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Shot during San Jose Bike Party Special Mayor's Ride with Andrew Montague, visiting Lord Mayor of Dubling Ireland.
Soviet "Start" Camera - Proprietary mount
Helios 40 85mm via Start to m39 adapter
Delta 100, Xtol 1:1
Forgive me a little indulgence for posting a picture of my 5 year old grandson Aidan at the end of a two and a half hour nature walk yesterday. He was so interested and lively and still as enthusiastic at the end of the walk as at the start. He even spotted things I didn't. I think his face sums up what fun we had and no Playstation or Wii in site. A priceless time....
ZEN MAGNETS - Neodymium Magnetic Balls (@111) - Mini Wide Torus
This is the basis for the Monster Truck tires.
(@111) - 3 x 36-ball hexagon (folded and flattened)
Subunit construction:
1) Start out with a 36-ball hexagon
2) Fold the two flat 4-ball edges together
3) Fold the two single-ball tips together
4) Flip over ... should see Two 2-ball pairs sticking up
5) COOL Part! ... Take each of the Two 2-ball pairs and push them down towards the center towards each other one side at a time.
6) The 2-ball pairs should join at the Center forming a 4-ball square.
7) The surrounding area around the pair should spread out into a spread flattened dome shape.
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Subunit construction at the end of this video tutorial:
Referee Skip Obermeyer prepares the USCF Midgets (looks like three of 'em) for the start of a race on a rainy day in April of 1978. (Or perhaps 1979.)
I joined the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club in September of 1973, and attended my first club meeting a few days later. That meeting was dominated by a proposal from T.J. (Jeff) Smith that the club join the Amateur Bicycle League of America (ABLA--later the United States Cycling Federation) and begin promoting races. The issue was not decided at that meeting, but in the spring of 1975 the club hosted an early-season racing series at Kalamazoo's Spring Valley Park. The series would continue for several years; for most of those years I was the race promoter. Our role on the Michigan USCF schedule was to provide early-season racing opportunities for the state's racers; our objective in Kalamazoo was, of course, to introduce the sport to the community. It was fun, and the riders seemed to enjoy the event, but staging four early-season races can be pretty hard on your volunteers.
My notes say the rider in the middle is a very young Frankie Andreu, who'd go on to bigger races as a member of Lance Armstrong's Posties. Spring Valley Park, Kalamazoo.
Camera: Minolta Zoom 110 SLR