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Shot from a Connexxion Nieuwe Waterweg ferry. Audacious navigating.
Gabi captured this ship a day earlier at the Terminal : here.
My typical commuting day: 5.5 km bicycle to train station (18 minutes), 20 minutes train ride, and 30 minutes motorcycle ride
From top left clockwise
1. Bag: Eiger X-gonio Courier 20L Messenger Bag
2. HP V220 4GB Thumb Drive with Key Chain
3. Yellow LAN Cable
4. Kindle 4th Generation
5. Company ID Card
6. Commuter Line Jakarta Multi Trip
7. Sandisk 64GB Thumb Drive.
8. Sandis 8GB Thumb Drive
9. Banking Token for BCA and HSBC
10. Nokia Earphone
11. Ethnic pouch to hold item 7-10
12. Dell Lattitude E6320 from office, plus charger
13. Plain cheap notebook for note taking. The note's cover has pocket to keep all the item above it
14. Targus Laser Pointer
15. Phone charger
16. USB cable to charge the phone, and connect phone to laptop
17. Sandisk Cruizer 8GB Thumb Drive
18. Pens
I'm considering to add small water bottle and power bank to charge the phone when no power outlet available
This week was my first multi-modal commute combining my Brompton folding bicycle and my new smart fortwo electric drive.
My home and work are about 18 miles / 30km apart, which is much further than I'd like to bike. So instead, I put my folding bike in the boot, drive halfway, park in a convenient neighborhood close to the freeway exit, and bike the remainder of the trip, much of it on a pleasant creekside multi-use trail.
Commuting lives photo project. Commuting to work each day can be a challenging experience and daily I meet hundreds of people, pledged at the same times and same trains.
It's interesting to distinguish how each of us spends these moments differently during the travel: there's who sleeps recovering energy, who reads a book, who is looking forward to the arrival, who divulges his or her feelings in front of a friend but above all, and here it is clear the cultural change occurred in recent years, there's who prefers alienating from it all using their smartphone.
The photograpy raises the curiosity that each of us possesses to a higher level, making the photographer able to analyse the subject even before shooting.
I have spent many of these trips between Monza and Milan to better understand these elements of humanity among the passengers: facial and body expressions, interactions between people, style and good or bad habits.
Album art for Solstice Coil's upcoming album - Commute The band's facebook page: www.facebook.com/solstice.co.il?pnref=lhc The band's Website: solstice.co.il/
Patrick had the idea of a group for a Riv-only commute group, so his rig has to be in there! He also took this photo.
Details:
'03 Curt Built, Dave Altered Custom Rivendell fixed gear commuter. 69" gear with 559X1" Specialized Turbos. Low-ish bars, and I use the drops all the time for headwinds. Honjos, with World's Largest Leather Mudflap, Adam on Carradice Expedition QR mount sans hoop, Flite, Phil, Nitto, TA, MKS RX-1s, Dura Ace, Ultegra, Sun, Revolution, EOS + Spanninga + PB Superflash. The bottle is an Eleven Gear vacuum flask with sippy spout.
Every day, even Sat. and Sun. (because of club activities and sports), students diligently put on their uniforms in Japan and go to school. Often students have long commutes on trains of up to one hour. In Japan you choose the school you want to go to then have to pass entrance exams to get into it, it's not a matter of simply going to a high school in your district based on where you live like in the USA.
I shot this candid shot on a local train in the countryside of Japan early on a Sunday morning. It is such a representative scene of daily Japanese life I couldn't resist, even though I am generally apprehensive about doing candid shots of students.
The Japanese use cel phones to an extraordinary degree, but unlike American's they don't chat on them non-stop, they use them for e-mail.
I don't do candid shots too often. I really love the way this shot came out.
The second recumbent trike I built, with the optional wind screen mounted. This has been my preferred commuting vehicle to work for the last 1-2 years (the 2 years before I was riding my first trike creation)
check out the video!
This trike has a double wishbone front suspension (more accurately A-Arm plus strut) with approximately 15cm travel, and a rear swing arm with 10cm travel. Good cornering stability is achieved through the suspension geometry by lots of carefully balanced dynamic camber increase. As it is not loaded in the picture the suspension is fully extended - the wheels will straighten under nominal load. Another nice feature is the very compact suspension arrangement using extension springs, giving a lot of ground clearance while keeping the seat low for a low center of gravity. Most of the passenger weight is directly transmitted from the seat into the suspension springs and onto the wheels, reducing the load on the actual frame. As opposed to a car, most of the weight is the rider.
As I wasn't always sure about the best geometry, almost everything on this trike is adjustable - seat position and inclination, pedal position, camber, ackermann steering compensation, ride height, etc.
The main driver for this design is that it is easy to make with a limited set of tools and readily available materials. The frame is made of welded steel, deliberately under-sized in some places for weight savings and then reinforced with fibreglass and carbon fibre (e.g. the suspension arms have a minimal steel skeleton for strength, and vacuum molded carbon fibre for stiffness). I bought the wheels and kingpins from Greenspeed - almost everything else is either from the local hardware store, or taken from an old mountain bike. Tools required are a $100 stick welder (MiG or TiG obviously preferred...), a drill press with x/y table for basic milling of acetal plastic (or a small mill). Total cost in materials is somewhere around $1000 (out of which $600 went into the 3 wheels and the kingpins...)
I am currently working on an electric assist system that weighs under 1 kg including some batteries for limited range.
Sigh - the commute! A neccesary evil in so many lives, including mine.
Today made doubly worse by an accident on the M53 on the way to work and with insane amounts of roadworks on all my routes on the way home from work (Kensington and the Royal Hospital).
Of course, the radio helps, but so does having a camera on me at all times - I hasten to add - I was queuing here, handbrake on if mr policeman is watching ;)
I thought this shot summed up the mood of being in a jam, with the cone being just visible in the background and I liked the bumber to bumper headlights lighting up the exhaust fumes - the 'motion blur' effect on the right comes from curved blindspot mirrors.
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