[Closed] your photo/bike challenge is as follows...

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

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

Here's one I did earlier 😉 .......

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

No problem, I'll try in the morning.

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

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.

can have a go at that!

this is the closest ive got so far
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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

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 : )

Panda - no hander

only my guess

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

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i may have got the wrong idea

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

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' ^

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

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

[i]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.
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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!

OCB has the best beard ever

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. 😕

My attempt.
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must. try. harder.
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Graham H, that is a panda, but not a danger panda, can't see if your hands are on the bars or not

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

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

😯 😛

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

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Ok so I broke rule 2 but I'm an ugly ****er

Very poor John

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.

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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 [url= ]this[/url] shot (also from this afternoon).

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

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

love the fear in your eyes,excellent effort though!

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

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

😛

[url= http://flickr.com ]
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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 ... ([url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/overlycuriousbystander/ ]linky[/url]), but I 'spect you have found me in the Panda pool by now (err, tho' that sounds a bit sordid).

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

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the "double hander" can be fun
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mostly i puff out my cheeks in moments of stress!
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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.
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Tried for some video footage as well, and you do see me "no-hands" at the end of this clip:

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

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

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

BD, practice makes perfect, chicks dig scars etc 😉

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

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

http://www.tinystreaker.com/

Cheers RD - I did click before but didn't scroll down far enough to see that explanation.

Well I tried, over and over again, and failed miserably - almost ending up in the stream at one point. The fact that my camera shutter button kept jamming didn't help either, neither did the lack of beard I reckon 😉 .

Great thread though. Keep 'em coming. I'll get there . . .

Not strictly me....its my camera tho (and Im just out of shot).During a Mary Townley moment.
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Not perfect but for the [i]full[/i] danger panda you will notice I am wearing no helmet, and am carrying scissors

^hahah, awesome!

Sweepy- it can't be that dangerous you are carrying the scissors the correct way, not pointy bits outwards YOU BIG GIRLIES BLOUSE 😆

Curses, rumbled.

😀

You can't actually see the bike so for all you know I could be stood up here, or at least walking along. Ho hum.

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And one for the ladies....
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You mean for SFB 🙂

First 2 attempts - not so bad 🙂

On road
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Offroad, no helmet, sweaty hair - nice!
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excellent work ajantom!
i particularly like the shadow proving the no hands

Thanks for the beard endorsements.

🙂

+1 Tinystreaker - That was pretty impressively seamless video work.

I lost about 5 inches (~9-10 months growth) to a bonfire back along, so I'm trying to recover that now. I have taken to trimming my 'stache back a bit tho', which I don't really like doing, but in the end it just goes everywhere, and makes it too difficult for some people to lip-read when I speak - and as I work quite a lot with elderly / disabled people, that was becoming quite a problem.

This danger panda thing is surprisingly difficult, given how easy it sounds.
I didn't realise how poor my (and your!) balance on a bike is. No wonder I stopped riding trials !

LOL @ Sweepy...

Yup, it's a challenge, one not many can do given the lack of replies, we can give ourselves a (no handed) pat on the back:)

now a group on Flickr, please add your efforts
[url] http://www.flickr.com/groups/1458163@N23/ [/url]

rOcKeTdOg - Member
Yup, it's a challenge, one not many can do given the lack of replies

no. it's simply a bit shit!

[i]no. it's simply a bit shit! [/i]

ah, too difficult for you is it? 😆

On-road it was easy, this was my best effort:

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But off-road my camera-hand kept getting caught in the trees... and I don't look quite so comfortable:

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Anyhow, this brightened up the dull bit in the middle of my commute home from Matlock to Nottingham yesterday!

Good one Simon, thanks for adding them to the group

did I miss something? Why is it called a panda? - no hander?

It's something to do with a lady calling herself "Faster panda, kill, kill" apparently.

Explaination earlier in the thread

here are a couple of my attempts!
[url= http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/uu25/dawson_01/Danger%20Panda/ ]folder of all my attempts[/url]

this is the 'warping to another dimension' danger panda

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and the 'accidental/inadvertently camp' danger panda

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[url= http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/uu25/dawson_01/Danger%20Panda/ ]folder of all my attempts[/url]

There you go RD; two hander, only on road, but it was a dead gravelly, stoney Torredon road if that means anything 😀

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trouble is andy, where is the bike, you could be just stood there! keep trying!

loving the camp panda dawson!

here's an example added to group today
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dammit rd; the bike is there!!! Just hdden behind my mahoosif girth...... I didn't realise Bike and foppish hand signals were also required. 🙄 Will try to do one on the PDS this w/e

nervous start
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getting comfortable
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just before a lunge for the bars
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getting cocky again
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decided to quit while I was ahead and not go for a shot on the boardwalk through the nettles!

Excellent work! 🙂

[b]nedrapier[/b]

Bonus point for doing it in flip flops, thereby increasing the danger quotient by at least 50%.

and no helmet, extra points would have been awarded for a louder shirt 😉

[b]ajantom[/b] are you that one out of Adam & Joe? You know. Adam. Or Joe?

Have only just realised I can still do no hands and have be teaching my son. So camera out tonight...

can anyone beat this?
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This looks like fun - I'll have a go at the weekend. Can I just clarify the rules:

1. Is a beard compulsory? If so, it won't be THIS weekend...
2. Do I have to ride something niche and/or steel framed? If so, it won't be this year...

1.no, but you will look more stylish
2. no, see Q1

😉

Thanks rOckeTdOg. In view of response to Q1, I shall try and do something creative with cotton wool in a Santa stylee. That should do the trick.

😆

IMO the only thing better than a beard is a fake beard

A couple from today:

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Easy bike path one

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Arty B&W one

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I'll let you speculate what my left hand was resting on here...

Jesustitty****ingchrist, what's with all the beards?! Bunch o' freaks!