Month: January 2011

Beautifully photographed Yamaha SR500 by a young rider from Germany who “gets it”.


It’s nice te see that there are people in the next generation of riders who can still appreciate  the simple joy of a ride in the country on a well ridden thumper. Thanks Much for the reminder. Time to go for a long ride this weekend and blow off some stress.

Leon writes in:

Hi, I really liked your old blog, I would like to send you some pictures of my SR500, it’s an 82 model, not as fancy as the other bikes on your blog, if you don’t like it fell free to ignore this 😛
I like my bike, especially because it’s not fancy/shiny and it’s my first “real” bike it is cheap, runs and is much cooler than the plastic bikes other people of my age like.  Unfortunately I couldn’t decide on one picture, so here you are.

Greetings from Germany,
Leon


Wow! 1500 visits already today! Welcome back everybody!


Looks like the word is out!  Glad to see that everyone is checking in!  It’s nice to be missed!  LOL

I found the Blogrool widget!


I’ve got the old bloglist entered over on the right hand side.  I know it doesn’t update by most current posts.  I may be able to work that out later.  Give me a little time.

The Britboy Specials! One BMW and One Triumph.


A pair of local bikes built by my buddy Rich.  That Triumph used to be mine back when it was stock.  One of the best engines in mototcycledom…

 

HOORAY!!! IT’s BACK!! And I Transferred it all HERE!


After a week Google decided to unlock the Motorcycle Picture Of The Day Blog.    But I’m through with them! That was the last straw!  So I imported all the posts and comments over here! I’ll leave a message over there for a while till everyone get the message and then I’ll take it offline in a month or so!  I’ll self host this baby over the weekend and that will be THAT!  I like this place better anyway!

Oh and Jack from the comments suggested to mention to update you RSS feeds!

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR PATIENCE!!!  And keep the pictures coming.  Oh and if you sent me something recently please be patient. I have a LOT of material to sort through!

 

Just for the heck of it, here’s a graphic illustration of what happened on the old sites traffic meter:

I’d love a little feedback on the new site..


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!

One of my five all time favorite motorcycles. The Moto Guzzi V7. This one’s a beautifully set up vintage racer.


Different Vincent… Same infield.


One of the best pics I’ve ever taken… Location location location..

Beautiful Vincent Black Shadow from the Daytona infield.


Continuing along with the “greatest hits” theme…  Here’s a gorgeous Vincent Black Shadow that was parked in the infield during the Daytona vintage races a few years back.