Mountain Biking - New NC crew member...

Hambone III. This little guy has mad skills! Right now he's rockin' it on a Scott 20" machine.


http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w69/mtnbiker66/Bikeclubsummer07001.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w69/mtnbiker66/Bikeclubsummer07002.jpg

Nice.

He's already doing bigger drops than Hambone...and with sandals too!

Maaaann, dang. I can't even get my kid off the couch(s)...

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e108/pbhighrevs/misc1/lazykid-web.jpg

Sweet. My brother is starting to ride too. He has a Trek Mt. 250 and is getting faster and stronger. Downhill is his biggest problem, he never gets off the brakes and went over the handle bars once. How old is he, my bro is 9.

Canon?

Child abuse...

:roflmao:

He actually used an slr for the first time a couple of weekends ago. I let him spin a roll through my N80. He was all about the zoom lens, near..... far

p.p.s Ease up on the sharpening on your photos and the spokes won't look like a barber's pole!Might just be the result of downsampling it to a petite 95k.

Might just be the result of downsampling it to a petite 95k.

What is that? They look fine and then I upload them and they look like crap.

Sweet. My brother is starting to ride too. He has a Trek Mt. 250 and is getting faster and stronger. Downhill is his biggest problem, he never gets off the brakes and went over the handle bars once. How old is he, my bro is 9.

He just turned 7 in May

What I like most about Hambone III is that he never posted a "what bike should I get?", "what size will fit me?", etc., etc. thread.

What I like most about Hambone III is that he never posted a "what bike should I get?", "what size will fit me?", etc., etc. thread.

LOL...he is happy to ride anything that rolls.

LOL...he is happy to ride anything that rolls.

Congrats. He looks like he's having fun.

My daughters are the same way. The only criteria my daughter had for her new bike was the colour (blue) and that it had to have a bottle cage with bottle.

Congrats. He looks like he's having fun.

My daughters are the same way. The only criteria my daughter had for her new bike was the colour (blue) and that it had to have a bottle cage with bottle.

Hmm. How old is your daughter? Do I see a match here? Hambone III and Santiago Jr.??

What is that? They look fine and then I upload them and they look like crap.Photobucket automatically resizes photos when you upload them to a 'web resolution.' When it does this it strips away alot of pixels and leaves you with the visible "jaggies" in the fine detail.

I think when the photo has already been manipulated and downsampled to your own taste in photo editing software before upload, Photobucket is less heavy-handed.

"LOL...he is happy to ride anything that rolls."

I remember when Salsa was that young!! WAY easier...

I like the yellow striping on the tire to match the bike! Awesome!

Photobucket automatically resizes photos when you upload them to a 'web resolution.' When it does this it strips away alot of pixels and leaves you with the visible "jaggies" in the fine detail.

I think when the photo has already been manipulated and downsampled to your own taste in photo editing software before upload, Photobucket is less heavy-handed.

Yeah, I crop and size them before I upload them. It could be I just will never get the photo thing.I have fun no matter what they look like.

Get your own domain name and host the images yourself. Doteasy.com gives you a 100mb storage/ 1GB monthly transfer hosting account for free if you do the domain registration with them. Domain registration works out to about $25/year.

yo mtnbiker66 i've been watching u for a while and iv got to say im not impressed with your riding. u seem to be scared to do anything awesome. i mean hamboneIII seems to have more guts than you. so im callin you OUT. we can ride anytime you want.

yo mtnbiker66 i've been watching u for a while and iv got to say im not impressed with your riding. u seem to be scared to do anything awesome. i mean hamboneIII seems to have more guts than you. so im callin you OUT. we can ride anytime you want.

How you gonna get there? Mommy gonna drive ya?

Good stuff hammy. :)

Good stuff hammy. :)

Not hammy. It's one of our bike club kids,girlscouts friend. As bad as he seems. he's one of the best kids I've ever met.

dont hurt me tomorrow

dont hurt me tomorrow
:roflmao: oh'man.... your gonna get it.

dont hurt me tomorrow

You play your cards right you might get a ninja invite.

Yeah, I crop and size them before I upload them. It could be I just will never get the photo thing.I have fun no matter what they look like.Yeah, sometimes it takes more than cropping. I'm spoiled because I run PhotoShop, which gives you all kinds of controls. One of the handiest ones for that is the "save for web," because basically what it does is strip out extraneous underlying pixel information to reduce the filesize. In orther words, (among other things) it takes the 'millions of colors' and reduces it to the 256-color pallette that is all that gets displayed on the web. So now that 4 meg file is down to under a half-meg and the detail has held.

One way around this is, as santiago suggest, host it yourself in your person web space. This works for a while; but I maxed mine out with my MinorThreat Racing crude web site and my photo album and stuff I used to post here. So I still had to go to Photobucket and gobble some of thier server space for my stuff I post here.

Pete, if you're reading this thread - - do you have a good idea for maybe a cheap shareware program with a good downsampling module, or maybe a better upload sequence to PhotoBucket, that'll get 66 better results?

I should have known. The kid has too many skills to be hammys offspring :p

this is only a test........
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w69/mtnbiker66/bullitpics004.jpg

My daughter approves.

...and thats what counts.

...and thats what counts.


Don't jump ahead of yourself. My 4-year-old thinks it should be pink.

Don't jump ahead of yourself. My 4-year-old thinks it should be pink.

As do I. Pink bikes rox.

Yes,pink bike are the roxors but you must be able to shred to ride one so.........no pink ride for me.Junkyard could totally ride a pink bike.