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  • your photo/bike challenge is as follows…
  • rOcKeTdOg
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    take an "extreme/danger" panda

    lots of examples here (and explaination of the name) http://www.flickr.com/groups/pandaportraits/

    rules are
    1)both hands must be off the bars
    2)look into camera
    3)bike must be in motion, no cheating by leaning the bike out of shot
    4)you must take the picture yourself

    here's my go

    lets see your efforts

    redthunder
    Free Member

    OK. I'll try one tomorrow with my rubbish camera…. just incase.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    posh cameras or phone pics welcome (even new iphone ones) 😉

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    slugwash
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    Here's one I did earlier 😉 …….

    _tom_
    Free Member

    Might have a go at this tomorrow, I feel a crash coming on 😆

    samuri
    Free Member

    No problem, I'll try in the morning.

    romster
    Free Member

    yup – another attemptee here in the morning! which reminds me im up at 6 so i best **** off to bed!

    frank4short
    Free Member

    I likey just need to borrow me a camera that falls into the category of not the end of the world if i break it.

    Kevevs
    Free Member

    can have a go at that!

    kimbers
    Full Member

    this is the closest ive got so far

    was scary as ****, hub deep in water on top of the peaks just one hand off the bars, but it was a rocky trail underneath!

    im at the rough ride this weekend, will be a challenge

    simonralli2
    Free Member

    I think I get the meaning of the word Panda but can someone explain where it comes from and why it is used for self taken pics on bikes? Cheers : )

    lagerfanny
    Free Member

    Panda – no hander

    only my guess

    adeward
    Free Member

    here is dangerous panda ,, i did take it about three years ago

    i may have got the wrong idea

    avalanche
    Free Member

    Then you can start a new thread with all the photos of your injuries. Nutters.

    OCB
    Free Member

    I usually struggle at these, but I did manage to catch this rather relaxed danger-panda a month or so back – it's a bit more casual than you two up there tho' ^

    I'm going out on a bike in a minute, so I'll give it proper go.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    simon, check the link above, but the short version is

    Why are these called "pandas?" Well, ya see, there's this rad chick who goes by the name faster panda kill kill. She takes rad self-portraits while riding her bike. They are so rad, in fact, that a group was formed to record similar self-portraits cuz, really, just about anyone who has a camera and rides bikes also takes these self-portraits.

    the usual panda being a self pic taken on a bike, the danger panda has evolved due to the nature of riding no hands whilst not looking where you are going

    extra kudos for off road versions!

    buzz-lightyear
    Free Member

    OCB has the best beard ever

    PiknMix
    Free Member

    OCB looks very much like one of my Uni lecturers, the beard is spectacular.

    I take it a backward facing helmet cam mounted on the bars isn't within the spirit of the competition. 😕

    grahamh
    Free Member

    My attempt.

    cheeeesekate
    Free Member

    must. try. harder.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Graham H, that is a panda, but not a danger panda, can't see if your hands are on the bars or not

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    OCB's beard needs a photo thread all of it's own, awesome work there chap

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    What's the best way to get blood of a camera lens?

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    😯 😛

    grahamh
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    What's the best way to get blood of a camera lens?

    Brillo pad 😆

    JohnClimber
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    Ok so I broke rule 2 but I'm an ugly fecker

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Very poor John

    OCB
    Free Member

    Ha ha, thanks for the beard compliment.
    😉

    Well, I spent most of this afternoons ride trying to pull this off, and the best I managed was this rather poor showing. It's hard to work out on account of the gloom, but, scouts honour, I am actually riding the bike here.

    It's ok until you try the looking up bit, then it all goes to pot.

    Note that the beard has gone a bit swooshy here, it does that on the bike when it's this length – but I'll grow on past it (as long as I don't have any bonfire related 'incidents' when I'm clearing the garden, which is what accounted for months worth of growth about this time last year).

    It looks a bit less odd in this shot (also from this afternoon).

    EDIT: revised photo uploaded now, with the levels boosted way up past sensible.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    It's ok until you try the looking up bit, then it all goes to pot.
    +1

    love the fear in your eyes,excellent effort though!

    notice your pic comes via flickr, what username are you on there?

    OCB
    Free Member

    You want fear – try this failed attempt where I had to wrestle control back to avoid disaster.

    😛


    I dunno why that bike doesn't hold a decent line, it's about 10 foot long. It's a 1992 Kona with 29er P2's on it (and a 26 inch wheel), so it's not exactly got steep, nervous angles on it, quite the opposite in fact.

    On Flickr I am a longer version of whom I am here … (linky), but I 'spect you have found me in the Panda pool by now (err, tho' that sounds a bit sordid).

    orena45
    Full Member

    A few attempts whilst out on my Ute today but this was the closest half decent one!…

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    the "double hander" can be fun

    mostly i puff out my cheeks in moments of stress!

    epicsteve
    Free Member

    It's a fail for me! I think the Zion might have been the wrong choice of bike as it heads straight for the hedge as soon as both hands are off the bars.

    Tried for some video footage as well, and you do see me "no-hands" at the end of this clip:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCENH_sWlc

    BigDummy
    Free Member

    I am sooooo bad at this. There's going to be an accident. 🙂

    racing_ralph
    Free Member

    Rocketdog i thought you abhorred anything Mleh? yet you are wearing a mlehworld jersey??

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    I have no problem with mlehworld Rob, met some great people via the forum

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    BD, practice makes perfect, chicks dig scars etc 😉

    Swiftacular
    Free Member

    OCB, did you mug a tramp for that beard? It's magnificent.

    sweepy
    Free Member

    it is a good beard, not as good as this one tho

    http://www.tinystreaker.com/

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