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Transcend
10-30-2006, 04:09 PM
Just had to do some processing for a mag and found this image. Love it. Your 2006 downhill world champ. Eye of the tiger?

http://www.transcendmagazine.com/random_pics/_T2A2308hill.jpg
CBJ
10-30-2006, 04:14 PM
In focus.
frznnomad
10-30-2006, 04:15 PM
thanks for the shot transend. deffinatly one hella money shot.:biggrin:
JRogers
10-30-2006, 04:27 PM
Wow, that's a great shot! He looks focused, but totally calm at the same time- pretty much exactly where you want to be.
dan wask
10-30-2006, 04:27 PM
More like "lycra" of the tiger...
Transcend
10-30-2006, 04:35 PM
More like "lycra" of the tiger...

When you win worlds by 3 seconds, you can comment on his choice of clothing.
Rye_Bread
10-30-2006, 04:42 PM
When you win worlds by 3 seconds, you can comment on his choice of clothing.

um he can comment now, he just did...duuuuh
General Lee
10-30-2006, 04:48 PM
um he can comment now, he just did...duuuuh

genius
Fool
10-30-2006, 04:52 PM
genious

genius :banana:
AlmostHeaven
10-30-2006, 04:57 PM
i never ever knew that he ran his brakes backwards too. wow.
Transcend
10-30-2006, 05:03 PM
That's only backwards in north america.
Total Heckler
10-30-2006, 05:06 PM
i never ever knew that he ran his brakes backwards too. wow.

Nice eye. =]

Crazy aussies.
General Lee
10-30-2006, 05:15 PM
genius :banana:

damn, beat me to it
jon-boy
10-30-2006, 05:21 PM
That's only backwards in north america.

I was going to say that... looks totally normal to me. :biggrin:
renorider40
10-30-2006, 05:22 PM
That's only backwards in north america.

Really, huh. Didn't know that.
FastTimes
10-30-2006, 05:30 PM
That your shot Fraser? It's quite good. Perfect exposure. Post up some shooting metadata. 1 or 2 flash? Distance?
Transcend
10-30-2006, 05:34 PM
That your shot Fraser? It's quite good. Perfect exposure. Post up some shooting metadata. 1 or 2 flash? Distance?

Ya, one of mine from worlds. thanks :)

3 flash. Shot at about 25 ft, 200mm if I recall. Woulda preferred to balance the ambient a little bit better, but it was dark as hell in those woods. Friggin New Zealand Jungle!

1 flash in front about 10ft up a tree for lighting under the visor, one off to the right and slightly in front of him and one behind and below for rim lighting. The one behind needed more power, I didn't get enough BG seperation. I was pretty much cooked by that point in the day, however, so didn't notice.
BJ-
10-30-2006, 06:44 PM
i never ever knew that he ran his brakes backwards too. wow.

I believe its you who runs you brakes backwards. The rest of the world, us included runs our brakes like that. Silly americans...

Nice shot by the way...!
Bicyclist
10-30-2006, 06:45 PM
That's a really cool shot.
ianjenn
10-30-2006, 06:50 PM
Lycra is lame even when Nico ran it you know what I mean. Cool shot looks real good. But he does get extra points for running Flats and not clipping in!
TKCastle
10-30-2006, 06:59 PM
Just a ? I would think all that flash would blind the riders. Do they have rules on how many flashes you can pop when a rider flys by. If not have you ever been confronted by riders because of it. Awsome photo, just awsome. Love the look of SH's eyes. The fox ad with the Yeti rider coming of the stairs at some urban race was my fovorite this year and this shot is up there with it.

Mike.
Transcend
10-30-2006, 07:12 PM
Just a ? I would think all that flash would blind the riders. Do they have rules on how many flashes you can pop when a rider flys by. If not have you ever been confronted by riders because of it. Awsome photo, just awsome. Love the look of SH's eyes. The fox ad with the Yeti rider coming of the stairs at some urban race was my fovorite this year and this shot is up there with it.

Mike.

They won't ever see the flashes if they are placed right, they have way more things going on to worry about.

An electronic flash goes off in 1 / 10 000th of a second. Unless it's exactly eye level, and focused out to their distance, in the pitch dark, and pretty damn close to them to boot, they won't even realize it went off.

Also, thanks. That other shot is Gary's I believe (Flipper) and was shot at the Lisbon Redbull event.
CBJ
10-30-2006, 09:03 PM
I believe its you who runs you brakes backwards. The rest of the world, us included runs our brakes like that. Silly americans...

Nice shot by the way...!


Not correct its the UK and Australia that runs breaks moto style the rest of Europe and US runs them non-moto
ViciousDHer
10-30-2006, 10:09 PM
Very nice pic
thaflyinfatman
10-31-2006, 02:56 AM
Sick pic. As in, seriously f'n awesome.

On a mostly unrelated note - where's Stikman? Anyone else remember his prediction (which was made last year or the year before) that nobody would ever win the worlds on flat pedals?
boozy1976
10-31-2006, 03:00 AM
BRAKES BACKWARDS?!?!?!?!

i prefer the levers on the bars :bonk:


GREAT SHOT FRASER!!!
dhkid
10-31-2006, 07:47 AM
amazing shot man!

is it just me or do those mud tires look cut down? the tire profile looks really flat.
bizutch
10-31-2006, 09:34 AM
what's most surprising about his win is the way he started the year off at Sea Otter. Didn't even make a blip on the radar there. Yet on a pedaling course at the end of the year, he cracked skulls. (sorry for the skull cracking reference...just watched Breakfast club scene yesterday...needed to use that line in some form)
hellonasty
10-31-2006, 09:38 AM
Maybe, but I think you forgot his 2nd place at the Oceania Championships last march on the same course as the World Champs.
ska todd
10-31-2006, 09:39 AM
what's most surprising about his win is the way he started the year off at Sea Otter. Didn't even make a blip on the radar there.

Why pin it at a race with no points, no cash, and no special status? The rainbow stripes are bigger bragging rights by far.

-ska todd
bdamschen
10-31-2006, 10:03 AM
And mud, don't forget the mud!
caballero
10-31-2006, 11:13 AM
fantastic shot !! more ?
julian_dh
10-31-2006, 12:39 PM
and he won the air dh!
manhattanprjkt83
10-31-2006, 12:47 PM
As always incredible Fraser.
toodles
10-31-2006, 02:21 PM
*edit* ah nevermind FUNN have updated their website
Transcend
10-31-2006, 02:29 PM
*edit* ah nevermind FUNN have updated their website

Huh? .

Also, thanks guys!
toodles
10-31-2006, 05:38 PM
Huh? .

Also, thanks guys!

Ah I was asking if anyone had any info on Sam's bars... Funn has them on their website now though.

Great shot - be better if it suited a widescreen laptop screen for a background though :biggrin:
dondon
10-31-2006, 08:02 PM
Another eye of the tiger earlier in the year...Lets see if anyone can guess the trail
blue
10-31-2006, 08:08 PM
Another eye of the tiger earlier in the year...Lets see if anyone can guess the trail

I REALLY hope you didn't take that shot, otherwise I'm mocking you back to the stone age.

~drunkblue
.:Jeenyus:.
10-31-2006, 08:09 PM
Another eye of the tiger earlier in the year...Lets see if anyone can guess the trail

Detroit Rock City?
Red Bull
10-31-2006, 08:55 PM
*edit* ah nevermind FUNN have updated their website

I thought Hill's bars were supposed to be around 730mm. Apparently they bagged that idea.

On Topic, DOPE pic transcend. me gusta
Netguy
11-01-2006, 12:33 AM
Nice shot. Tack sharp!