieke]

And another try to get this to print right: input.replace('\r\n', '
').replace('\n', '
')

[Barry N]

Oh no! Just imagine searching for posts containing "wheel bearing", only to be confronted with every post that mentions "wheel" and "bearing" separately! I don't fancy that. (Or have I misunderstood your suggestion Bernieke?).

[Scalyback]

"Old chestnuts, roasting on an open forum.. la..la..la...)



it's just

[bernieke]

Barry N: When you actually do want to search for a literal string the usual convention (like google does it fi.) would be to put quotes round it, so "wheel bearing" would actually be correct

[Barry N]

That would be ok (but I have found some search boxes where it doesn't work!).

[jefrs]

Whilst I can live with quirky, sometimes it's too quirky. Like it needs dragging into the 21st century. It's not just comparison to the merikan forum, pretty much all other forums operate intuitively.



Just adding paragraph breaks is a bit wassname. Early 90s usenet or what?



But this is also the REOC "Notice Board", which Hitchcocks do provide FoC. What would it take to upgrade it to regular forum format and how much would that cost?