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Old 10-03-21, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
If the photo in post #303 is the sole product of said stop, you need to work on your skills. A viewer can barely make out the features of the dairy.
Yet the minute crap you post is ok? SMH.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Show me how it's done.
Took this of where I had surgery in the spring. It's not at a weird angle. One can read the signage.


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Originally Posted by rjones28
Did you carry an umbrella?
No.
Originally Posted by DougRNS
Yet the minute crap you post is ok?
Yes.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Yes.
At least I got you to admit it is minute crap.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
At least I got you to admit it is minute crap.
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Old 10-03-21, 06:17 PM
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I just commented on a necro thread. Oops. Had to double back and delete it.

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Old 10-03-21, 06:18 PM
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Wait is it necro or zombie? Inquiring minds want to use the best term.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Took this of where I had surgery in the spring. It's not at a weird angle. One can read the signage.


I can’t find the bike in the pic.

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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I can’t find the bike in the pic.
No bike was needed. I know what my bike looks like, and it would mess up the picture.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
No bike was needed. I know what my bike looks like, and it would mess up the picture.
The presence of the grassy strip in the foreground already did that. Totally messes up where the eye wants to go.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
No bike was needed. I know what my bike looks like, and it would mess up the picture.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
The presence of the grassy strip in the foreground already did that. Totally messes up where the eye wants to go.
I was trying, to some extent, to get the full front. Couldn't get too close.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Wait is it necro or zombie? Inquiring minds want to use the best term.
It's necro if you go back and post in it. if enough people do it, it reanimates. then it's a zombie.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I was trying, to some extent, to get the full front. Couldn't get too close.
cropping is your friend.
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Saw the highlights of both the men's and women's Paris Roubaix. Looked like a really hard day on the bike. the pros are proper tough. even the women's race average speed is about as fast as I can sprint.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I was trying, to some extent, to get the full front. Couldn't get too close.
Do restraining orders ever expire?
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I swapped out the 120mm ITM stem on the Bianchi for a 110mm Zipp, and took it for 55 miles today. Amazing what one little cm can do. The Bianchi had been my longest reach, but now it's right in the middle. When I got it 14 years ago, it had a 130mm stem, which I rode with for a bit, but I'd get some lower back pain after long rides. So I got a 120mm, and that went away, and I rode it that way for 14 years. But I'm not under 50 anymore. But I figure giving up 1 cm of reach after 14 years ain't TOO bad!.

And it was true! It was comfier enough that I didn't feel stretched out at all.
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Originally Posted by gnome
Saw the highlights of both the men's and women's Paris Roubaix. Looked like a really hard day on the bike. the pros are proper tough. even the women's race average speed is about as fast as I can sprint.
The bike handling alone was a thing to behold. Both days.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I was trying, to some extent, to get the full front. Couldn't get too close.
That's what cropping is for.
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e.g.:

Original picture. Note extraneous crap in frame.


Same picture, with extraneous crap cropped out. Taking the picture from far away also avoids the fisheye effect.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Took this of where I had surgery in the spring. It's not at a weird angle. One can read the signage.


I gotta say, that is a very lifeless snapshot. Not going to win any awards.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
That's what cropping is for.
It was a quick snap taken during a ride. It's not meant to use on a brochure.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
The bike handling alone was a thing to behold. Both days.
I watched the highlight reels. There was one clip of one of the women handling a two-wheel slide like a boss. And a lot of other clips of men and women riding along and the bike just sliding out from underneath them. Dropped on your hip on rough stones. OUCH!
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
It was a quick snap taken during a ride. It's not meant to use on a brochure.
You could also level it. Unless the building itself isn't level? Do patients roll from one end to the other if not properly tethered?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Wait, the Jets AND the Giants won?

What the hell is going on here?
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