Newbie with questions

oh, edscoble...... I was trying to make this the first new user thread ever that didn't involve fourteen different options...and the phrase "OTP"..

plus the dude or dudette wants a new bike, he/she said that as it's getting funded by work....let's not skim read!!!!!!

sorry I'm a member of other forum, so I'm more franks over there than here, so yeah, need to get used to this forum.