Hi Klunk
I not long joined TN and I want to post some of my old ME pics within a bit of old trip story, like you have done.How do I get the pics up on a post??
Please advise.
Thanks GS OVERLAND
Ex ASTRAN Owner driver now Ex-Pat in sunny Barbados…
Sorry to jump into reply but its quite easy to do the pics thing.
You 1st need to post the pics onto a internet photo storage site like photobucket -
Click the “img” button in this area when you are writing a message then copy the “url” / web address for the picture the click “img” again and the picture link should appear.
Better instuctions are hear on TN
trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3994
Pete
Thanks Biker
I will give it a try.
What bike do you ride?? I used to ride a Ducati 916, but after being hit by a car driver and suffering a shattered kneecap, which is now held together and in place with pins and wire, I gave up bikes and moved to Barbados ( see the Ex-Pats forum) so now and then I miss the belly tanks and get sand in between my toes and go all nostalgic, and remember my days on the long road to Doha…
GS OVERLAND
Always wanted a 916 but now with a wrist injury from a bulk tipper pipe now need something with a little less pressure on the wrists.
Deamed about the Doha run since watching “Destination Doha” back when it was 1st shown - have it on DVD + the Toprun book of the middle east photos and the book of “Baghdad TruckerS”
The blokes that did that run were true individual adventures.
I ride a Yamaha Bulldog which is a european model only - this is it
Hi The Biker
Nice looking machine, that really does look easy on the wrists, I bet it performs well too!!
Im in the middle of sorting out some old pics, then I will take them to the office and scan them. Hopefully then I will be able to post some on TN. When I see the pics again now, I can remember each trip when they were taken.
We used to have major cook-ups and Efes controls at the Londra Camp and later at Oktays, both in Istanbul, when the weather was fine. I used to cook for twenty blokes sometimes out of the trailer box or if one of us was empty, we would put everthing in the trailer with the tilt pulled up on one side and held up by a couple of tilt boards.
Then we cooked meat from the local butcher across the roadbridge opposite Londra and prepare fresh salad etc, drink loads of beer and talk some stuff…They were really great times. There would be some Swedish drivers, some Danes, Dutch and of course the regular Istanbul and Ankara Brits, aswell as some of the guys that were going a bit further…
I remember one trip on my way home, we were still up drinking at 6 in the morning, and some Jugheads walked past us taking their papers to there agent. They looked at us in disbelief at the amount of empty cans and bottles that were lying around us.
The hardest part was getting up at 5am the following morning to get going and try to make it to Akasary that night, before it got too late,cos if it was too late the police at Aksaray TIR control would take your police paper and park you up for the night. If you got through then you could sleep at the Tank Farm at Taspinar where I would blow my diesel in to drums and get my Belly tank off early the next day, weld up anything that needed welding and get cracking again.
Then it would be a long hit to either Urfa if we were transiting Iraq and Kuwait, when we could go that way or Cilvegozu at the Turkish/Syrian border . I used to stop for lunch at a small restaurant right up on the top of Tarsus, where they used to cook fresh mountain goat on a wood fire. You could tell that the meat was fresh, because the goats used to run around outside the restaurant. The portions were huge, washed down with a jug of Ayran.
You can see how these trips can turn into stories cant ya…and this is without any pics.
Catch you later Biker.
Another free site for storing your pics on line is Image Cave.
You’ll have to open an account, by clicking on the Sign up Here link on that page, once your pics are on your hard drive.
You then Create an Album, Add Pictures to your album and then your ready to post them.
Image Cave have an image resize tool in their Modify Image menu. About 800 x 600 pixels is about the right size to use the full width of a TruckNet page without having to scroll around to see the whole pic.
When your ready to post your pics you’ll see four boxes beside each pic in your album. You click in the box to highlight it, then copy and paste.
The EZCode box is the one you want to put pics into a forum post.
You don’t even have to click any tag boxes, it’s already included in the EZCode.
Hi Simon
Thanks very much for the info. I will give it a try soon.
GS Overland
GS
Sounds like you are going to have some wonderful pics and memories for all of us here.
The Bulldog is brill on the wrists and great for the Yorkshire roads.
Oi The Biker
Shall we start a new thread!!
My Old lady thinks Im obssessed now that Ive found this fantastic website.
She keeps saying ahhh you poor thing, do you miss the road and all your mates.
She wouldnt say that if she knew how long I used to be away>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I used to love track days on my 916, especially at Brands, safest place to ride is on the track!!!
I nearly bought an MV Augusta here, a couple of years ago,but I changed my mind after taking round the lanes, a bit like the B roads in kent, with potholes and idiot drivers, that only just " think car", let alone “think bike”
Maybe we should start a Bikers tread of favorite routes.
I have heard about the state of the US roads from some of my friends in Texas, Colorado etc.
Try this site for Middle East memories
http://www.toprun.ch/truck/latest_news.htm
Maybe you can send him some of your pics.
Oi The Biker
Ive sussed the upload pic thing, thanks for your assistance. I have posted a bit of my work history on the Old Lorries forum, along with some pics, take a look.
Heres a pic of my Ducati 916, at Brands on a track day.The safest place to ride is on a track…
And heres an old Middle East pic too. In Kuwait just after the Gulf War.
Sorry to have missed your arrival to TN GS but i have been strugling to get online but luckily thanks to pcworld laptop quacks im back in full swing and jesus theres some catching up to do on the posts 
AND A BIG WELCOME TO TRUCKNET ALTHOUGH A BIT LATE FROM ME KLUNK 
Hope you have got the pics job sorted have a bit ratch thru my photos and see if u can learn out if youhav,nt already got the job sussed
klunk 
Hi Klunk
Thanks for the reply.
Im glad that you got your computer sorted.
The Biker gave me some assistance and then I just worked it out from there. As you can see above, I posted a couple of pics for The Biker. I have also posted a bit of stuff on the Old Lorries and drivers forum.
I put a post on the Ex-Pats forum too.
I went through your pics, nice one and I saw one fellow that I recognised from my days on Lawrabian when I was running to Turkey… Big Jock.There were a few drivers at Rungis, he is the one with the beard and glasses.Any way thanks again.
I will be continuing my Old lorries post soon.
Regards
GS OVERLAND