Went for a ride in the mud today....

[Transalper]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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....