LSP Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Very funny everyone It is true that the only way quokkas are likely to ambush anyone is with cuteness - although I did have an "OH MY GOD THERE'S SOMETHING UNDER THE BED!" moment last time I stayed overnight at Rottnest Island (alamy image ID F54TY4). - Suzanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Sorry, never pasted an Alamy image here? Trying to post BMMEG1.jpg I'm a skinny tire kind of guy, but I wear shorts.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Bring up the image, right-click copy image, paste into the reply box. Eeeww. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Great subject Malcolm. It'll be difficult to beat the Dutch/Belgian contingent on this one. "Petal" Power Theatre performance Cycle-Jam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Curious quokkas checking out bicycle, Rottnest Island, Western Australia Wow, these large critters ambush bikers? Cheers, Philippe I never heard of these beasts so I Googled and from mentalfloss.com I found this... "Journalist Kenneth Cook learned the hard way when he tried to befriend a quokka along a dirt road. Cook noted the animal’s “small, mean mouth,” but decided it was probably too small to do much damage. “It was a malicious-looking beast,” he wrote in his 1987 book Wombat Revenge, but he wasn’t afraid. He offered the little animal a piece of apple, which the quokka spat out, and a crumb of gorgonzola cheese. The quokka popped the gorgonzola into its mouth, chewed, and then, Cook says, “fell down in a dead faint.” Convinced he’d just poisoned the creature and determined to save it, Cook zipped the quokka’s body into his backpack, left a little room for air, swung the pack onto his back, and pedaled his bicycle frantically down the road to find help. After a few minutes of bumping along at breakneck speed, the quokka began to revive, and blearily climbed out of the backpack, claws first. Afraid to turn around in case he lost control of his bike, Cook sped onward. The quokka grabbed his neck and began shrieking in his ear. The bike kept going. The shrieking quokka sank its teeth into Cook’s earlobe and hung there, dead weight, like a large, furry earring. Disoriented, the journalist steered his bike off a cliff into the ocean. Surfacing, he looked around and found the quokka standing on the shore, glaring at him and snarling. The story seems incredible, but Cook is far from the winsome creature’s only victim. Teddy-bear ears and doe eyes aside, these animals are ready, willing, and able to fend for themselves. Each year, the Rottnest Island infirmary treats dozens of patients—mostly children—for quokka bites. " Hmmmmmm. I bet you thought you were joking! Paulette If I submitted a photo as far removed from reality as that piece, there'd not be a big enough "digitally altered" button to cover it And as for quokka's "biting" . . . well, as the article referenced above says, "The animals can be approached so closely that they regularly NIP the fingertips of children who get too close" . . . digitally altered indeed If you want to talk about really dangerous Australian animals, cyclists should beware the . . . drop-bears!! dd Had to look up that one too... A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory carnivorous version of koala. The hoax is commonly used in tall tales designed to scare tourists Scaring tourists!!!....or photographers with too much time on their hands.. There was an image but I wasn't allowed to use it on the forum... Look it up Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 I was looking for something different like kids pedal car but do not have anything other than bicycles/cycles/bikes etc, so will have to join in with the gang. Strangely I have the words Pedal Power for this one. And for this one. But not for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 If I submitted a photo as far removed from reality as that piece, there'd not be a big enough "digitally altered" button to cover it And as for quokka's "biting" . . . well, as the article referenced above says, "The animals can be approached so closely that they regularly NIP the fingertips of children who get too close" . . . digitally altered indeed If you want to talk about really dangerous Australian animals, cyclists should beware the . . . drop-bears!! dd Had to look up that one too... A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory carnivorous version of koala. The hoax is commonly used in tall tales designed to scare tourists Scaring tourists!!!....or photographers with too much time on their hands.. There was an image but I wasn't allowed to use it on the forum... Look it up Paulette Many a cocky tourist has believed, to their painful detriment, the "it's a hoax" hoax . . . dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Thanks for the help Mark. I tried an number of things to post the picture directly from Alamy and they did not work for me? Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Thanks for the help Mark. I tried an number of things to post the picture directly from Alamy and they did not work for me? Thanks again. It's really easy once you get the hang of it. Search for your image via the Alamy file number. Not in My Images, just on the normal Alamy page. When you see the thumbnail, right click on it. It'll give you the option to "Copy Image Address". When you're back in the forum post, select the little icon above that looks like a polaroid pic. Paste the link into this. And Bob's your uncle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Thanks. I thought I tried that, but was tired. Bob is my brother.... P.S. rode my skinny tires 200 miles last week, with my spandex on.... Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Had to look up that one too... A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory carnivorous version of koala. The hoax is commonly used in tall tales designed to scare tourists Scaring tourists!!!....or photographers with too much time on their hands.. There was an image but I wasn't allowed to use it on the forum... Look it up Paulette Yeah, we all thought that 7 metre crocodiles, Great White sharks, blue-ringed octopii, stone-fish, bull sharks, over 100 species of venomous snakes (including one considered the most venomous on earth), funnel-web spiders, tiger sharks, Barnaby Joyce, Sea Wasps (aka box jellyfish), cone-fish, Irukandji (a one cm long jellyfish, barely visible to the naked eye and the smallest animal capable of killing a human), Scorpion Fish and redback spiders just weren't scarey enough, so to really really scare tourists we invented a koala that bites . . . dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Congrats on the win Malcolm! Here are my three: 1. Bicycle repair shop and local people, Flacq town, Mauritius 2. Woman cycling by Kings College Chapel, Cambridge 3. Bicycle and rods of local fisherman on the beach, Agadir, Morocco Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickJ Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 This is my second one: A little boy getting training wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Three from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Great challenge that has propduced some fabulous images already. Now I am back I will have sort mine out; does it have to be on Alamy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Some great pictures as ever, better than anything that I have. Just for the fun of it though... A couple of "Boris Bikes" in use in London: Sticking with "Boris Bikes", a group of friends take hire bikes from a docking station in Kensington Gardens: A cyclist taking on London traffic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneDay Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Powering through the snow: On the Path Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWatkins Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynn Palmer Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Pedaling along Fernandina Beach, Florida... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoM1ke Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 The power of the bicycle or of the written word? By the way, he carried on for a mile or so beyond me still texting and didn't crash or fall off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 The power of the bicycle or of the written word? By the way, he carried on for a mile or so beyond me still texting and didn't crash or fall off... Is he texting or looking for a Pokemon? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Thai man Thai lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Stirling Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Nude bike ride Nude bike ride again, OK, didn't have many peddle power shots. Trying to take something which was both bike and symbol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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