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As you may know Kenny from www.Hondatrail70.com has decided to move on and is leaving the trail 70 phase behind, and you will no longer find any updates on his site. I talked to Kenny on the phone earlier today and we talked about the site and how he doesn’t want anything to do with it anymore, and how he is no longer interested after the fuss Honda made about the manuals. In regards to that, he has asked me to "take over", start a new domain and he would set up a link on his site to the "new" one. I was very excited and anxious to hear this. I have currently been working on (soon to be) planetTrail70.com and I can only hope it carries on the tradition and spirit of these bikes and becomes the number one resource on the web for ones to discuss and get advice for these little machines.

This is the part where I need your guys' help. I have watched this board grow through the past two years and quite fast these past few months. I love how everyone here works as one and it has become somewhat of an elite community of minitrail diehards and owners. Although the webboard will remain to be a huge part of the upcoming site, I am also looking for other material to share as well. I need some feedback from you guys, and I want to know what you would like to see on a site devoted to these mintrails.. Manuals? Resto tips? Parts suppliers? Maybe an automated support/ticket system? Chat room? Gallery of pictures, videos, sound clips? FAQ for restorations, Minitrail stories.. You get the picture..

I am very excited to be working on something this meaningful and will keep everyone updated on the progress. I would like to thank Kenny once again for giving me this opportunity, and for being supportive through out this whole process.

-Tiedgen
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Great News Ben!

I would second the vote for some info on the 50 series. These bikes were both sold side by side, and even share the minitrail moniker. Plus many of us have (or crave) both! There is an active community on the planetmini.com forum for CT and Z50 owners, and if you look through it you will see both.

There should also be a good amount of support for the new chinese imports, since many of us are interested in either the bikes or the motors.

When I got into this, before I found this board, I found tons of sites wordwide, and it really grew the fever.

One additional thing that would be good would be some walk throughs for some of the restoration and/or custom projects. Could be in either powerpoint or simply text.

A third really helpful area would be something where people could provide feedback or reviews of both products and sellers - which might best be limited to commercial sellers. Have a section for products people would like to see - it may spur someone to create or locate a source.

Finally, it would be really neat if we were able to figure out a way, as a group, to convince some the Japanese sellers to sell direct, or at least to a consortium purchase.

Lots of ideas and count me in to help out in any way I can!


Gary
 
I agree, as I have a z50a, a ct70, and an xr70. Check this out http://www.honda-elsinore.com/ then go under vintage db forums and see how it's set up. Perhaps you could have z50's,z50r's and qa50's under their own headings. What happened to Kenny with the Honda deal? Seems to me that if they can't or won't fill customers needs someone should. I'll bet they wanted their cut
 
Are you going to ask for some advertising for the site to help pay costs? Lots of pros and cons, - PM me for some of both I have seen on other boards.

Gary
 
Gary said:
I agree, as I have a z50a, a ct70, and an xr70. Check this out http://www.honda-elsinore.com/ then go under vintage db forums and see how it's set up. Perhaps you could have z50's,z50r's and qa50's under their own headings. What happened to Kenny with the Honda deal? Seems to me that if they can't or won't fill customers needs someone should. I'll bet they wanted their cut
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I wonder if anyone has ever approached them to see if they would allow the reproductions to be sold if they were given a cut? Seems reasonable if there is no other way to circulate the info. I don't know if they are adverse to PDF's provided at no cost to users - since these are obviously past copyright....
 
That site I provided above has the owners manuals and parts manual's for various Elsinore models, but what I liked about Kenny's product's was the fact they were like the original and a quality product, but for reference, pdf's would be fine
 
Thanks for all the feedback guys. The reason Kenny became very frustrated was because Honda was shutting down all the illegal selling of the reproduced manuals for these bikes. Only thing they were worried about was copyright infringment. Turns out Kenny even offered them a percentage of the profits but Honda turned that idea down as well.

The PDF format is a good question, im not sure if Honda would make a fuss about that or not. I will look into that.
 
don't blame Honda, but if a company in the USA does not vigorously defend it's trademarks and copyrights, it will lose them.
 
I love the site and appreciate all the hard work to maintain it and get it going. I am the admin for a small car discussion forum (www.earlyabodyforum.com) and was the creator and admin of a very large discussion forum for years (www.tvclubhouse.com) and I know how much work it is. It can become all encompassing, and you'll never please everyone.

I would like to see a section on Z50's or Z50A's as well. Maybe the board should be just "Honda Trail webboard" ?

anyhow, thanks.
Neil.
 
Tiedgen,How about adding a list of shipping companies to ship these little bikes?Also,maybe you could have a list of parts still available from Honda with part #'s and the one's that are no longer available and also list the changes Honda has made to the new parts vs. NOS parts.This would be a great timesaver for someone hunting parts for a restoration.Just an idea!Great site,keep up the good work. Thanks, Dennis:monkey:
 
i definately think that keeping the for sale area is essential. and a section with walkthroughs of restoration projects would be great. the video idea would also be cool. manuals in non-pdf formn would also be very nice. good luck on the transition
 
Ummm.. hello? Helooo? this thing on? Don't think so. It has been a year and no web page? Or did I miss the new address as planetTrail70.com does not work.
I currently have both a project 1970 Z50k1 and a pair of 72 Trail 70s (projects also) so I would like to see the site contain both if it happens ;-)
 
edgrimly said:
Ummm.. hello? Helooo? this thing on? Don't think so. It has been a year and no web page? Or did I miss the new address as planetTrail70.com does not work.
I currently have both a project 1970 Z50k1 and a pair of 72 Trail 70s (projects also) so I would like to see the site contain both if it happens ;-)
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Just kidding, gotta get ya wound up and "get er done" (think they will make a sequel to Cars starring little old motorcycles?)
 
Been Busy.. :-P

I know I know :o

Ive been very busy with college and it has left me almost no time to work on the site, but I assure everyone that i didnt forget about the site!
Hopefully over the holidays I can get working again..

ALSO, my current webhosting account expires soon, so I need to think about expanding for another 2 years or change hosts. Good hosting isnt cheap and being a college student doesnt help..:rolleyes:
But one way or another this forum and eventually the main site will stay up.

Thanks for the concern and thanks to everyone that has contributed to this site over the past 2 years, I never could have imagined it would be this active. These little bikes really are something special..

Regards,
Tiedgen
 
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Another CT 70 site has some really useful photos with step by step on how to repair or restore. Some of the people who have done restores may have taken pictures before and after. That would help new people alot. The shop manuals like most lack good detailed photos or devote too much space to other bikes.
 
you know i would like to first say how much this webboard has helped me so much in my restoration. You guys probably already seen some on my work and questions and i have only had the bike now for about two months and i have had a lot of help through ideas references answers to questions. I have a 77" and parts for this exact year do not come up very often and i just found a wire harness thanx to you guy thanx for all of your support.

but i would like to see restoration tips, videos. tips on how to install things like a cdi conversion or different sprocket configurations with speeds and feedback, such as torque vs. top speed.

These wesite are awsome five years ago i had a candy apple red ko and i couldn't find almost any parts or info on restoration or wat could be wrong when it did not start, and i ended up selling it due to moving from state but i wish i did know how
what i know now i really regret selling that bike.
 
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