Was a busy week for sure. Worked on various site issues and extensions - There is more good stuff coming. Still fighting a sporadic IE7 bug that gives the infamous "Operations aborted" error to some of our visitors, particularly on pages with eBay or YouTube items.

I got tons of great feedback for the new site design. Thank you so much for your PMs and emails. It is much appreciated!

Traffic has been growing over the past months and particularly since the upgrade. The peak day after the upgrade we had about 80,000 page views within 24h - with the average been 60,000 pages views per day. The forum now does more page views in a single week, than most small websites do for life. 

For the month of July the total numbers of hits on the site for the first time exceeded 10 Million - that's about 14,000 hits per hour on average.

The latest round of software upgrades lets us scale the site at least 10x-50x bigger without having to worry about outgrowing the hosted server setup we are using.

Meanwhile the google page rank has been climbing too. With over 150k sites in the world pointing at starVmax.com we have now arrived at a pagerank of 5 on the way to 6. This makes starVmax.com one of the highest ranks motorcycles community sites out there on par or above with long ago established sites for bikes like the R6 or R1.

This is just the beginning of a long journey. Hope to see many of you around for many years to come!

Today is going to be an exciting day. Have new stainless exhaust components coming. It will be a day at the welding table. As always, pics will follow in our photo albums.

Ride safe!

fxstein