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marks
4th August 2007, 17:25
It didn't go quite as planed...

I passed Tim here...

<img src=http://webcoda.com/images/bike/PICT0701.jpg>

And hit the tree about here...

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and learnt on the way back to the trailer that front mudguards are useful things...

<img src=http://webcoda.com/images/bike/PICT0707.jpg>

instant freckles...

Jantar
4th August 2007, 17:39
I'm sure that they are great photos, but some of us are still on dial-up, and just don't have the time to wait for all of them to load. How about putting them on as attachments rather than embedded, then we can all enjoy them. :yes:

pampa
4th August 2007, 19:03
Hi Mark, fun and nice day it seems :D. whereabouts did u go?

Cheers,
Pampa

marty
4th August 2007, 19:10
I'm sure that they are great photos, but some of us are still on dial-up, and just don't have the time to wait for all of them to load. How about putting them on as attachments rather than embedded, then we can all enjoy them. :yes:

of course - cause dumbing down to the lowest denominator is the kiwi way, isn't it?

how about you just upgrade to broadband?

mbazza
4th August 2007, 19:35
G'day Mark,
Great pics and a good story. Pity about the front guard, but they are still making them. Looks like a job for the water blaster. Cheers.:shutup::gob:

johan
4th August 2007, 19:51
Hi! Where were the photos taken? Looks like a fun track!

cheers
johan

marks
4th August 2007, 19:56
I'm sure that they are great photos, but some of us are still on dial-up, and just don't have the time to wait for all of them to load. How about putting them on as attachments rather than embedded, then we can all enjoy them. :yes:

Hi Jantar

Is a whole 450k of photos too much for a dial up? If you view them as attachments aren't they the same size anyway?

Personally I much prefer inline photos to attachments - it helps relate comments to a particular photo and makes it easier to "tell a story".

Pampa/Johan - it was up the end of the Maungatokutoku Valley close to where we came out from the Karapoti ride.

Mbazza - as a tight arse I will try and cable tie the guard back together. Otherwise the day will start to add up. My son broke his shift lever and I broke the guard and a brake lever.

Was good fun though :)

<img src=http://webcoda.com/images/bike/PICT0708.jpg>

young1
5th August 2007, 14:45
hey Marks are you going on the mmmmmm ride?

rob8888
5th August 2007, 17:59
Hi there. Good to meet you the boys in the Mud on Saturday. Yep, Dakar radiator has crack in it - more $$ *%&@$!! Wet ride home in the rain, with a cafe stop in paekakariki to warm up and let the bike cool down. Cheers Rob

marks
5th August 2007, 19:07
hey Marks are you going on the mmmmmm ride?

yup sure is - intending to travel up on Friday and come back on Monday. Thought I might stay in a motor camp cabin or somesuch in or around Opitiki on Friday night. Looking forward to catching up with all you guys.

cheers

Mark

marks
5th August 2007, 19:14
Hi there. Good to meet you the boys in the Mud on Saturday. Yep, Dakar radiator has crack in it - more $$ *%&@$!! Wet ride home in the rain, with a cafe stop in paekakariki to warm up and let the bike cool down. Cheers Rob

Hi Rob

Pleased to hear that you got home OK. We got pretty wet by the time we all got back to the car and as you can see we had a bit of carnage after you wisely left. I also still have to get "Roosterboy" back for dumping half the mungatooks into my face as we returned from getting you water.

Give us a call if you want someone to ride with in the Mungatooks with - we need very little encouragement :)

cheers


Mark

_Shrek_
5th August 2007, 21:04
of course - cause dumbing down to the lowest denominator is the kiwi way, isn't it?

how about you just upgrade to broadband?

we not all city dwellers here smarty marty we cant get what ain't on offer (but they were nice pic's) looked like fun

rob8888
5th August 2007, 22:59
Hi Rob

Pleased to hear that you got home OK. We got pretty wet by the time we all got back to the car and as you can see we had a bit of carnage after you wisely left. I also still have to get "Roosterboy" back for dumping half the mungatooks into my face as we returned from getting you water.

Give us a call if you want someone to ride with in the Mungatooks with - we need very little encouragement :)

cheers


Mark
Thanks Mark. Drop me an email so I have your details (if my card made it back alive - I should have printed on vinyl!)

Anyone got a BMW 650GS radiator lying around they don't need?

Rob

clint640
6th August 2007, 15:38
yup sure is - intending to travel up on Friday and come back on Monday. Thought I might stay in a motor camp cabin or somesuch in or around Opitiki on Friday night. Looking forward to catching up with all you guys.

cheers

Mark

Nice pics - sometimes you just have to say 'bugger the weather' & go riding.

Come & stay at my place at Rotoiti on the Friday before MMMMM if you like, Zukin, Triboy & Young1+missus are booked in so far, but there are still plenty of bunks left.

Cheers
Clint

marks
6th August 2007, 18:04
Nice pics - sometimes you just have to say 'bugger the weather' & go riding.

Come & stay at my place at Rotoiti on the Friday before MMMMM if you like, Zukin, Triboy & Young1+missus are booked in so far, but there are still plenty of bunks left.

Cheers
Clint

Thanks Clint - Gunna is supposed to be traveling up with me so is it possible to book 2 bunks?

cheers


Mark

Transalper
6th August 2007, 19:58
I'm sure that they are great photos, but some of us are still on dial-up, and just don't have the time to wait for all of them to load. How about putting them on as attachments rather than embedded, then we can all enjoy them. :yes:
Good point.


we not all city dwellers here smarty marty we cant get what ain't on offer (but they were nice pic's) looked like fun
Another good point and nicely put.


Hi Jantar

Is a whole 450k of photos too much for a dial up? If you view them as attachments aren't they the same size anyway?...No is the short answer there.
My experience of inline photos on dial up is that if you get too many photos in a page it can cause time outs with half loaded pictures or broken picture symbols so you don't get to see all the pictures anyway.
With them as attachments the thumbnails load very quickly and are often enough to see what's happening. Then we can pick and choose which pictures we want to see more detail in and the picture can be loaded. That is much faster than trying to load them all.

After looking at the file sizes you used here I see you are starting to compress the photos a little more in your other thread 'went for a ride up a hill'. That at least is a bonus for the dialers. Any picture over 80k could be getting a little excessive in file size vs quality but hey, I'm in a city and got the so called broad band so i can sit back and enjoy the show. These pictures of yours after all are made of the stuff I like.

clint640
7th August 2007, 08:47
Thanks Clint - Gunna is supposed to be traveling up with me so is it possible to book 2 bunks?

cheers


Mark

Yep, no worries. I'll PM ya the directions.

Cheers
Clint

upshift
8th August 2007, 13:37
Pampa/Johan - it was up the end of the Maungatokutoku Valley close to where we came out from the Karapoti ride.




Took my son (LT80) through there only 2 weeks ago, hardly any mud at all then so rather suprised at those conditions.
Real neat ride in there. Be nice to get through the locked gate at the end which I think would bring you out into Nikau Valley. Suspect the pine forest part is private land though, as is the farm beyond the gate.

marks
8th August 2007, 20:43
Took my son (LT80) through there only 2 weeks ago, hardly any mud at all then so rather suprised at those conditions.
Real neat ride in there. Be nice to get through the locked gate at the end which I think would bring you out into Nikau Valley. Suspect the pine forest part is private land though, as is the farm beyond the gate.

We have often mountain biked through there and climbed over the gate and come out, as you suspected, in Nikau Valley - which then means you are less than 30 minutes from a latte :)

Its a great place for kids to ride as there is a bit of everything for them to learn on but not enough of it so that all the mx wannabees spent too much time powersliding around blind corners....