any good idea for bike photo shooting?

Great looking bike, excellent background and colors for photo. Looks like you may have significant toe overlap with this frame/size setup. At last I would for commuting purposes.

Looks like a good deal, especially if it came with all those accessories (rack, fenders, pump, nice pedals)

that right there is sexy...

It's a stunning bike and a more interesting background than your standard white garage door.

I do think you want to flip around to show the drive side.

For this photo I'm seeing tension about where is horizontal. I'm guessing the background metal shutter has the true horizontal stripes, you have that aligned pretty well based on the top of the image. Which means this is a top tube which slopes downwards -- which you can see here, but also the floor looks like it is sloping downwards to the other direction, so the top tube is not as angled downwards as it could be, so I think flipping it around would also create a bigger angle between the top tube and the background; near-parallel is visually confusing.

Also, since the bike is the subject, I would center it better in the photo.

Sweet grab, those were some good old-school steel.

wish it did, but all that came from my old bike. What sold me was the deore drive train is super smooth. I also like the true tempor frame.

My commuter: 2010 Marin San Rafael
Replaced the tires last year to Conti TourRide 700x28c
Nice setup for my hilly 8 Km commute
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How about something like this?

Rainy Day Biking Plain Jane Reflective Mud Flaps (Set) - Mountain Equipment Co-op. Free Shipping Available

With all my family being from NYC it is still referred to as "The City" by me. As Sinead O'Conner says, nothing compares.

Where in upstate NY is your wife from? I grew up near Watertown.

Hey Joey - thanks for the link! They look pretty sweet too.

Gets me thinking though..... i bet i could buy some Kydex on the cheap (or look in my scrap bin) and fab something very similar... barring that, maybe an 'El-Cheapo' cutting 'surface' from Ikea could do the same job! All i'd have to do is pick up some small/M5 SS bolts and nylock nuts and be set!

She grew up in the Jamestown area. I've never been, her parents have moved on also.

Uptown 8 - the grocery fetcher - with Fizik bar gel installed, and new Fizik bar tape on top. Much more comfortable grip now, especially near the brake levers.

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Thank you for sharing your experience.
I often have a question how to make my bike self stand. Holding my bike with wall may be a good idea for side view but not for perspective views!

One of the best ways is to set the pedals so the leaning side is slightly behind the bottom, then you can lean the bike on it. It works great on a curb, or you can use a brick or two. Or sometimes you can find a convenient vertical crack to wedge the front or rear tire into. Just Sat I drove out to a trailhead for a mtb ride, the van was parked on a steep downhill, and I was able to get my bike to stand up very nicely on its own just with the friction of the rear tire against the car bumper.

Not sure if I have ever gotten a good one of this bike yet...this is what I use when I carpool with The Better Half and ride over from her office to mine
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Nice! One of my friends has one of those and it's all chrome. It's a sweet bike. Next time though, shoot from the other side!

My Commuter

'15 Diamondback Haanjo Comp
Fizik tape
Nanoshot+ light
Axiom led rear light
Raceface Atlas MTB pedals
Handsome cycles fenders
Topeak adjustable cage
Vision metron 40D wheels
Schwalbe Sammy's 35c tires
46/34 FSA crankset

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Good job -- maybe the nicest looking Diamondback I've ever seen!

Agree about the DB. That's a great looking bike.

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Here's my commuter bike, an early-'90s Specialized Hard Rock. (You can see how it looked back when I bought it in this thread.)

Since then, I've:

• powder-coated the frame (more-or-less kept the original color, but didn't replace the decals)
• replaced the seat with a more comfortable (narrower and less padded) one
• lost the kickstand
• replaced the pedals with clipless (Crank Bros 'mallet' -- I had hoped that they'd be good for riding in normal shoes too, but they don't have studs so they aren't)
• added a rack
• added fenders (Planet Bike Cascadia ATB)
• added lights ($10 magicshine clone in front, Planet Bike superflash turbo in rear -- good enough for the long dark of Moria... err, winter)
• broke the freewheel and replaced the rear wheel with one from the co-op. It came with an 8-speed cassette (or maybe freewheel; I haven't checked) and I haven't yet changed out my 7-speed shift lever to match. The indexing mostly works in the gears I usually use.
• recently added Ergon grips -- but I'm still not happy with it for long rides, so I've got some trekking bars in the mail

I got it a long time ago, but I've been commuting with it for just under a year. My commute is about 12 miles round trip, but hilly. It weighs about 35 lbs (not including the pannier, water, or lock). I'm probably not as fast as I would be on a carbon road bike, but I get a good workout! (And I still manage to keep up with the faster riders I see on my commute.)

I'm thinking of getting a front rack and some different panniers and going touring with it, too!

Here's mine:

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