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In article <5Nlwj.72778$Ly.11976@pd7urf1no>, Sean <no.spam.TakeThisOut@no.spam>
wrote:

> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/170383394_d78b677c0e.jpg
>
> Curious that the 3 riders to the right of the picture are leaned
> to their right, whereas the two on the left are leaning the other way.
> Bike #65 seems to be standing on its front wheel; there's a visible
> skid mark behind it.
>
> Sean_Q_

=

Look carefully at the shadows of the two groups. The riders on the right
side of the picture are ahead of the other two.

Both red bikes are doing stoppies. The one on the inside clearly is; we
see too much of the top of it. The outside one is also doing a stoppie:
the back wheel ought to be visible at that angle, and it's not connected
to a shadow on the pavement.

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In article
<3e9adab6-bb53-4245-86b6-8fa0acfa0dda.RemoveThis@28g2000hsw.googlegroups.com>,
Bruce Richmond <bsr3997.RemoveThis@my-deja.com> wrote:

> On Feb 24, 10:21 pm, "P. Roehling" <nowayj....RemoveThis@uh-uh.edu> wrote:
> > "Sean" <no.s....RemoveThis@no.spam> wrote
> >
> > > Curious that the 3 riders to the right of the picture are leaned
> > > to their right, whereas the two on the left are leaning the other way.
> > > Bike #65 seems to be standing on its front wheel; there's a visible
> > > skid mark behind it.
> >
> > "Curious"?
> >
> > You mean you really don't know what's just happened there and what's *about*
> > to happen?
> >
> > The three bikes on the right are leaning into a right-hand turn entry, and
> > the two bikes on the left have just collided and are in the process of
> > high-siding.
> >
> > The first two bikes on the right are ahead of the collision (look at the
> > shadows) and will probably be just fine. The yellow #77 following them is
> > going to be lucky to miss the sliding, tumbling, and decelerating bikes and
> > riders crossing his line just ahead of him, but may be far enough behind
> > them to avoid the chaos. (Difficult to tell when the picture's been taken
> > with a telephoto lens.)
>
> Speaking of shadows isn't it strange how the shadow of the bikes on
> the left extends to the right while the shadow of the bike on the
> right extends to the left? I suppose it could be that way if the sun
> is almost directly over head.

Import this into your favorite image application; Photoshop will do.
Make the image very tall with the picture at the bottom. Draw a line
from the end of the inside red bike's shadow grazing that bike's tail
and to the top of the picture. Now draw another line from the end of
#26's shadow grazing that rider's knee or shoulder and then up. I betcha
they're parallel.

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