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Go old school steel, but with a twist. Firefly Bicycles makes a custom road bike with Columbus XCR stainless steel tubing. Seriously good bikes, the company's run by guys from Independent Fabrication, they have a long history of making innovative kickass bikes.
http://fireflybicycl.../road-stainless
And just to make your life even more fun, Seven Cycles 622 SLX. Carbon tubes with titanium lugs and chainstays. I saw one this summer when I dropped into the shop I used to work at, I'm indifferent towards carbon bikes at best but with this one I went "shit, if I did road riding and had the cash, I'd buy it no question". Well, I would if they didn't make the Axiom SLX.
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Video from yesterday's impromptu bike park session.
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Don't buy a Lynskey. Them and Litespeed are the only US companies who somehow figured out how to make titanium bikes that cracked apart by the bushel. Not surprising since Lynskey used to run Litespeed. It's also warranty hell when one of their frames cracks apart on you. Friend of mine used to work at a former Lynskey dealer, former because after the cracked frames started coming in for warranties all hell broke loose and they dropped Lynskey since the manufacturer was a bitch to work with. As in badmouthing customers when they ebay'd their frames after they got sick of dealing with broken frames and warranty replacements.
If you want a titanium bike you go with Seven Cycles and have them custom build you a Sola SL. Comes with any wheel size you want, built to your body measurements and riding style with no compromises. And they don't break.
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Found a bike park. Had some fun. There will be a video.
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I got the bike this morning. The shop did setup the suspension per the manual for my weight but there appears to be an issue with the rear shock when in long travel mode. It thumps at the top of the stroke. I'd think something was loose if it didn't function perfectly in the lower travel setting. Regardless I took it home to give it a shakedown ride sometime this weekend and then I'll bring it back Monday or Tuesday so my LBS can get in touch with Fox.
Fox has a setup and tech page for the shock on your Cannondale. There's 2 separate rebound adjustor knobs on your shock, my guess is the shop didn't get the one for the long travel mode dialed in which is why you're getting the thump at the top. Go through the setup guide and make sure the air pressure is in right ballpark, then get both rebound adjustors dialed in. If that doesn't take care of it then yeah, Fox will be getting a call from your shop.
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Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a 23mm fixed lens
Fortunately, it's coming out pretty soon according to the Fuji lens roadmap. Should be out by early 2013.
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It's not a custom. It's not carbon. Hell, it's not even a road bike. Nonetheless I just got shipping confirmation on my purchase of a leftover 2012 Cannondale Jekyll 3.
Nice, saw your post yesterday on MTBR.
The bike rides nicely out of the box but get ready to do some serious suspension tuning over the next few weeks. Once you get the suspension dialed in it takes the bike to a whole new level.
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Barbara Streisand and J.Lo from what I hear is another story though.......perhaps some chaps here can share their experience handling celebrity or meeting celebrity.......
We processed J.Lo and her entourage through customs back when I was working at the airport. Let's just say it was a fucking disaster and leave it at that. Don't deal with her. Ever. Unless you want a migraine where not even oxycontin makes you feel better.
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Did a pretty good ride on Sunday, but suffered badly in the last half hour of the ride. 3.5 hour mountain bike ride, 44km, and 3700' of elevation gain. Fuck that hurt. We did about 20km with the main group before a bunch of people had to bail or limp out of the forest with mechanicals. It came down to me and 2 others, and those 2 others happened to be the Provincial champions from last year and this year, and they were on singlespeeds. And I still got my ass kicked on the climbs. Those singlespeeders are animals.
On the bright side, it was a pretty epic ride and my new fork is now dialed in. Still getting used to my new wider handlebar but I'm liking it.
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Shutterfly gets most of my business since they have the most reasonable shipping cost and their quality is decent. Results can be unpredictable unless you go through the options and disable the "optimize prints" feature or whatever the hell they call it these days, it basically auto-levels and auto-contrasts the photos if you leave it enabled.
My personal favourite for when things have to look good and right is Adoramapix. They have a great choice of papers and sizes and their prints just look better. But I get killed on shipping since I live in Canada, I think the prices are pretty resonable for you guys.
I'd say try out a few places. Pick out a few sample files and order a set of prints from each place, then see which one looks best. I doubt we're photographing the same kind of stuff nor looking for the same kind of things in the final prints. Try out different papers & finishes too to see what works best. I like all my stuff in super high gloss but others might not.
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Anyone interested in the OM-D? It seems nice but M43 has its limitations. Mostly DOF and low light capability. Although since it's olympus, I'm sure AF will be extremely quick. Much quicker than the X-pro1
Nope, I'll stick with my OM-1. I hate EVFs, give me an actual optical viewfinder and at least an APS-C sensor. Given that it's an OM, I can't understand why it doesn't have a full-frame sensor. I just don't get this camera. Mind you I have the entire X-Pro-1 system on order so they'd literally have to come out with a digital OM-2SP for me to buy into the system.
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Pentax K-5 is a heck of a lot bigger than the OM-1, no? So you don't really have another choice.
It's close, the K-5 is a little bit narrower, a bit taller, and with the lenses I want it's about the same depth.
edit: Also, if you're considering spending $3500, have you thought about the M8?Hell no, I may be a retro-grouch but I still want autofocus on my digital cameras. I also don't get along well with rangefinder focusing.
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For me it's worth it since I'm unwilling to carry around anything bigger than an Olympus OM-1, regardless of how good it is.
Worst case is around $3500 for the body and all 3 lenses, which isn't any more than the other system I was considering (Pentax K-5 with Limited Series lenses).
It's definitely a niche system and I can certainly see why it isn't worth it for many people.
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M U S T .. RES.I.S.T.
Resistance is futile.
I've been hoping and waiting for this camera ever since a Fuji rep told me that they'd have something like this in the works if the X100 sold well.
I can finally put away my film cameras for everything other than shooting Velvia 50.
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Huh, this one's almost as baffling as Pentax's Q camera. I'm now morbidly curious as to what Canon's entry will be like.
A couple shots from the summer
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They pretty much lost me with "Reveal" and I haven't bought any of their newer albums, though I always went to their concerts when they came by my area. R.E.M. was the first band I really got into, I still have a couple of their albums in the original LP release, "Reckoning" on vinyl absolutely kills the CD version. It's been a long trip with a ton of amazing & influencial music along the way, I think they made the right choice. It was time.
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Ok, now this is freakin' weird. For whatever reason, Fujicolor 100 scans like a dream while Fujicolor 200 absolutely refuses to play nice with my scanner. The all came from the same B&H order and were shoved in the fridge as soon as they arrived. The prints from both rolls look great, but negative scans from the 200 roll look like crap, the colours are way off and the contrast looks rather poor.
A scan from the good roll. Straight from the scanner, all I did was crop it.
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those were nice monitors. not sure i could ever go back to a CRT myself, though it's space savings more than anything else. how is the brightness on the tube? quality control was always a problem with tubes. it makes complete sense, when you think about it.
Brightness seems to be fine, I have to set brightness & contrast on the higher end of the range to get a good picture but there's still some room left for adjustment if it fades some more. I have a couple LCD monitors setup at my trading computer, they're great for web browsing, reading text, and doing trades but pictures & movies just never looked quite right on them. So I've been hunting down all the large cheap & free CRT monitors people are posting in the local classifieds and cherry picking the best ones.
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Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2040U. I can't say I notice any real difference between this and my 21" Dell Trinitron monitors, there seems to be just as much difference between the 2 Dells I have as there is between the Dells and this one.
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The compact prime is product meant for the motion picture industry, that they adapted to fit Canon (and Nikon) DSLRs.
They even have a version for micro 4/3 cameras, I'm waiting for someone to stick one on a GF3.
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This is both awesome and hilarious.
I don't know, I think he should've gone for the compact prime instead.
I saw one mounted on a 5D2 at the photo show and it looked pretty funny.
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Cuddles FTMFW
Proving once again, that mountain bikers rule.
HC Bike/Cycling Thread
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A good steel or titanium mtb will last nearly forever even if you abuse the hell out of it. My '96 Kona Explosif was raced by the factory team for a year, then handed off to the development team for another year, then dumped for cheap to some guy in BC. He rode the hell out of it for 7-8 years then had it in storage for a bit before he sold it to me, and I've been trashing it for the last 3 years. Other than a small ding in the toptube and a hell of a lot of paint chips, it's still good as new.
A good Ti bike will be even tougher than my steel frame. Friend of mine is a former pro who had a full factory sponsorship. She has a few Ti bikes which had the shit beaten out of them on world cup courses year after year, other than a few minor scratches they're all good as new. Those bikes are anywhere from 10-20 years old and have more miles and abuse on them than most people can rack up in a lifetime.