Another Bicycle Shot --PESO

Tue Jan 1 07:35:30 EST 2008

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:30:03 -0000
"Bob W" <pdml at web-options.com> wrote:

> > I'm not convinced that bike is right for anything. 
> 
> it's a roadster. It's meant for pottering about town and for short
> journeys doing bits of shopping while you wear normal clothes on a
> day-to-day basis. It's the single most popular and important style of
> bicycle, perhaps even of transport, in the world.

Well, if you say, but I can carry more groceries on the commuter rig, faster, and farther, and in more comfort. :/  They just look poorly thought out to me.  Something more like this man.

http://polyhead.net/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=28&pos=-428
Granted, sporting a flat tire in that shot.  Took it just to see how much light a vivitar 283 could toss out in the rainy abyss.

http://polyhead.net/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=0
An older shot of the bike and me taken atop Washington Park in Portland Oregon.  Clear winter day late in the evening.  Mt. St. Helen in the back ground.

> Despite its humble utilitarian ordinariness this type of bike can
> usually go more or less anywhere, and do more or less anything. For
> all that we in the West spend zillions of pounds on fancy bikes to
> cycle around the world on, the people in places like Africa, India and
> the Far East are dealing with the same difficult terrain day in, day
> out, year after year on this type of roadster.

People in africa and the far east ride crap like that because they simply can't afford any better.

> >  Its just a really boring bike.  
> 
> Ha!

You say that, but it just is.  Just a high carbon steel frame, poorly welded together sporting stamped steel chain rings and gears.  This department store stuff just simply isn't worth having.

> --
>  Bob
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pdml-bounces at pdml.net [mailto:pdml-bounces at pdml.net] On 
> > Behalf Of Polyhead
> > Sent: 01 January 2008 10:58
> > To: pdml at pdml.net
> > Subject: Re: Another Bicycle Shot --PESO
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:40:08 -0000
> > "Bob W" <pdml at web-options.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't think Dunelts of that period were made in China
> (presumably
> > > you mean the same China that makes a lot of cameras for Pentax).
> > > Dunelt were part of Raleigh at that time and the bikes were made
> in
> > > England or in the local market, so that one could have been made
> in
> > > the USA. Graywolf may be able to let us know.
> > > 
> > > People decide their own priorities about what to spend 
> > their money on.
> > > Just because someone wants to spend a lot of money on a camera it
> > > doesn't mean they should also spend a lot on other things. I know
> > > people who have custom-built bicycles that cost more than a car,
> but
> > > who wouldn't spend more than a couple of hundred dollars on 
> > a camera.
> > > I also know people who've cycled round the world (some more than
> > > once), and now use beat-up old delivery bikes that they rescued
> from
> > > the tip. Having an expensive bike means nothing; having an
> expensive
> > > camera means nothing. What matters is to have the right bike, or
> the
> > > right camera.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced that bike is right for anything. :/  I 
> > mean, its not really the point of a bike really I suppose, 
> > but, ...  The most fun bike i've road all year had a 67" long 
> > front fork and needed a steel cable to keep it from folding 
> > in half.  Certainly deserved its 6 star difficulty.  Chunk 
> > 666 drinks... allot... you expect that sort of bikes out of 
> > Chunk 666.  They made a bike from nothing but springs once.. 
> > the only 10star bike in their fleet.  It really is unridable.
> > 
> > > That Dunelt looks like a damn good bike, and one that I'd 
> > be proud to
> > > own. It will probably outlive you; hopefully. If you do outlive
> the
> > > bike perhaps you'll pick up some knowledge, wisdom and 
> > humility on the
> > > way.
> > 
> > Eh... looks heavy and slow to me.  I'll stick with my 
> > Garymond.  ... half Gary Fisher, Half lemond road bike.  Its 
> > done the STP classic twice now.  I just want an intresting 
> > bike to look at.  Its just a really boring bike.  
> > > --
> > >  Bob
> > >  
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: pdml-bounces at pdml.net [mailto:pdml-bounces at pdml.net] On 
> > > > Behalf Of Polyhead
> > > > Sent: 01 January 2008 08:46
> > > > To: pdml at pdml.net
> > > > Subject: Re: Another Bicycle Shot --PESO
> > > > 
> > > > Would be a great shot if that made in china hunk of crap bike 
> > > > wasn't in the way.  >.>.... really.. people.. you'll drop a 
> > > > grand in a camera but won't drop $500 for a decent rig? WTF?
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > http://www.graywolfphoto.com/digital/_images/Bicycles/Dunelt-2
> > > > 0071229c.jpg
> > > > > 
> > > > > I kind of like the converging lines in the sky which is why 
> > > > > I darkened it down a bit. Not real sure of my monitor 
> > > > > calibration yet on the new OS load, so it would be nice if 
> > > > > folks would comment on how it looks on their system.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse)
> > > > > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com
> > > > > Blog:    http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/
> > > > > 
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