Sample Gallery: Documenting a bike build with the Fujifilm X-E3

The AirLandSea is Max's only off-the-peg bike but also, more significantly, it's the prototype/reviewer sample, so has to be adaptable enough to fit a number of different reviewers.

Mar 20, 2018*permalink

truthsforme

I like the bag that's in front of the bike. What is it?

Mar 20, 2018permalink

I think it's a custom version of this bag.

Mar 20, 2018permalink

SigmaChrome

Good job, Richard. I found it all quite immersive and the shots are technically and artistically very good.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

K1000usr

Reading the headlines the first time, I thought this was a documentation of a bike build with an X-E3.

Turned out, it was a documentation of a bike build, with an X-E3.

:-)

Mar 19, 2018permalink

K1000usr

Great job taking us through this bike manufacturing. Please do more of these, and maybe facilitate some DPR reader contributions also -- not as a regular thread, but more like this article. By 'facilitate', I mean provide a UI frontend etc.

I am sure many documentaries could follow here..

Mar 19, 2018*permalink

kreislauf

this advertisement really pushes my buttons. I am close to even buy the last "fujicon" which I am missing right now...

Mar 19, 2018permalink

breschdlingsgsaelz

The photos look nice, but the bike - a horrible hipster machine. Nothing against gravel bikes - I use Cyclocross bikes with fender+rack mounts for 15 years now (though they were not called "gravel" back then).

But this bike looks really ugly. The stem! The Fork! The pedals! Ugly as hell! The single chainring setup also does not look very gravel compatible - too big for heavy climbs and too small for fast flats.

Ah well. Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder. At least it does have a drop bar on not those horrible Mickey-Mouse Style Handlebars the fixie hipsters used to mount on their "bikes".

Mar 19, 2018permalink

SheepStar

You DID see the size of the rear cassette right? It'll be no different to pedal than a cyclecross bike running a 12-30 and 36/46 crankset.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

Also, the pedals were my fault. I'd taken my pedals off my bike for the shoot then left them by the front door as I left that morning. It meant Mark and Max had to find something I could ride on without anything that matched the cleats on my shoes.

Mar 19, 2018*permalink

breschdlingsgsaelz

Ah, good you mention that. I thought he had forgot his pizza on the back wheel. Since the Chainring has 36 teeth I can imagine it will ride like a 36/46 uphill. But riding faster will require some track cadence skills. Maybe he can share a video with him spinning at 180rpm, then he can even show the benefits of a hi framerate mode :D

Mar 19, 2018permalink

dsut4392

@Richard Guessing you put your light on the seat tube there because it's the highest you can run internal wiring from the dynamo hub without fouling on the seatpost?

The big benefit of a dynamo light is that it's 'always on', but you go and waste that by obscuring side visibility behind the seatstays? And it looks like when you mount a fender you'll lose some rear visibility as well. Mounting it off a bracket from the 'brake bridge' may have meant a little exposed cable, but would have given 90 degree visibility of your light instead of the 15 degree visibility you have now.

Mar 20, 2018permalink

sean000

The steel fork with the Kirk Pacenti crown is the prettiest part of the bike in my opinion. I’m glad @Richard Butler went with that over the carbon fork option. It’s a very unique crown that looks great even on the lug-less frame. I prefer lugs, but the more I look at these photos the more I like the frame and the build. It’s a nice mix of modern and classic features with some beautiful details. I’m also a fan of the 650B wheel size. Love the handlebar bag as well. Post some more photos when you get it fendered!

I really enjoyed the photo series and the video. The X-E3 sure is a lovely little camera.

Mar 22, 2018*permalink

lampo808

Very nice shoots! Thanks for the gallery!

Mar 19, 2018permalink

iShootWideOpen

I hate fixie bikes! Get a real road bike, damn hipster!
PS: Nevermind, the bike has a 1x drivetrain. Carry on :)

Mar 19, 2018*permalink

D Gold

I enjoyed the photos and the obvious dedication by the shop building them.. Looks like a capable camera as well, even though I'm imbedded with Nikon due to a lot of lenses. :)

Mar 19, 2018permalink

lambert4

I love that you combined two of my favorite things cycling and photography, but a chronologic gallery of the build would add some order to the chaos.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

I've rearranged it in chronological order, now. We thought presenting them out-of-sequence would stop there being too many similar images back-to-back but it does make it more difficult to make sense of the process.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

lambert4

It was just opinion, I used to build bikes with Titus in AZ and love the series you put together.

Mar 21, 2018permalink

BeaverTerror

Like the bike, not sure about those clashing coloured fat tires on an urban commuter. Seattle? Add some fenders and then we can talk. Nice internal cabling for the rear light.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

jackspra

Good article with the Fuji camera and lens.Fuji colors are so good.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Peter1976

with all respect, but this isn't/wasn't an 'article', it is an advert. So don't expect any controversial or unbiased information or pro/con in it.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

Colin Dutton

How's that bike standing up on its own in the first shot?

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Michiel953

If you watched the video: it was a ‘machine gun’ shot(s) (pardon the expression). The withdrawing hand in the preceding shot, the catching hand in the next shot. Something like that. Cleverly thought out!

Mar 18, 2018permalink

babart

I'm certain there are more than a few who misread the title to this interesting piece, and wondered what Fuji had engineered into the X-E3. Screwdrivers? Ratchet wrenches? :)

Mar 18, 2018permalink

I would imagine that such an ultra-hipster activity as "documenting a bike build" should only be done using a vintage rangefinder film Leica.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Documenting a bike build is not some "ultra-hipster activity".

Mar 18, 2018permalink

It totally is. You're just in denial.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Define ultra-hipster. Go ahead.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Define pornography.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

So you can't or won't define the words you used. Can't defend it?

Mar 18, 2018permalink

josherwin

Wow! such crap is always typical of the dpr forums. No one is gonna take your armchair away. It's gonna be okay!

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Why so serious, Yake?

Mar 18, 2018permalink

ZeBebito

There is nothing hipster in documenting or building a bike, unless the guy building it and his pal documenting it are actually hipsters.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Michiel953

You must be Katastrofikally young and old at the same time.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

jackspra

Lots of people like like bikes and like an article like this.Look out the window,bikes are everywhere.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

(unknown member)

"Yake Documenting a bike build is not some "ultra-hipster activity".
How about you define the words you use.
Apparently you already know what an "ultra-hipster activity" is because you stated a bike build is not some "ultra-hipster activity".

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Define the word "define".

Mar 18, 2018permalink

@Paul, the person who made the claim can't defend it. I don't know what "ultra-hipster activity" is in that person's mind — and they can't explain it. Likely because the term "hipster" is often tossed around in a thoughtless, meaningless way.

But it's easy enough to look up "hipster" in the dictionary: "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream."

So "ultra-hipster" would be what? Someone who does that to the *extreme*?

How is photographing people making a bicycle "the latest trend and fashion" outside or even inside the cultural mainstream? How is that a trend or fashion, especially an extreme version of it? Maybe you've seen a recent trend in this type of photography?

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Boy, did that touch a nerve ;-)

Mar 18, 2018permalink

four under

As an avid cyclist I would love to document a bike build with any camera. No one that knows me would dream of calling me a hipster....ultra or otherwise.

Mar 18, 2018permalink

Roland Karlsson

But do you have a fixed gear bike? That is what define you as a hipster.

Mar 19, 2018permalink

Good point.

Mar 19, 2018permalink