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06-16-2008, 4:41 PM CandySkull Joined on 06-08-2008 Riverside, CA Posts 27 Re: Post Your Ride! I may just be one of the "new people", meaning I don't care about Dick's death, this site, life in general, or my own mother, but I've been an avid computer dork for a long, long time. That is what you meant about new people, right? We're all worthless pieces of crap that add nothing but anarchy and questionable ethics to the threads, right? I will repeat what I said earlier. PHOTOS LINKED TO THE SITE VIA HTML CODE <IMG SRC="YOURPIC"> DO NOT TAKE UP CHARLES' BANDWIDTH OR SERVER SPACE. 800x600 is a reasonable enough size, and limited pictures are reasonable as well, but for you to keep harping and flaming over this is retarded. The only people actually using site resources here are well within the posting limit. Hell, I'm still new enough that my upload restriction is just an avatar. An admin has to give permission for you to photo upload. Do you think they would allow image linking without permission if they were worried about it? Lastly, as for the forum going down in flames, I may be a "newbie", but bet your ass I'd throw $10 a month at keeping this afloat, and I seriously doubt I'm alone. If you're going to try and moderate, you need to be judicious and regulate yourself. So please, calm down, do a little research, and stop laying into people. Or just kick me off and ban me. Whatever's clever. I just can't handle an e-mail box full of this b.s. for another day. If it can be welded, wired, screwed, bolted, or torqued, lemme at it. I'll franken' fab anything. '82 GL500i Ratbike    Report

06-16-2008, 5:57 PM Natrik Joined on 04-17-2008 Eugene, Oregon Posts 220 Re: Post Your Ride! Thank you very much, C.S.. I was actually stewing about this today at work. I was so happy that we started a thread where we can just look at everyone's hard work, pride and joy, and hobbies, and now some guy who's posting as anonymous has everyone stewing in fear and ignorance about this. Sh*t, people, can we just go back to admiring everyones bikes already? If you're worried about the pics, disregard the anonymous poster and listed to the rest of us who know our ass from a hole in the ground about server and bandwidth usage. And the offer is again brought to the table to help anyone who doesn't know how to use hosting sites. Just PM me. How about seeing some more rides?? If it wasn't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable..... 1980 CX500 Custom, Hondian    Report

06-16-2008, 7:13 PM MidTNJasonF Joined on 07-22-2007 Smyrna, TN Posts 62 Re: Post Your Ride! Here are a few nicely shrunk off site linked pictures of mine :) 1973 Honda CB350 Cafe Project 1982 Honda CX500 Custom 1996 Suzuki Bandit GSF 600 A couple cars A couple trucks    Report

06-16-2008, 7:21 PM Natrik Joined on 04-17-2008 Eugene, Oregon Posts 220 Re: Post Your Ride! What the hell? Your bike looks as shiny as mine! You trying to show me up? I've always loved that paint scheme. The two tone with the grey looks amazing. Did you restore it, or just take really good care of it? If it wasn't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable..... 1980 CX500 Custom, Hondian    Report

06-16-2008, 7:46 PM MidTNJasonF Joined on 07-22-2007 Smyrna, TN Posts 62 Re: Post Your Ride!  Natrik wrote: What the hell? Your bike looks as shiny as mine! You trying to show me up? I've always loved that paint scheme. The two tone with the grey looks amazing. Did you restore it, or just take really good care of it? Bought it pretty close to what you see there. It is original, still has most of the factory and dealer stickers on it like the break in sticker on the cluster. It is actually kinda dirty in those pictures. It had just done a 150 or 200 mile run up over 5000 feet of elevation and the front had more than a few bugs stuck to it. I really need to clean and polish a few things on it. I still have the original owners manual as well including all of the maintenance schedule items the original owner highlighted or underlined. 1973 Honda CB350 Cafe Project 1982 Honda CX500 Custom 1996 Suzuki Bandit GSF 600 A couple cars A couple trucks    Report

06-16-2008, 8:36 PM Blindstitch2002 Joined on 05-16-2007 Greenfield Wisconsin Posts 1,045 Re: Post Your Ride! Nice bike. I like the exhausts and shocks. What kind of shocks are those? I can't believe how some of you have found these near perfect bikes. 1979 Honda Cx500 Custom    Report

06-16-2008, 9:32 PM bobisslack Joined on 07-18-2007 Knox Vegas Posts 134 Re: Post Your Ride! Yeah...I love those shocks...any chance you know what kind or where they came from? '80 cx500c Gotta keep my knees in the breeze.    Report

06-17-2008, 4:19 AM BearCX Joined on 03-11-2008 Roseworthy, Sth Aust Posts 157 Re: Post Your Ride! Wild bike, Jason, (is it?). Don't see many Customs like that in Oz, Especially the 650 Custom, only released in USA. There are a couple here, though, but very few. Colour scheme is fantastic, would make a good chopper........lowered, raked and dumped in the weeds. If you're still in control...You're not going fast enough.    Report

06-17-2008, 4:35 AM PWG in Lowgap NC Joined on 01-08-2008 Lowgap, North Carolina Posts 470 Re: Post Your Ride! Natrik.  The anonymous poster you refer to is one of the founders of this group and I value his knowlege and respect his concerns.  His anonymity is not without good reason.  I, on the otherhand, know very little about bandwidth or bandboxes and really don't give a damn,  I do, however,  respect the wishes of Chopper Charles to keep the maintenance of his board as simple as possible.  I have warned you before and again.  It will be like...gone. 82 Honda GL 500 SilverWing Trike "Old Yeller" 06 Suzuki S 50 Boulevard Cruiser ANY WARM DAY ABOVE GROUND IS A GOOD ONE (unknown senior citizen)    Report

06-17-2008, 4:11 PM MidTNJasonF Joined on 07-22-2007 Smyrna, TN Posts 62 Re: Post Your Ride! Thanks for the complements guys. The Shocks are Progressive brand http://www.progressivesuspension.com/ I do not know the model number but I am sure I have the original box in storage with the OEM shocks somewhere. I also have the Progressive front springs as well. The mufflers are your standard Harley Davidson style bullet mufflers. If I recall they are Screamin Eagle brand. I purchased two pairs at $15 a pair from a local flea market. They sound wonderful and allowed me to polish up the original mufflers and put them in storage. Other than that it is a near bone stock 82 CX500 Custom with I something close to 13,000 miles as of my last ride. I have some hard bags I purchased at the last Barber Vintage Motorcycle Festival I need to get finished and installed. 1973 Honda CB350 Cafe Project 1982 Honda CX500 Custom 1996 Suzuki Bandit GSF 600 A couple cars A couple trucks    Report

06-17-2008, 4:52 PM CandySkull Joined on 06-08-2008 Riverside, CA Posts 27 Re: Post Your Ride! I try to respect everyone too. If you noticed, my pictures are within size specs, and I post few, on top of just linking them. What I disagree with is this whole Chicken Little blather, and rude, obnoxious stereotyping. Don't assume people are ruining things when they aren't, and don't assume that new people are any less a credit to this wonderful forum. Everyone was new somewhere at some point. As for the anonymity, well, I'm sure everyone has his or her reasons. I just don't appreciate an ignorant arrogance, and a need to try to regulate those who don't need regulation. Not to mention the harsh degree of superiority and insult in which it was done. For some reason, some people need to play cop, and worry and fret, and complain, and belittle. I feel that "JT" crossed a line between helpful senior site member, and brutish prick. I've seen the same situation occur on many a forum, and let me tell you PWG, it's not server space that gets forums closed, it's pinheads who piss off so many people, that they find elsewhere to go, or create another forum. If it can be welded, wired, screwed, bolted, or torqued, lemme at it. I'll franken' fab anything. '82 GL500i Ratbike    Report

06-17-2008, 6:21 PM Blindstitch2002 Joined on 05-16-2007 Greenfield Wisconsin Posts 1,045 Re: Post Your Ride! Hey guys can we get this back to the bikes and hard work we have done on them. The section page says "Pictures must be no larger then 640x480 and please use as FEW uploads/pictures as possible. Preserving space is vital to keeping the upload privilege open." Yes I agree that hosting offsite saves bandwith but some of us dont have the biggest monitors to view photo's over 800 wide. And besides the forum takes a lot of questions and has for many years so who knows how much space is used up or how much it costs to operate this site. All it takes is for Charles to not pay the domain fee and it's gone. 1979 Honda Cx500 Custom    Report

06-17-2008, 9:30 PM WayneDW Joined on 07-28-2006 Minneapolis Posts 581 Re: Post Your Ride! I actually don't know how to re-size photos, In my limited ability, they are what they are. Could somebody give me an easy primer on how to shrink a pic? thanks, Wayne 1983 GL650 Silverwing Interstate WWW.fossilapostles.com    Report

06-17-2008, 10:21 PM Blindstitch2002 Joined on 05-16-2007 Greenfield Wisconsin Posts 1,045 Re: Post Your Ride! WayneDW I think the easiest way to resize photos without having to download any major software is to get a www.flickr.com account and upload your photos there. On the page that the picture is on there is a zoom button that says all sizes. Click that. And it offers a small, medium, and large size pic and shows the dimensions. Click on the size that you want and drag and drop the photo into your post. 1979 Honda Cx500 Custom    Report

06-17-2008, 11:39 PM Natrik Joined on 04-17-2008 Eugene, Oregon Posts 220 Re: Post Your Ride! I use Photobucket.com.  It will work just as well as Flickr (I use them as well, they just have some restrictions without a paid account whereas photobucket is completely free). IrfanView is a very simple free software program you can use on your computer to resize your pics before uploading if you want (http://www.irfanview.com/). If it wasn't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable..... 1980 CX500 Custom, Hondian    Report

06-18-2008, 5:01 AM dozer1 Joined on 05-26-2007 Boston, Massachussetts Posts 469 Re: Post Your Ride! Having explained that, can we all get back to posting pics? 1980 CX500 "Stella" Dozer1 AKA Snowplow    Report

06-18-2008, 7:28 PM Chris1972 Joined on 06-18-2008 Aldergrove B.C Canada Posts 5 Re: Post Your Ride! Hey guys, Im new to the forum. Lots of good usable info on here. Thought Id post a pic of my ride. Thanks <img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/ckozicki/RCParts172.jpg" border="0" /> 1980 Honda CX500 Deluxe 1987 Yamaha FZR 750 1982 Honda 450 Nighthawk(sold)    Report

06-18-2008, 7:56 PM rodent Joined on 10-24-2007 Derry NH Posts 214 Re: Post Your Ride! Not sure why it didn't work but here it is. By the way nice ride. 78 cx500 (rodent)(my twisted twin) 82 cx500c (parts) 86 cmx450 (wifey's) and in the future who knows http://s218.photobucket.com/albums/cc275/rodentcx/CX500/    Report

06-18-2008, 8:31 PM Chris1972 Joined on 06-18-2008 Aldergrove B.C Canada Posts 5 Re: Post Your Ride! Thanks, for posting the pic. Its a 1980 CX500 Deluxe. 1980 Honda CX500 Deluxe 1987 Yamaha FZR 750 1982 Honda 450 Nighthawk(sold)    Report

06-19-2008, 12:07 AM BIGJAY Joined on 11-12-2007 rochdale, manchester, uk Posts 17 Re: Post Your Ride! just starting on my custom project heres the first time i saw her <a href="http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/bigjay-vtr/?action=view&current=cxchop2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/bigjay-vtr/cxchop2.jpg" border="0"></a> here she is now <a href="http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/bigjay-vtr/?action=view&current=cxchop8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/bigjay-vtr/cxchop8.jpg" border="0"></a> gunna make some slash cuts tho im not happy with those cans burn rubber not your soul vt 250 (in bits) bandit 600 gl 1000 (trike on going) fzr 400 (siezed) vauxhall astra (lol) cx 650 trike (project) cx 500 custon hardtail project    Report

06-19-2008, 5:30 AM wridley Joined on 06-28-2007 Didsbury, AB, Canada Posts 131 Re: Post Your Ride!  BIGJAY wrote: just starting on my custom project heres the first time i saw her here she is now gunna make some slash cuts tho im not happy with those cans Willy 1982 CX500C 1980 CX500D 1981 GL500I (wife)    Report

06-19-2008, 2:24 PM BIGJAY Joined on 11-12-2007 rochdale, manchester, uk Posts 17