Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Monster Track photo and videos go here

Before people start posting it on the massive monster track thread, I thought I'd start one since we were talking about it last night. A lot of photos were taken, as well as videos so I guess when people get home they can post it up here.

bump?

bf ladies

I just saw lucas, I guess he got some good footage from the race, it will take him a while to edit me thinks.

****ing batteries died. so I just drank alot. I had a good time breaking the pedal at the goldsprints and having them be like 1 hour fixing the mess up..

that was impressive indeed. good seein ya. i might try to make it down to philly for april 1st.

so i'm resizing a luldicrous amount of pictures right now, and i'll post some up and a link to where you guys can browse 'em all tonight.

are there any photo hosting sites that automatically resize? if not, there needs to be, cause doin that **** sucks

facebook resizes for you .... haha.

you can batch resize photos in photoshop without much trouble. but i decided to not kill my bandwith (there's over a gig of photos overall and hosting it on my server would destroy my bandwith), so they're all going up, full sized, into Flickr. Its takin me a long while to upload them in batches, but it'll be done soon enough.

i'm sure www.photobucket.com does resizing.

xp users: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
image resizer powertoy does it pretty painlessly. it's a shell extension!!!!111

yeah if you have photoshop definitely learn to use Actions or batch processing. 4 hour job in 4 minutes...

http://static.flickr.com/47/108476421_4e39bbf09f_b.jpg

Monster Track 2006 Pictures, comin soon ...

ImageMagick (http://sourceforge.net/projects/imagemagick/) has a stupid name but it does exactly what you want and about a million other things quickly and from the command line. it should build on almost any modern unix, OS X, and maybe some other crappier systems as well. it's way faster and more efficient than photoshop in batch mode (rather like destroying a mite with a howitzer, makes me cringe a little). this is the secret to all those sites that automatically resize photos. the backend just makes calls to ImageMagick and generates images on the fly.

http://static.flickr.com/50/108482606_4fd9f723b6.jpg

nice @ imagemagick

if you have a mac, you can use automator

That was awesome! Props to the organizers who pulled off a spectacular event!
I had fun as usual shooting these:

http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven

from nybma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRFmC98XfQ&search=ANIMAL_magazine%20Monster_Track%20NYC%20bikes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrredfixed/sets/72057594075848052/

not done yet, and its takin forever, so i'm takin a break until tommorow. for the time being here's a taste.

Starting Line Panorama (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=108545037&size=o)

I'm home, exhausted and happy. I hope everyone gets home or got home safely.

Starting Line Panorama (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=108545037&size=o)

whose flatted fuji? awww yeah, thats right.

http://static.flickr.com/40/108535568_4db840730d.jpg

proof!

any pics of the afterparty?

nice pics red. makes me bummed i didnt stick around longer though

apparently i took 49 pictures. which means i took 49 inebriated pictures which i am uploading/discovering right now. hmm ...

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I can't wait for salome's pictures... lots of drunken pictures...

mo intensity! look at that chombo dismount!
http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/028.jpg
(nice foto amy)

here are my pics on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/trudy/tags/monstertrack7/
- starting point at marcus garvey park (120th & 5th, manhattan)
- rocky's
- track events at ramirez park (mckibben & white, bk)
gotta review them backwards...

in the meantime:
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022606/bicycle.jpg
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022206/going-to-rule.jpg
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022706/what-happens.jpg

Bump.

Where The Pictures At?

yes. i'm hoping y'all can provide photographs to fill in the large black holes the 14-hour-bender known as monstertrack left in my memory...

less people more bikes!

less people more bikes!

And yet, if I see another shot of stacked bikes, I'm going to puke all over my screen. Anybody happen to photograph the racers while they were in motion, or was everybody too busy being one of the racers?

i think most people from the forums were in the race. the ones that weren't mostly hit up the start and the finish. there were a ton of people filming along the way, but that of course takes a bit longer to edit and post than pics.

http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/024.jpg

this is my favorite because alfred is wearing an anti-puma jacket haha. kind of funny.

And yet, if I see another shot of stacked bikes, I'm going to puke all over my screen. Anybody happen to photograph the racers while they were in motion, or was everybody too busy being one of the racers?

Ditto. If I wanted to look at bikes, I'd go to FGG. Where's the HUMANITY?

this is my favorite because alfred is wearing an anti-puma jacket haha. kind of funny.

yea, i noticed and laughed at that too. backstory, anyone?

iirc, I heard something about him no longer being on the puma team.

it's weird.. the aussi dude on the right... he was amongst the riders in the re-load race last october here in seattle.. drank with him/met him afterward. he must have travelled out there for monstertrack....

the aussie dude is mr.white and he came all the way from vancouver to race... coolest cat ever and fast as hell.

Alfred's not on puma anymore.

Why isn't alfred on Puma anymore? anyone have the gossip.

yeah, that guy is hella ****ing cool. He was also well known with the local messenger community so it would make sense that he lives a couple hours away.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=108451272&size=s&context=set-72057594075848052

Salome get a new tattoo?

stamp from one of the checkpoints

i followed this guy to checkpoint 2, and the route was windy as hell.
so at some point he got behind me so he could draft for a while and i
was trying to explain that i had no freakin idea which way to go. much
confusion insued, but we got there. thanks dude.
http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/035.jpg

and i followed this guy to the battery park checkpoint. we were blazing
down one of the avenues and there was this squad car like right behind
us blaring his siren - the kind that sounds like a lazer. for a second we
thought he was chasing us.. and you know what, maybe he was. again,
thanks for the assist.
http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/030.jpg

awesome photos via amybolger link.

that guy was cool as hell and helped us find the party on friday night after we couldn't get our lock off in time and lost the group ride to the party at essex and delancey (we were inside the pizza place and i came out just as they were taking off and sers was changing his socks).


http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/035.jpg

that guys name is tak and he is amazing. next time you see him make sure and say hi.

http://amybolger.com/monstertrackseven/image/029.jpg
thats who i was suppose to finish behind :(

that panorama shot is :eek:

sick race keep them photos comin ....

Heya, I took alot of photos over the weekend, and I'm still uploading them to a Flickr stream.

I'll post the link soon.

sorry I haven't gotten right on this, but I enjoyed the rest of my weekend in the city with some delicious delicious vegan food, then worked today.

tonight is my friend's goodbye get together because he's going on tour, so I'll probably upload more tomorow, or just do it tonight if I can't sleep.