On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:07:35 -0500, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank > it looks like road rash from a roll over. > Either that or its the musical score from the First Noel. > > I assume Pista is the model name? > > FWIW, I'd be more intrigued by the image if it was more abstract and showed > less of the rest of the bike, maybe just the handle bars. >
Thanks for your thoughts, Ken, Yeah, the tops of the bars are pretty scratched up. You know what that's from? Not roll overs (bikes tend to slide on their sides during or after crashes), but from something much more mundane than that: changing flat tires. Rear wheels on track bikes are easier to change when the bike's upside down, so the bars get all scratched on the concrete sidewalk whilst the bike is being wiggled about from the torque of the wrench and the adjustments needed to the rear wheel to get the chain tension just right. Since the bars are aluminium which is soft... Pista is Italian for "track" - it's what most Italian manufacturers call their track bikes. As for the idea of a more "abstract" look, I like it. Who knows, I may soon be enabled with a 50 mm f1.2 - with that narrow dof, we'll see what happens. Thanks for your thoughts and comments. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
