Tea? (Part 1)

[TheDoctor]

Woof woof!
Morning Renard. Hows things?
I've just put the kettle on - it'll be boiled in a minute...

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm good. Still gleeing over the new bike!
Picture over on the photo gallery thing.
There's nothing like the smell of wet dog in the morning.

 

[Arch]

Tea anyone? Someone around where I am now is apparently cooking mincebeef and onions, from the aroma drifting about, most bizarre. Funny time of day to be doing that..

Anyone see the flying penguins on Breakfast News this morning?

Nice bike, BTW Doc. Just needs the rack, mudguards, trailer hitch....

 

[Arch]

Ah, found a link to the penguins...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw

If anyone missed it, the Tiger - Spy in the Jungle is worth seeing and not just for the elephant camera work.

 

[Landslide]

Morning all!

Nice ride, Doc, but why have you put Sora on a carbon frame?

 

[TheDoctor]

Tea anyone? Someone around where I am now is apparently cooking mincebeef and onions, from the aroma drifting about, most bizarre. Funny time of day to be doing that..

Anyone see the flying penguins on Breakfast News this morning?

Nice bike, BTW Doc. Just needs the rack, mudguards, trailer hitch....

No it doesn't. What it needs for Ventoux is a rider who weighs 4 kg less than he does now. My tourer has the full rack and guards thing going on, and I can get a whole load of shopping on it if I try.
Actually, the most weight I've ever moved by bike was on a hypermarket run in Calais. Front and rear racks, each with 3 slabs of French lager on. 30 litres of beer, and a case of red wine on the back too. The cornering was...interesting. Not to mention really scary.

And thanks. I'm very pleased with it. Probably be the best bike I ever have once I've got the Ultegra Compact groupset on (I'm not doing mountains on a compact!). I really can't see any need for me to have a better bike than that.

And yes, I'd love some tea. Danish shortbread biccie, anyone?

 

[TheDoctor]

Morning all!

Nice ride, Doc, but why have you put Sora on a carbon frame?

Because I've got it. I've been given an Ultegra Compact gruppo, but I can't do mountains on a compact. So, super low geared Sora for Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez, then the Sora comes off and Ultegra goes on. Then I live with it happily ever after.

 

[Landslide]

No it doesn't. What it needs for Ventoux is a rider who weighs 4 kg less than he does now. My tourer has the full rack and guards thing going on, and I can get a whole load of shopping on it if I try.

Pah! I went up the first 3 or 4 hairpins of Alpe d'Huez with panniers - alas due to that bike's limited gearing (39-28 bottom gear) I ended up overtaking a bunch of unladen riders and got a certain amount of good-natured abuse for my trouble!

 

[TheDoctor]

Clearly not all that lazy then, looking at the sig line. Couldn't comment on the other!

Good effort! More than I could manage, I suspect.

 

[Landslide]

More than I could manage these days too!

 

[tdr1nka]

Doc', lovely bike, 'spesh the reflective bar tape! V. sexy!
I think some ultra violet flashing valve caps would set it off treat.

Kettles on!

 

[cisamcgu]

If anyone missed it, the Tiger - Spy in the Jungle is worth seeing and not just for the elephant camera work.

I saw it, but I wasn't convinced of the "naturalness" of it. For instance, at one point we had a close up of one of the cameras that the elephants had placed, and lo and behold, there was a relection of a tiger in the lens. Now, I cannot for the life of me see how that could happen, surely there would have been a reflection of the camera that we were looking through (if you see what I mean)

Also, the "The elephants have to leave now for 2 moths due to the monsoon" type of excuses... they just seemed like a way of breaking the filming into 15minute segments (ad breaks for when BBC sell it abroad perhaps ???)

All in all, I thought it was wondefully shot, but I was continually suspicious that we, the viewers, where being "had" somehow


Andrew

 

[TheDoctor]

Doc', lovely bike, 'spesh the reflective bar tape! V. sexy!
I think some ultra violet flashing valve caps would set it off treat.

Kettles on!

target acquisition...target lock! Earl Grey is deployed and good to go. Except it's a bit hot yet.

Getting some water at stupid o'clock, I was alarmed to see a faint light from the kitchen. That bar tape isn't just reflective...it glows in the dark.
And UV valve caps...can you get them for Prestas? *wants*

Thanks - it's the loveliest bike I've ever had.

 

[Landslide]

it's the loveliest bike I've ever had.

Which is worth at least an extra mph on your average speed!

 

[Arch]

I saw it, but I wasn't convinced of the "naturalness" of it. For instance, at one point we had a close up of one of the cameras that the elephants had placed, and lo and behold, there was a relection of a tiger in the lens. Now, I cannot for the life of me see how that could happen, surely there would have been a reflection of the camera that we were looking through (if you see what I mean)

Also, the "The elephants have to leave now for 2 moths due to the monsoon" type of excuses... they just seemed like a way of breaking the filming into 15minute segments (ad breaks for when BBC sell it abroad perhaps ???)

All in all, I thought it was wondefully shot, but I was continually suspicious that we, the viewers, where being "had" somehow


Andrew

You see characters in dramas looking in mirrors without seeing the camera, don't you? It's all in the angles. And remember some of these cameras probably had pretty good zooms on them, so could be some distance away, making the angles less obvious.

The breaking up into segments, well, I guess that's just modern marketing pressure. There are a lot of scene shifts in Torchwood that are the same and other stuff like Hotel Babylon.

Call me naive, but I can't imagine David Attenborough putting him name and voice to anything deceptive (well no more deceptive than any wildlife programme, bearing in mind the years of work, special hides and equipment and recreation of sound that goes into them)...