Bury Metro Today

[jimmy]

Originally Posted by DCM

guess we can work out who was and wasn't winning from the pick... http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/bury1...es/bury08.html Jimmy, you NO gentleman, roflol

I only remember lapping her 3 times or so, honest :|


Spencer was the only one I didn't lap! bugger.

[craigosh]

woohoo... two pics of the trusty old tamiya :-D shame i couldnt get it to handle how i wanted... was that a 1ds you were using jim? which L series lens?

Right little advice needed. what conditions should i use ballistic pink minispikes for? I thought as they are the softest compund ballistic do that they'd be good in the (mostly) dry conditions we had today but the car felt awful everytime i had them on. The car felt better with the shu blues on..

Anyway, was a great ( if somwhat short) day at bury..

[jimmy]

Use the ballistics in HORRIFICLY wet conditions.
the spikes on ballistics are too long, so they bend and wobble and make the car squirm about like its riding on jelly.

I was using a 1dmk2 with a 70-200 2.8 IS L lens. I also had my Nikon in the car but dint bust it out - in fact there wasn't much time to do any photo madness today - rog really ran thru it !

[craigosh]

right that explains it.. I was thinking the knobs were a bit soft, but i thought the compound make more of a difference... I'll save em for wet tires then and get some yellows back on the go...

I've got my eye on the 5d, have a 20d thorough work which is great but the crop factor really annoys me... Looking at the 35-350 also, ever tried that?

[jimmy]

The compound on a track like bury is probably the most important but there is so much grip that the softer tyres just fold over.
Save those pinks for when its REALLY really (really) wet, they will be good.
The best tyres around there would be probably yellow mini spikes (schuey), they have the right balance of softness and spikeyness.
Greens would wear too quickly and blues maybe too agressive on the grass and too loose on the concrete stuff. I think..


re cams:
Yea to be honest, the crop factor for what I do is more a benefit than a drawback as I'm usually at the long end of things. I just got the 10.5mm fisheye for my d70 for super wide angles as there is no proper fisheye for the 1.3 crop.

The 5D resolution might push the limits of the 35-350, but yes Ive used it and its about the best lens for RC action (outdoors) that there can be. The reach is good and the wide angle is really useful, the push-pull design makes it great to use.. best of all they are fairly (!) cheap since they have been superceeded by the 28-300 IS.
What do you do to have a nice camera at work ? We make computer games and still the work camera is some pikey old effort.

[craigosh]

I'm a photographer lad :-P na main work is as a graphic designer but i do all of our photography that comes in. Portraits, products, absract, architecture.. i do it all..

I've only needed wide angles in the past as i've never used anything longer than a 50 for portraits. Did have a 105 macro but it didnt work on the 20d so sold it.

this is the kind of stuff i do:
http://www.designinit.org.uk/creativ...ail.asp?id=468

and company i work for:
http://www.splinter.co.uk

[jimmy]

nice one, I dont get much chance to play with cameras outside the racing tbh and other than reference photos dont use photography in my work. My chum from work quit last year and is currently studying fashion photography down in london.
Another mate from work quit a couple of weeks ago to start his own magazine and does a lot of nice creative photography also.

[Spencer Mulcahy]

Originally Posted by jimmy

I only remember lapping her 3 times or so, honest :|


Spencer was the only one I didn't lap! bugger.

If their had been another lap you would have got me Jimmy bang to rights.

[Rob]

Just my second meeting in off road, and my first regional. Was happy with my performance, qualified 4th in the C final. Managed to avoid a small pile up at the first bend and led until about 4 minutes, then made a small mistake in the sand and dropped to second. On the last lap after 5 min buzzer had gone got tangled up with a a back marker and dropped to third.

Final was my quickest time of the day (probably would of qualified for B final with that time). I always seem to drive faster in finals in whatever class I've done, I think that in qualifying I'm trying to set a fast time and make more mistakes. Just need to treat each round as a final

Stu got a pic of my car :

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/northernracer/bury/3.htm

[Stu]

The series positions after two rounds are up on the results pages of both northernracer & Southport club site.

Thanks to Eric (as normal) for doing the points.

[Northy]

Stu - Batley - Beer? Road sign????



Do I need to ask in sign language?:jimmeh