I try to never ask and I do my best not to bug anyone about donations. I figure if you find the site and community helpful, useful and friendly that you'll come back and help others (and tell people about Total Motorcycle) as often as you can. That in itself is awesome and all I could ask from anyone.
But yes, I do accept donations, which 100% of go to supporting the site's costs (bills, bandwidth, upgrades, server space, all the boring stuff) as well as helps reduce the amount of ads on the site as well (you will notice for the past few years we no longer have popups or popunders) and anytime you find an annoying ad I will do my best to kill it (regardless of revenue from it) as well.
Anyways (sorry for rambling), I wanted to thank those who went above and beyond, opened up their wallets, paypal accounts, credit cards and purses to support the site with a donation as well. $5 or $500, it is all appreciated as it does add up to a lot of help.
As a big thank you I place all our donators in our Fall of Fame: walloffame.htm and give them special rank badges and titles as well.
For 2011 here is our list of donators thus far:
Doug (dr_bar) January 29, 2011 $525.00 - Diamond Supporter
J.A. Filler (Zeligman) July 10, 2011 $125.00 - Diamond Supporter
Carolyn (McGlasses) June 2, 2011 $10 - Silver Supporter
Pamela (sinfulcycleparts) June 16, 2011 $5 - Bronze Supporter
TO DONATE CLICK HERE: walloffame.htm
Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support, be it just visiting the site, posting questions, helping others, telling others about the site and/or giving a few dollars to help out!
Mike
sinfulcycleparts