Art of the Chopper - a few pics - LINK to Album added

Here are a few pictures of motorcycles.

[Edit] Here's a link to the album. Icebreak_ArtOfTheChopper. [/EDIT]

Still learning. They look mediocre, then I reduce them, then they look pretty bad. I guess I should have used VicMan instead of MS PhotoEd. Anyway, maybe they aren't too offensive to the senses. I made an album. I'll get someone to tell me if they can see it before I post it.

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Nice bikes. The photos look "busy" from all the jaggies. With a better resizing program they would look awesome.

You might want to try Image Resizer (free from Microsoft) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

Greg

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That's better. Seems a little foggier than VicMan but it's much faster as it works in Windows Explorer. What do you think? Improved? I think I'll try Vic or Gimp again. I've posted photos before and the turned out pretty good. That'll teach me to take the easy way out.

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Here is the link to the album. They look much better especially at 100%.

Off topic question. Does anyone know of a place that will host photos that are huge like 3000 x 2000 ?

Great pics!

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Wouldn't want to be on that if the drive chain/belt/whatever breaks. :duck:

Thanks, gswitter. It's one of my favorite Choppers at the museum but I keep wanting to see a rear fender on it...something to keep it from eating my shirt tail or anything attached to it. I've got better shots of it in that link.

Some of the bikes have invisible drive components. I think that big brown one with the flames is called "Hubba Hubba"...no rear axle, no chain, no belt, no shaft.

I hoped you'd post something like that :thumbsup:

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How does that one work? Can it move?

bernie

All of the bikes start and drive.

A trusty SureFire A2 reveals part of Hubba Hubba's secret:

Frame highlighted by a Cree XRE Q3 using no collimation.



Well darn

Icebreak said:

Some of the bikes have invisible drive components. I think that big brown one with the flames is called "Hubba Hubba"...no rear axle, no chain, no belt, no shaft.

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It's the visible brake on that red one that caught my eye - basically a tranny brake instead of a rear wheel brake.

I've never owned a street bike (nor any bike since I was a kid), but I really enjoy custom/art bikes. Few TV shows have ever sucked me in like Biker Build-Off. :shrug:

Icebreak said:

All of the bikes start and drive.

A trusty SureFire A2 reveals part of Hubba Hubba's secret:

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Wow. Just Wow.
Real art. Those people have vision.
bk

Kiessling -

I had the same thoughts. The best I could figure is that the whole thing works like a big axle bearing.

gswitter said:

It's the visible brake on that red one that caught my eye - basically a tranny brake instead of a rear wheel brake.

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Good eye. I had thought it might be a suicide clutch. If we go back I'll take a tighter shot of it, though I'm sure you're right.

OK. Here's another try using GIMP. Apologies for the dupes.

Somebody wanted a cropped version of this one. The trees have ice on them except for the evergreens.

Icebreak said:

Somebody wanted a cropped version of this one. The trees have ice on them except for the evergreens.

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Awesome looking machine. There doesn't seem to be much clearance though, especially when you sit on it, seems to me it would drag on the ground. Is it just the angle the pic is taken?

No, ah, it's really that low. About an inch. I wondered about that too so I looked for some kind of hydraulics trickery and found none. I'm only guessing but I think it may be some aesthetics envelope pushing. Like, "How low can she go!".

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No, ah, it's really that low. About an inch. I wondered about that too so I looked for some kind of hydraulics trickery and found none. I'm only guessing but I think it may be some aesthetics envelope pushing. Like, "How low can she go!".

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erm she is low enough lol. I really dig it but I'd be to worried about riding it. You would want to keep it in pristine condition.

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erm she is low enough lol. I really dig it but I'd be to worried about riding it. You would want to keep it in pristine condition.

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I think I'd be worried about riding any of those bikes for fear of damaging them. They're really all works of art.

This one is my favorite in terms of engineering:



It really looks like the wheels are floating relative to the frame.

And this is my favorite in terms of pure art (but it was a hard choice picking a favorite as they're all fantastic):



I love all the colors. It must have taken months to plan and paint that.

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OK. Here's another try using GIMP. Apologies for the dupes.

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I wonder if you've seen the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"? This bike would look absolutely in its element in it. It's like someone asked a bike designer of the '30s to design a future bike and he came up with this. All the way down to the rocker damper and leaf spring on the front swingarm.

I hope you don't mind, but I've put one of your pictures from photobucket as a my desktop background

Cheers!
Sami

edit: I even see a spring-preload knob/T at the front!

The centerless hub on that one bike is awesome. I don't care for the drive system though. I would prefer to see some sort of positive action system. Not just a tire turning another tire.