Am I missing something? I don't see any way to seach the threads! I hate to keep asking newbie questions that have, no doubt, been posted many times!

Thanks in advance!

Look up. You should see several options (From L to R): Logout, Mark All Forums Read, Members List, SEARCH THE FORUMS, View New Posts, ...

It sounds slightly ridiculous to say, but, well...Good Luck.

The built in forum search here doesn't always seem to work that well, and it's not that powerful. The other way to search is to go to Google and on the search bar type (without the angle brackets):

<your search terms> site:www.bikeforums.net

I prefer the second method.

How about trying the Search the Forums link ... you can find it in several places and it seems to work quite well now.