Rich, welcome--and let me say you have perceived correctly the nature of this forum. It is TERRIFIC. If there were World-Wide-Web National Treasures, this should be one of them.

Also glad, since I'm 62, to see yet another over-shall-we-say-40? rider joining in. One really great thing about the Bike Forums is that there are participants from the teen years up to 70 or so. And another plus is the international mix.

Ride hard, post often!