I,d like to see Ride Reports with tons of Photos a la Adv here on the Hubb ASAP.
Lets hear what you have to say.I can only see the Pro,s
Al theturtleshead

I saw one blog on advrider which used the photos to tell the story, with text only to notate the photos really. It was, as you say, a very good result to view. In their situation it must have been easy to take lots of photos. I find, alone, it is a real issue to keep stopping the flow of travel. It seems to be a choice between living the journey or recording it. But I still agree with you. Linzi.

I've put a couple up, but it's easier said than done. Stopping to take photos is surprisingly hard. You have to set out with the intention to document the trip in the first place.

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At the risk of inciting the Turtle, but with the hope of generating traffic for Grant, here's my take....

I wonder why there seems to be a desire to 'rush to sameness'.

I mean, part of the beauty of travelling is that you get to see something other than the local fast food, big box, Hotel 6, sameness.

Suggesting that the HUBB be more like ADV, would be like suggesting Ace Cafe give away plastic dinosaurs to be more like McDonalds? How can that be good?

If you want RR's with pics - and I know some people only look at the pictures, go to ADV, or post on the HUBB with a link to the ADV RR. Is that hard?

And on another track, while I have looked at ADV RR's, there seems to be an increasing 'show offness' about going higher, further, longer, on one wheel, left handed only, through deeper mud, 'tone' about ride reports generally.

I appreciate that people have long done the weirdest things possible in an attempt at glory - I read recently that some cricket mad Brits (why always Brits) are planning to climb Everest to have a spot of Cricket.

That is OK, but at some point, folks doing RR's will have every road, bush, tree, house, vista, beach, and 'secret' spot on on planet photographed and posted on ADV. I can't help but wonder how is it better to be a voyeur of someone else's life that it is to live your own?

I mean.....have you had a look at street view on Google....there's even a picture of the house on Hollway's Beach that I lived in 30 years ago.

While having that view available is better environmentally than travelling to Australia to see it, I can't help but believe something important has been lost by making it easy to 'see' the world.

The same applies to books. Hasn't there long been a sense that it was better to be out in the world experiencing it than being 'bookish' and reading about it.

I believe there's probably some balance that makes sense, but I still think I'd rather be drinking a (even at my own local Legion) than seeing a Drinking Report of someone else's in South America - even with pics and GPS coordinates.

I do however, like HUBB's info on shipping bikes, which I read religiously as I'm trying to plan trips to both Scotland and Oz.

Over to you Albert!

Stephen

Try to think of this site as a business for just one minute.Now think about if you had to do all the hard work for very little return.
Ok so far.
Now business is about numbers,so for the slaves who run this site need to make a living or at least feel like they are getting a reasonable return for their effort.
To get bigger numbers to visit the site is the tricky part.As in you don,t want to loose your hardcore users,but you need new blood to bring up the numbers so that you can get more cd,book or advertizing sales.
This is the big dilemma and I,m still working on the answer.
Al theturtleshead
I,ll try to be more rude and,or abrupt the next time

I've finally worked it out, all this plugging away to get more traffic to the HUBB. You're not really a bar owner in S.American are you, you're Grant's alter-ego.

But I do have to agree, I'd like to see more too, and yes while it's better to ride than to ride vicariously, I'd rather ride vicariously on a cold winter's day than not at all.

My theory on this is of course that if you can post a Ride Report on ADVRider then you can post it on the HUBB too, and in fact you can do both incredibly quickly. Simply write it once on either forum, then click on EDIT for your post and then push Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C. You've now copied your ride report complete with BB formatting into your clipboard. You then go to the other forum start a new post and push Ctrl+V, so you'll have pasted the whole lot in. Now click on SUBMIT, and voila you've done a ride report for both sites in about a minute extra than doing it for one.

What's the point? Well there'll be some people who nly use one or the other and that way they both get to see your ace piccies.

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