Indexhibit Support

Making some updates around here for the forum - it\'s about time. This is the shortlist of things that happened:

- improved the ability to add code to posts
- ability to edit your own posts is back
- added a favorites system to remember the super awesome threads
- moved \'search\' to the Index

A few more things were planned that we didn\'t quite get too...they may pop up in another week or so.

If something isn\'t right for you leave a note for us. Thanks...

Forum is escaping quotes...it\'s a little sticky...I\'ll take care of it tomorrow. ;)

looks kind of broken with IE :S
in the same sentence/line/horizontal box, you may notice two threads overlaping side by side... and with the colourful hover it adds \"messyness\". just reporting :D
adeus

blah...ie. i should just block all ie browsers.

thanks for the heads up...

Issues with creating links...looks like the quotes are turned to entities thus killing them. Will fix it later...

IE really is problematic. if we were at school it would be a brainless bullie picking on everybody. LOL

Separated the "Support" section into "Installations" and "Customize". As I have time I'll move threads specifically about installation into that thread...for the moment it will take some time to grow on it owns.

Looks good? What I did...

- yellow stickies to blue
- made post count bigger
- made thread top smaller
- outputs 50 threads per page now
- decreased padding above/below threads
- changed the 'favorites' icons

It looks great!
I really liked the dos and don'ts of asking questions, maybe we could integrate it in the forum rules!? I think it would make support much easier and faster. And please folks, use the link tag, pliz pliz ;)

Yeah, I did add it to the forum rules...I think it's in #1.

Hey guys, is it possible that I buy a 1960's era Volvo and fit it with a modern engine and undercarriage so I can drive in the kind of style I've always dreamed of?

That's my question for you...

People with Trabants have done this but it costs too much and eventually the car fell apart :lol:

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking...I'm not really a big car nut. If I'm going to buy a car I want something good though...classic...likely old and in need of work. But an old Volvo can be cheap...and then pour all that money into making it a monster nerd mobile.

I already bought the nerdiest bike I could find...it's a foldable bike that is all black and looks like a Model-T Ford.

What bikes do you guys ride?

A white foldable Dahon MuP8 with an Airzound (to keep those indifferent car drivers on their feet).
I will eventually get another one... something for longer rides...

As for the car you could look around for a Nissan Figaro. I know it's not a true original but it's quite nice.
ps: I don't like cars.

He he he no bike here, Porto is not bike friendly at all, you would need a turret with a machine gun to survive amongst traffic. I remember seeing this totally amazing bike manufacturers in Berlin's Kastanienalle, fluor colors no brakes models, totally fierce.

Car wise, I had 1979 Mercedes 300D, it was awesome, a joy to drive around but an environmental disaster, I only felt better because I was actually using it to its limits. Now a drive a small c2 that I can park anywhere, it's a sensodrive, it's like driving in a computer game. My girlfriend has a cool 1980 BMW 316 that used be her grandfather's, I like this nostalgic idea of family cars that go through generations ;)

thanks vaska! :D

i would choose anything with "datsun" name on it!!!! i also like 90s japanese cars - they make me dream about being a turbo-ranger... but only with eco-efficient motors, or else give it up!!

buy a flinstone model instead...

I recommend any pre-ford Volvo with less than 120,000 miles on it. At that point they just start spinning apart... but they are really easy to work on.

I have a great urban bike if you don't want to go fixed gear, the specialized Langster -- comes with freewheel and brakes. Yes brakes, I live in NYC and am too damn old to not want to slam on my brakes!! My girlfriend has a foldable Dahon but it's almost too heavy for her to carry up her stairs..

I've have a Dahon too - the nerdiest model (although I've already said that).

I'm not really into cars. Yeah, I love a nice car (used to have an Acura) but I want something old and difficult and weird and beautiful. I can't afford a truly antiqued car...so this is my dream.

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People keep asking me why the post count numbers are big. I don't know...I just kind of like it.

jajaja ... nice... bikes, motors and technology!
I like the idea of changing a car motor .... I'm doing the same but to a vespa (a lot easier, I know). I have a 1966 sprint vespa and I'm putting in a '99 200cc motor. I'm learning and have a very good professor, if not I would had just an old vespa ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX40hQsnizM

And for bike riding, I enjoy short rides trough the center of madrid, I have a Orange brompton and my girlfriend a red dahon Curve D3, I love the wide tire it have!!!
http://www.vimeo.com/1516059

By the way, the forum changes are nice ...

omg, what a beautiful city!

Eloisa has a bright green Brompton. we're brining our bikes on the trip.

;)

Great we could do some bike tourism!!!
:-D

hum... i feel like i want to buy a bike... so dahon is popular, huh? should be good enough... see...

iwakami, the dahon bikes have a nice pair of wide tires ....
I recommend it a lot!
pau

bump again... sorry - I think I had one too many last night.

Yes, this forum used to be more fun.

Ok so… here we go!
My first car was an orange 2cv Citroën with an open roof like this one.
Burned in Marseille during riots… I was so sad. So now I use cars as they are : cubes of steel ;)
I have a very basic Clio after keeping seven years an old (1989) Rover 214.

And my bike is now an electra cruiser that I found half destroyed in the countryside. New weel and tyres, and I use it the max I can to go to work, unless it's raining.
But I live in Britanny, and it's not the more sunny side of France. :(

oh! and btw, I like the changes in this forum.

;)

It doesn't look half destroyed... And 2CV - a true classic. I remember that when a friend steared the wheel while driving it, the whole car would tilt on one side... But it rarely broke down...

this is not a pic of my electra… and I repare it the most I can.
My 2cv was "in her juice" (like we say in France), and umbreakable… I loved it.