Flooded The Carb....

....and rest of the bike.....




I thought Henri Cartier-Bresson had passed away, but it appears he's still out there taking snaps of "The Decisive Moment".

Tornado said:

....and rest of the bike.....

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I thought Henri Cartier-Bresson had passed away, but it appears he's still out there taking snaps of "The Decisive Moment".

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How are you getting on with that velo clutch?
Can you sit at traffic lights in gear on it?

baz said:

How are you getting on with that velo clutch?
Can you sit at traffic lights in gear on it?

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She's going very well. No clutch slip, no grabbing when pulled in. Still quite tricky getting neutral...almost impreceptible feel first to neutral, yet sometimes needs quite a lot of pressure to shift...so overshooting to 2nd is common.

I'm finding one trick is to apply pressure on shifter before pulling clutch, still rolling along.
I need to confirm neutral by keeping revs up while easing clutch off...otherwise risking stall. All making stops at lights a bit cumbersome. Probably 10-20% of stops I've not made neutral and habe to hold on clutch until going again. So far hasn't done any noticable harm.

I remember that famous pix from uni, it was a big deal in Art World. Later found out it was more or less posed or at least he had several attempts.
'Candid' 35mm photography all the rage none of that 4x5 Graflex stuff. Today idiots like me drop dosh so they can go to Medium Format. Everything old is new again...

Onder said:

I remember that famous pix from uni, it was a big deal in Art World. Later found out it was more or less posed or at least he had several attempts.
'Candid' 35mm photography all the rage none of that 4x5 Graflex stuff. Today idiots like me drop dosh so they can go to Medium Format. Everything old is new again...

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There are some amazing shots from back in the day capturing very difficult to achieve action shots....all with single exposures, one camera, no auto-winder etc. Obviously having to do many test or failed attempted shots would be needed.

Some of the historic races at the TT speeding past the cameraman have the rider's faces in good focus front wheel tack sharp focus, back of bike out of focus and background with a good amount of motion blur (implies the camera was being panned with bike's motion). And of course the shooter has no way to know if the shot(s) worked until many hours of darkroom work.

I have been told some of my shots were no big deal because they were photoshop adjusted. Well remember back then we did the same in the darkroom and in larger format days could and did crop negatives with abandon something that we can do again now with big MP camera sensors. None of this lessens actual skill with the camera.

Phil Irving was involved in designing both Vincents and Velocettes. With Vincents, every bolt is a special. With Velocettes, everything is a different width compared with other British bikes. I have seen a KTT Velo motor in a Featherbed frame - it was a real dog's breakfast. It was only worth buying for it's parts. I have great respect for Phil Irving, but he is Australian through and through - we are much worse than the British for mechanical idiocy.

Onder said:

I have been told some of my shots were no big deal because they were photoshop adjusted. Well remember back then we did the same in the darkroom and in larger format days could and did crop negatives with abandon something that we can do again now with big MP camera sensors. None of this lessens actual skill with the camera.

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'dodging' and 'burning in' IIRC.

Onder said:

I have been told some of my shots were no big deal because they were photoshop adjusted. Well remember back then we did the same in the darkroom and in larger format days could and did crop negatives with abandon something that we can do again now with big MP camera sensors. None of this lessens actual skill with the camera.

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Big difference between capturing the moment and creating it...in either a dark room or a computer.