1978 Moto Guzzi V50 MkI build
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SeekingZero
Been Around the Block
Excellent work! What a stunning bike.
v-pilot
More Fun At The Ton!
Thanks for the kudos! Still need to wrap the header and I was thinking of wrapping the straight section of the pipe in Italian chrome to cut down on some of the shine coming off of it. It's a very narrow machine, nice and light. It's got slightly longer shocks and I've dropped the fork tubes an inch to quicken the steering. It was a pretty nimble machine to begin with...we'll see how it works. I was even able to find a plate of the same year as the bike 
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Hoosier Daddy
Earache my eye...
For some reason I always imagined the jugs hung out more. That head-on shot goes to show just how little the engine design adds to the width.
Very impressive, thanks for that view!
Very impressive, thanks for that view!
Hoosier Daddy
Earache my eye...
AgentX said:
LOL! I never said Jugs hanging out was a bad thing
JUST SURPRISED THEY WEREN'T!!!
v-pilot
More Fun At The Ton!
AgentX said:
Hi Agentx, I wish I could. It was on the bike when dad got it...no markings at all. It was it in pretty rough shape, took a bit of glass and resin to fix, not to mention the time involved. I changed all the hardware to stainless and added a recess for the light cover. That part came from the UK. 99% of the rest of the hardware is stainless too.
v-pilot
More Fun At The Ton!
Dale said:
Whats foreshortening?...at the risk of seeming stupid. I wasn't perfectly in line when I took the shot. My camera is a Cannon Powershot A520...not the best but it works. The SP lower fairings maybe help it look slim. My knees don't touch like on my Le Mans
AgentX
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v-pilot said:
OK, so you know how when you use a short (wide-angle) lens or zoom setting and you're close to something, the foreground is exaggeratedly big and the background tiny?
It's the opposite with a long ("telepoto," to use the term loosely) lens. The size relationships between things are reduced. Essentially, if you look at something that's far away, and just cut out a little slice of it and magnify it, it still looks far away, even though it's magnified.
This is merely due to the fact that the lenses respectively "cut out" a different portion of the visual world. See, when you're using the wide-angle, you're physically close to the foreground and that size relationship is exaggerated by the fact that the lens makes everything look smaller, so you have to get REALLY close to the object to make it look big. Your hand looks huge to you right in front of your face, right, but smaller at arm's distance.
Long lenses also just cut out a small bit of what you can see and magnify it. Imagine now a hand (hopefully someone else's hand!) twenty feet from you. Then imagine another hand an arm's length further past that. The sizes of the hands seem relatively similar...very different from the same distance between them when it was just in front of your face and then at arm's distance. The loss of apparent perspective is called "foreshortening."
Another way to illustrate it is: take a pic of your front wheel, from the front of the bike, close up with a wide-angle lens. Rest of the bike is tiny and in the background, right? Take a pic with a long lens, but ensure the front wheel height in the frame is the same as it was with the wide-angle. You'll end up standing much further away, and the rest of the bike occupies much more space in the frame than it did close-up with the wide angle.
SeekingZero
Been Around the Block
v-pilot said:here's what I did with the ignition cover from the blown engine...guess I'm a bit crafty too
That's pretty clever sir. Nice work.
