On Oct 23, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-10-21 1:37 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I suspect that photography is an art from that attracts people who like >> things mechanical. Maybe it's just the high percentage of Y chromosomes, or >> maybe something about photography attracts gear heads. Walt's recent post >> has prompted several people to talk about their bikes, but I bet almost >> every one on this list has a camera, and most of you know how to use it. >> So, how about posting photos of your bikes? >> >> I suspect that there are some interesting ones owned by the members of the >> PDML. > > Realizing that I have *no* photo of my bike at all, anywhere, I decided to go > all out and get a proper shot. I cleared a wall in my office/studio and > dragged the subject upstairs. I hadn't yet broken-in my new convertible > umbrella, so I set up to light with 2 strobes, left & right. > > So here it is: a 1973 vintage Dawes Galaxy. I bought it new for $219 from > Bloor Cycle in Toronto. It's a touring bike with 27" road tires on aluminum > rims, center-pull brakes, Reynolds 531 double butted steel tubing and a real > Brooks leather seat.
And even, it looks like, cottered cranks. Very nice. > A couple of summers ago I got it out of storage, completely tore it down, > cleaned it and replaced hopelessly broken stuff. The rear derailleur was > useless (broken idler gears) so I bought the closest thing I could find that > would fit. Everything has changed on bikes since this was manufactured, so > the chain widths are different. That means I can only reach 8 gears now > instead of the original 10. If you have friction shifters, and it looks like you do, you should be able to hit all of the gears. The gear spacing only comes into play as an issue with indexed shifters (is that the right term?). When I built up Vita, my legnano, I converted it from 10 speeds to 18. Now, I think it is 21, with the aid of a mountain bike rear deraileur. Is there any chance that you have the motion stops on your rear deraileur set wrong? Which gear won't it go into? > > But it runs and the ride is wonderful. I love the stiffness of steel. I've > ridden modern fat-tubed aluminum bikes and they just feel heavy and spongy to > me. The irony is that aluminum frames are stiffer than steel. > > http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2254722/1/PDML?h=e7f676 > (It's the bike, not the girl on the left.) Go to home depot, and buy some canvas drop cloths and push pins. > > K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 26mm, f/8.0, 125th, ISO 200. > AF540FGZ x 2, shoot-thru brolly left, silver brolly right. > PP with LR 3.5 > > (Sorry about the outlets on the wall. A backdrop is on my wish list.) > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
