And they're starting to get the picture over there:
http://www.xs650.com/threads/deleted-by-poster.48233/
I think this was the best response on the xs forum thread:
Wow guys - I've figured it out and here's the formula:
1) ask a simple question posted along with a photo of His Lordship in a fancy pants pose beside a bike (recently its that poor unfortunate '77-D owned by this maroon)
2) add a little bit of irrelevant bragging about cars, shoes, houses, cologne, nose rings, man-purses etc etc etc which has nothing to do with the lame@ss technical question
3) receive useful advice from someone along with a comment that the irrelevant stuff is....you know, irrelevant
4) go nuts on the responder with all sorts of snotty accusations blah blah blah
5) add A HUGE SH!TLOAD of bragging about trips to Paris, hanging with models, meeting the President, shopping for a new home in "Cali", blah, blah blah.....ad nauseum....
5) get all self-righteous about being rich and important and it's a free country and "nobody's gonna run me off", blah blah blah
6) make lots of dark threats about private messages etc etc etc etc
7) someone (recently its usually Fred) steps in to try cool things down
.....then rinse and repeat.
This process has been done many times about everything from carburetor problems to weak brakes to hard starting to oil leaks to now, how the f@cking light switch works.
What's next....what colour should the air in my tires be?