[pure-silver] Re: Biking and photography
- From: "Kurt J. Griffin" <kjg@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:00:25 -0700
Title: [pure-silver] Re: Biking and
photography
Some food for thought. Never mind crashing, just the ordinary
vibration
of riding can be hell on equipment; in last weekend's Solvang
Century,
I rode a lot of miles on fairly rough pavement, enough that it
vibrated
my LED headlamp apart while I was doing around 35MPH on a descent.
The
headlamp rotates and snaps into a housing pretty firmly, and yet
the
vibration was enough to unsnap it. Of course, this was on an
unsuspended road-bike, but even a fully-suspended mountain bike
can get a lot of shock on rough dirt roads (never mind
anything
technical).
I do all of my riding on a road bike, not necessarily on paved
roads. While the small digital has a lot to be said for it,
sometimes, that's not what I want. The trusty metal
Voigtländer (similar to an Ikon) fits into the jersey, but I've been
known to drag a bunch o' other equipment along. I commute by
bike, so I have a rack & a "grocery bag" pannier (or
two). Items therein bounce a bit, but it's a more gentle, lower
frequency bounce than anything fastened firmly to the bars, seatpost,
or rack. I've found that rapping things loosely in a towel gives
enough protection even from that. I'm also a big fan of wide
tires at lower pressures (and steel frames) to soften the vibrations
from what pass for roads in S. AZ (or PG county, MD).
Ride safely,all,
--Kurt
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