Month: January 2011

Now that I’ve calmed down a little… A few thoughts.

First thinsg first,   if you send me anything you’d like to see posted on here send it to the new e-mail address MCPOTD.gmail.com  I’m going to try and segregate an the blog related stuff from the personal stuff.  Please Please Please only send original photo’s that you took and/or own own and indicate in the e-mail that I have permission to post it on this blog.

Also,  I REALLY like WordPress and this template works very well for the style blog I have.  Big thumbs up to the WordPress folks!  Thanks for being here!

I’m still going to eventually migrate over to a self hosted blog but I’ve got to educate myself a little so i don’t blow it up.  From what I’ve learned, if I do it correctly you guys shouldn’t even notice.

It’s starting to look like the old blog may be gone for good.  After thinking about it calmly,  I realize that it’s probably not entirely unjustified.  Google probably has to defend themselves from more lawsuits in one week than is imaginable by a mere mortal like myself.  So I can’t blame them for being strictly letter of the law on copyright and Terms Of Service decisions.  And strictly speaking , while I made every effort to account for the source of every photo on that site it wouldn’t be unfair to say that  that I may have stretched those boundaries on a few occasions.  Ya play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.  I can think of a LOT of blogs (quite a few that I linked too on the old site) that were waaaay worse than anything I ever approached.  I’ve lost count of how many times I saw photo’s that came out om MY camera on other peoples sites (usually from overseas) with no shoutout back to me and their own watermark on the picture.  I never said a word but I imagine a lot of other folks did.  they’re still rolling along though.

It’s kinda cool going over all the old libraries and cherry picking the “greatest hits” for startin the new site.  I’ll be sure and go heavy for a while to make for all the lost material.

Think I’ll use the opportunity to go with a few “greatest hits” from the old blog. I present the 1974 Rickman Honda CR

I caught this beauty at the “Riding Into History” show in St Augustine Florida a few years back.  Just Gorgeous!

 

A new beginning!

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!

Phew! Home From Holiday Travels! Here’s AN Excellent Reader Ride, Kawasaki H2 – 2 Stroke Restoration Till I Get Things Caught Up!

Philip Rochette writes in:

Hello
Here are some shots of my 1972 Kawasaki 750 H2 that I have recently restored.
It was a long term and very interresting project .
I enjoy my bike and I have a lot of fun riding it in the beautifull french Alps.
Here is the link to my site about that restoration and more;
http://kawasaki750h2.free.fr/
Best regards

Fantastic Restoration!  Thanks for the excellent pictures Philip!