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Indianmotorbikes.com
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Why | Background | Commercial
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Greetings fellow Indian enthusiast, (3/12/2000)
So, why create yet another Indian Site?
Primarily two reasons, one was that the '"New Indian" sites are becoming
increasingly common and look very slick. I wanted to show them where the real
interest and talents lie, and since I design websites as part of my
business, I have never had a better reason to create one that showcase's both
the glorious Indian and my web skills!. Lastly it is my way of
preserving my interest in something that consumes, and fills my life with joy -
Indian motorcycles, so it is largely a personal tribute that I
have chosen to share with you as well as a great way to document my restorations
and experiences.
Basically we want to concentrate on the more aesthetic side
of Indians, restoration stories, riding experiences, rallies, meets, you know
the human side. We also want to be the first place you visit to read and place
Indian classifieds. We don't profess to be technical wizards, in any case these
are covered very well by VirtualIndian
and its mailing list already.
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My involvement with Indians
 While
I can't quite count the number of years I have been involved with Indians
on two hands anymore, Indians actually first made there
effect felt on the family in the late twenties when my grandfather owned we
think, a 1925 Chief. Sometime In 1930, when my father was just two, my
Grandfather had an accident in Gore, South Otago while riding. He died several
weeks later indirectly from infection & complications brought on by slow
attendance to his leg injuries. You could put this down to the medical era back
then, but a dreadful accident, which also ended fatally, happened to his nurse
and that drew all attention away from him. She spilled a large bottle of
hydrochloric acid over herself - well you can imagine the horrifying result.
My Uncle Charlie also owned a 28 or 29 101 Scout which you can
see here with a young
cousin Frank on it.
 What's
in my stables?, currently I have four Chiefs, a '26, '35, ''51 and a chout,
plus 2x 101's, both 45''ers, a '25 scout and 'a 23 Powerplus Racer
(Standard) and half a 741 in the garden that used to be a water pump!. Of course my best mount,
(I didnt say favourite!) as restored by me is my
351. See below for other
articles on my collection..
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Are we Commercial?
In the beginning I thought long and hard over whether or not to give imb.com
a commercial flavor, and decided that due to the amount of my time I am giving
(I am self employed and my time really is money, as they say!), and the fact
that this is a very big site (200+MB, around 400 pages), I have decided to run
banner advertising subsidization. My time aside, with a yearly renewable domain
name, the site hosting and the internet traffic fees, mean costs are currently
over $1000 per yr.
So, who's going to pay for all this? surely I can't expect you, (though a small
donation would be appreciated!), so its mostly
down to sponsorship, revenue is earned by clicking our sponsors banners, you
need not spend anything. So you have the choice of ignoring the banners or
ignoring your conscience!, up to you.
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©Copyright & Redress
This was also tough decision, I have decided it was less trouble and much
less work to simply publish the work without having to resolve ownership first.
Mainly because we use a roaming agent that gathers photos etc from auctions,
websites and mailing lists automatically. Much of our initial content will come
from various external sources, e.g. commercial sites, clubs, private for sale &
wanted ads, stolen bike notices and other services which combined together
should enhance your visit. We instead rely on the holder who has a gripe with a
particular photo or whatever we have published to contact us for redress.
Where copyright is already stated, permission is always sought, and appropriate
references made to ownership. Of course, in the same spirit, imb.com
wishes to release all it's original work into the public domain also, c'mon
where here to disseminate and share information for the common cause are we not?
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In Summary
Welcome to imb.com, I hope you enjoy the site and acknowledge my
efforts by promoting and using it even though it's still in its infancy, and it
is graphics and Java intensive and still lacking in original content. Soon
we will be all better connected and the slow dialups will be, like the original
Indian Motocycle Company, a thing of the past. While being
essentially free, great value in itself, we do accept
donations, if you can' t donate I do ask in
return to hear from you, be it the guest book, mailing our links to friends &
colleagues, or by sending in your photos, articles and posting messages. You can
still support your favorite site or list, just cut and paste or cross-post your
work, inquiry or adverts to both!.
Please give something back and we promise too stay around and repay the
favor, there's big plans ahead for imb.com, stay tuned and return often..Take care, keep your knees in the breeze but
ride safely. Greg.
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 My Tribe [
23 PowerPlus |
25 Scout |
26
Chief |
28 101 |
31 101
|
35
Chief | 51 Chief ]
[ Indians I have prev owned and/or restored ]
My Autos [ 55 Lincoln Capri |
70 El Camino ]
| My Wigwam |
Artifact Room |
My BikeCam
]
'51 Chief (C4338)
(100% complete, zero repro, matching #'s, showroom resto)
'35 Chief (CCE869)
(90% roller, matching #'s, 80" later retro fit cyls/heads)
'31 101 (EGP1809)
(95% roller, 45")
'29 101 (DGP2307)
(95% roller, 45")
'05 Chout (CS6022)
(80% roller) 101 chout with 52 Chief motor
'26 Chief (AH791)
(100% complete, older restoration)
'25 Scout (52Y6769) (A very original
patina'd Scout Im leaving right alone!)
'23 PPlus (71V058)
(100% complete, older restoration)
[ Indians I have prev owned and
restored ]
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