Obsessive Compulsive Poser (OCP) guide to bike photos

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  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    I've always done my skewers that way.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    He speaks... it's a sign.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Pinno wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    As in they won't close up without touching the fork leg. My fulcrum wheels are OK but its just wrong to have a different alignment on different wheels.

    Ah. What you need is a 'Pro Look'. There's reason for this. I met Mike at Cheltenham Cycles. Great guy. He moved to a LBS in Evesham. He worked for the Mavic Neutral service team at a few TdF's and other Pro events.
    He pulled me up for having my QR skewers straight up.

    Here's Sagan's bike. Notice the front QR lever:

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    The reason for the lever pointing straight backwards (including the rear, obscured in the pic above) was that it was quicker for the neutral service personnel to remove a wheel. He got fed up of having to go around to all the team mechanics reminding them to put the lever in the correct position and from then on, it seemed natural to always put them in that position.
    The fact that my rationale was that there wasn't a snow flake's chance in hell that any neutral service vehicle would be following me was immaterial.

    For authenticity, NapD should amend his rule book and all budding OCP's should abide by the Rule of Mike.

    The rear appears to be between the seatstay and chainstay, middle of rear triangle. The front isn't parallel to the ground either. :shock:
    Jeez, the slacker hasn't even got the tyres lined up with the valves or valves vertical! how can he live with this?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    I thought the reason was also because if you tonked someone from behind there was no chance of buggering up your skewer leading to your wheel falling off and you getting death disease?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    I thought the reason was also because if you tonked someone from behind there was no chance of buggering up your skewer leading to your wheel falling off and you getting death disease?

    They have invented discs for that.
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  • scott_w1987
    scott_w1987 Posts: 316
    Poor valve alignment, poor crank alignment, poor lighting. The saddle and post haven't been adjusted to suit until I can test ride it.

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    What's the white effluent leaking from the BB?
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  • scott_w1987
    scott_w1987 Posts: 316
    It's peracitic acid or cider. It was taken in the keg filling room at work... Hence the poor lightening but the only white back drop I had access to at the time. Proper photos will happen.
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,065
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    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    I see HD - the stealth look. It's hardly 'stealthy' with you on top :wink:
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  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,065
    I can tell you live in Scotland, you can't even afford a decent shot.
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Hoods appear higher than the saddle. Just buy a hybrid if that's what you want...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    homers double wrote:
    I can tell you live in Scotland, you can't even afford a decent shot.

    It's all about value for money.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    scott_w1987 wrote:
    Poor valve alignment, poor crank alignment, poor lighting. The saddle and post haven't been adjusted to suit until I can test ride it.

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    Is that a standard frame colour? That is utterly brilliant - I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed one.

    Bollorrcks: having seen that I now need a new project. Bugger.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    Another project?! You spend half your life fixing your current stock of wrecks and you want another one?1
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Another project?! You spend half your life fixing your current stock of wrecks and you want another one?1

    Cheeky git :0

    All sorted now save for the cx bike because its taken me 2 months to buy a brake cable. As soon as that's done here I come.

    The motorbike is only 11 years down the line.........................

    Think pink and black looks well pukka cool.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Another project?! You spend half your life fixing your current stock of wrecks and you want another one?1

    Cheeky git :0

    All sorted now save for the cx bike because its taken me 2 months to buy a brake cable. As soon as that's done here I come.

    Don't you bother coming this way. I am not riding behind you with a bucket for all the bits that come off.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Whenever my uncle visited my parents house I used to go outside with a dustpan and brush to sweep up the rust as it fell off.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    That's either a deep, almost French metaphor or a sad existence.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Why did bits of rust fall off your uncle? Was he the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Another project?! You spend half your life fixing your current stock of wrecks and you want another one?1

    Cheeky git :0

    All sorted now save for the cx bike because its taken me 2 months to buy a brake cable. As soon as that's done here I come.

    Don't you bother coming this way. I am not riding behind you with a bucket for all the bits that come off.

    Nah - its all kosher, innit. Pukka bike building by Integrated Immigrant Bike Builders Limited.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Who's foreigner is this immigrant?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Pinno wrote:
    That's either a deep, almost French metaphor or a sad existence.
    i'll let entropy take its course.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,527
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    That's either a deep, almost French metaphor or a sad existence.
    i'll let entropy take its course.

    The only permanent thing now is entropy. There's irony in there somewhere.
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  • benjai
    benjai Posts: 20
    Sorry about tyre logos, no garage door and chain on wrong rings...was washing the bike!

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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    benjai wrote:
    Sorry about tyre logos, no garage door and chain on wrong rings...was washing the bike!

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    Take it down, correct, then repost.
  • airborne_warrior
    airborne_warrior Posts: 199
    My best rides.

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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Crank not aligned to either chainstay or seat tube on the Cipollini, tyre logos nowhere near the tyre valves on either bike
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Think people seem to also be forgetting the photo needs to be taken level with the middle of the bike. Looking down on it looks crap.
  • JakeJ
    JakeJ Posts: 151
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    Damn, any idea on how to upload from Flickr? I went to the trouble of finding a white garage door and everything for this.

    Also, any idea on why I get logged out any time I try and post from a computer.

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