What have you been riding lately?

Rat Rod Bikes Bicycle Forum

Help Support Rat Rod Bikes Bicycle Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
The 135mm Plena lens is awesome.

eg.jpg
 
Thanks. Mostly on a bike I carry a 50mm Prime shooting at f/1.8-f/2.8 on a Nikon Z7. The shot above is with a Nikon Z9 and the amazing Nikkor 135mm Plena Lens at f/1.8.

Expensive pro gear, but I have a content production/photo and video business - tools of trade.
Sweet! I normally use a Nikkor 18-140mm telephoto lens at f/11 or close to it on my Nikon D7100. It's a pretty good middle-of-the-road setting for me, as I can get most everything I want in focus quickly, but still have a shallow enough depth of field to blur the background a bit. I need to do more shallow depth of field stuff like what you're doing though! I forgot just how cool that can be!

I'm more of a hobbyist admittedly, but I need to start touching up my best shots so I can sell them as prints. Heck, I just want to get out and do more photography in general! I haven't been using the Nikon nearly as much as I ought to!
 
My 92 Nishiki Manitoba, mid single speed conversion.
Wow that's nice. I'm a bit of a Nishiki/Norco fan, do you have any pics of it in original condition?
*nothing wrong with the conversion, just curious about how it was originally equipped, not a model I've seen bef
 
BCA Rock Blaster.
Kids bike with 20x3 tires. I rebuilt it as an adult "sting ray" with longer cranks, new apes, longer seat post, nos banana seat, all new longer cables. The apes are 22.2 mm so I had to track down a 1 1/8 x 22.2 mm threadless bmx stem. Removed most of the decals. The oem plastic spoke guard crumbled at the touch so I lightly painted a rusty chrome steel spoke protector for it which looks good. The cut outs in the spoke guard match the sprocket holes. BCA claims to be "assembled" in the USA. Has a Kent International sticker on it and the serial number matches Genesis numbers (walymart brand).

BCA.Rock.Blaster.done (1).JPG


BCA.Rock.Blaster.done (3).JPG
 
Found this in the scrap heap some weeks ago, rusty and covered in bird poop.
IMG_20250202_152511.jpg

I gave it a quick overhaul and want to do some touring later this year on it because it's so comfy.
Then I test fitted the gear over the weekend and decided to take the longer way to the office this morning.
IMG_20250303_084727.jpg

It was the right decision...
 
Found this in the scrap heap some weeks ago, rusty and covered in bird poop.
View attachment 289699
I gave it a quick overhaul and want to do some touring later this year on it because it's so comfy.
Then I test fitted the gear over the weekend and decided to take the longer way to the office this morning.
View attachment 289701
It was the right decision...
Needs a sticker that says "My trash bike is cooler than you"
 

Latest posts

Back
Top