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01-21-2012, 07:58 PM | #1 |
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Nomad in Snowstorm
Who is this? Any idea?
I had this happen to me about 12 years ago. This was on my FB page. Now that's a REAL BIKER...
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01-21-2012, 08:02 PM | #2 |
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Wow Gerry, I can actually see the pic you posted.
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01-21-2012, 08:10 PM | #3 |
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That is Rick Wegner from Kansas!
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01-21-2012, 10:45 PM | #6 |
If you got a CT on your bike then you can run a snow chain!
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01-22-2012, 07:53 AM | #7 |
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No offense... but I am suspicious of this being real. Too many tell-tale signs it has been photoshopped...
Just saying... Besides... looking at the road surface... I don't care how good you are on a bike, you are not going to last too long on a road like that.
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01-22-2012, 08:04 AM | #8 |
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I may stand corrected on one point; which is that riding a motorcycle on a road like this is virtually impossible...
Check out this video... these guys prove I could be wrong... However, I still stand by the photoshopped statement... and this video helps my point on that.
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01-22-2012, 09:06 AM | #9 |
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01-22-2012, 09:38 AM | #10 |
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Depending on the shutter-speed of the camera, the flag may or may not be flowing in the wind -- however that point is one of the reasons it looks photoshopped.
The most obvious is the color variations. The bike's color is far too vivid and is in stark contrast to the surrounding vehicles. This is typically due to a different lighting on the original motorcycle picture than the one in which it was placed. Another give-away is that no matter where you see this photo (and it is floating-around on the web) it is only in a small format -- which helps hide photoshopped evidence. The snow-flakes between the camera and bike, when looking very closely in photoshop enlargements, give way to evidence they were added. There is even a pattern to them -- which is typical when trying to show a lot of the same thing. However, look at the vid I posted... these guys are nuts!!! So it evidently isn't impossible to travel on two-wheels with an inch or so of snow. Having crashed last May on a slick surface... you wouldn't even get me to consider trying what these nuts are doing...
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01-22-2012, 10:10 AM | #11 |
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I think it could be a real pic, if he's just creeping slowly in traffic the flag would be hanging like that and sometimes you do get very large snowflakes falling.
A couple years ago I got caught in a snowstorm on the way to Niagara Falls for a few miles. While the snow was falling quite heavily and making visibility poor, most of it was melting on the roadway.
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01-22-2012, 10:27 AM | #12 |
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Rasta, Is it real or fake? Can you contact this person for verification?
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01-22-2012, 10:44 AM | #13 |
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Greg, the guy in your video posted this.
Next time we will go from Baie-Comeau Quebec to Blanc Sablons Above Newfoundland in 10 days. A bit short of 4000 kilometres. Stay tuned! There is still a few seats available on the trek. Contact me at Paul@PaulMondor.com What do you say we grab our heated clothing, put truck snowtires on the bikes and give it a try. We could call ourselves the whitedarksiders. Oh, wait, that may offend some of the Afro American darksiders so maybe we could be the winterdarksiders. Anybody else want in
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01-22-2012, 11:50 AM | #14 |
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Does it really matter? Make sure you ask for id when you verify.
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01-22-2012, 01:23 PM | #15 |
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If you zoom in on the picture, you can see variations in the edges at the top left of the motorcyclist, as well as the differences in the number of pixels between the motorcycle and the cars.
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