O'ahu day trip on a F800GS

[RockyMountainRider]

Toured around O'ahu with my wife for the day.  It was a typical day in Hawaii: 82F and mostly sunny with the occasional cloud.  Rented a F800GS for the day ($150 from Big Kahuna rentals in Waikiki).  The bike was a lot of fun to ride.  Tons of torque and  great handling.  Never took it over 110 mph as there are few chances to take advantage of speed.  Circled the island, starting in Waikiki, heading to the south shore and around the windward side.  It's almost impossible to get lost on O'ahu as there are so few roads.  The views are amazing, with either an ocean view or a mountain view, or both.  The smells are incredible.  Fruits, flowers, tree's, the ocean.  The world championships of Surfing just happened to be going on on the north shore at the Banzai Pipeline so we took in some amazing surfing.  Lunch from a shrimp truck of course. Shaved ice after that - totally refreshing.  On the way back to Waikiki, we had some time still so we headed up the lesser traveled west side of the island.  After going through a ton of civilization, and past the local shanty-town (didn't see that in the tourist brochure) we found ourselves a deserted beach to swim at - that was a treat.  Highly recommend heading there - about as far north as one can go along the west side of the island.  An amazing day.  Not sure why any of us live in the other 49 states.  My wife is ready to sell our house here in the mountains of Colorado and move.

[mystic red]

Can you up the one picture?

[RockyMountainRider]

as in more pics of the bike or some of the island? or would you rather see a pic of my wife in her bikini?

[mystic red]

as in more pics of the bike or some of the island? or would you rather see a pic of my wife in her bikini?

Not the bike.. Didn't think about your wife in a bikini :lol: I guess that depends. :eatdrink: was thinkin nice warm weather, big water and food shots. Shrimp truck, cliffs surf..

[RockyMountainRider]

Sunset at Waikiki

[RockyMountainRider]

20 foot waves on the North Shore at Bonzai Pipeline

[RockyMountainRider]

Playing in the ocean at sunset at Waikiki beach

[frankenduck]

Hint: If you resize your pictures to a width of, say, 800 pixels and save them at a jpeg quality of 85% then they will load much faster than huge multi-gigabyte files.

[johnny]

1,024px × 768px is the perfect internet forum size... i know cause wikipedia says so...

j o

[frankenduck]

My netbook display is 1024 so 800 works best for me - loads faster too.

[billday]

Hint: If you resize your pictures to a width of, say, 800 pixels and save them at a jpeg quality of 85% then they will load much faster than huge multi-gigabyte files.

What is the trick to linking to pictures from my Picasa albums? I tried that (clicked on the "Insert Image" button and pasted the umage URL in between the square-bracketed quotes) -- no joy.

[mystic red]

Hint: If you resize your pictures to a width of, say, 800 pixels and save them at a jpeg quality of 85% then they will load much faster than huge multi-gigabyte files.

What is the trick to linking to pictures from my Picasa albums? I tried that (clicked on the "Insert Image" button and pasted the umage URL in between the square-bracketed quotes) -- no joy.

Upload the pics to the web first. Click on the upload button at the bottom of Picasa (green arrow) and start a web album. From there copy and paste.

http://www.motobrick.com/index.php?topic=301.0

[mystic red]

Yea, that's what I'm talking about Rocky. :2thumbup: