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Jacomus

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QR Fail.
« on: 05 December, 2008, 04:48:57 pm »
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FatBloke

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #1 on: 05 December, 2008, 04:50:23 pm »
He is about to be visiting a world of pain!  :-\
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Jaded

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #2 on: 05 December, 2008, 05:06:18 pm »
He needs to visit a world of better photoshopping.
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alan

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #3 on: 05 December, 2008, 05:07:03 pm »
The running gear is on the wrong side of the frame.
Photoshopped perhaps.?

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mrcharly-YHT

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #4 on: 05 December, 2008, 05:08:55 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 05 December, 2008, 05:06:18 pm
He needs to visit a world of better photoshopping.
aye, the 'glow' around the feet is very poor.
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blackpuddinonnabike

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #5 on: 05 December, 2008, 05:12:58 pm »
At least he put the reflection in the window...
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Rob S

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #6 on: 05 December, 2008, 05:48:50 pm »
Looks like a toy/model bike.






Pasted underneath a photo of mountainbiker doing a handstand.
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andygates

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #7 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:14:25 pm »
Bike looks okay, but the thick fuzzy white line around his feet is a giveaway...
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Jaded

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #8 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:15:05 pm »
there's no shadow...
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Rob S

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #9 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:45:09 pm »
Quote from: andygates on 05 December, 2008, 06:14:25 pm
Bike looks okay, but the thick fuzzy white line around his feet is a giveaway...

Bike looks anything but okay....looks way too small, the rear brake looks massive, the brake levers don't look like they can bew reached by human hands, the saddle is tiny....
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Wendy

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #10 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:49:54 pm »
I had this happen to me for real once, sprinting up the drive of St. Georges College in Harare, over a speed hump, and my front wheel fell out.  No QR though, wingnuts.
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Jaded

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #11 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:51:50 pm »
Quote from: BentMikey on 05 December, 2008, 06:49:54 pm
I had this happen to me for real once, sprinting up the drive of St. Georges College in Harare, over a speed hump, and my front wheel fell out.  No QR though, wingnuts.

I'd probably have sworn much more than that.
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Wendy

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #12 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:54:52 pm »
LOL!  It was worse than that.  I landed on the rolling front wheel with my solar plexus, so I was too winded to say anything.  My v. large backpack full of books then slammed into my upper back and neck, and then the bike flipped over the forks and cracked me one on the head just to add still further insult.  Of course this was just before the start of school, so *everyone* was watching, and I pringled my front wheel and bent the forks.
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Jurek

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #13 on: 05 December, 2008, 06:58:28 pm »
Aaaannnnndddd......

The pose of the cyclist is more akin to that of someone about to do a chin-up from a bar - and the image looks like it has then been flipped vertically.
No?

If he was being rotated centrifugally about the handlebars, I would expect to see much more arching of the back and his feet to be way ahead of the rest of him in the direction of travel.
Hm?
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drossall

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #14 on: 05 December, 2008, 08:29:04 pm »
Friend of mine had a front QR skewer snap towards the end of a ride into the Peaks. No great problem - ends went in two directions, wheel stayed put, walked home.

Every time I go past the lay-by in Hazel Grove where it happened I remember it, and it was 30+ years ago.

Nothing like the picture, that's for sure.
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JJ

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #15 on: 09 December, 2008, 03:32:10 pm »
When this happened to me on the way back from some 10 mile TT in 1979, I woke up in the ambulance on the way to Bath General, unable to remember my name.
By the time they had patched me up I looked just like a saucisson sec :sick:.  I still have to shave round the scars.  Ah happy memories.

Nowadays I check.

A lot.
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scott

Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #16 on: 09 December, 2008, 04:28:20 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 05 December, 2008, 06:15:05 pm
there's no shadow...

Clearly a vampire.
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Valiant

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Re: QR Fail.
« Reply #17 on: 13 December, 2008, 01:40:11 am »
The angle of the bike is wrong too.
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