On Tue, 22 May 2007 05:01:53 GMT, Ted Bennett
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[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] wrote:
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>> Caution: increasingly gruesome pictures.
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>> I came upon this gory scene next to the no-shoulder two-lane road on
>> my daily ride and took pictures from different angles.
>>
>> The victim, a racer (red for speed) was not wearing a helmet.
>>
>> According to authorities, the assailant (it was obviously no
>> accident)is a naturalized immigrant from Jamaica, who fled the scene.
>>
>> The shadow in the last picture shows how close the camera was--yes,
>> those are ribs.
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>> Click on the lower right to view full size in Explorer.
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>> http://i18.tinypic.com/62fvi3r.jpg
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>> http://i17.tinypic.com/52nx1ef.jpg
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Carl Fogel
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>
>Last time I watched an eagle kill and eat a snake was near the Rogue
>River in a somewhat wild part of Oregon.
>
>I'm going to begin carrying my camera with me more often, but I do wish
>there was an easy way to combine bicycling and 8 x 10 format plates, not
>to mention the bellows, sufficiently sturdy tripod, etc.
Dear Ted,
Here's an article whose title promises just what you want, "wheel"
being the term back then for a bicycle:
"Around the World with Wheel and Camera" by Frank G. Lenz
Lenz's article begins with a picture showing how to combine bicycling
and 8 x 10 format plates, not to mention the bellows, sufficiently
sturdy tripod, etc.:
http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_21/outXXI03/outXXI03j.pdf
"Outing" magazine 1892
For some reason, I feel sympathy for Lenz's closing comment in that
early installment in his adventures:
"The 'pneumatic' tires had been only once actually punctured since
leaving New York—-a distance of 2,628 miles—-and that happened in this
wise: The cactus plants begin to get rather thick in the Dakotas and
Montana bad lands to here. I had so much confidence in the 'pneumatic'
tires that I recklessly ran over several plants near this city,
thinking the needles were too brittle to puncture, but to my surprise
they were as stiff as steel, and both wheels became flat in ten
minutes. On examining the wheel the tire was full of needles, some
broken off short, others having penetrated the inner tube: I found it
necessary to carefully draw them all out before replacing with a new
inner tube. On repairing the tubes afterward it was very difficult
indeed to find the tiny holes made by these needles. I now ride very
cautiously where the cactus grows."
After Lenz crossed the Pacific, thieves in China added to his
miserable bicycling problems in freezing weather by stealing his
camera tripod, whose new-fangled light-weight wonder-material they
probably mistook for silver:
"The fifth day in the snow and ice I tried to hire other coolies, but
all were anxious to stay indoors, so I continued on due west alone. By
and by I neared a good-sized lake not on my map. The Chinese told me
to go back to get around it. Back I went through the mud and slush,
the matter freezing solid in my forks every half mile, compelling
me to chisel it out with my screw driver. I reached the road inn
again, and to my chagrin my aluminum tripod was missing. Some thief
had stolen it while I was eating lunch during the day, no doubt
mistaking it for silver."
"Outing" magazine, 1894
http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_24/outXXIV02/outXXIV02k.pdf
Alas, Lenz was murdered in the Middle East before finishing his world
tour.
Concerning snakes and bicycles, I've been dying to stick the following
tid-bit in somewhere, and this is as good a place as any:
"'Colorado.'— Send your name and address to Allen S. Williams, Room D,
8th floor, 220 Broadway, N. Y. A society for herpetological study is
in contemplation, and you will obtain all the necessary information
from him. The second show is announced."
"Outing" magazine, 1899
http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_35/outXXXV01/outXXXV01zg.pdf
[It's not from my email--it's one of those enigmatic "Answers to
Correspondents" beloved of turn-of-the-century magazine editors, who
delighted in leaving their other readers to wonder not only what the
hell "Colorado's" question was about snakes, but what the first and
second show were about.]
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
