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Tubes6al4v:
UPDATE: The BMX wiki is currently up at www.bmx-u.com Please contribute what you can. Even just a photo, or other work to be edited, it all helps. We may move this to BG later on, but we'll have to see.
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One of the things I have always enjoyed about bikeguide is that we can get a good dialog going about some of the more in-depth parts (like helicoils, etc). At the same time, I see a lot of reoccurring topics. The stickies help, but if we were to cover all of the answered maintenance questions, that list would be far too long.

So, what if we started building a wiki with answers we come up with. Hopefully we could link to maintenance videos on Youtube (because, lets face it, people prefer watching videos to reading...) I am not sure if there are restrictions on the number of photos, but if we find a way around that, we could use it to keep an up-to-date listing of interesting parts (like freecoasters) without having to put pressure on one person to keep things up.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think. I don't have any experience with Wikis, so help is very much appreciated. I opened http://bmxtech.wikispaces.com/ as a test. If you have a better host in mind, please start it, or suggest it.

Allatt:
this would be for sure a sweet thing if its done right. sort of how i presume bikeguide was going to be
(judging from the articles on the main page)

Tubes6al4v:
I think that was what sheep had originally intended, but the forums took over so much of the maintenance and cost. He probably ran into the same issue that Bunky and I had/have with free-coaster.com  only one person does the work. I am hoping a wiki can make it a more collaborative effort. Maybe we can have the discussions here on BG...

JohnW:
I think we should also do a comprehensive part/frame/bike list as well on it.  That would be really good for people buying outdated parts they can't seem to find any info on.  Winstanleys used to keep all the old shit listed, but they purged it a few months ago.

Allatt:
should probs just keep it to maintainance john w
some other guy has the parts thing going (i saw a thread on here few days ago).

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