OWW OWW OWW

[keithaba]

Not my pics, but I saw them and though, yikes......

 

[FJRBluesman]

Ouch!

You know things are not right when the bike is on top of you.

 

[BikerGeek99]

Fencer? Was that you??

h34r:

 

[GalaxyBlue]

That is one hell of a good photographer!

 

[GalaxyBlue]

Fencer? Was that you??
h34r:

Nah, His suit is purple and has tassels on the bar ends.

 

[FJRONAMISSION]

Look .... he saved the left side plastic from hitting the asphalt...... GOOD JOB!!!

B.

 

[reecebike]

BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!!

 

[TCMike]

Look .... he saved the left side plastic from hitting the asphalt...... GOOD JOB!!!



B.

That's it.......he acted as a human slider to protect the bike.....genious!

 

[kolonial72]

I don't think he was trying to save the plastics. I think he figured, I always ride the motorcycle, why not let the motorcycle ride me for once?

 

[Tenchi]

In Soviet Russia, Motorcycle rides You.

 

[Philip V]

That is some good camera work, anyone know who shot it?

 

[wfooshee]

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, the camera work is only about 25% of the work in getting images like this out there. These two are probably the ones kept out of 20 or even 30 shot during the crash. A modern pro digital SLR is almost a movie camera, usually over 10 frames a second.

Also, they don't shoot as tight as the images look, they're cropped afterwards, once the selection of best frames is made. He (she) didn't just happen to snap that bike-on-top picture at exactly the right time, the camera was running and that was the frame selected.

I've posted a bike pic or two myself in these boards and been told they were pretty snazzy. I've posted very few pictures as they were shot, though. Most of them will be cropped so much that 60% or so of the original frame is thrown away. (Although my camera does good to give me 3 frames a second, and only for a couple of seconds, then it stops while it dumps the buffer to the storage card. The difference between a five-hundred-dollar body and a five-thousand-dollar body!)

I'm not meaning to take anything away from this guy's work, because those are great pictures. I guess my point is that the camera work only begins the work of creating good images. He sat at his computer viewing thousands of frames, tossing the ones not quite there, and working the ones he kept to make them perfect. I might shoot 400 frames in a race weekend and then take my time getting them posted. I can't image how those guys get through thousands every week.

 

[chrisflock]

I think he figured, I always ride the motorcycle, why not let the motorcycle ride me for once?

That's one bit of logic we'd best not apply to automobiles...

Should work great for significant others, though :dribble:

 

[cardingtr]

That is some good camera work, anyone know who shot it?

Canon 30D at 1/1000 sec ISO 400. That camera can shoot 3/sec(?) at high speed.

The newer models Canon 50D can shoot 6 frames/sec on a faster card at even higher shutter speed.

 

[eg23232]

If he gets on the throttle and looks through the corner, he can make it

 

[madmike2]

This should be required viewing for anyone worried about grinding their pegs; how far their FJR will lean; concerned their chicken strips are too large.

I'm jist sayin'.....

 

[Zorlac]

I don't think he was trying to save the plastics. I think he figured, I always ride the motorcycle, why not let the motorcycle ride me for once?

I'll bet you $10 he wasn't thinking that. :lol: I know a guy that tried to ride his Harley up a plank into a pickup and when the plank broke the bike landed on top of him. mg2: