Part of the inspiration for this site and its name came from bobinoz.com. Bob's site has tons of information about Australia, and is in blog format as opposed to a discussion forum.
As a motorcyclist I am familiar with the Bay Area Riders Forum and Adventure Rider. These introduced me to the value of discussion forums for building communities, and are fine examples of that. I am "rodr" in both of those.
I'm also thankful for phpBB which is the software that powers this site. I've tried some others and found this to be the most robust and flexible of the open source options, with the ability to work well on mobile devices as well as personal computers.