I have never quite figured out what all the fuss was about because I read so many bits and pieces over the last year or longer. If I started to care I ended up confused and not sure which side to take. I know that Carlos was very quick to help out with info and seemed to take great effort in doing so especially when a newbie was asking the same old questions that tend to bother senior members regardless if a TRX250R forum or otherwise (I'm on several forums). That is a big plus in my book because regardless of my level of experience I know I can always learn from anyone and that is one of my primary reasons for spending my time on here. My local sportbike forum is overran with shenanigans, if you post regarding riding tips or other motorcycle (directly) related topics there is a bunch waiting to treat you like you just posted another oil thread. I don't care for that atmosphere especially when we all have a common model of vehicle, opposed to a common type of vehicle. So I check up on the sportbike forum maybe once per day and xxxxxxx.net became my regular stop.
That said I won't comment much on my understanding of the whole story that brought so many of you here because I have yet to even hear the whole story from anyone. I would like to hear it so I can make my damn mind up and move on. I certainly have seen enough of those bits and pieces by now to see where some of you are coming from, or you could say that my eyebrows have been raised on several occasions. I also never really noticed any attacks by Pumashine on Carlos over the last year or so like that Admin (or posing Admin) stated. What I did see was some high post count and very low post count members come from nowhere and attack Carlos in the last 9 months or so as if they all wanted to have the drag racing equivalent of a penis match. From the outside looking in at first glance (with my muddy level of understanding to the situation) it just looked like some guys with small man's complexes picking on a builder claiming he can't build something to outrun them. I used to drag race cars and motorcycles and I gave it up for somethings more challenging and technical but the same personality types prevailed. So again I would like to know the whole story at some point (from both sides) so I can decide who can be trusted or not and in the meantime I guess it will require logging in to 3 forums to catch the best of the classifieds, the builds, the tech and the pics (banging head).
I guess to sum it up, I had reasons to support Carlos (Am I just another fooled sheep?) while I personally never had much dealing with Tony to this point although I certainly respect his abilities and knowledge. I never connected all the hatred toward Carlos to Tony until this all blew up and the Admin pointed the finger at Tony. That Admin by the way is nasty in the threads and a teddy bear by PM which raises eyebrows as well. I just hope one of these two sites eventually lives on without any data loss. Cheers!
