Oople is fantastic.
I love the reviews, race reports and of course the forum sees a lot of use, for me its invaluable to see what going on and where.
The only other paid forum I used was relating to real cars and it works realy well:
~£12 per year, give some stickers as people love these. Shop discount for members (dont know if that could be hard to provide?).
Access to all parts of the site stays free to everyone except for posting in the for sale and wanted section. Limiting other bits will alienate too many people, make it feel too 'members only' and not draw new members in.
My hope would be that the revenue could reward you for all the effort that goes into the site and fund race reports from the worlds and euros. Possibly fund some more reviews but personaly I think suppliers should be begging you to do reviews.
Just some ideas.
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