• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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    1 month ago

    Nah that’s just the foot peg on the left side, along with the rear brake pedal protruding to the front. Riders left for is held out for balance behind the front wheel.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Exactly. Plus, you can see the dirt being thrown from the tires and the wind in their hair. Some people online just don’t know that people actually do stuff in real life.

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        1 month ago

        I think you are right.

        However I can’t get over a camera from back in the day with a shutter speed fast enough to capture the spokes that clearly.

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          It appears to be a 1970s bike (I would take a stab at a Yamaha LT3) and by that period shutter speeds of 1/500 or 1/1000 were readily available amongst better quality cameras. That would be plenty to get a clear shot of the spokes on what would be a relatively slow moving bike (I would assume <40km/h, likely noticeably less). I’ve got several 50s era cameras that have 1/500 top speeds, so even if the bike was new at the time of the photo it didn’t require a new camera to take the shot.