Rest Day Means Scooter Day…

March 3, 2010

After about 650km ridden in the past four days it was definitely time to kick up and relax.  That didn’t mean that we stop logging more kilometers though.  It was scootertime!

While the rest of the guys were in their comfort zone sipping cafe sau da on the beach Pikey and I ventured into the unknown armed only with a camera and 110cc’s of raw horsepower.  It was time to graduate from boys to men.

Here are a few photos from our rest day.

No one gets a free ride in Vietnam.  Everyone has to pedal…

All the kids love the camera!

It was a bit of a fight for attention from the camera. Even some punches were thrown!

This kid looks like he’ll be a great climber

Off to our next destination…

More kids flocking to the camera!

Never in a million years did I ever think we’d see this!  They didn’t take us up on the motorpace offer though…

One of many wounds

Another casualty of yesterday’s EPIC

The best remedy for road rash is to take a soak in the salt water.  Doing it tough out here in Nam….

Tagged as: vietnam

  • Wade, did you get a chance to chat with the guys on the local bunch ride? I'd be interested to see what the bike culture is like in Vietnam, do they sprint to the BP and finish with a latte?
  • I wish was able to communicate with them Matt. I'd be very interested in understanding how on earth they ever got into cycling in the first place. They didn't speak any English unfortunately and my Vietnamese is limited to words that describe my favorite foods.
  • my parents LOVE seeing these photos, keep them coming CT!
  • Butterman
    FOCUS - Less about picture sizes guys and more about the riding and location!! ... although a picture of the pothole encountered on the EPIC ride would be a good view. I remember travelling through Vietnam on a holiday and the roads were really average.
  • Thanks guys. I just tested exporting to 72 DPI and the filesize is cut down about 80% without a noticeable difference. It should make a big difference
  • About the photo size thing... they only need to be 72 DPI for web. Even the most basic photo editing tool should let you change your image resolution from 300 DPI (standard for cameras) to 72 DPI.

    Also, having them at 72 DPI will stop people from nicking your photos to print them.
  • Photoshop is wonderful ~ but is is also expensive, takes up lots of hard disc space and a can be a pain to fire up on low ram pc's - try pixresizer from bluefive.pair.com
    It's free and is only 3mbs. As a web developer - I often need to resize images quickly on the fly from different places around the world.
    You can retain your great 800px width images but the download speed of the pages will fly. Try and aim for a size of 50k approx per image - but anything up to 100k is acceptable. - once you go over that your site will suffer.
  • I'm so jealous..how cruel of you to upload these awesome photo's for poor saps like me stuck in a windowless office (unless you count the Microsoft flavour). No fair! :-P
    I think I've just found my next holiday location. Looks like you guys are having the time of your lives. :-)

    Oh and as for the photo sizes...I've had the odd one that didn't load first time. Also, by reducing the size first, you increase the number of photos you can upload at those slow Internet cafe's! ;-)
  • I'm loading slower than normal and one or two of the pics are only loading half way (the rest is greyed out). This may just be me though!
  • AaronU
    You're not the only one. It happens to me as well. Especially yesterday's set of photos.

    Wonderful tips on the resizing guys. much appreciated..

    Keep em coming WW
  • onev
    Poor Steve with his little graze, I don't think he will stop talking about his "crash" for a long time :-)
  • ^ haha look at this webmaster, jk huph!
  • Wade, these photos are great, but if I may give a webnerd tip: compress these images for Web. That first image is 288KB, if you use Photoshop with "Save for Web" in High settings, it would have become 64KB without any visible quality loss. Your site will load faster and it could even save you some money in bandwidth in the long run.
  • Thanks Huphtur. I'll give it a try. Is the site loading slowly for anyone?
  • Nick
    Loading fine here but all the images could be slow if you aren't on broadband

    Save for web is a good idea :)
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