9 Responses to “Commuporteur”

• bongobike says:
  

  Beautiful pic, Alan. But when you click to zoom, the “zoomed” picture is actually smaller than the original!

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 6:49 am
• Alan says:
  

  @bongobike

  Thanks!

  You must have a small screen? The “zoom” function zooms the full image to fit the screen; on small screens that might mean the zoomed image ends up being reduced to fit the view window.

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 7:30 am
• bongobike says:
  

  Yes, I have a small screen. But the picture I get is smaller than the posted picture. Normally it works fine and gives me a bigger picture like it’s supposed to, but not this one.

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 7:41 am
• Andrew says:
  

  @bongobike

  It does the same for me. It’s probably the aspect ratio of this photo: most of the images on the site are landscape, so they fit better on a standard monitor. This one is portrait, so the algorithm may end up shrinking it when it ‘fits’ to your screen.

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 9:23 am
• Alan says:
  

  Andrew explained it better than I could – thanks! I don’t normally place the “zoom” button on portrait images, and honestly, I’m not sure why I did this time. Too much late night blogging I suppose… LOL.

  Thanks, guys.
  Alan

  PS – If you have a humungous graphics display it will actually zoom out larger (up to the original size of the image).

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 9:35 am
• j. pierce says:
  

  Control-clicking on my Macbook, over the pop-up image from the “zoom” allows me to choose “open image in new window” and see the full size without the image program trying to size it.

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 11:36 am
• Dolan Halbrook says:
  

  Sorry – I know this has been answered somewhere else — but which bars are you running on the LHT? Are those Civia Aldriches? Do you like them? Which sweep (looks like the 50 or 70)? Thanks!

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 3:24 pm
• Alan says:
  

  @Dolan

  That’s the 50 degree Civia Aldrich. The 70 degree version is not available until later this year. I like this bar a little too much; I’m supposed to be testing other bars but I can’t quite bring myself to remove it just yet… LOL

  Alan

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 3:38 pm
• Dolan Halbrook says:
  

  Thanks Alan. I found the earlier post where you referenced it compared to the other Civia bar. I’m seriously considering switching my main commuter (the Rohloff bike) from drops to something like the Aldriches. I find that my riding style is just more laid back when not riding drops, and that’s a good thing. I arrive at my destination a little happier.

  Posted on 8.20.10 at 3:41 pm