How do bikes stand up on thier own in pics?

[THCi]

As title says, how do the bikes aways point straight up in any picture of them? Browse any of the manufactorers sites and the bikes will always be vertical without any obvious means of support. Always made me wonder.

(first to say photoshop gets a slap! )
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[JakeyR]

[Kickstart]

Probably a broom handle at a carefully chosen angle so it doesn't show.

Although Photoshop is probably the current method of choice.

All the best

Keith
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[THCi]

And there was me thinking an army of ants, or a midget on one foot.

Jake, have a cookie.
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[Gradog]

They are often photographed in a studio, using a white stand against a white background and that picture is super imposed onto a background.
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[scoota bk]

I remember once seeing one of the pics that hadn't been photoshopped, was a while ago but I remember some clear plastic thing and blobs of glue

[Louise]

[Itchy]

Thin strings? , my mechanic does NOT use stands of any kind , he uses a winch and ropes tied around the frame , use them thin enough ....


Also bricks under side stands , NC30s lean lots when on the side so you put bricks under it andits nearly verticle
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[Psychonaut]

Maybe someone holds the bike upright and the photographer shouts go, the stagehand legs it and he takes the shot before the bike hits the floor
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

The nc30 hardly leans at all on it's sidestand, much less than most bikes

[feef]

[EuropeanNC30R...]

Strange that, as mine has a low mileage replacement shock and all nc30's I've sat on and ridden have been the same.

[feef]

[Keir]

feef - Now you mention it my fazer is almost upright on its sidestand. Would this happen if someone has "lowered" the bike for a shorter person? Ive always had my suspicions that the bike has longer dog bones than standard as it feels very low when i sit on it.
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

[techierob]

easy. The photographer stands in a ditch and leans backward at a 30-degree angle. If there are any buildings in the background, then the foundations are either dug away or jacked up until the gradient matches that of the bike

[angryjonny]

[bazza]

[tokarev]

Guys, guys, guys...I am sorry to tell you this, but you are all wrong.

You all heard of the Invisible Man right? Well he rides the bikes into the studio and sits on them whilst the photographer snaps away.

He was telling me he makes a fortune as he has no competition, hence he is in high demand for photo shoots all over the world. Lucky muvva fucka.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

The '98 R1 is the only bike that cannot be photographed upright.
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[mark83]

I always thought that they drafted in Valentino Rossi to use his superhuman, physics-defying powers from a distance.

Silly me!
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[good samaratan]

sorry u are all wrong the bikes are copied in every minute detail,, and then constructed in polystirene,
then painted by those guys that charge half a million pound to spray paint your helmet u know the ones,
then all they do is use 2 of those long pins with the tiny heads so u dont see where its pined to the floor,

no one uses photo-shop thats just silly

[Whosthedaddy]

[THCi]