Travel tips section???

[Lord Vader]

How about a section with traveltips?
Something for people to have a look at when they are planning there first or 100th trip
We have so much bike travel knowledge,it would be sad not to use it
I mean like instead of buying a bbq to take with,just get a good stainless steel grid and as legs use 4 empty beercans how cool,what a excuse to drink 4 beers, i was hungry
stuff like this
or emergency breakdown fixes
things people seen other bikers/travellers do wich just make sense
share your wisdom peoples

[mgillespie]

That's what the Wiki is for, you can add/edit stuf yourself..

http://wiki.xrv.org.uk/

[Lord Vader]

You got to be kidding
It took me nearly 1 hour the other day just to add the poll
I am a firm believer to leave things wich i know F... all about to people wich do
but i see what you mean,just clicked for the first time on the wiki button,cool.
Only problem i see is,i am sure there are a lot of pc challenged people like me out there wich never heard of wiki so i never would have thought of looking there for info or tips
maybe a different name or a pointer type thing

[Maverick]

What do you mean LV every one know's Vicky..... errr sorry I see you mean Wiki

[Lord Vader]

You know Vicky as well???

[mgillespie]

Wiki's are pretty neat, basically anyone can contribute. If you see an error, or want to expand or create a new page, you can.

Simply register on the top R/H side of the Wiki with the
Create an account or log in link.

Then you can edit a page the Basics are simple:

use equals signs to create a document with sections, you can even nest them.

=heading=
some text
==headinglevel2==
blah blah blah
===headinglevel3===

Some Text about something or other..
*Bullet List
*Bullet List
*Bulet List
**Nested Bullet List
**Nested Bullet List
*BulletList
==anotherlevel2==

If you want to create a link to another page, or a page you intend to create later, just use 2 square brackets. Like to my [[Africa Twin]] page.

have a play in the Sand Box: It's somewhere where people can play around with the Wiki without breaking anything:

http://wiki.xrv.org.uk/index.php/Sand_Box

On the subject of breaking anything. Basically, YOU CAN'T Every page has a full history of edits, which can be rolled back very easilly to a previous version of the file.

For example, the Preparing for a big trip page has a history of edits, you can see what's changed between versions.

http://wiki.xrv.org.uk/index.php?tit...action=history

Hope that helps.

[raymo]

Just been playing around with Wiki... not up to creatin stuff yet but its easy to add and correct stuff cool indexing needs addressing though

raymo

[mgillespie]

what do you mean about indexing?

[raymo]

could be having a blond moment but I only found the section on long journey preparation from the example link posted

[mgillespie]

your having a blonde moment, it's under the Travel section on the main wiki page.