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Hi to everyone! I have been busy lately, so i haven't had time for photography. I will come back slowly and visit your streams and beautiful creations. I hope you are all doing fine. :)
I didn't have a micro-bike, so I quickly made one, out of wire scraps.
One could argue that the bike isn't fully functional, but you can't deny the weight is down to a bare minimum...
(the size of the visible part is just shy of 7.5cm)
June's Explore Takeover theme: Travel Photography
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Foto 28 p. 31
Photo Art - Image-edditing
Lightweight HDR editing
Effect color and texture
Software: Windows; Snapseed
Ponte dos Ingleses
Ponte Metálica
Fortaleza, Brasil
Art Week Gallery Theme
Ruins and Abandoned Places
Half the weight of a house mouse (5g) he could navigate these grasses admirably.
Photographed amongst grasses at British wildlife Centre, Surrey, UK.
This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Heavyweight/Lightweight. Some treasures were revealed on a walk around town this afternoon...
HMMM!
The Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is a small, critically endangered African scavenger known for its ability to blush pink/red when excited and its high adaptability to urban environments.
As a crucial, yet often overlooked, "sanitation worker," it relies on a keen sense of smell to find food, frequently scavenging scraps in cities, dumps, and coastal areas.
Despite their adaptability, the Hooded Vulture is currently listed as Critically Endangered. Populations have declined drastically (over 80% in some regions) due to poisoning, both accidental (from eating livestock treated with chemicals) and intentional (by poachers to prevent vultures from signalling their location to rangers).
There's also the Illegal Trade: Use of body parts in traditional medicine and rituals.
Also...modernisation, eg Upgraded, sanitary slaughterhouses in cities have inadvertently reduced their primary food sources.
Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) landing Senegal-9252.jpg
Bring it over to my place
And you be like
"Baby, who cares?"
But I know you care
Bring it over to my place
You don't know what you did, did to me
Your body lightweight speaks to me
Pose Used:
[Aelithe] - Sophisticated
This lightweight sand fence is found in many patterns, all to control beach erosion caused by wind and storms, a big problem on the narrow barrier island of Long Beach Island. It's also very scenic, I think. Or maybe that's because I'm from New Jersey!
Wattled Starling / Lappenstar (Creatophora cinerea)
on the back of a Plains Zebras / Steppenzebras (Equus quagga)
Tarangire N.P., Tanzania, Africa
Happy Sunday !
Here is the 1963 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight creeping through the paddock during the 75th Members Meeting.
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I'm away now for a while, have a good time ;-)
Will post some photos but will have no time for commenting and visiting. See you later....
The 1934 MG NE Magnette was a special, lightweight, unsupercharged sports racing car built for the 1934 Tourist Trophy (TT) race, winning on handicap despite its smaller engine against larger cars, showcasing MG's six-cylinder overhead-cam engine (1271cc, ~74bhp). Few were built (around six), featuring tuned engines with twin SUs and high compression, defining the N-Type Magnette series but leading to the switch to pushrod engines due to rationalization.
Key Characteristics:
Purpose-Built Racer: Developed specifically for the 1934 TT when superchargers were banned, surprising competitors.
Engine: 1271cc 6-cylinder, Single Overhead Cam (SOHC), tuned for 68-74 bhp, using twin SU carbs.
Performance: Won the handicap race, proving its capability against bigger engines.
Rarity: Only a handful (around six) were constructed, making them highly sought after.
Legacy: The NE represented the pinnacle of MG's small-capacity six-cylinder racing before the company shifted focus.
Photographed at speed at Laguna Seca Raceway..........a fast and nimble little bugger!
CycleKarts are small, lightweight, nimble machines made by their drivers for the pursuit of motoring sport. They're not serious speed-machines or status-generating show cars. They're purely for the gritty fun and satisfaction of tearing around in a machine you've built yourself.
As a class of driving machine, the CycleKart formula limits certain aspects of the machines to maintain good sporting performance without jeopardising the light-hearted nature of these machines. CycleKarts and their builder/drivers don't like to take things too seriously, and certainly not themselves or each other, so overzealous competitiveness is frowned upon, and a win-at-any-cost attitude is not invited back.
Drivers have to make their own cars, as they decided some time ago that no one should be able to just fork over money and buy a CycleKart. Proper appreciation for the sport and the machines requires one construct one's own car.
People have been wondering if there are plans or kits for the CycleKarts: There are not. The builder must figure out much for themselves, but this is part of the evolutionary process, and part of the fun. Most importantly, each builder respects his or her car more this way, and fellow CycleKartistes know they share a bit of a rite-of-passage when they meet. Driving one's own car makes for more safe events, as non-builders tend to thrash the machines.