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Posted by 49Reo
- April 06, 2012, 10:21:16 AMNice!!! I like that color. As to your pup,it's funny how there is always someone out there willing to criticize what others do; one of the biggest reasons I like to ride alone. Years ago, a friend of mine had small terrier of some sort; that mutt put in a lot of miles riding shotgun; buddy took the lid off of the left saddlebag, built a little windshield on it, and that little dog rode many a mile in there, never came to any harm.
What plans do you have to personalize you Drifter? Be sure to post pics!
Have fun and ride safe;
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by Fancy
- April 06, 2012, 07:57:15 AMOh and it must have been the server the day I tried to upload pics because uploading these went very smooth. THX for the help!!!
Posted by Fancy
- April 06, 2012, 07:54:42 AMHere is my pup that rides in a pouch on my chest when I go for a drive. I had major drama over doing this and was verbally attacked by one of the people I ride with because of it his weekend
Posted by Fancy
- April 06, 2012, 07:51:27 AMHere she is
Posted by chief
- April 03, 2012, 00:44:45 AMRemember we changed to a new server. There is a lot going on in the background on this particular server which will impact this situation.
My upload speed will be different from yours... but a 2gb jpg uploaded in 8 seconds, while it took 1 minute and 15 seconds for the server and software to deal with the upload. This same pic errored (500 error)out for me the first go-round. A 256kb file took less than 30 seconds to complete.
Do yourself a favor and ALWAYS resize your pics down to 800x600 or 640x480 or in that range. Make them jpg's. This will reduce the overall file size. If you are on a slower connection, this will most definitely help. You don't need high resolution (big files) for web pics. If you are sending me a file for something that needs to be high res... you'd do that by email.If it takes too long the server will abort the operation and return a server error. If you error out, try again... or resize and try again.
Posted by chief
- April 03, 2012, 00:30:01 AMBig files take a while. I just added one to this post - didn't take much time at all. Using Chrome, it shows the upload percentage at the bottom left. Then "waiting for VulcanDrifterRiders.com" - that last bit took longer than the first bit. But I figure it took about a minute altogether.
Posted by 49Reo
- April 02, 2012, 10:37:14 AMI used to have a lot of problems uploading pics; I finally figured out, if I right-click on the pic, hit "edit" go up to "image" click "stretch/skew" and adjust to 30% on both horizontal and vertical, save it and it will drop a pic from, say 2.4 mb to about 90kb; then it uploads easy. Also, after clicking on "select" you have to click post before the pic, actually uploads to the post. I had lots of problems until I figured it all out with Chiefs help. HOpe all this helps!
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by Fancy
- April 02, 2012, 08:45:56 AMwell i have been trying to add pics to this post but it keeps erroring out. I put the pixels at the right dimensions but I will try again later today
Posted by 49Reo
- March 31, 2012, 10:33:33 AMQuote from: 1SG CAV on March 26, 2012, 23:03:32 PMYes congratulations on your purchase of a drifter. Dressing the bike is the way to make it your own. It's amazing to see 40 drifters at drift-ins and no two look the same. Some thing you have to fabricate, because they didn't make a lot of after market stuff for the drifter. The back rst to my two up seat was for a 650 shadow. Don't put a hyper charger on your ride. Anneoakley and I can tell you horror stories about ours.
Enjoy your drifter
Ride With Pride
What kind of issues did you and Annieoakley have with the hyper-charger? I personally don't care for them, but like to hear the pro's and con's on stuff.
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by Fancy
- March 28, 2012, 08:54:13 AMthanks for the congrats!!
Troll ~ Thx for the pic that is where Hubby adjusted it too last night before it was level with the floor boards like I said. I can still see my clumsy self hitting it with my leg again lol But mine doesn't have the rubber grip on it...now i have to add that to the list of things I need ha ha ha thx Troll lol
I took it for a spin last night to try out the shifter and it felt unnatural but I know I will get used to it. I kept lifting my foot like I was in marching band lol I wear a size 10 womens (I know big feet lol) and I thought the shifters would be closer together but hubby says there is no adjustment for them to be that way just an up and down adjustment.
Posted by 1999 Drifter
- March 27, 2012, 23:29:36 PMcongratulations on your purchase 
I have one of Ted's hand shifters hardley ever use the foot shifter, just once in awhile to remember how...lol
Posted by KsDrifter
- March 27, 2012, 21:48:02 PMCongrats!!
Posted by 49Reo
- March 27, 2012, 20:34:11 PMThat is how mine is set up, too. I am planning on cutting the toe shifter and adding about 2" to it, and the brake pedal too; (big feet) so I have more room for the above-mentioned feet.
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by Troll
- March 27, 2012, 13:58:56 PMHere's a picture of what I did...one pic=1000 words...or more! Much more comfortable, and positive upshifts are now certain
Posted by Troll
- March 27, 2012, 13:45:45 PMBelieve it or not, having the rear shifter at floorboard level is where Kawasaki originally installed it. I have mine up in the back, about 1 1/2" like I had it on my TourGlide. If I slide my boot back against it, it touches just at the top of the heel cap on the boot.