Coming to an Accident & Emergency near you – bikers at speed.
National Bike Week started this weekend, with a bit of a fair in Eyre Square in Galway on Saturday. The purpose of Bike Week is to show people how health and safe it is to use a bike and …ah, who am I kidding. On Sunday, a ramp and a huge airbag was set up in Eyre Square, and a bunch of youngsters without an once of fear amongst them spent hours hurling themselves into the air for the sheer fun of it. That’s how it should be.
You can see some more pictures here and a short video here² – the video was made from setting my camera to high-speed¹ – it is actually a bunch of still images edited as a video [the big grey building in the background is the Meyrick Hotel, in front of the railway station]
¹The camera, a Canon 7D, can rattle through 8 images a second in high-speed mode and I don’t often get a chance to use that mode. High-speed mode is a very easy way to use up a memory card. I had a 16Gb card in the camera with a very high write speed which meant that there was no delays at all once I pressed the shutter button. The downside is that I took nearly 1,000 images – mostly as part of high-speed sequences.
²No bikers were hurt in the making of this movie, despite their own best efforts,