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nsaP posted:I didn't realize the thread was stuck on this...But of course I have some cam whore shots anyway. It was about 50 today so I went out to my favorite road to try an eye level gopro mount. This should count as a pic of me, gopro dong coming off my forehead and all. So the weather this weekend not only finally gave me a chance to catch up on my Steam backlog and sperg on the Biek wiki, I somehow won a thread I'd not looked at in weeks:  To cheer me up:  Your bike at the beginning or end of your favourite road (the road to you/your significant other/your mom's house doesn't count unless they live at Laguna Seca)
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Monkey Wrangler posted:
Not a serious entry but in this pic of my bike:  you can see the white pillar on the right which contains one of the inlet trunks for my office, which currently has just over a terabit of bandwidth flowing through it. They probably won't let me move my bike into one of the machine rooms to take a more suitable picture though...
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Feb 6, 2013 22:01
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Bucephalus posted:Requesting a shot from inside or underneath the Arecibo dish. Wouldn't underneath it be somewhere in Thailand?
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Feb 7, 2013 16:47
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Slavvy posted:Booyah: Does a weir count as a waterfall?
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Aug 3, 2013 22:17
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nsaP posted:Water has to freefall. Weir is a low head dam, right? It just goes down an incline. Water does freefall over a weir, just not very far (the one I was thinking of is built like a very, very wide staircase). Thanks to the ice age (and the Industrial Revolution channelising almost all of our rivers and converting waterfalls into waterwheels) there are basically no waterfalls in civilised England. My nearest one is either North Yorkshire or Wales, both about a 500 mile round trip. (Not that it matters, I've just realised that thanks to stupid non-powered-two-wheelers London is basically closed tomorrow so I'm not going anywhere  )
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Aug 3, 2013 23:56
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Linedance posted:The peanut gallery deems your tunnel Acceptable+ He clearly said "bike", not "scooter" 
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Aug 6, 2013 23:04
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Simkin posted:Next one's going to be in the middle of a field of canola, just to screw with anyone that doesn't live in a flyover province/state. I live in the middle of London and there's a field of rapeseed literally ten minutes walk from my house - there's probably farm equipment too, but it's down a muddy track on a steep hill which is sketchy enough on foot, there's no way I'm taking my bike down there.
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Aug 7, 2013 08:21
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I could get really uncreative and put a rose on my bike or something (Britain doesn't really do official national emblems as such) but I work just around the corner from the Tower of London and I wonder how much I'd have to bribe a Beefeater to sit on my bike...
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Aug 8, 2013 11:49
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_the_United_Kingdom,_the_Channel_Islands_and_the_Isle_of_Man They're not official emblems though. I mean I've got a 1996 England shirt signed by Gazza in storage somewhere and that's as official an emblem of Her Majesty's United Kingdom as any of those things (God Save The Queen isn't even our official national anthem - even the motto on the Royal Crest is nicked!). Oh poo poo, saying that (that any emblem of England/the UK is as official as any other) has given me the best idea. I need to find out how powerful my camera flash is and when traffic wardens go off-duty on the Romford Road...
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Aug 8, 2013 23:20
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Orange Someone posted:I got lucky then. I snapped the phot about an hour before that and was going to wait until I got home to upload it. But I was delivering some pasties to my sister, she was late and I had time to kill. If the delivery I'm waiting in for tomorrow turns up at a reasonable time I've got this one. Oh also you might need to accept a little enhancement because street name signs are really small and high up where this place is and I'll be parked massively illegally so, erm... well we'll see what happens.
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Aug 10, 2013 00:31
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Kaboom: (click for huge) Dudes seem unimpressed by my parking but I was in a bit of a rush, besides they ain't even got shoes. Next one: YOUR BIKE WHERE ONLY BIKES CAN GO . You can be creative with this one, don't just chuck it in a motorcycle parking spot or down a narrow alleyway, find something with an interesting reason why only a bike can get there.
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Aug 10, 2013 12:44
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I only set that as a challenge because (thanks to a crane blocking the entire street) that street on that day counted as a place basically you could only get a motorbike to, and even that was only after sweet-talking the banksman to let me ride across the site. Pedestrians couldn't even get there (well, not from the direction I came anyway), and it amused me to set a challenge that my photo also fulfilled so I could be perpetual and always winner. So I'll change the challenge and recycle an old one that I thought was interesting, only making it a bit wider: YOUR BIKE IN FRONT OF SOMETHING ICONIC FOR YOUR TOWN/STATE/COUNTRY Doesn't have to be an official thing, just has to be something that people look at and instantly think of that place (so a red bus for London, a kangaroo for Australia, a drunken naked man for Florida, that sort of thing). If you have to explain it it's not iconic enough.
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Aug 14, 2013 13:33
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Bucephalus posted:Excellent photos, beautiful building; I'm a sucker for Art Deco. West London is sort of an Art Deco museum, not too far away on the A4 you've got Gillette Corner which has a nice little cluster of surviving Art Deco factories, and further up the A40 there's a bunch more which are slowly being demolished because they're not as well-known. Most of the Underground stations out that way, particularly on the Piccadilly and District lines, are lovely Art Deco pieces too. There's some crackers in the West End too (those that escaped the Luftwaffe and the 60s anyway). I know this challenge is gone now but I sort of wanted to go the other way with it; I live in an area that has changed completely beyond recognition in the last 20 years, so a picture like this:  was taken somewhere that now looks like this:  (Slight liberty taken with location and the Street View wide-angle lenses kinda sell the Canary Wharf towers, among the tallest in Europe, pretty short, but you get the idea). Maybe I'll go for it anyway as a general project, seems like as good a thing to photograph as any.
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Aug 17, 2013 18:07
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Assuming nothing fucks up today you've all got until lunchtime (BST) because I work on Brick Lane which is dumb graffiti central.
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Aug 23, 2013 07:53
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Linedance posted:Leake Street, which goes under waterloo station. Basically it's a free graffiti zone, where anyone can paint whatever they like. There's also a car wash that all the cabbies use So was it you who broke a fairly essential bit of kit in my office meaning I've not been able to get out and do this today? You win this round, but I will be avenged, Linedance. Shimrod posted:Holy poo poo that Futura looks awesome. Like a Lamborghini Aventador in bike form or something. I mean, I've seen it before, but that shot just makes it look awesome. It is a seriously pretty bike, isn't it? Aprilia have been teasing a new version, based on the 1200 engine, for about as long as they've been making the 1200 engine. If it ever happens and is pretty as the old Mille-derived one I'm going to have to make some hard decisions...
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Aug 23, 2013 16:21
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Stitecin posted:I'll take it I guess. Aww man why couldn't this have been posted nearer the weekend? There's a wine bar called "Planet Of the Grapes" just opposite a bike shop I was going to visit this weekend.
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Sep 17, 2013 07:55
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Linedance posted:
How close does it have to be? Because from the top of Observatory Hill in Greenwich you can get a pic of both the entire Canary Wharf complex and The Shard (with the City in there for added flavour) but I feel like it's cheating if the pic's taken from ~5 miles away. (For that matter you can just about see The Shard from my company's car park but it's still over a mile away)
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Sep 26, 2013 14:26
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Linedance posted:you can see The Shard from the platform at Chiswick Park Station on a clear day. If you can get a good shot of The Shard from the Observatory in Greenwich Park, that would be cool because it's a great vista. Company car park, nahhh. Actually I might head for Parliament Hill in Hampstead if this is still up at the weekend, it's sort-of on the way to where I was going anyway and it's an even nicer vista.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:06
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epalm posted:"WEAK BRIDGE"?? What the hell is that supposed to mean? The funny thing is the IRA did us a bit of a favour by trying to blow it up - the repair work to rectify the damage from the 1996 bomb showed it was in much worse condition than was previously assumed, which is why there's a stringent weight limit on it. If it weren't for the bomb there was a fair chance the thing might have just fell into the river of it's own accord. (The IRA are pretty obsessed with that one bridge, possibly because it's a suspension bridge and so more vulnerable, but they've tried 3 times now, which seems like a lot of effort for a bridge that even most Londoners are only vaguely aware of)
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Sep 27, 2013 11:47
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Also looks like a centre stand to me, which on a dirt bike would be almost as strange as a wrong-side kick stand.
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Oct 13, 2013 10:59
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If the weather wasn't going to be so lovely this weekend I'd ride down to Dover and take a pic looking over towards the heathen land of Frogs, possibly while flicking a v-sign at them.
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Oct 31, 2013 12:23
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ArcticZombie posted:4 hours and a tank of petrol later... There's a lighthouse just up the road from me. I live 50 miles inland. That would have been worth something, surely? (Also I've got an old pic of my bike outside St. Pauls Cathedral but you can't really see the cathedral and I'm confined to quarters this weekend so I'll leave it to someone else.)
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Mar 27, 2014 20:34
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Fuuuuccckkk I went to a cold war nuclear bunker last weekend but couldn't park my bike anywhere near enough to get a shot of it with the entrance to the bunker (which just looks like a farmhouse anyway) If I can get away tomorrow I've got a good one in mind though.
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Mar 30, 2014 00:56
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This one works on multiple levels: (click for unnecessarily huge) Obviously, a couple of sailing boats - however they're actually from the 80s, when the area next to them - a 19th-century warehouse for the importation of tobacco (hence the gigantic walls to keep out the local scum) - was redeveloped to be an upscale shopping mall, which failed spectacularly, as did it's successor (a Calvin Klein outlet centre) and is now basically derelict although it's occasionally used for filming. It's really the epitome of the 80s redevelopment hubris, a scheme so insane that even the subsequent 90s/00s bubble wouldn't touch it. Also the brown buildings visible on the left are the now-closed News International buildings, a double relic of the past, representing as they do the death of Fleet Street in the 80s and the subsequent near-death of print media in general in the 21st century (News International moving to much smaller offices just down the road because they have only an eighth the journalistic staff they had at their height). Finally the canal you can see in the bottom left corner is the only remnant of the London Docks, built in 1799, closed in 1969 (after being basically derelict after being leveled by the Luftwaffe in World War 2) and filled in in the seventies to build new housing. Switching the theme ip - new challenge is Your bike next to something very old that is still in use, bonus points if it's still doing what it was originally built for.
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KARMA! posted:
So a picture of an Italian bike running, then?
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Apr 3, 2014 22:40
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Tanbo posted:
Aww man I could have got a picture of my bike outside the nuclear shelter in my borough, it's just around the corner from my office. Also haven't we done the ice cream shop thing before?
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Apr 6, 2014 21:23
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I've got a red light in a red-light district in mind but I think thanks to Crossrail works parking there will be impossible. If there's good weather on Friday I'll see what I can do (assuming the train crowd doesn't beat me to it)
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Apr 16, 2014 22:05
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Would this count as a pipe? vvv Good enough for me. As this picture is me passing back from Satan's own borne (south of the Thames) to civilisation as we know it (north of the Thames, even if it is only Thurrock) my challenge is YOUR BIKE AT THE BORDER. Doesn't have to be a national frontier, use a bit of imagination. Bonus points if you can get more than one border into the shot. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 13:41
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Safety Dance posted:All europeans live within minutes of a border with another country. Europe is weird like that. (Mainland) Brits don't. At least not until September.
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May 5, 2014 18:39
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epalm posted:Elaborate. Referendum on Scottish independence.
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May 5, 2014 19:19
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Linedance posted:I think the welsh border counts, because when you cross it all the signs are in some weird moon language. Yeah but that counts for most of the M25 too. What the hell kind of place name is "Stoke Poges"?
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May 6, 2014 08:11
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Just want to say that I've only seen a handful of Shivers on the road and when I popped it in for service and new tyres last month this thing was also in for exactly the same thing, even the same tyres... I know it doesn't count as it wasn't taken for the challenge but it was still freaky, given it's a random back street garage, and they're rare enough even at dealers also I could have nailed the filtering one but the footage of me showing Devon bumpkins how we do it in That London is still on a memory card in my bag waiting for me to return to civilization. e: Oops, that's quite a big image. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 22:38
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Thanks, I wasn't using those tables anyways. Pfft, you're not running fullscreen on an Imax cinema for your Forums Browsing Esperience? Pauper. (Sorry about that, mobile posting (and the app auto-resizes images) so I didn't realise I'd uploaded the humungous 40-ish megapixel image rather than the more sensible one my phone also creates.)
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May 16, 2014 22:38
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As I (and the majority of people on Earth) live in places where covered bridges are rare, if not non-existent, can we make the challenges a little less specific please? At the very least, can we have a "or best local equivalent" general rule? Otherwise next time I get to set a challenge I'm going to make it "Your bike next to a building over 500 years old"
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May 24, 2014 16:04
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OSU_Matthew posted:Great Smokies pics! I was thinking that maybe we could change the rules a bit so it's an open-ended challenge lasting, say, two weeks - let as many people as want to/can do post pictures, allowing interpretation, with the poster of the challenge deciding which is best? There's been a few challenges where the winner has been a bit boring while being technically correct, just because they posted first (and I'd include most of my wins on that) and where I'd quite liked to have seen other people's entries (the current one, for a start, and the "post your bike with a national emblem" type ones where there's a lot of room for interpretation and funny images).
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May 25, 2014 09:41
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Two for the price of one here: (Click for huge) In the foreground - on the left cranes and on the right the gatehouse and sheds for the graving and shipbuilding yards, attached to the South Dock of the West India Docks and Blackwall Dock of the East India Docks on the Isle of Dogs respectively. Once the busiest and most important docks in the world, extensive "remodelling" courtesy of the Luftwaffe (the sheds on the right replaced ones destroyed by a single V2) and increasing containerisation led to their obsolescence and eventual closure in the 60s and 80s. In the background - on the left, Pan Peninsula, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world, in the centre on on the right the Canary Wharf complex, which contains the 2nd, 6th and 7th tallest buildings in the UK (First, second and third tallest as of 2001), headquarters to a fair chunk of the world's financial industry, representing the fact that the entire economy not just of east London but the entire UK is now based entirely on building, mortgaging and renting ridiculously overpriced housing. e: This is an interesting subject so I'm going to stick the same challenge on again: Post a pic of your bike with something representative of the "big industry" in your area
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May 25, 2014 13:15
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Sagebrush posted:I also think it would be cool to change the format up a little bit and let multiple people complete it over a couple of weeks. Then it's more of a challenge to find the coolest $thing instead of just the first $thing, and it's more interesting because everyone gets to see things from all over the place. I was sort of thinking of an even bigger change too, based on an idea I saw years ago when I was more into photography - we set up a bike photos bingo card, and let people do whichever ones they feel like, obviously with the general intention of filling the card but with no particular pressure to do so. Obviously you set the challenges to be as open to creative interpretation (and as non regionally-specific) as possible, to let people have a bit of fun. I think this would make a pretty good adjunct to, rather than replacement for, this game (especially when the thread gets a little bit quiet like it has been lately) - as the weather's looking lovely for tomorrow I might throw together a first draft and see what people think.
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May 25, 2014 19:40
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url posted:I like the game as it is Me too, I just wanted a backup for when the challenge is boring/impossible for me (there was a waterfall one and AFAICT the nearest waterfall to me is 500 miles away). I think talk of prizes beyond internet cred will make the game a lot less fun, personally (although I was willing to pony up for a gang tag or something for those that completed it).
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May 26, 2014 09:45
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Bucephalus posted:Welcome to the House of Nightmares! Give me a few months and I'll post a pic of my bike outside an Aprilia showroom 
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If it weren't for the near-certainty of getting shot (or at least spoken to nastily by a policeman which is just as bad) while trying to get the pic I could get the last 4 challenges in one go (cobblestones on Addington Street from where you can see the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the Blue Plaque on 11 Millbank).
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