Nineteen Dollars and Ninety Five Cents Please The information on MacDizzy's Two Stroke Technology Exchange (MTSTE) message board is unique. It's unique because it is all about two stroke engines and it's unique in that it's very in depth. Its information is serious and it's meant to be taken seriously. The pages are written by ordinary people. Some of them are like me and some of them are like you. Some of them have pretty good writing skills and some of them don't. But, words written on MTSTE are not the same as words written on other message boards. They're not the same because what's here is know as the truth. MTSTE is not a place to bench race. And it's not a place to brag about your shiny new chrome. MTSTE is a place to go when you are ready to learn about two stroke cycle engines or a place to go to teach others about the same. There are plenty of message boards to visit if you want to shoot the breeze, bench race, talk trash about other people, their machinery or ideas. MTSTE isn't it. There is no member bashing - no dog piling. There is none of the useless rhetoric that's so common elsewhere. None of that which turns a perfectly good forum into a ridiculous collection of wasted time. There are no little people. Everyone has an equally loud voice and is encouraged to use it. MTSTE is run very differently than other web board clicks. It is run professionally. From its beginning it has held itself to a self imposed high standard. A standard which other sites can try to achieve, but never do. A standard high enough that anyone serious about these engines could post topics containing new ideas or old ones and be taken seriously. MTSTE has turned into what seems like a real, two stroke technology living entity. A living body of work if you will. A body that changes as time changes. A body that grows more interesting as it becomes larger and more mature. A body made up of the collective knowledge of several thousand individuals and their countless experiences. Some of these experiences are being brought out in the open for all to see for the first time. This knowledge and the ideas are being handed down, and passed around for everyone to run through their own thought process where they can be used as building blocks to attach their own thinking to. And MTSTE is a great place to think. It invites those from the most acute to those with the most obtuse thinking, reasoning and understanding skills to spill their thoughts for others to contemplate. It is in this way that MTSTE becomes easily distinguished and recognized, so appealing and interesting. It is how it shows that it has become lifelike. MTSTE started as a free message board, like most of the others out there. But because of its high - no B.S. standard, it soon became the free message board that was handing out gems. Gems of wisdom. Gems that everyone can try for him or herself and find out that it truly was a gem that was given. MTSTE became the place to go to discuss anything about two stroke engines. But, two stroke talk was being done on other boards, on other forums... What made MTSTE the two stroke capital of the Internet? Its members. Not the kind of member that takes (reads) and doesn't give (write) anything. The kind of member that gives without taking. The kind of member that has more information to give out than it seems possible to be able to have enough time to do it. MacDizzy's Two Stroke Technology Exchange has many members just like this. They have gathered here because of all the above reasons - this is a no BS board. There are those who have not settled kindly to the idea of MTSTE becoming a pay to view receptacle because it used to be free. Don't be fooled, if other sites could do what MTSTE does they would - and they would charge money for it because it is valuable. Instead of creating interesting content of their own, instead of policing the foul language and other objectionable material its members post, instead of creating a target idea for its members to use, they blindly open sites with no clear intention of direction and end up with what all message boards end up with when they don't have good supervision - a bunch of whiners and cryers spouting off about juvenile issues. These places are content with being 10th or 20th or 30th on a list of supposedly related sites, or just another of the oodles of sites that exist to try and get you to look their way so their animated or pop up ads can burn in your brain. MTSTE doesn't play such games. MTSTE doesn't gather member or email lists to sell, then spam it members with 'target audience' junk mail. MTSTE tells prospective members up front what it will cost to get in and for how long. Plain and simple. MTSTE has had a policy of allowing its members free access to the message board for 3 weeks with the option to cancel their membership with no obligation to pay anything if they did not want feel it was worth it. In five years, MTSTE has had to cancel just a handful of subscriptions for members that did not enjoy the benefit of its information. We'll let that stand on its own and say that we strongly doubt you'll be dissatisfied. We're sorry to say that with the introduction of our new vBulletin software the free trial subscription option is not available, but we don't think you'll need it anyway. A technical message board doesn't appeal to everyone. You won't always find the same members on MTSTE as you find on other boards because this is a thinking mans message board. To be a member you simply have to pay the fee, but to become part of the 'body' you have to dig a lot deeper. MTSTE members are not content with superficial answers to technical questions. They're going to demand that you give all you can and continue to do so every time you type a sentence. Paying the entrance fee is perhaps the easiest thing to do because becoming an active member of MTSTE is similar to joining a class already in session. And you're a couple of thousand chapters behind. -Rick P.S. All new MacDizzy.com articles and updates are on the message board.   Here's a list of the MTSTE forum topics: TRX250R - TRX250R engine topics. Honda Open Topic - Honda topics other than TRX250R engine. Banshee - Banshee engine topics. Yamaha Open Topic - Yamaha topics other than Banshee engine. LT's - LT engine topics. Suzuki Open Topic - Suzuki topics other than LT engine. Other Two Stroke - Open two stroke topics. Ideas - What if... Small Bore Engines - For the small bore crowd. Two Stroke Design Software - Designer engines. Share tips, tricks and experiences. Fuel - Nitro, methanol and other "cool" fuel. Drag Racing - No holds barred. "Wrung whacha brung." Elec-Tricks - Much more than twisting wires with pliers. Watercraft - It floats and is powered by a two stroke. Snowmobile - Snow going two stroke machinery. Four Stroke - No, it's not a joke. Snap Shot! - New picture forum. PartSmart - Vehicle & Parts Sales - And you thought it would never happen here at MTSTE. Hell froze. News, Views & Clues. Back to MacDizzy Two Strokes Ahead to register on MacDizzy's Two Stroke Technology Exchange

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