Fastbikes Magazine and our Suzuki GS550

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As you may have noted, Rich ‘Moby’ Newland (Editor of Fastbikes mag) has bought our project GS550. He came over from Bath in an enormous Sprinter van to collect it on Thursday last week (1st May).

I have met most of the editors of the top bike mags over the last few years and I must say that Rich is a really nice guy. Very personable, knows his bikes (old and new) and in no way could be accused of “looking down his nose at us mere readers” (now who could I be thinking of?). He explained his reasons – same as most of us actually. Wanted one when younger, couldn’t afford the insurance and now fancies doing one up.

He isn’t going to feature the resto in the mag (shame) but will blog about it on the Fastbikes site here

Here’s the “before” photo:

BMW K100RS

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I promised a picture with the luggage fitted: here it is.

BMW K100RS

Honestly, how difficult can it be to take a photograph of a bike like this? Answer: very difficult. Your average cheapo digital camera (like the one I have) can’t handle the white bodywork and black engine. This is the best of about 20 shots – this one was on auto but in the shade behind a barn. I tried all sorts of sun/shade/fixed aperture shots but this one was still the best. Any advice on how to do this (without spending zillions on SLR cameras) welcome.

Tech Stuff: No Motorcycle Content (sorry…)

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The Nirvana Motorcycles site has been up and running since May 2007 and I thought that it was about time we stopped freeloading and bought our own server space. Up to now, we have been sharing disc space and bandwidth with my son’s website www.tubaman.org.uk. A typical 21-year-old, he never has enough time to update his site and it is usually out of date. He did, however, have enough disc space to host our motorcycle site (until now).

We have recently seen large bandwidth demands which were mostly my fault as a 2Gb per month limit is easily blown when visitors start watching the cutaway engine video (in hi-res mode). One or two large excess bandwidth bills from my hosting company and the fact that we were running out of disc space lead me to think that it was about time we hosted our own site and stumped up for some serious server facilities.

Having our own host allowed me to install MS FrontPage Extensions, which in turn allows me to add some interesting webtools to the site:

  • Favicon (did you notice the change?)
  • Hit Counter (bottom right of the Home Page)
  • Guestbook
  • This Blog

Between May 2007 and May 2008 we had 193,890 hits on the site; unfortunately I don’t know how to add this to the total so the Hit Counter starts at zero as of today…

If anyone has any suggestions for a more motorcycle-oriented counter (has to be a GIF file), let me know.

Steve’s Blog Starts Here

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I decided to stop mucking around with FrontPage and get some fun php webtools installed on the site. This is the WordPress Blog application, you’ll also see that the Guestbook has at last been installed properly and is open for comments!

If you watch this site you will know that our lovely BMW K100RS has been sold. Today, while waiting for the money to clear in the bank I changed the oil and fitted the luggage. I’ll try and get a picture of the bike with the luggage fitted over the weekend and post it here. The bike is off to sunny Fife in the near future.