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In 1987, Len Nelson, the founder of Motocom Inc., created an online Motorcycle community which he maintained and hosted via a single-line dialup bulletin board service. The BBS was called Motorcycling Resources. Enthusiasts began posting messages to one another and sending in all kinds of motorcycle information. With the help of the user community a database of motorcycle products and services was quickly established.
The bulletin board is long gone but the spirit of the enthusiasts who helped get RepairManual.com started remains strong. We are repeatedly amazed by the generosity, of enthusiasts who take the time to pass valuable information along to grow this website. The passion for their machines and the pastime crosses over hundreds of makes and models. Without this support RepairManual.com would not exist.
Prior to the Gulf War, Len was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps. He immediately went on to pursue an MBA in Human Resources Management at Pace University located in New York. By day, Len worked for the Marketing Research Department of Prodigy Online Services. Len reported directly to the Marketing Research Director and provided support in developing survey samples, analyzing survey data and generating findings and recommendation reports for presentation to the executive team.
As the Internet and Prodigy's online service converged Len was given the opportunity to launch an online Motorcycle Community of Interest. Prodigy had glued file libraries, chat rooms, bulletin boards, web pages and advertising all into one. Len developed the initial Prodigy Motorcycle website and acted as the moderator for several years.
Len soon found himself in Southern California involved in a website effort called Motorcycle Online Magazine. This project proved to be an invaluable three-year research study offering insight as to what could be done on the internet. Len focused most of this time here on marketing research and website development. The site continues to flourish at the time of this writing.
Mr. Nelson moved to Atlanta, GA and took on the role of webmaster for the Corporate Communications Department of MCI telephone services. His responsibilities included maintaining the Division's website, working with a team to develop and implement online surveys and promotional pieces, as well as creating, presenting and maintaining an interactive database of corporate messaging. This included everything from designing and building stand-alone websites to digitizing video streams of executive presentations for company-wide download. Len worked directly with MCI's web experts in Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, as well as with the Corporate Messaging group in Washington D.C. - collaborating when needed to complete various projects. Len maintained this role until Worldcom bought out the company and moved operations to their corporate center in Jackson, MS.
Lenard took a position as webmaster for the Power Management and Control division of Siemens AG in Norcross, GA. With the new website complete Len began working with a technical writer to author user manuals for the company's new power control software, WinPM. Len also designed and compiled the online help system that was to accompany the software. Mr. Nelson worked closely with the software development team to understand the software and to design the actual user interface. The graphics appearing on the user manual, and many of the graphical elements used in the software were created by Len.
In 2001, RepairManual.com moved to a 5000 square foot facility in Burnsville, North Carolina. It was at this time that Len also launched a new publishing business named Cyclepedia Press LLC. The company operates separately from RepairManual.com and offers original, full color, online repair manuals to consumers and dealers.
The website you see here today at RepairManual.com is a labor of many tens of thousands of hours of programming and development. Our business, however, is far more than a website - our employees make this company what it is - they answer your emails, take your calls, fulfill your orders and make sure you are good to go when all is said and done. On behalf of all of us here at RepairManual.com we appreciate your business and support. Please tell others about what we have to offer.
SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING COPYRIGHT PROTECTED MATERIALS
Motocom, Inc., d/b/a RepairManual.com offers access to a diverse repair manual library. In-as-much as our roots are grounded in motorcycles and motorcycling, we offer repair manuals relating to cars, trucks, vans, all terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, tractors, and personal watercraft.
Two broad classes of repair manuals are offered at RepairManual.com, namely, reproductions of original repair manuals, and original repair manuals, i.e., titles of others, which we purchase new or used from OEMs and publishers via their authorized distribution channels and pass on to you our customers. In connection to our content, we strive to locate, secure and clear the titles we make available to you directly as reproductions.
As to the former, namely our reproduction titles, we offer copies of public domain content, more particularly, titles published prior to 1989 and without copyright notice. For decades, an outstanding feature distinguishing United States copyright law from that of the rest of the world has been an emphasis on formalities, among other things a requirement that the public be given formal notice of every work in which copyright is claimed. This facet of the law has origins in the original Copyright Act of 1790. and has remained in the successive Act revisions of 1831,1870, 1909,1976 (effective 1978). Many of the formalities under the 1909 and 1976 Acts have been lifted with the accession of the United States to the Berne Convention, via passage of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988.
Before 1978, federal copyright was generally secured by the act of publication with notice of copyright, assuming compliance with all other statutory conditions. United States works in the public domain on January 1, 1978 remained in the public domain under the 1976 Copyright Act. As of March 1, 1989, the effective date of the Berne Convention Implementation Act, copyright notice, among other things, was prospectively eliminated as a condition to copyright protection. However, where a copyright notice is required, essentially for all published Pre-Beme content, and its omission is not excused, the legal consequence is to inject the work into the public domain.
In connection to our business, namely the offering of manuals and parts, we by necessity make use of trademarks and/or trade dress of others to describe the items we offer. In doing so, no representation of affiliation, association or the like is intended, unless otherwise stated. Moreover, we are in fact owners of intellectual property, property that is a valuable asset to our business.
