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Post by JR on Jul 26, 2013 7:09:55 GMT -5
It's kind of hard to explain guys but this is the way PB's layout works. You have the Reply at the bottom right hand corner of each post and the Quick Reply box at the bottom. In the old days of SD and on a lot of PB's forums the Quick Reply area was a simple box with a few smilies and not even a Spell check. Even now it doesn't have the options of all the things you can do on the Reply box.
PB's has this all set in the script and the smilies were their "default" smilies. But some of us and the coders at the PB support forum found ways to add to and/or cheat the default script. On the Reply box there are I believe 16 smilies by default and I can change them to anything I want by changing the image url and no more.
The Quick Reply is a different animal. The script has to be changed, re-written and coded to make this work but I can go with up to 25 smilies because the number is not fixed like on the Reply box. But work it is and the reason I'm not going with any others is again before you know it we will be going to the new V5 software and the smiley options are more, better, and easier.
Let's do this, why don't all of you list smileis you like and give the link and place of where they are and I can keep a list for the future upgrade.
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 26, 2013 6:01:19 GMT -5
Web is full of stories of RP foaming, myself as a former Maintenance manager I've seen first hand multi thousand dollar ammonia compressors shut down because of it and the company I worked for sued RP and settled for millions in damages.
Yes industrial oil is different than motor oil but that's all it took for me to never try it in any thing I ride or drive. Add the outrageous cost and the fact that I have 4 scooters totaling over 29k in miles on good old plain affordable Castrol dino oil tells me I don't need it.
I wouldn't put RP in my lawn mower.
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 25, 2013 13:29:22 GMT -5
yep... good attitude! you can't beat your slave masters so might as well give them more of your money and try to justify it while you're taking it up the ***. *face palm* where is the face palm smiley that is costing JR $36/year? These guys provided you with a free service and now they want to be paid. What's the issue? They never had to provide you with anything. They are just as free as you are and are under no obligation to give you anything. How do they owe you more than they have given you. Get your own servers and software and host it all yourself for less than $36 a year. Businesses are in business to make money not provide a free service to the community. I pay them nothing currently if I find their free option doesn't work out for me I will consider other options including paying them. How anyone can complain about this is beyond me. Do you go to McDonalds and demand french fries for free. No one owes any of you anything and last I checked, despite the erosion of our freedoms in this country, you don't have to pay facebook anything or participate in photo sharing or this forum, it is not mandated by law. You are free to not do any of it. You are also free to quit working for the slave drivers and become an entrepreneur and get your own slaves. You can never shop at WalMart or buy anything from any major corporation if you want. Yet many of the folks on this forum ride scooters made by a country that actually drives slaves, a country with a history (and presence) of massive human rights violations and abuses and they call people who have built billion dollar enterprises on their bright ideas and ingenuity slave drivers. Its ridiculous. Grow up, the world owes none of you anything be happy when you get anything for free... I want to make my position clear. I have never said or will say that anyone or any company owes me anything or I want something for free. I have no problem with what Photobucket is doing their company their business. I was just stating the facts as they are and why that the smilies had disappeared. I've actually have used photobucket for years and had no problems. I also don't think the price is unreasonable. I do think that their "free" photo claims are misleading because if you just simply do a engine search for photo hosting or uploading companies they come up immediately and always come up as free. www.bing.com/search?q=photobucket&form=HPCNTX&pc=HPDTDFJS&mkt=en-us&pq=photobucket&sc=8-11&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=It doesn't take you long to learn that this is advertising bait. But again this is their company and their right, have no issue with that. Myself I've used these services for a long time and I see it like this, I donate my time here, don't ask for or try to do anything for revenues or pay and it only stands to reason that I would also if it's legally available use a image hosting service that is free also. I enjoy doing this, like to help folks and that's enough for me. $36? I throw that much away on soda pop each month, it's just the principal more than anything. I can with the click of a mouse button put all the smilies back to default and more than likely the sponsor banners can be done on photobucket within their 2G of bandwidth per month and not go over? Also when we convert to the new V5 software I can use a lot of smiley sites with direct url linking because the new software uses just that and very few items will need to be put on a server. The only risk of that is if that site goes down or disappears so will the link, if you host it yourself and pay your bill that will never happen. It'll be my luck that the smiley places will want to charge then.  JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 25, 2013 12:47:23 GMT -5
JR, I would say if we're just exceeding 10G of uploads (per that link to Photobucket), and if Flickr will do all formats you need (including GIFs) and has 1T of free uploads, then go with Flickr. A T should last us a month...at least for now...hehhehheh.... >'Kat Flickr is out, doesn't want to work or link to PB's very well and it's not forum user friendly, just found all that out with hours of working with it. This service is more of a individual type service and made for that mainly. JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 24, 2013 21:36:25 GMT -5
This explains it all: support.photobucket.com/entries/22511378-What-does-Bandwidth-Exceeded-mean-Exceed the bandwidth and your photos are gone for the rest of the month and then they will reappear. Got to pay to play as they say. Photobucket, TinyPic both bought by Facebook and the days of free unlimited upload are over. Picturpush just went to pay premium also. Imageshack has limited bandwidth also and doesn't do certain images like GIF's. Got a real education on all of this in the last 24 hours, Flickr has 1 terabyte of free upload. 20G of upload on Photobucket is $2.99 a month and they will only take paypal and credit card and it is a automatic payment, want it stopped you must cancel it yourself. I have a godaddy hosting server that I pay for and I'm looking to see what or if I can upload images to it. At this point photobucket and TinyPic can be fooled by just opening multiple accounts and holding the amount of images to a low number, but sooner or later they'll watch IP logins and figure out what people are doing and limit the IP to one account. JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 24, 2013 20:30:51 GMT -5
Earl ,with FB buying up these image uploading sites it's all about one thing $$$$$$$$$. I stand corrected somewhat, it's a bandwidth allowance thing and here is how it works: support.photobucket.com/entries/22511378-What-does-Bandwidth-Exceeded-mean-Prodigit you are correct, I found out after setting up two accounts they do not do GiF's but I am going to use them for the banners I'm thinking. Right now I starting to get them back and I'm using this and so far so good. postimg.org/At this point though I don't see a way to make the albums private? |
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Post by JR on Jul 24, 2013 7:39:42 GMT -5
OK guys I'm going to get busy on this, sorry I haven't already, bad storms in Arkansas yesterday and actually raining right now, real weird July here. My power was off twice so my wife and I went school clothes shopping for the grandkids. I've looked at Flickr and I may use it some because it looks like a good site but does have a 1 terabyte upload limit. Sounds like a whole lot but when you host as many images as I do and also work on two forums it can fill up quickly. Things will change when we convert to V5 and I'm considering this too. But I think I'm going to start out with this today and see how easy it is to use and it says it has no limit and it's imageshack. www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/05/03/free_image_hosting_imageshack.htmAgain I appreciate your patience. JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 23, 2013 8:54:01 GMT -5
Right now you are seeing missing photos or images that are on the smilies and/or banners. I don't know if you know it but recently Photobucket along with TinyPic were purchased by FaceBook. Long story short the used to be unlimited free upload/hosting of ones photos is now limited to a small amount of only 2G. From my understanding also this limit also only allows for so much usage per month or clicks. Once that limit is reached then photos will disappear until a new month time period for so many days until it is renewed at the end of the month. I also just found out that PicturePush is doing the same thing. Now one can increase their upload size allowance easily for of course a monthly fee. I am looking into other options, one that have a larger allowance and are free, two looking into the possibility of using my godaddy server that I personally pay for to host these/photos images and three other image hosting sites. I am looking at Flickr right now as I understand they have one Terabyte free. www.flickr.com/This will take me a little time to convert these images and such and your patience is appreciated. JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 20, 2013 21:44:18 GMT -5
Most of the time they leave the fuel line off and send a little cup with a hose on it so you can prime the carb like that, then hook up the fuel line from the tank and put fuel in.
More than likely they headlight bulbs are 25W and if you do ride at night a lot then you'll need to put in brighter bulbs.
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 20, 2013 20:08:23 GMT -5
No problem bhinch, very informative and trying to help as always and appreciated. Both model scooters have a sound track record and both have the same setup bolt for bolt, switch for switch, just the engine is different.
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 20, 2013 13:18:43 GMT -5
Back to the OP topic. The older model 250 clone with the helix clone engine had the radiator mounted behind the gas tank and this caused over heating in real hot areas but it's my understanding that the newer models have put the radiator up in front of the tank? Is this so, I have not seen one of the new models?
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 20, 2013 13:13:21 GMT -5
The first part of my post complimented the OP's new scooter and the very thorough PDI link, before I added my 2 cents worth. I gotta mention one thing though... You are comparing a Chinese clone to a expensive Japanese original like that is the only option. Not true! This very incorrect attitude permeates this forum. There are several Taiwanese options that cost the same or less as the Rocketa MC-54B. That is what my crusade is about. To educate a very twisted and one-sided comprehension of value on this forum. I guess if I get banned, then so be it. I'm not trying to bash all Chinese scooters as pieces of crap, just pointing out some alternatives which are a better value. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most people buy Chinese to save money and be thrifty? Yeah, I understand about "hijacking" a thread. But this forum is so biased that starting a thread on "better alternatives" to Chinese scooters isn't going to get much attention, if any. And I still don't understand the value of buying something new and having to replace and double check all parts. When did people start accepting this? Is this going to be the future of automobiles too? I don't think people would ever tolerate that, why do they with a Chinese scooter? If people quit buying them until they got better, they probably would... Sorry to be upsetting everyone  Thread Title: My "Roketa" MC-54 scooter The first part of my post complimented the OP's new scooter and the very thorough PDI link  before I added my 2 cents worth.  That is what my crusade is about. To educate a very twisted and one-sided comprehension of value on this forum.  Yeah, I understand about hijacking a thread.  But this forum is so biased that starting a thread on better alternatives to Chinese scooters isn't going to get much attention, if any. Your attitude toward Chinese scooters isn't biased? isn't going to get much attention, if anyYou got my attention. I politely told you that this thread wasn't about the who's scooter is better than my scooter subject and you continue to want to disrupt the OP thread and intent. I guess if I get banned, then so be it.Your choice and this isn't the only thread that you ask the same question of why not buy this or that? If asked for this choice by the poster then great and we all know how you feel about the brand of scooter you prefer and there are places you can feel right at home where they are biased against Chinese scooters: symforum.com/www.kymcoforum.com/Or you can go here where they love discussions like these; scooterdoc.proboards.com/index.cgiTell KZ hi.  JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 19, 2013 17:06:45 GMT -5
Cat0020, which picture do you want put in the gallery? We only put one in. Got you other folks in.  JR |
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Post by JR on Jul 19, 2013 17:04:02 GMT -5
The lights only come on with the scooter running.
JR
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Post by JR on Jul 19, 2013 12:42:36 GMT -5
The MC-54 is a nice looking scooter. That link for the PDI was an excellent written tutorial. It would be wise for any Chinese scooter owner to follow that procedure. That being said, I must be one of the few people here that think there is just something fundamentally wrong with having do that much work on something that is purchased new... If all of this extra work and checking is a quest for more reliability, why not spend a little extra money to get it? A Chinese style PDI can only go so far in preventing future problems on a machine that is questionable to begin with. And yes, for the few people that have had very good luck with their Chinese scooters, we can find a dozen that didn't. That's terrible odds, is that really a way to save money? People should expect at least 30,000 to 50,000 miles of service out of their scooters with only basic maintenance and normal replacement parts for wear item like tires, belts, roller weights, and maybe a clutch or variator face. You should expect that only one out of a dozen might have an actual mechanical failure, and those kind of odds will save you money! My crusade continues ;D
why not spend a little extra money to get it? A Chinese style PDI can only go so far in preventing future problems on a machine that is questionable to begin with.All a matter of opinion and you pay a dealer for a PDI to add to that little extra that you mentioned, the original Honda Reflex which this scooter is a clone of for sure cost more than a little extra. My crusade continues The OP has started a thread about his scooter and his dealings with it so far and how all is going. If your crusade leads to the old "a Chinese scooter is inferior to the name brand ones" then take the crusade and start your own thread about the differences between the two and not get that going here. If you have something to add to help this new scooter owner then by all means jump right in. To the OP, nice scooter and even though you were disappointed that you didn't get a linhai the engine they sent you has a great track record and will serve you well. Myself all who know me know I'm a linhai man and I own two of these scooters. They have done me well and I really enjoy riding them and so will you. JR |
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