There is no such thing as asking too many questions because we all love to help were we can. Nor need you feel too dumb about these bikes since you can only get smarter and more knowledgeable about these bikes, through the more than willing help and advice of the membership. The main reason this site was formed was to share knowledge that is unavailable through other means, even bike shops do not have the knowledge this site has.
There is a side effect however which I am sure was unforeseen by the founder of this site. You run the risk of forming strong off line friendships. You will find the members here are not just on line friends as many of us have formed strong in person friendships through rally's, meet and eats and meet and greets. Some of have formed friendships as far back as 15 years or more through this site and some of those friendships are still going strong to this day. Many members that live close enough together, help each other and that often includes newbies.
The monitors here do a fantastic job in keeping this site in a PG state, clean and free of foul language and hurtful comments and any subject that gets too controversial to were it starts to turn ugly is shut down.
All in all this site sets a high standard not seen in many other forums.