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Hello Frank88, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Frank88 joined on the 08/15/2023. View Member

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Folks, let me be clear. I have no intention for this site to go away. I also gave no intention of selling it. My intention is to turn it over to a current member who shares our passion. No final decision will be made until after my next doctors appointment but somebody has come forward that might just work out. I think you will all be pleased.

I started Venturerider.org, I don't know, maybe 15 or so years ago. It has been my baby for all these years and I've met some truly amazing people through our club. The fact is though, it may be time to pass it on. As many of you know, I have struggled with some vision issues, mostly cancer in my right eye, for many years now. My vision is now getting bad in my good eye. I am having a harder time seeing and it seems to be progressing quickly. I have an appointment yesterday and they have referred me to a retina specialist,. There is an as yet undiagnosed problem with my good eye and it doesn't look good. All that being said, I think it's probably time to find somebody to take over this site. I am looking for somebody with some website experience that understands how to keep this thing going. I am also looking for somebody who understandss and shares my values for what this site represents. If I find the right person, then I will turn it over completely. That means transferring the domain name and everything about the site. I would stay on as a member and a consultant if you want me to as long as possible. This is a huge decision for me but one that I know must be considered. My next appointment isn't until the miiddle of September but I feel that I need to get this discussion started. I had an opportunity to sell this site a few yards ago for pretty big money but made the deciosn to not do so. I still don't want to sell it and to be honest, it is no longer worth wait it once was. But I would rather give it to somebody who shares my vision of what it is. Please PM me if you are interested. I

Hello cas224, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. cas224 joined on the 08/12/2023. View Member

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Yep. It will take no convincing here.

Hello skipallyn, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. skipallyn joined on the 08/10/2023. View Member

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Yes and if you are on a computer, click on Store” and then subscription in the top menu.

Hello tiregauge, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. tiregauge joined on the 08/08/2023. View Member

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And now it’s gone.

If everything goes as planned, then trike will head to its new home in about 20 minutes. The buyer from Michigan is supposed to be here somewhere around 8:00. This is a beautiful machine and is one that I'll likely have regrets about selling. With my wife's health though, it just never gets ridden. I think I've roust a Toal of about 100 miles on it this year. She doesn't seem to be getting any better and I just can't get my mind around going off on a rider and leaving her sitting her alone. So, I guess it's time.

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If you didn't know, the site was down for a short while today. I am still fighting spammers though I have managed to block the majority before they ever post.. Since the first or middle of July, I have caught and banned over 2000 spammers from the site. Many of them are coming from China, India, and Russia. The reason for the short outage today is that I tried some new software that would block those countries but unfortunately, it caused other issues. So, I had to remove it but have now come up with another solution and hopefully they are now blocked. I will have to keep a close watch and see if there are also other countries that need to be blocked. It's a shame because very rarely there is a real rider from one of these countries but unfortunately there are way too many spammers there to make the very occasional member worth the risk.