Comments on: Flywheels 101 http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/ custom motorcycles, shop talk, news & events Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:24:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: QuesyRider http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/#comment-1679 QuesyRider Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:53:55 +0000 http://iwblogger.com/?p=432#comment-1679 Heck. The color at the crank pin doesn't show up on the Blog pic like it does in the mag. I wonder if the S&S parts are really that color or if its a function of the photo lighting? Anyway, it shur is pretty to my eye. Heck. The color at the crank pin doesn’t show up on the Blog pic like it does in the mag. I wonder if the S&S parts are really that color or if its a function of the photo lighting? Anyway, it shur is pretty to my eye.

]]> By: QuesyRider http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/#comment-1678 QuesyRider Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:20:18 +0000 http://iwblogger.com/?p=432#comment-1678 No offense taken, roadrat. We are all here to have fun. Having tried to take a few technical pix, it's harder to get it right than on might think. Just think of all the pix on a "How to read a spark plug" chart. How often have we read that the 'spark plug guy' at the track can look at a plug and tell that the mixture isnt right, the spark is a couple of degrees advanced, and the clutch is slipping? Not only can't I read a plug that well. But I can't even find a decent pic of a plug for that kind of demonstration. I thought that the lighting of the crank (opening pages) was especially good allowing all the curves and surfaces to show up real well. So often such pix look flat and dull. Nearly all the B&W pix in a service manual look terrible in comparrison to the IW mag shots.I don't think that the blue and the orange at the crank pin would show up without the effort to go to color. And like all great art, the pix look good to me still. Longetivity counts. The longer that I look at them, the more I am inclined to cut 'em out and mount 'em up in the shop. I must be one of 'those guys' that have a wide variety of stuff in the shop. I might be the only guy I know to have an artsy-fartsy mobile hanging in the shop as well as a renaisence pic. Naturally, I have the obligatory 'hot babe' calander too. But its Vargas-type art rather than straight cheese cake. I spend a lot of time in the shop. It ought to be beautiful as well as functional. A great pic captures and holds the eye. Page through your mag and see how many other pics grab and hold your eye. No offense taken, roadrat. We are all here to have fun.
Having tried to take a few technical pix, it’s harder to get it right than on might think. Just think of all the pix on a “How to read a spark plug” chart. How often have we read that the ‘spark plug guy’ at the track can look at a plug and tell that the mixture isnt right, the spark is a couple of degrees advanced, and the clutch is slipping? Not only can’t I read a plug that well. But I can’t even find a decent pic of a plug for that kind of demonstration.
I thought that the lighting of the crank (opening pages) was especially good allowing all the curves and surfaces to show up real well. So often such pix look flat and dull. Nearly all the B&W pix in a service manual look terrible in comparrison to the IW mag shots.I don’t think that the blue and the orange at the crank pin would show up without the effort to go to color.
And like all great art, the pix look good to me still. Longetivity counts. The longer that I look at them, the more I am inclined to cut ‘em out and mount ‘em up in the shop. I must be one of ‘those guys’ that have a wide variety of stuff in the shop. I might be the only guy I know to have an artsy-fartsy mobile hanging in the shop as well as a renaisence pic. Naturally, I have the obligatory ‘hot babe’ calander too. But its Vargas-type art rather than straight cheese cake.
I spend a lot of time in the shop. It ought to be beautiful as well as functional.

A great pic captures and holds the eye. Page through your mag and see how many other pics grab and hold your eye.

]]> By: Snakebit Sam http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/#comment-1639 Snakebit Sam Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:06:47 +0000 http://iwblogger.com/?p=432#comment-1639 Quesy, You're right Karen Brown's photos are great. Hopefully the two of them will corroborate on future technical features for the magazine. Quesy,
You’re right Karen Brown’s photos are great. Hopefully the two of them will corroborate on future technical features for the magazine.

]]> By: RoadRat537 http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/#comment-1628 RoadRat537 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:25:38 +0000 http://iwblogger.com/?p=432#comment-1628 Wow Quesy, impressed by parts shots? I have a whole shop full of parts you can oogle over if you want. No offense. Just having fun at your expense. The article was well written and taught me a thing or two. I've always enjoyed the mechanical articles and how to sections by Neil and the rest of the Ironworks staff. I actually wish there were more of these kind of stories in the magazine. Or even on this site. Wow Quesy, impressed by parts shots? I have a whole shop full of parts you can oogle over if you want.

No offense. Just having fun at your expense. The article was well written and taught me a thing or two. I’ve always enjoyed the mechanical articles and how to sections by Neil and the rest of the Ironworks staff. I actually wish there were more of these kind of stories in the magazine. Or even on this site.

]]> By: QuesyRider http://iwblogger.com/2008/flywheels-101/#comment-1622 QuesyRider Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:10:36 +0000 http://iwblogger.com/?p=432#comment-1622 Note the photos by Karen Brown. Normally, photos are nice. But these photos made me look for the credit. My very best compliments to Ms. Brown. Her photos are so appealing to me that I am probably going to cut them out of my mag and frame them for my shop. Kudo's to IW's Editor Dain for not printing such great pix across the binding/crease making retrieval essentially impossible. I hope Sam, Marilyn, and the IW staff will relay my comments to Ms. Brown so that she doesn't miss my gratitude. There was no edress to directly express my appreciation to Ms. Brown. Mr. Taylor's accompaning text was so elloquent that I hardly needed to move my lips at all while reading it. Note the photos by Karen Brown. Normally, photos are nice. But these photos made me look for the credit. My very best compliments to Ms. Brown. Her photos are so appealing to me that I am probably going to cut them out of my mag and frame them for my shop.
Kudo’s to IW’s Editor Dain for not printing such great pix across the binding/crease making retrieval essentially impossible.
I hope Sam, Marilyn, and the IW staff will relay my comments to Ms. Brown so that she doesn’t miss my gratitude. There was no edress to directly express my appreciation to Ms. Brown.
Mr. Taylor’s accompaning text was so elloquent that I hardly needed to move my lips at all while reading it.

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