Have bicycle, take camera

Calzone said:
My Rollei 3.5F fits in a fanny pack.
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Whoa!

I can't imagine taking my 3.5F on a bike. 🙂

For occasional snaps, I always have my iPhone (which I would carry even if it didn't have a camera.) Being a semi-weight weenie, any other camera would need to be super tiny and light...
 
For the lighter-weight road riders here, this is the under saddle carrier I got for a camera with space for other small items. The Topeak Aero Wedge Pack (clip) in large. It takes the X100, Oly SP, Leica CL w/40mm or a SLR w/50mm... or four bananas.

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I was thinking of the same thread just yesterday. Here we have , just completed, a cycle track from our city to the next - 16 kilometers of limestone riverbank cycle track.Went out yesterday and took a camera and tripod strapped to cross frame.efke IR820.Unfortunately by the time we had stopped for a late breakfast and coffee the weather had turned to overcast, so no images.The track starts right outside of our house so I can see this becoming a regular thing.
 
From a bicycle of a bicycle!

From a bicycle of a bicycle!

I love to shoot from my bike. Hopping off and taking a picture of someone is often a really fun collaboration.
 
All of my daily home-work-home trips are done riding my bike (a CBT Italia Columbus Gara frame fitted with mixed-up gear, a MTB handlebar and a Brooks saddle) and I have always a camera with me, either in the handlebar bag (a red Overhill one bought for $5 off eBay) or in my shoulder small leather photo bag (Domke lookalike, but made of supple leather in the 1980's at a famous workshop of that time).

That photo above with the vintage bike and the "Morgue" writing is simply terrific.
 
Not necessarily recommended, but doable. M8 in this case.
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Bob Michaels said:
It seems that most here say "shooting from their bike" but actually mean riding their bike somewhere, getting off, taking out their camera and only then photographing. To me, "shooting from your bike" means rolling down the road. I still prefer the Olympus Stylus Epic as it is the only camera I can shoot one handed with the other hand on the bars.
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Here's my Trek Soho DLX locked up outside the Kiva grocery in Eugene. Note the cool deer-family hitching posts.

I often load my North Face 1-strap shoulder bag with 2 or 3 cameras--the GRDIII plus a rangefinder or OM4 plus GXR/Leica-mount. Eugene is bike-friendly/sensitive enough, with 100 miles+ of dedicated bike lanes, to make commuting and riding in traffic a normal if not totally safe proposition. (7 years since my last collision with a car here--being doored by someone parked who simply flung her driver door open into the bike lane. Wear your helmets, friends.)

This day, I packed just the (big, heavy) Bronica ETRSi, shooting expired TMax bought from RFFer Rogier.

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Here is my bike.

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I ride it everyday through downtown Los Angeles. (to work & back)
I always have my M6 strapped to my back. I scan for good light, zone focus & set at least 1/125 then snap on the fly. This works for me as skid row is not a place to be walking around with a leica.

Here are some photos, mostly taken from my bike, all in LA:
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Actually I just rode the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton on my bike. 185 miles or so, fairly arduous. I lugged my mamiya 7 along the whole way and gave my dad the X100. I'll post some pictures in a week or two.

We rode the trail in 3 days (most tours take 6 days), and we went the hard direction against the wind for the entire trip (most tours go the easy direction). Can't say we planned it perfectly, but it was some of the best riding I've ever done. The big mountains (cape smokey, north mountain, and mackenzie) had up to 15% grades and the climbs were miles long. I somehow made it with only two front chainrings, no "granny gear"

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When I take rides, even for exercise, I put on a backpack of gear. Even if I don't take a photograph, I figure hauling around the extra weight is good for burning an extra calorie or two. 🙂
 
Ecovelo

Ecovelo

... still mourn the closing of Ecovelo! What a wonderful site for the bike commuter. The pictures were always superb.

Check it out, if you don't know it. They stopped updating content in January but the existing content is still available for perusal.

www.ecovelo.info
 
I almost always have a camera (typically something compact) in the Chrome messenger bag I almost always wear when biking. Never know when you might run across something photogenic.
 
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