Nice Ride!

[Doug T.]

Hi All!

I love cars, and all sorts of other means of transportation, but if I had my way, I'd be building and riding one of these!!



Check out those pipes

Doug

[mickeyobe]

Those sharply angled handlebars could make quite a dent in somebody's abdomen.

Mickey

[Berndt]

Cool ... it looks fantastic !!!

[photax]

Doug,

You have an eye for extravagant shaped vehicles ! This bike is pretty cool !

MIK

[daveh]

I'm worried about the rider though. It doesn't look as though he has been eating properly: he's wasted away to nothing! ;D

Excellent bike. Did you get to try it out?

[Doug T.]

I didn't get to give it a test ride

This weekend there's a massive car show and flea market in Norwich, NY. It's one of the largest in upstate NY.
I'm going Saturday morning for the day!

Here's their Website in case anyone is interested.
local.aaca.org/raocc/index.html

I'll be sure to get lots of photos.
If there is anything in particular that any of you are interested in, let me know by Friday evening, and I'll try to get a shot of it.

Maybe I should just download all the photos I take on a CD and send out copies. That would be fun

Doug

[daveh]

Here's their Website in case anyone is interested.

Definitely....but I can't get a flight!

I'll just have to make do with the photos.

Dave

[daveh]

Hetn Doug,

I've just been looking at that website. Are you a "Rolling Antique"? ;D

Dave.


postscript: Hetn what the devil is that? I think I meant Hey!

[Berndt]

Oh BTW ... I might be able to come up with a cool ride too

Sorry for the bad picture though. It has been the first test film with my old Kodak No.2 Folding Autographic Brownie to see, what needed to be repaired.

[daveh]

Berndt,

Nice photo! Who is the handsome fellow on the bike?

Is the streak in the bottom just flare, or do we have to find another leak?

Dave.

[Berndt]

Who is the handsome fellow on the bike?

That's me ... but I tell you secret: I don't even have a driver licence for bikes I am just posing and one of the girls of this biker club took the picture ;D

Is the streak in the bottom just flare, or do we have to find another leak?

Hahaha ... it had a few leaks. I could fix it, but the focus is difficult on that one. The bellows need to snap into an end position and that doesn't really work on my camera anymore. I worked on some solutions for that, but in the end, the focus on this actually quite simple constructed camera is too difficult to predict. It just works, if the lens is pretty much stopped down. I have better working 6x9 cameras ... so, I haven't had much motivation for using it very often.

[daveh]

I have better working 6x9 cameras ...

Vorsprung Dorch Technique as they say?

[Berndt]

Vorsprung Dorch Technique as they say?

Close "Vorsprung durch Technik". I actually don't use 6x9 very often, as it is some kind of overkill anyway ... but if, my Zeiss Super Ikonta will do the job

But I recently appreciated the pretty exotic format on my Bencini Koroll. It's taking pictures at 3x4.5 on 120 film. That's not a bad deal. I can get 24 pictures out of one film and it provides a larger angle of view at the same DOF and standard lens then on 35 mm film. Mmmh ... complicated sentence ... hahaha ... but I guess, you know, what I mean.