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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: grzybu on July 23, 2013, 05:43:10 am
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Hi,
I've spend last weekend on bicycle making quite long distance for me (500 km).
When it's so hot I don't really care about taking photos but there were few moments where I couldn't not to stop and take a photo.
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5458/9347906743_8aa6d980e8_o.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/9350688804_9e12d76e87_o.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7412/9347906781_93bdf43339_o.jpg)
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Forget photography...how do you do 500 km (312 miles) in two days???
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Forget photography...how do you do 500 km (312 miles) in two days???
Well, I suppose it could be 1 km on one day and 499 on the other, but I suspect it might be closer to approximately 250 km on each of the two days.
As for photography, the first image was worth the price (of Grzegorz's exhaustion). ;)
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All three are very fine. As a once-dedicated cyclist I can tell you how you do 500 km in two days: you do it while you're young.
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Well, I'm 39 so I'm not a teenager ;)
Doing 250 km a day is simple, just need good saddle. After first such trip I've quickly bought Brooks B17, classic, leather saddle. Now saddle is not a problem.
You don't need extra bike, I have 26" mountain bike, with 1.5" and 1.9" tires, so it's not fastest bike too.
But after few such trips for more or less recreational biker like me I think 250 km is bit too much. Doing such distance in three days would be a better idea.
Maybe next year I'll take my wife and we do it in three days.
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Well, I'm 39 so I'm not a teenager ;)
Doing 250 km a day is simple, just need good saddle. After first such trip I've quickly bought Brooks B17, classic, leather saddle. Now saddle is not a problem.
You don't need extra bike, I have 26" mountain bike, with 1.5" and 1.9" tires, so it's not fastest bike too.
But after few such trips for more or less recreational biker like me I think 250 km is bit too much. Doing such distance in three days would be a better idea.
Maybe next year I'll take my wife and we do it in three days.
If I'd have suggested such an idea to mine, she'd have called in a psychiatrist for me.
Rob C
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Forget photography...how do you do 500 km (312 miles) in two days???
All downhill!
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Let me see... I also ride a mountain bike, though through a hilly (even if mildly so) countryside roads/paths and can reach, on average, 15-16 km/h speed, maybe 18-20 on a flatter terrain. So, at such an average speed, I would need about 16 hours a day to reach 250 km. I am usually rather exhausted after two hours though (I am 56, mind you). So, the real question is: how do you manage to spend 16 hours biking constantly!? How about breaks? Eating? Or is your average speed so much better?
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I have mountain bike and my average speed showed on cycle computer was about 21 km/h for this trip. But it doesn't count breaks so real speed was closer to 17 km/h. Terrain was mildly hilly. I do short brakes every 2-3 hours. I can't keep high average speed but I can spend 14 hours on bike and repeat this next day.
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All downhill!
In my own bicycling days I kept looking for a nice round-trip route that would be downhill all the way. Much to my surprise, I never found the right course... ;D
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In my own bicycling days I kept looking for a nice round-trip route that would be downhill all the way. Much to my surprise, I never found the right course... ;D
That's because you don't live in an Escheresque world!
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In my own bicycling days I kept looking for a nice round-trip route that would be downhill all the way. Much to my surprise, I never found the right course... ;D
As my next-door neighbor once said about why he doesn't ride a bike: "I've found that for every down there's an up."
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The work is very nice. In particular I like the 3rd one and also the mood portrayed in the first one.
I’m an avid fat-tire cyclist myself, but have never come anywhere near the daily miles you’ve put on a bike. My typical ride is about 16 miles, which I do between 3 and 5 times per week. I could only imagine covering so much distance in a day. This is risky to do and survive the open roadway and countless thousands of inconsiderate or completely oblivious people in other cars, trucks, motor cycles.
I bet you sleep well and eat a lot to compensate for the energy consumed.
Thanks for sharing the works and hope you’ll share more.
Keep the shiny side up!
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In my own bicycling days I kept looking for a nice round-trip route that would be downhill all the way. Much to my surprise, I never found the right course... ;D
A couple of my rides do the next best thing. They climb a lot on the outward stretch and then permit a miles long downhill ride coming back.
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A couple of my rides do the next best thing. They climb a lot on the outward stretch and then permit a miles long downhill ride coming back.
That's the kind of ride I have had to settle for. It's quite fine, if one doesn't live in an Escheresque world.
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^…or have a friend with a car and bike rack.
There is this huge parking lot at the top end of a 7 mile long, steeply climbing boulevard not too far from here. The bottom of this boulevard intersects with a state hiway. From the intersection the hiway has a nice downhill stretch (if you’re heading that way) for about 15 miles, which makes for about 22 miles where you really don’t have to pedal, except a little for maybe a mile.
Just about every year, from the middle of April until about the end of May, these two roadways have very little motor vehicle traffic. So if you have a friend with a car and a bike rack, you park one car at the downhill end of this stretch, and then you, the friends, and the bikes go in another car and drive to this parking lot …. Or you can ride uphill and then get the downhill run for the return.
While not quite Escheresque, a 22 mile downhill ride makes for an extraordinary day with some of the best scenery in this part of the world. If you pedal up and then free wheel back, (about 2,800 feet of elevation change each way) you get a great work out, too.