Rockster Handlebars to far away

[fettler]

OK. How do I post a pic?

and Beware, I am GSing my Rockster, so it may look funny!

[grwrockster]

OK guys - we need pics of the GS and Pro Taper bars on your Rocksters! Your info and descriptions are great, but a picture is worth...

I'm away from home for the next couple of days - but will take a couple of pics of the GS bar set-up. Only issue might be that I haven't the faintest idea how to upload pics onto this site !

[grwrockster]

Sorry Sweatmark! Looked to try and figure out how to upload an image of the bike with the GS 'bars..... but I haven't ANY idea how! The reply box doesn't have a 'button' to attach images or anything that I can see.

I know it's possible as there are plenty of posts with pics..... but it doesn't seem to be obvious how to do it.

Am I just thick - or is it really not intuitive or obvious to attach images to posts?

[riceburner]

Sorry Sweatmark! Looked to try and figure out how to upload an image of the bike with the GS 'bars..... but I haven't ANY idea how! The reply box doesn't have a 'button' to attach images or anything that I can see.

I know it's possible as there are plenty of posts with pics..... but it doesn't seem to be obvious how to do it.

Am I just thick - or is it really not intuitive or obvious to attach images to posts?

Post the pic into a flickr or photobox account, then use the "img" forum tags to embed it.

[NoRRmad]

I was going to post a reference to a whole thread about attaching images... But I see it's in the donating members' section.

[sweatmark]

How to post pics:

http://www.r1150r.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21778

[grwrockster]

Ok.....

Here goes an attempt to post pics. I haven't had chance to take specific ones yet, but here's ones taken on a recent tour, and (if this works) an earlier pic of the bike with std bars and bar raisers (and a previous flyscreen). I will try to take ones of just the handlebar area and post if anyone would like this.

At the moment there's also an experiment in progress with a larger screen off an '01 - '05 FJR1300, mounted on my Vario screen handlebar mount kit - so that'd appear in any current pics.

I've tried copying the URL in between the Img icons after loading them on-line. But all I got was "It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image" at the top of the screen and the post wouldn't errrr.......... post. So I reduced the size of the pics in case it was that, and tried again. Nope - same thing.

Maybe I'm still being a bit thick.

So, here's the URL's without the [img] things either side. Maybe anyone intersted can paste them into a browser and see them that way.

G.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?albu ... 3209869129
http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?albu ... 3209874058
http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?albu ... 3209864571
http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?albu ... 3209861659

[sweatmark]

Here's your before and after (or "after and before") windshield change:




<edit> downloaded pics while available, uploaded to my photobucket account, then posted links here. "Bild nicht verfugbar" my a$$.

[grwrockster]

SM - sorry, but I don't understand your last post, and the 2 'image not available' boxes?

I've tried the hyperlinks from here on my previous post, and they seem to work and take you to my folder on photobox. I assume from that fact that others can also access the pics?

If they can be viewed, then I suppose the most obvious way to tell the bar height difference is the distance between the front indicators and the hand-guards, also you can see that the bars have much more clearance above the fuel tank. I mentioned the screen change as the fact there's a screen change as well as the bar change in the pics possibly makes it harder to appreciate the altered bar position.

[sweatmark]

GRW- don't know how your photo file service works, but it's evidently unlike others commonly used. For the post above, I followed link to your album, discovered image attributes for the pics via right-clicking, then pasted the file locations into my post within an "IMG" HTML tag set. The pics showed when I reloaded this thread a couple times with memory cache dump in between. Whatever.

You can always send one of your pics via email, and we'll upload to a hosting service and link within a post here.

Important thing is the link to your album. A couple of images of the handlebar from rear of bike would be helpful.

[Rog(UK) - Yorkshire Dales]

Yep; they worked for me last evening, but not today...... very strange.

Rog

[grwrockster]

Will take a couple of pics as soon as I get the chance and will email them SM as you suggest.
I did just try the links myself and they did work - I confess I have no idea what's going on !
Sorry to be causing so much hassle over a set of handlebars !

[Rog(UK) - Yorkshire Dales]

[Rog(UK) - Yorkshire Dales]

[grwrockster]

Well done Rog!

Boy, now I really do feel really thick cos I couldn't post em!

Now that they are up there (will take riders eye view ones as soon as I can) - any thoughts?

[Rog(UK) - Yorkshire Dales]

Boy, now I really do feel really thick

Welcome to the club! We've all been there (and most of us still are!), but we've been members a little longer, so we have learned the essential technique of posting pictures. In a similar vein, I remember someone on the Australian Moto Guzzi forum saying that there are no stupid questions; only stupid answers. Now, I'm all for a bit of frivolity and so are most of the members here, so we do get frivolous comments which make for a bit of fun, but I don't think you will be denigrated for not knowing something. Members will help.

Having said all that, I fully expect the pics to disappear overnight, because I certainly saw Mark's attached photos last evening.

All the best,

Rog

[sweatmark]

in case pics disappear, I've edited my post above

[grwrockster]

SM - yep, well I can see them, so your photobucket ones seem to do the trick!
I'll try again (and email them just in case) when I take the riders eye view pics of the 'bars (and my FJR/Vario mount screen marriage which is decidedly 'experimental' at this stage).

Thanks guys for your help and support!

G.

[grwrockster]

Ok guys. New pics done, so here goes to try and post them.....

If it doesn't work, and anyone's interested - send me a PM with an email address and I'll send them through that way.

(I didn't think I was a total luddite, but it's starting to look like I am )








Hang on..... I think this may have worked !

[riceburner]

Ok guys. New pics done, so here goes to try and post them.....

If it doesn't work, and anyone's interested - send me a PM with an email address and I'll send them through that way.

(I didn't think I was a total luddite, but it's starting to look like I am )








Hang on..... I think this may have worked !

I think photobox is not liking the external linking to the photos - I'm just seeing the "image not available" default gif.

Maybe we need to be logged in to photobox to see them? (I don't have an account).


TBH, I'd recommend swapping to a Flickr account, it's faster too.