Thorn Cycles Forum
Community => Non-Thorn Related => Topic started by: Andre Jute on March 09, 2014, 09:05:47 AM
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Matthew Mattingly, a clever and talented chap on my sketching conference, has adapted his bike to do double duty as a tripod under his pochade box. (A pochade box is a painting box in French. Lots of painting gear is cod French... It makes us sound smarter than we are. Really.) Here Matthew's bike, the Poch-Ride (heh-heh), is ready to paint:
(http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/download/file.php?id=6982)
And here is the gubbins, the head of an old tripod fitted to an old seat post:
(http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/download/file.php?id=6981)
More photographs and description:
http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2240&sid=e45dbc6bf099a2d77705a3c735a1ef7f#p19201
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Andre,
Not quite sure where the primus stove fits, but it looks good for a cuppa or two après pochade.
julk.
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Andre, how does the bike tilt to the left past vertical while the prop stand pokes into the snow on the right? The snow doesn't look so deep n hard as to hold the whole affair upright, and the wheels aren't very far into the snow. Is this (i) just a trick of perspective (which one might expect from a painter); (ii) not a prop stand at all, but a sturdy piece of cord hooked into some hidden anchor 'neath the snow; (iii) further evidence that the French know stuff that the rest of us never knew existed; or (iv) a modern echo of Napoleon's habit of overturning established laws & conventions, in this case that of gravity?
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Andre, how does the bike tilt to the left past vertical while the prop stand pokes into the snow on the right?
The painter is obviously a surrealist, John! ;D
All the best,
Dan.
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now that is very clever,if a fella could only paint or draw. 8)
jags.
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Fine bike, that, but the saddle looks a bit harder than the usual Brooks. Still, we all have our preferences... :D
Best,
Dan.
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;D ;D his arse must be as hard as stone. :)
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And there was me complaining about a brooks saddles too.
Regards, Alfie
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;D ;D hope for ya yet alfie.
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That saddle could leave your arse all black & blue ! ;D
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That saddle could leave your arse all black & blue ! ;D
All the better to express yourself!
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Andre, how does the bike tilt to the left past vertical while the prop stand pokes into the snow on the right?
It's magic! According to the owner the snow was deep enough to hold the bike up. He's on a mountainside; you can see the tripod-head is angled.