Wellington Ride - Sunday 2 October

**madboy** · 3rd October 2005, 13:54

Originally Posted by skelstar

If you have the time (sometime in the future) I wouldnt mind knowing what the difference. Apologies if you have covered this already.

50kgs and 30hp I'm guessing... Oh, and the back seat is smaller

**limbimtimwim** · 6th October 2005, 19:27

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Yep, I had a great time..... (snip) Thanks for the photo's Jim (though I really thought i'd avoided you!)

Talking of photos.. Where are the ones from the top of the hill of hillyness?

Originally Posted by skelstar

Without thread hijacking: I have 5 gears only wereas you may have 6...

Nope, 5 gears of forward motion on the vtr. The mighty father Spada of previous model has 6.

**Paul in NZ** · 6th October 2005, 20:01

Originally Posted by limbimtimwim

Talking of photos.. Where are the ones from the top of the hill of hillyness?

In my camera awaiting me to finish the film and process it... I own a 25 year old Moto Guzzi and a 35 year old Triumph... You were not seriously expecting digital were you?

**limbimtimwim** · 6th October 2005, 22:06

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

In my camera awaiting me to finish the film and process it... I own a 25 year old Moto Guzzi and a 35 year old Triumph... You were not seriously expecting digital were you?

I thought I was the only person left without a digital camera...

**riffer** · 6th October 2005, 22:33

Originally Posted by limbimtimwim

I thought I was the only person left without a digital camera...

Nah, most people just don't use them often.

I have at least six lying around here - damn good ones too, they just aren't as convenient.

It's that "instant gratification" thing, you know...

You just prompted me to get out a nice OM-1, whack the shutter dial onto 1 second, and click the button just to hear this...

**Hitcher** · 7th October 2005, 07:56

Nothing quite like the thwack of a focal-plane shutter. I have programmed our digital camera to make that noise when it's fired. How sad is that?

If anybody is into old focal-plane shutter equipment, I've got a couple of Minolta camera bodies and a swag of Rokkor lenses that I never seem to use any more. One body is an SRT Super (the North American version of the legendary 303b), the other is an X300, which has a three-frames-a-second motor drive unit. Lenses -- a variety from a 28mm f3.5 to a 135mm f3.5 and a couple of zoom lenses as well.

**badlieutenant** · 7th October 2005, 16:21

bruce and ola discuss the corgi (I think bruce is complaining about the hairs)

**limbimtimwim** · 7th October 2005, 16:33

Originally Posted by riffer

You just prompted me to get out a nice OM-1, whack the shutter dial onto 1 second, and click the button just to hear this...

My Pentax old sounds nice too, like blades sliding across each other, and a serious 'thwack'.. Pity there is grit in something that moves the little lever that moves the apature thingamy in the lens..

**Hitcher** · 9th October 2005, 15:33

Originally Posted by badlieutenant

bruce and ola discuss the corgi (I think bruce is complaining about the hairs)

At least its tail doesn't get in the way...

**sels1** · 10th October 2005, 21:45

Originally Posted by badlieutenant

bruce and ola discuss the corgi (I think bruce is complaining about the hairs)

Perhaps we should organise a ride to go up and visit it (the corgi that is...)

**badlieutenant** · 10th October 2005, 22:08

sounds good.
Everyone seems to know where the corgi is but me (I have been told but i was drunk at one of those KB rally things)
Ill nominate you sel as the number one orginizererr