klr650 2008 fire

[Rusty]

Sure glad I bought a 2007 Red KLR 650 the last of the classics! Russ Miller

[Chris Shepard]

This sucks

> > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: >Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:21 PM >Subject: Cycle News (The End) >To: JudyJWhitson@... > > >I was very sorry to get this news. Not only because I have enjoyed the >publication since the 60's, but because I just paid my years >subscription. All print media are fighting for their lives. I still >prefer to hold a paper or magazine in my hands, but it looks like I am >in the minority. > >http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2010/09/the-great-recessions-latest-victim-cycle-news/ > > > >Cycle Newshas shut down as of August 31, 2010 was saddening, but not surprising. > >The Cycle News story began in 1965 when Chuck and Sharon Clayton >purchased an existing L.A.-area motorcycle publication and renamed it. >It quickly got a reputation for providing the best and most timely >coverage of Southern California and later national motorcycle racing. >Sharon (herself an enthusiastic rider) would cover events herself, but >the Claytons soon began relying heavily on a network of freelancers, >training an army of moto-journalists who would go on to careers at >other publications. By the early 1980 s, Cycle News had three regional >editions and was known as the authority in all things motorcycling. >Chuck passed away in 1992, but Sharon maintained ownership and >control, keeping up the quality and reputation of the publication. >Regardless of the quality of the newspaper, competition from online >news and information sources took its toll. Ad sales and circulation >were down, and CN s raison d etre providing timely race results was >made irrelevant when racers and race fans could get that information >hours or even minutes after the races ended. Just a week before the >paper shut down, long-time Editor-in-Chief Paul Carruthers (son of >racing/tuning legend Kal Curruthers) was unceremoniously laid off; > Just do me one favor, writes Paul on his blog the day after he was >laid off, when you see me at the grocery store unshaven in a white >T-shirt, plaid shorts and flip-flops, don t tell me When one door >closes, another one opens. Yesterday the door hit me so hard in the >ass, I m writing this while standing up. >CN sdemise is tragic, but we saw it coming. Though the company >expanded its online presence and engaged in all the hot new social >media, just participating in digital media is no guarantee of success, >something I ve learned working at many different online and print >publications. The tremendous overhead a realnews organization has to >pay can only be supported by big-bucks print ads from national >companies and organizations. Those banner ads you see? Given the same > readership, they bring in pennies on the dollar compared to print >ads, even in 2010. So no matter how much free content a website posts, >unless you can count on a million or more pair of eyeballs reading >your site every month, having more than a few employees is a dream, >and employing copyeditors, fact-checkers and responsible publishers is >sheer fantasy. And those few employees had better be working 18-hour >days, churning out enough fresh content to keep the >ever-more-demanding eyeballs coming back. Will that content be of the >same quality as that of a more-carefully produced medium? We here at >MD like to think we do a good job, actually asking questions of the >sources that churn out the press releases and doing some fact-checking >and investigation of our own, but the challenges are obvious. >So a few talented, dedicated people lost their jobs. Why should you >care? You should care because you care about motorcycling. Cycle >Newswas real journalism, contrasted to the vast majority of >motorcycling websites that merely regurgitate either industry press >releases or rehashed articles from real news sources. When those real >news outlets that have the infrastructure necessary to produce actual >journalism, like disappear, what will be left? Unfiltered press >releases, which though informative, are hardly unbiased sources of >good information. Would you read a magazine that was just advertising? >Without real journalism, the Internet will be nothing but unfiltered, >disorganized data (which isn t news) and carefully targeted >advertising. >We also lose our history. Carruthers writes, for every photo on a >proof sheet that was chosen for publication and circled with a blue >grease pencil, there are 35 other photos of equal importance. What >will happen to those thousands of photos, those millions of words, the >rough notes of interviews with every famed racer and motorcyclist you >could name? I fret not for the things that will be saved, but for the >things that will probably get trashed. I fear someone going through >the wreckage who knows nothing of Dick Mann, of Giacomo Agostini, or >of Kenny Roberts or Roger DeCoster. > It s gone now, but it will never be forgotten, writes Carruthers. >I m not so sure. The motorcycle industry is a microcosm of the larger >world, and media in general in this country is in big trouble. Can we >be an intelligent, thoughtful voting and decision-making public when >commercial news sources turn into little more than an amplifier for >the three-billion-dollar P.R. industry? I m hoping for a successful >revenue model for real journalism to emerge, so the next generation of >motorcyclists have the same enthusiasm for our sport as we do.

[Jud]

'Deed it does.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Chris Shepard wrote: > > This sucks > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: > >Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:21 PM > >Subject: Cycle News (The End) > >To: JudyJWhitson@... > > > > > >I was very sorry to get this news. Not only because I have enjoyed the > >publication since the 60's, but because I just paid my years > >subscription. All print media are fighting for their lives. I still > >prefer to hold a paper or magazine in my hands, but it looks like I am > >in the minority. > > > >http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2010/09/the-great-recessions-latest-victim-cycle-news/ > > > > > > > >Cycle Newshas shut down as of August 31, 2010 was saddening, but not surprising. > > > >The Cycle News story began in 1965 when Chuck and Sharon Clayton > >purchased an existing L.A.-area motorcycle publication and renamed it. > >It quickly got a reputation for providing the best and most timely > >coverage of Southern California "and later national "motorcycle racing. > >Sharon (herself an enthusiastic rider) would cover events herself, but > >the Claytons soon began relying heavily on a network of freelancers, > >training an army of moto-journalists who would go on to careers at > >other publications. By the early 1980 s, Cycle News had three regional > >editions and was known as the authority in all things motorcycling. > >Chuck passed away in 1992, but Sharon maintained ownership and > >control, keeping up the quality and reputation of the publication. > >Regardless of the quality of the newspaper, competition from online > >news and information sources took its toll. Ad sales and circulation > >were down, and CN s raison d etre "providing timely race results "was > >made irrelevant when racers and race fans could get that information > >hours or even minutes after the races ended. Just a week before the > >paper shut down, long-time Editor-in-Chief Paul Carruthers (son of > >racing/tuning legend Kal Curruthers) was unceremoniously laid off; > > Just do me one favor, writes Paul on his blog the day after he was > >laid off, when you see me at the grocery store unshaven in a white > >T-shirt, plaid shorts and flip-flops, don t tell me When one door > >closes, another one opens. Yesterday the door hit me so hard in the > >ass, I m writing this while standing up. > >CN sdemise is tragic, but we saw it coming. Though the company > >expanded its online presence and engaged in all the hot new social > >media, just participating in digital media is no guarantee of success, > >something I ve learned working at many different online and print > >publications. The tremendous overhead a realnews organization has to > >pay can only be supported by big-bucks print ads from national > >companies and organizations. Those banner ads you see? Given the same > > readership, they bring in pennies on the dollar compared to print > >ads, even in 2010. So no matter how much free content a website posts, > >unless you can count on a million or more pair of eyeballs reading > >your site every month, having more than a few employees is a dream, > >and employing copyeditors, fact-checkers and responsible publishers is > >sheer fantasy. And those few employees had better be working 18-hour > >days, churning out enough fresh content to keep the > >ever-more-demanding eyeballs coming back. Will that content be of the > >same quality as that of a more-carefully produced medium? We here at > >MD like to think we do a good job, actually asking questions of the > >sources that churn out the press releases and doing some fact-checking > >and investigation of our own, but the challenges are obvious. > >So a few talented, dedicated people lost their jobs. Why should you > >care? You should care because you care about motorcycling. Cycle > >Newswas real journalism, contrasted to the vast majority of > >motorcycling websites that merely regurgitate either industry press > >releases or rehashed articles from real news sources. When those real > >news outlets that have the infrastructure necessary to produce actual > >journalism, like "disappear, what will be left? Unfiltered press > >releases, which though informative, are hardly unbiased sources of > >good information. Would you read a magazine that was just advertising? > >Without real journalism, the Internet will be nothing but unfiltered, > >disorganized data (which isn t news) and carefully targeted > >advertising. > >We also lose our history. Carruthers writes, for every photo on a > >proof sheet that was chosen for publication and circled with a blue > >grease pencil, there are 35 other photos of equal importance. What > >will happen to those thousands of photos, those millions of words, the > >rough notes of interviews with every famed racer and motorcyclist you > >could name? I fret not for the things that will be saved, but for the > >things that will probably get trashed. I fear someone going through > >the wreckage who knows nothing of Dick Mann, of Giacomo Agostini, or > >of Kenny Roberts or Roger DeCoster. > > It s gone now, but it will never be forgotten, writes Carruthers. > >I m not so sure. The motorcycle industry is a microcosm of the larger > >world, and media in general in this country is in big trouble. Can we > >be an intelligent, thoughtful voting and decision-making public when > >commercial news sources turn into little more than an amplifier for > >the three-billion-dollar P.R. industry? I m hoping for a successful > >revenue model for real journalism to emerge, so the next generation of > >motorcyclists have the same enthusiasm for our sport as we do. >