Change of Ownership

[HMarc]

When I created this Website early in 2004, I'd just taken delivery of the first R1200GS sold in eastern Washington State in the USA. I loved the bike, and having the skills to do a Website full of good info and "how tos", it was a labor of love and a great source of pleasure for a handful of years.

However, after putting about 50k miles on the R12GS I sold it, and briefly rode a 750 Aprilia Shiver for a while, then just over a year ago I switched to the F800GS camp. Obviously, I haven't put much effort into maintaining the site itself (the articles, how-tos, vendor list, etc.). Fortunately my friend Marco ('marc' on the forum) who is still a confirmed R1200GS fan volunteered to to take over the day-to-day administration of the forum, and that has been working great for several years.

I was approached by a guy from VerticalScope who made a serious offer to buy the domain, Website and forum. Given my situation with the Website and forum, and after thinking about it for a couple days. I agreed.

The Website and forum got moved to their servers last week, and as far as I can tell all went quite smoothly.

Although I expect you will see some changes to the Website itself (it badly needs updating, and VerticalScope plans to add significant content) I do not expect that the forum will change appreciably. I'll remain a forum member ("HMarc") myself, and "marc" (who is actually Marco Hyman, not me) will continue to be the day-to-day administrator. webmaster@R1200GS.info will go to VerticalScope, of course.

I expect the Website and forum overall to improve greatly as a result of this hand off, and I thank you all for joining this forum, and sharing your knowledge and adventures with the rest of us in this community of BMW R1200GS owners and fanciers.

[Admin]

As you have read above, Motorcycle.com has come to an agreement with Marc and will now be the owners of R1200gs.info. We here at Motorcycle.com bring with us staff and resources to make this site grow by leaps and bounds. We provide the resources necessary to run this site and maintain the day to day technical and managerial tasks that are time consuming for one person.

With that I would like you all to know that this is still YOUR community and we are here to work with the community and the existing staff and Marc to keep this site a place for you to come and feel at home.

My name is Helena, please feel free to ask questions in this section of the forum and I will do my best to answer any and all of them. As of now I will be the only Motorcycle.com member to join the site, I am here to answer questions help with technical issues and make sure we are doing our job and keeping you all happy. If you have any issues, feel free to discuss below. I hope you all enjoy this new chapter in r1200gs.info life.

Thank you all for reading.
Helena

[Quanto12]

Well,welcome to the site Helena,your site I guess!LOL!
I'm glad Marc will still be involved,as he always have the answer to help us out!Hope you have as much fun as we do here!

Art.

[Pastor Passum]

HMark, thanks for the heads up and a huge thanks for your hard work over the years getting the site up and running. Although I don't post much I've always enjoyed the learning and how-to's available here. Doesn't seem to matter what the question, someone here (usually Marc) has the answer without my having to wade through a lot of bs like on other sites.

Again thanks and hope you enjoy the 800.

Jim

[Admin]

Thank you for the welcome, I am sure i will enjoy this site.

Originally Posted by Quanto12

Well,welcome to the site Helena,your site I guess!LOL!
I'm glad Marc will still be involved,as he always have the answer to help us out!Hope you have as much fun as we do here!

Art.

[pdxrmccgs]

New skin and graphics on my computer are very nice.