Firefight and the piccies we took

[Quasievil]

SOmething to do with a magazine wanting some pictures of Firefights R6 to support Motoracers write up on the R6.
We headed to Hamilton Lake for some pretty piccies, we were even offered a nude model which we turned down ,she was a 500 year old and the body well... moving on, we then went to the windy bits on the way to Raglan for some action shots, Unfortyunetly the rain started to come down and it limited the speed of the shots and extended abilities as a camera man. Anyway here they are
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[Blakamin]

Swap Ya, FF!!!!

[Quasievil]

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[Quasievil]

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[Quasievil]

OOOOPs how did that nice red ZX636R get in there ........ wasnt me :msn-wink:

[aff-man]

Noice one brutha. Good pics all round :love:

[Magua]

Getting the knee out the side and all :msn-wink: .
Nice shots.

[Zed]

Looking good Dave! :2thumbsup

[gav]

Is it just me, or are some of those shots a bit blurry? Saw a docu thing on US mag Sports Rider or something doing a foto shoot, didnt think you could get ya knee down at such slow speeds, it was bizarre, this guy knee scrapping at like 20km/h, bloody posers....

[Zapf]

Off topic slighly... is the front tire on the R6 mounted the wrong way around? Tread pattens look wrong.

Re the blur, just need a faster film / shutter speed. More light / sunny day would've help. :mobile:

[Bob]

Erm, I'm guessing these were for me, as I'm giving Motoracer's writeup the website treatment?

If so, thanks for doing this, it is appreciated. I'll sort out a couple and the article and pix (who should I give the photo credit to, by the way? Real or pseudonym will go in, depending on what you want used) will be launching into the web about the 24th September.

Quite funny, people always think that the action shots in magazines are taken at 'real' speeds. In truth? They're going as slowly as they possibly can without falling off!

Friend of mine did a road test a while back - he said most of the day was taken up with riding round a roundabout at about 5mph to get the so-called action shots of the bike being leaned over!

But thanks again for these - really, really appreciated.

Bob

[LB]

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Great piccies. Would it look like I lean over that far if you took some piccies of me on my Monster/s Quasi??

Bob: can you give us the link when the article's online please? Ta.

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[Firefight]

Off topic slighly... is the front tire on the R6 mounted the wrong way around? Tread pattens look wrong :mobile:


Those who know Kerry from motohaus tyres, will agree its unlikely he would put a tyre on the wrong way.

F/F

[Firefight]

Erm, I'm guessing these were for me, as I'm giving Motoracer's writeup the website treatment?

If so, thanks for doing this, it is appreciated. I'll sort out a couple and the article and pix (who should I give the photo credit to, by the way? Real or pseudonym will go in, depending on what you want used) will be launching into the web about the 24th September.

Quite funny, people always think that the action shots in magazines are taken at 'real' speeds. In truth? They're going as slowly as they possibly can without falling off!

Friend of mine did a road test a while back - he said most of the day was taken up with riding round a roundabout at about 5mph to get the so-called action shots of the bike being leaned over!

But thanks again for these - really, really appreciated.

Bob

Not sure what speed I was doing, was busy hanging on, pretty sure it wasn't 5 kph, Maybe Quazzie has a better idea, Re Credit for photo You will have to pm Quazzie to find out what name to use for his photos.

F/F

[White trash]

Quite funny, people always think that the action shots in magazines are taken at 'real' speeds. In truth? They're going as slowly as they possibly can without falling off!

Friend of mine did a road test a while back - he said most of the day was taken up with riding round a roundabout at about 5mph to get the so-called action shots of the bike being leaned over!


Bob

Ummmm.... not in the mag article I did.

Get yourself a gun lens man such as Mr '750 and all the shots we took were at 80kph +

But yeah, you can get your knee down fairly easily at 10-15kph at full lock if you want to.

[Quasievil]

FF would have been at around 80- 90 kph , the photos were blurry this was because of me being unsteady (should have taken tripod) and the shutter speed at .25 sec, largly taking the pic so close its unavoidable, even on a $2.5K camera.

Photo Credit Bret Glazer If you want it Bob.

[Joni]

Dave you know my feelings on an R6....... you lucky lucky boy!!!!! :first:

[Bob]

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Great piccies. Would it look like I lean over that far if you took some piccies of me on my Monster/s Quasi??

Bob: can you give us the link when the article's online please? Ta.

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As I said, it should appear around the 24th of September. Keep an eye on the "KB Bike Reviews" forum - there is a sticky in there called "A request - I'd like to use your bike reviews". Whenever I put up a review that someone has allowed me to use, I post the link in there.

It's really nice to be able to have you guys let me use your reviews - it broadens out the range of bikes. What I'm trying to do is build up a real bikers datebase - so it will be filled with bike tests, product tests and a range of general features. I've had it running for about 7 months now and have around 40 articles in there. Right now, a lot of stuff is penned by me, but ultimately, I'd love it to be filled with lots of articles sent in, so I can sit back and be 'Mr Editor'!

But in all honesty, I can only cover so many items - if people come up with a bundle of reviews, then it will make the site far more useful to bikers generally.

Well that is the aim anyway!

So if anyone has anything they'd like to review, take a look at The 'How to be a writer' page on the Motobke site (http://www.bobpickett.co.uk/bkit/about.htm) - I do need to change the photo size requirement in there (300 pixels longest edge to photo is much niceer), but otherwise it should tell you everything you need to know.