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**426crasher** · 20th November 2007, 19:57

I did upload them TA but i later found out picture file sizes are too big, around 850 and the max is around 500 or so, but being a moron with computers i aint got a clue to reduce the sizes.Talk me through it if it's simple and i'll get them downloaded.
Cheers Tony.

**_Shrek_** · 20th November 2007, 20:11

Originally Posted by 426crasher

I did upload them TA but i later found out picture file sizes are too big, around 850 and the max is around 500 or so, but being a moron with computers i aint got a clue to reduce the sizes.Talk me through it if it's simple and i'll get them downloaded.
Cheers Tony.

i know the feeling still trying to make my pics fit

**Transalper** · 20th November 2007, 20:39

crikey what do you guys have for picture editing software?

**oldrider** · 20th November 2007, 21:55

Originally Posted by XF650

While on the subject of shit.....
Animal poo is corrosive - hence why most farm bikes look like crap.
So clean your expensive adventure bikes well & the longer you leave it, the harder it is to get the dung off.

ACF-50 (anti corrosion formula) Google it and read about it's benefit for motorcycles.

It's a space programme product and is available in NZ mainly for aircraft applications.

I have been trialing it in my Pro-oiler and general chain maintenance but am going to get a spray can to treat my bike.

ACF-50 is a penetrating lubricant with specific anti corrosive properties.

Sounds like you guys had a great trip!

Cheers John.

**cooneyr** · 21st November 2007, 07:14

This is my first attempt ever at capturing film footage, editing and posting. Kinda obvious but gotta start somewhere right. Batteries dies around Random spur road so no more after that.

Cheers R

P.S. Here is a link directly to Youtube if the embedded vid doesn't work.

**NordieBoy** · 21st November 2007, 07:43

You're lucky TransAlper and J turned up or you'd have been riding alone!

Wicked turnout

**Transalper** · 21st November 2007, 07:59

That's mighty good cooneyr, will add nicely in to the stuff I have... eventually.
Nice to see myself riding from a third person perspective for a change too.

**mattsdakar** · 21st November 2007, 15:17

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Hmmm...
Wonder what tyres?
BusaJim and Alfonz were TKC80's...

Mine wasn't the tyres fault, I had overstretched the beading exposing some wire putting the tyre on the night before...operator error

**RedKLR650** · 22nd November 2007, 21:14

[QUOTE=cooneyr;1305225]This is my first attempt ever at capturing film footage, editing and posting. Kinda obvious but gotta start somewhere right. Batteries dies around Random spur road so no more after that.

Cheers R

Great Video there Ryan, very apt music choice too :-)

Cheers, Stu

**RedKLR650** · 22nd November 2007, 21:47

Originally Posted by The Mistress

Ever since I’d found myself sitting sat slack-jawed, enthralled by what I was watching at the KB adventure bike porn evening, and marvelling at the serendipity that I’d just happened to have bought a bike that could take me to those places, I’d contracted an itch. The itch is the one that I get when something fascinates me, strikes me with awe and provokes me with fear. Like a scratchy clothing tag or a fine splinter, the challenge needles me, working away, till at an opportune moment I’m compelled to scratch it; square up to it and take the plunge.

etc,etc,etc.......

To all those stuck on the seal that are getting bi-curious, take it from The Mistress: rough and dirty rocks ; )

Well there Mistress, have you ever thought of giving up teaching and getting into professional writing, as that's far and away the best report I've ever read....

It may not have had all the factual or technical details some riders rely on, but became more something where any one of us could easily picture themselves in your place

Keep up the prose,

and good to see you're a convert.

Hope you had fun at Reefon the other week

Stu

**The Mistress** · 23rd November 2007, 17:03

Cheers dudes,
...actually I think I'm a travel writer stuck in a teachers body

It's the biking that inspires, nay, compels me to write...
The main thing is that you can see yourself there---but please correct me if I got anything majorly wrong or have any technical improvements--especially the tips! I'd hate to see some poor other newbie follow crap advice and suffer from it

...hmm maybe I should add a disclaimer next time

**Transalper** · 23rd November 2007, 19:30

I hear or read a rumor in another thread that FQ ended up with fractured ribs.
Bugger FQ, sorry to hear that.

**far queue** · 24th November 2007, 08:58

Yep, 3 fractured ribs, and a new helmet through insurance. Oh well, the helmet did its job protecting my head and the ribs did their job protecting the squishy bits inside. What's the saying - can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs? These things are to be expected from time to time. I'll be back

**cooneyr** · 24th November 2007, 09:24

Originally Posted by far queue

Yep, 3 fractured ribs, and a new helmet through insurance. Oh well, the helmet did its job protecting my head and the ribs did their job protecting the squishy bits inside. What's the saying - can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs? These things are to be expected from time to time. I'll be back

Dude that is a total shitter. Hope you manage till the bones heal. As I understand it there is nothing that can be done to stabilise them in the mean time. I guess this means lots of RnR round home?

Take it easy and heal well.

Cheers R

**NordieBoy** · 24th November 2007, 09:24

Originally Posted by far queue

Yep, 3 fractured ribs, and a new helmet through insurance. Oh well, the helmet did its job protecting my head and the ribs did their job protecting the squishy bits inside. What's the saying - can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs? These things are to be expected from time to time. I'll be back

You have ribs made of egg shells?