Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread David Mann
On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Don Guthrie wrote: Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ Looks like a beautiful day to be out on the

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
Thanks Dan, Well some of them just ride through and eat their way across by stopping every chance they get to eat homemade pies and chicken noodle dinners. They start 5 am every morning and ride 100 miles. There is another group that starts at 11 am makes an effort to stop in every small

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
Thanks John for commenting. By the way... My brother met his wife at the Iowa State Fair and they go on Ragbrai every year. Hmmm looking for a spouse - I'm just saying. John Francis jo...@panix.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Bikers w/o engines Message-ID

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:24:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Bikers w/o engines Message-ID: 1343780663.74126.yahoomail...@web162106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Nice color, nice lines

RE: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
...@gmail.com To: \Pentax-Discuss Mail List\ pdml@pdml.net Subject: Message: 9 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 03:15:39 + (UTC) From: knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com To: \Pentax-Discuss Mail List\ pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: Bikers w/o engines Message-ID: 1292427238.142.1343790956727

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
From: Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Bikers w/o engines Message-ID: cakaegks+xdzbpq5k0yphi0uxghxuvd_1ogumlnepg5urfpt...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Don, I like your shot and the movement really

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-08-01 Thread Don Guthrie
It was a nice day but warm. Which is why I took most of my pictures standing in the shade.:) Thanks for looking Dave. Message: 10 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:03:37 +1200 From: David Mann dmann...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Bikers w/o engines Message-ID

Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Don Guthrie
Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
It takes a whole week to bike across Iowa?G Nice pan, with a feeling of action and motion. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread John Francis
No - it just feels that way :-) My brother met his wife on RAGBRAI many, many years ago. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:08:37PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: It takes a whole week to bike across Iowa?G Nice pan, with a feeling of action and motion. Dan Matyola

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Womer
Nice color, nice lines, great panning, and it's somehow refreshing to see a tandem--I like it! Rick   http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com To: pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:20 PM Subject: Bikers w/o engines

RE: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
/31/12 To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Bikers w/o engines Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Anthony Farr
Don, I like your shot and the movement really works for me, much more important in this case than perfect sharpness. I worried me at first that the composition was extremely biased to the right, but then I full screened both my browser and the picture, and the penny dropped. This picture is a

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Anthony Farr
On 1 August 2012 13:15, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm told that tandems can really fly. Twice the power, less than twice the weight and no extra frontal area, they should be fast. I wonder if anyone has made a tandem with the cranks offset so that there's always

Re: Bikers w/o engines

2012-07-31 Thread Anthony Farr
Answering my own question, I googled it and found that it's common and well regarded to set up a tandem's cranks out-of-phase (OOP), by anything from two chain teeth up to 90 degrees. From what I read it seems that the rear rider, the 'stoker', should be behind the front seater's phase rather