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Submitted by bob_parsons on Thu, 28/11/2013
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Tomorrow I am taking a road trip to finally see my 961SF and finalize the transaction. As the forecast high is 35F ( 2C ) I don't think I will be making the 3 hour ride home but I do hope for a short ride. The bike has been fitted with a prototype exhaust which the dealer just installed last nite and he assures me it fits and sounds great ! They also fitted a CRG bar end mirror! I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. I am going to bring a camera, are pictures banned here, The American forums have pictures in almost every thread, or the poster is chastised. Is it difficult to attach a pic here, are there size limits, I am going to be using a high resolution camera which creates large files! The dealer is going to deliver the bike as soon as he fills up a truck going north, possiby next week!!! I just saw the note about 1000k max attachments, that won't do unless I can resize the pics? The exhaust was mocked up using a Uk spec bike, they had to adjust the throttle bodies but claim the mapping should be fine, they have not ridden the bike outdoors with the exhaustbecause we had a huge storm yesterday. Please excuse the rambling, my mind is racing!

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/11/2013

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There are literally dozens of simple, free image editing progams out there for reducing the size of pictures to fit inside the posting limit. Most operating systems' inbuilt image viewers will do it as well.

We limit to 1Mb to keep the load speeds down on the massage boards. Remember that you can optimise the pixel numbers upwards if you reduce the image resolution in your editor to 72 d.p.i. There's not much point in having more than 72 d.p.i. anyway.

The 100kb image that Bob posted above is perfectly adequate to illustrate his post despite being only 10% of the maximum permitted image file size.

[I now expect the usual tirade of abuse along the lines of being too technical, but there's not really any alternative here]

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Submitted by bob_parsons on Fri, 29/11/2013

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Previously Chris Grimmett wrote:

There are literally dozens of simple, free image editing progams out there for reducing the size of pictures to fit inside the posting limit. Most operating systems' inbuilt image viewers will do it as well.

We limit to 1Mb to keep the load speeds down on the massage boards. Remember that you can optimise the pixel numbers upwards if you reduce the image resolution in your editor to 72 d.p.i. There's not much point in having more than 72 d.p.i. anyway.

The 100kb image that Bob posted above is perfectly adequate to illustrate his post despite being only 10% of the maximum permitted image file size.

[I now expect the usual tirade of abuse along the lines of being too technical, but there's not really any alternative here]

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Thanks Chris now I know, I do not think you were too technical, it was a tech question and you provided exactly what I wanted to know!

Submitted by bob_parsons on Sat, 30/11/2013

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Ok, it really was 2?C but I managed to get in 23 milesany way. I was not cold, running on pure adrenaline, but the traffic and drivers were Good Friday crazy and I had a few near misses! The bike started, ran, shifted, stopped,and handled as good or better then expected. Apparantly Norton has fixed the excessive mechanical noise, vibration, notchy shifting, "iffy" clutch, etc. as my bike had none of these.

 


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