Most of the links refer back to the old blogs libraries so they are not quite up to date with things we’ve done hee in the last few months but there’s still a ton of material over there on the Picassa albums if you’re in the mood for it. Enjoy!
Just Words
Even going back to the old site on blogger the only time I’ve ever broken 3000 hits in a day was when I’d get link “lanched” by a big site like Pipeburn or Bike-exif etc. The average daily grind was usually in the low 2000′s . Something seems to be catching on a little here lately as the numbers are on a steady rise.
Whatever it is I just wanted to say thank you to all the regulars and especially the newcomers for stopping by.
I’m still having a ball.
Many of you who’ve followed me for the last few years know that my first love is old 2-stroke streetbikes. In that community we have our own legends and one of those guys is a man name Tony Nocosia.
For those of you who’ve never heard of him, Tony is THE man who put the early Kawasaki Triples on the map with a small truckload of dragracing records. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s a hell of a nice guy and is still a legend in the Triples and 2 stroke community. To those of us who follow these sthngs it’s pretty clear that there is a bias against dragracers getting in. I just got off the phone with Tony and he said that he’d love to be the guy that breaks the ice for more of them. And I couldn’t agree more.
Well as it turns out, over on the Kawasaki Triples board John Aylor is spearheading a drive to get Tony Nicosia into the AMA Hall of fame and I want to do everything I can to help out. If you have a minute, we need folks to to send John an E-mail and a quick message that they support his nomination and think he should be entered for a stated reason. PLEASE DO NOT just say “I vote for Tony Nicosia” That won’t be counted. It needs to be in the form of a compliment of some type. Example… (in your own words please. If you just cut and paste this then 50 of the same comments won’t work either):
I think Tony Nicoscia is a credit to the sport of motorcycling and would make a fine Hall of Fame recipient. His accomplishments speak for themselves, his skills as a rider are legendary, and he is always willing to help anyone interested in the sport of motorcycling.I can’t believe he’s not a HOF member already etc etc…
I really appreciate it and I just talked to Tony and I know for a fact that he does too.
John’s E-mail to me and Contact Info are as follows:
Hey Steve,
great you are helping.
Keep it simple have them write their “tribute” and have them E mail them to me directly.
Just make sure they need to say what tony did for their motorcycling experience, “I vote tony” is not useable.
And their name and city/state.
Thanks John
PS have then put Tony Nicosia in the subject box….
Johnayleng@aol.com.
Here is the man himself “back in the day” lighting it up!
If you have any questions about this or want to contribute any links etc then I’m happy to help out in any way!
Thanks Everyone!
Here are some comments from John on the Kawi board about Ton’s influence on the motorcycle world:
I personally don’t think the Kawi triple would have been the “game changer” it was without Tony. If it wasn’t for his skills and dedication, there never would have been the adds where the 500 kicked everyone’s butt. Even thought he was an employee of Kawasaki, he worked his butt off traversing the country to show what a triple could do on local tracks. And I don’t think Denco would have been Denco without him and his skills. He even helped in the final design and testing of the first 500′s. Tony put in countless hours of work and years of traveling for not a lot of money. He set countless records that stood for decades, and motivated many to drag race themselves. Which who knows how much fun and accomplishment on the racers part, which made them better mechanics and people. (triple guys are good guys!)
I also think his records did much for Kawasaki’s direction in the performance field and probably led them in the direction of making more performance motorcycles, giving us great Kawasaki’s through the years. And maybe Kawasaki might have gone in a different direction without the support of sales from Tony’s records. And maybe Dave Schultz might not of gone Kawasaki and not pushed the reputation and records lower. Tony has done so much for our triples.
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I’m just asking for a couple of minutes of your time now, not for myself, but to help not only a friend, but a guy that is truly responsible for the legend of the triple, the one that has guys stop you to talk about your bikes, and makes your triples worth so much.
PLEASE take a few to say a few words in Tony behalf. As I wrote he is the underdog as he doesn’t have the contacts or money to donate to get in the hall of fame. If anyone deserves to be inducted, it is Tony!
And again, we have to sway the actual voters, and a “I vote Tony” doesn’t really cut it. We need comments that will make them take notice to his accomplishments and how he has effected the motorcycling community through the years. And we need a LOT of responses, as they will be printed out and sent in.
I thank the guys that have already posted, and I would like to ask the ones with just a “I vote for” to take another minute of time to edit and say a few words.
I know the adds stuck in my mind all these years, and I still go “oh yeah” in my head when I see them, beating all the other makes! And the big combo test we all refer to where the H2 came out ahead with Tony’s tuning. (even thought they told him to de-tune the H2 so the Z1 would win, he stuck it to them anyway….LOL)
I was into dirt bikes and didn’t really pay attention to the street bikes, but the performance adds sure stuck and was the reason I got into triples in the late 70′s. And I’m sure they did the same for most of you.
So let’s do this for Tony guys, It’s only a few minutes……….
I experimented with it late last night. I think one of the commenters Mark M. in the earlier post is right. While my eyes get a little weary with the black background the all white is way too in your face. And every time I change Themes all my Widgets have to be reloaded which is a pain so I’m not going to do too much of that till I have more time. I’ll sit tight for a while and experiment with the CSS code later. Thanks Everyone.
Lay it on me please! Layout, fonts, colors etc.. Thumbs up or thumbs down. I’d like to get this right before we get too far into things. And don’t worry you won’t hurt my feelings. I’m interested either way.
Thanks!
Comment 6: Contact info is mcpotd@gmail.com and is now prominently noted in the header message. It was in the “about” header tag but that actually too small.
Comment 5: sharing links are new easier to find right up front on the posts. You may have also noticed that I sorted out the bloglinks over on the right. Sad to say that there is no way to organize them like over on blogger by “most recent post” That a blogger only thing I’m sure.
Comment 4: I enabled all the “sharing” links like twitter and facebook etc. but for some reason they only appear when you open the individual posts. I’m looking into it. I’m also trying to figure out how I got all my logo’s and messages etc where they are on the header. I need to re-arrange them a little but the code can’t be altered unless I drop a little more coin. Guess I’ll have to do that :-/
Comment 3: DP from the comment mentions that when he logs into the site from his mobile device that he has to click on the posts to see the pictures. Is anyone else having issues with mobile devices before I get into all of that?
Comment 2: Derek in the comments makes an excellent point about my old bloglinks from the previous blog! Right now I’m limited as to what widgets are available to me and unfortunately “bloglist” isn’t one of them. As I’ve mentioned a few times I will be self hosting soon and as soon as I do I’ll have all the usual suspects loaded up. Give me till this weekend and I’ll see what I can come up with.
Comment 1: You know Davis from the comments has a point. Going through a lot of old posts and looking at the post cloud it’s pretty obvious to see where my biases are.. I’ll give some thought to more variety. Hey Different Is good!
I’m probably going to migrate this later on but right now i don’t have the time or energy so we’ll ride this horse for a while..
Welcome to the replacement of my old “Mototcycle Picture Of The Day” blog that used to be on blogger. I had a disagreement with the Google “bots” and rather than tilt at windmills I decided to pack up and head over here to WordPress and start all over again. It’s a different but it’s very well done and I like what I get for the money. things are going to be a little raw for a while so please bear with me while I work the bugs out.
A few notes about the move:
1) Sorry but I am going to be very strict about copyright. Either the content is collected by me from my camera or it is provided to me in the original format with express permission of the owner to post it on here. No more freelancing with content collection. My main reason for this is that with the addded costs of moving here I will eventually (and regretably) be putting up some very small and non-intrusive ads. I can’t do that if there are any Terms of Service questions and I also don’t want to get sued for my hobby. This upgrade is taking money (and considerable time) out of my life. However, I do promise that anything extra will go back into this site. Weather that’s hosting fees, a better camera, travel to shows to collect more material etc. etc. I won’t be making a living off of this. I already have a day job that I like and believe me it has much better benefits!
2) I’m still working on it but it looks like the old site will not transfer very well over to this one (that is IF they unlock it for me which is still in question) so this is essentially a complete start-over. Believe me I’m a LOT more angry about that than I can express on here. Three years of work gone to the cloud is not something I’ll get over in a hurry.
3) That said I’d like to rebuild as much of the old site as possible on here but I’ll needto have all the permissions nailed down. So! If you’ve ever sent anything for me to post to the old site and would like to see it on here again PLEASE go ahead and re-send it to me. The new e-mail address is : MCPOTD@gmail.com
Please include the original photo and please indicate that I have permission to re-post it on here. I’m not sure how much to expect or how long it will take me to sort through it all but I will get to it. So please be patient.
There’s lots more but this should get us started… Like I said it’s going to be a little “raw” for a while but I’ll get it sorted soon enough. Thanks as always for stopping by!
| AFRIKAANS | geseënde Kersfees |
| ALBANIAN | gëzuar Krishtlindja |
| ALSATIAN | gleckika Wïanachta |
| ARABIC | ميلاد مجيد (miilaad majiid) |
| ARMENIAN | Shnorhavor Surb tsnund |
| AZERI | Noel bayraminiz mubarak |
| BASQUE | Eguberri on |
| BELARUSIAN | З Божым нараджэннем (Z Bozym naradzenniem) |
| BENGALI | subho baradin |
| BOSNIAN | sretan Božić |
| BRETON | Nedeleg laouen |
| BULGARIAN | весела коледа (vesela koleda) |
| BURMESE | Christmas nay hma mue pyaw pa |
| CATALAN | bon Nadal |
| CHEROKEE | ulihelisdi danisdayohihvi |
| CHINESE | 圣诞快乐 (shèng dàn kuài lè) |
| CORNISH | Nadelek lowen |
| CORSICAN | bon Natale |
| CROATIAN | sretan Božić |
| CZECH | veselé Vánoce |
| DANISH | glædelig jul |
| DUTCH | vrolijk Kerstfeest |
| ENGLISH | merry Christmas |
| ESPERANTO | gojan Kristnaskon |
| ESTONIAN | häid jõule |
| FAROESE | gleðilig jól |
| FINNISH | hyvää joulua |
| FRENCH | joyeux Noël |
| FRISIAN | noflike Krystdagen |
| FRIULAN | bon nadâl |
| GALICIAN | bo Nadal |
| GEORGIAN | Gilotsavt Shobas |
| GERMAN | frohe Weihnachten / fröhliche Weihnachten |
| GREEK | kala christougenna / kala xristougenna |
| HAITIAN CREOLE | jwaye Nowel |
| HAWAIIAN | mele Kalikimaka |
| HEBREW | חג מולד שמח (hag molad saméa’h) |
| HINDI | Krismas ki subhkamna |
| HUNGARIAN | boldog karácsonyt |
| ICELANDIC | gleðileg jól |
| IGBO | annuri Ekeresimesi |
| ILOCANO | naragsak a paskua |
| INDONESIAN | selamat Natal |
| IRISH GAELIC | Nollaig shona |
| ITALIAN | buon Natale / gioioso Natale |
| JAVANESE | sugeng Natal |
| JAPANESE | merii kurisumasu |
| KABYLIAN | assegass amegass |
| KINYARWANDA | Noheli nziza |
| KIRUNDI | Noheli nziza |
| KOREAN | seun-tan chu-ka-hae-yo |
| KURDISH | Noela we pîroz be |
| LAO | souksan van Christmas |
| LATIN | felix dies Nativitatis |
| LATVIAN | priecīgus Ziemassvētkus |
| LIGURIAN | bun Denâ / bun Natâle |
| LITHUANIAN | su Kalėdomis / linksmų Kalėdų |
| LOW SAXON | vrolik Kersfees |
| LUXEMBOURGEOIS | schéi Chrëschtdeeg |
| MACEDONIAN | среќен Божиќ (srećen Božić) |
| MALAGASY | tratry ny Krismasy / arahabaina tratry ny Krismasy / arahaba tratry ny Krismasy |
| MALAY | selamat hari natal |
| MALAYALAM | Christmas ashamshagal |
| MALTESE | il-milied it-tajjeb / milied hieni |
| MANX | Nollick ghennal |
| MAORI | meri Kirihimete |
| MONÉGASQUE | bon Natale |
| NORWEGIAN | god jul |
| OCCITAN | bon Nadal |
| PERSIAN | krissmas khojaste / krissmas farkhonde |
| POLISH | Wesołych Świąt |
| PORTUGUESE | feliz Natal |
| ROMANI | baxtalo Krečuno |
| ROMANIAN | un Crăciun fericit |
| RUKIGA | Noheiri nungi / webale Noheiri |
| RUSSIAN | С Рождеством Хрисовым (S Rojdesvom Khristovym) |
| SAMOAN | ia manuia le Kerisimasi |
| SARDINIAN | bona pasca’e Nadale (logudorese) / bona paschixedda (campidanese) |
| SCOTTISH GAELIC | Nollaig chridheil |
| SERBIAN | Срећан Божић (srecan bozic) |
| SHONA | krisimas yakanaka |
| SINDHI | Chrismas joon wadhayoon |
| SINHALESE | suba nattalak wewa |
| SLOVAK | vesele vianoce |
| SLOVENIAN | vesel božič / vesele božične praznike |
| SOBOTA | dobro dedek |
| SPANISH | feliz Navidad |
| SWAHILI | heri la Krismasi |
| SWEDISH | god jul |
| TAGALOG | maligayang pasko |
| TAHITIAN | ‘ia ‘oa’oa e teie Noera |
| TAMIL | Nathaar thina vaalthukal |
| THAI | สุขสันต์วันคริสตร์มาส (souksaan wan Christmas) |
| TURKISH | Noeliniz kutlu olsun |
| UDMURT | Shuldyr Ymuśton |
| UKRAINIAN | З Різдвом Христовим Z Rizdvom Khrystovym |
| VIETNAMESE | Mừng Chúa Giáng Sinh |
| WALOON (“betchfessîs” spelling) | djoyeus Noyé |
| WELSH | Nadolig llawen |
| WEST INDIAN CREOLE | jénwèl |
| YIDDISH | אַ גוטע ניטל (a gute nitl) |
I suppose I need to find ways to backup my entire blog (YEARS worth). I don’t see way to get all the images I have stored on Picassa backed up in total and in order so I’m going to have to trust to the gods on that one.
It this blog does in fact disappear I WILL RETURN in some capacity (and likely with a slightly altered name) but it will likely be on another blog host like wordpress or tumbler etc.. but for now I’ll ride this pony as far as it’ll go.
It must be a curse. I was actually bragging to a friend about the reliability of blogger/google yesterday. Go figure.
Well according to my site meter it started at 5 am and ended this morning when I logged in.
2nd update: Apparently I’m one of the lucky ones. According to this some folks have lost their blogs completely and since they are legitimate businesses they have lost significant revenue for the holidays! Poor bastards.
Update: Well apparently it’s not anything major. After doing some searching I’ve found a few references to this and it’s not all that uncommon for google to pull this on people. LOTS of speculation as to why but nothing concrete.
Here’s a link to another fellow who had a similar (but not identical) thing happen. Damm frustrating and very freaking scary! Now I get to go change all my passwords everywhere. Oh Joy! Thanks a lot google.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-account-disabled-temporarily/13775/
To those of you who have checked to see my page missing I don’t know what happened I came in this morning and my G-mail account was disabled and I needed to re-verify all my passwords with a text message verification number. I’m going to get after google to see what’s going on but for now if you get any e-mails form my address
superduckz@gmail.com
please let me now if it was malicious. I haven’t sent anything out to anyone since yesterday evening (12-22)
