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#2301
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Serious hot potential, but could be better staged. I find the unfinished background a little distracting. Your valve stems are out of alignment, your cranks are not level, and the bar tape doesn't go with anything else on the bike. A final touch would be trimming the steerer to have no more than one 5mm spacer above the stem.
As for the bar tape, I thought that all black would be boring, which is why I went camo. It has black in the splotches so I thought that would be enough to tie it in.
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That camera in that mode cannot separate the spokes from the background, so it thinks they are part of the background. You can see that they are sharp where they cross the bridge supports.
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Serious hot potential, but could be better staged. I find the unfinished background a little distracting. Your valve stems are out of alignment, your cranks are not level, and the bar tape doesn't go with anything else on the bike. A final touch would be trimming the steerer to have no more than one 5mm spacer above the stem.
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Soon, someone will come along and say that you need pink tape.
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p.s. Paintwork is in amazing condition. How old is that frame?
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I think it’s the slight fisheye effect you get towards the edge of a phone lens when close-up. That part is just about flat, but towards the edges the wheels look like they’re not quite parallel to the frame. Maybe it’s accentuated by the front wheel being turned a bit.
p.s. Paintwork is in amazing condition. How old is that frame?
p.s. Paintwork is in amazing condition. How old is that frame?
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Is this better phrantic09 ?
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Is this better phrantic09 ?
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My new bike, crappy photo edit, as I was having trouble with the contrast of the snow and trees in the horizon:
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