agreed, when I used to ride road a lot and work at a bike shop I had Dura Ace, that was 20 years ago. Now I tend to go with cheaper parts that are at least as durable and I don't notice a huge difference. Nothing wrong with Ultegra, the new 600!
No, not at all, that's why it's heavily modded. Road bikes are easy, nothing will happen unless I crash. Mountain Bikes are different, all sorts of things like rocks and trees for the camera to hit. Smashed more than one that way. Cheap film cameras those ones though, wouldn't risk a pricy dSLR for that.
It's in the IPTC extension set which is not currently supported by Photo Mechanic unfortunately. Write to them and tell them they need to include it in the next revision. As it is now PM v4.5 should support all IPTC Core fields which is an improvement over past versions...
Talk to Radek maybe he can have it so if you ftp it it will work with the IPTC data??? would save a whole load of time for us togs as it removes like 4 steps from the process (exporting loading up pinkbike uploading and then addiding descriptions etc) probs save a good 5 mins here and there (which as you know is allways nice)
You attach a camera to the bike. You can look through the camera to see what will be in the picture, and what will be sharp etc. And finally with a remote trigger, you make a photo at the desired time. I'm sure he has taken more than one shot, since it's impossible to know if shot one is a good picture.