nope...it comes from the days of cock-fighting(chickens)...after a fight the owner (cocker)would clean the blood from their birds head by sucking it...it's where the phrase cock-sucker originated. there are some much worse place names around the country believe me.
Nice picture, nice moment, but not sure if a POD quality, the picture is out of focus, a lot of too dark areas and the crop isn't so great too... sorry if I displease someone, but this is my point of view
aaustin--camera is tilted about 30 degrees. look at the angle of the grass, the fern and the trail in the background. it doesn't matter though because tilting made the photo better. what's wrong with that?
Proxx, the description wasnt changed, look at my comment from a few days ago just a bit down, I make referrance to the guy admitting the tilted angle. Stop making things up to suit what you say.
royalsrule
you are a freaking retard
if he wasnt moving im pretty sure you would be able to see the tire tread
theres always some retard that says its photoshopped and is wrong
FFS!! Can folks chill the fk out! Too many fools acting as though everything should be catered to them! Song sucks, ride was to laxed, so on and so on. New rule; don't talk shit but submit something better or STFU! Don't like a song? Turn the volume down! Don't like the riding or a pic? Find another one!!! Sick of all these whinning lil btchs!! This is a sic photo...period! Cam tilted whatever! Looks fkn sic! Can I get an amen?
Brewtal12, yes you get an amen from me. I agree with you entirely, but I guess the ones that talk shit are the ones that would never have anything to submit anyway, alot of the negative comments on pinkbike come from people with no pics of their own.
POD, Great Pic. By the way royals rule, only the very immature would find the town of Cockermouth funny. And talking of resumes, I hope you remember to put the word "jerk" under your list of qualifications when you next have to fill one out.
Hey royalsrule the ferns wont be moving will they as objects DON'T move in photos thats why we have videos.
Great pic by the way, you could be mistaken for a Pro in that shot
hahaha "if this was a real pic, the fearns would be moving". i just cant stop laughing at that one. i dont know why all of you dont like the picture, i actually think its pretty insaine.
...and the DOF is too short for this sort of shot. The rider's out of focus. It's underexposed, but from the looks of things, it was a pretty dull day anyways.
killer pic, but it is rotated... i'm not saying anything bad about rider/photographer, but the pic is tilted
look at the fern, they grow out in all directions and their outer leaves never grow straight up and down... no matter how steep the hill is... and check the rock by his front tire, that wouldve rolled down to the trough already if this corner is really this steep...
still a killer shot tho! it shows what we can keep working for!
fake angle picture... as the frenchy said, look at the fork, its not even compressed, of course its not compressed, the wheel is of the ground.
but turn your monitor 30 degrees to the left and you got the true angle. i was doing the same shit for my tabletops a few years ago. so its not a pod for me!
read the description...I KNOW IT HAS BEEN TILTED...personally i also think this pic doesn't deserve POD, look at other pics in my album, this hardley compaires
nice picture a props to the camera man and the rider. I knoe im gettin neg comments for this but i dont think thats POD worthy but its still a nice pic, just not that nice
Cool pic, it doesn't even look like Settez! Cockermouth is called Cockermouth because it is at the mouth of the river Cocker. Nothing to do with blood suckin, or cock suckin!!!
hey silaslecake or whatever the f*ck notice that his front tire is off the ground how can the fork be compressed in the air? geeze you are a dumb shit.
etboarder, you are a jerk, why waste your time posting stupid comments. By the way even though you have no photo's I still think you should get POD - meaning prick of the Day!!!
Great photo, well deserving of POD. I took a look at your album, it is full of great photo's, keep up the good work, you definately have the skill man.
This photo doesn't do it for me. Why is he braking if it is such a "fairly big berm"? If he is pinnin'er, where's the dust at? I understand the dynamics behind tilting the camera, it just doesn't do this picture justice.
this is shit. I'm not trying to be a jerk but... the rider is soft, the camera is tilted, the colours arent good and the composition sucks. Im shure there were a lot of better photos added yesterday.
Just a few quick and objective points on this one: 1. Rider isn´t sharp at all 2. The composition is just wrong and doesnt work at all 3. Colours are nice, at least I think so 4. The pointless tilting doesnt help it anyways
wow that is so nice, pod for sure. hoo ever was saying that it was photoshopped is full of it because is front tire is off the ground so thats y his fork isnt compressed.
Turning this pic sideways still dosen't make it worth pod... and if this guy was haul'n into that berm, wouldn't there be a bit of dust behind him? This pic is a bit weak.
Im sorry, but this is not POD worthy. Its an average quality, average picture tilted to the side making it look like hes actually getting low and pinning it.
i think everyone is over exaggerating a little, the berm is fairly big anyway and its a very fast bit of track, the camera man wasn't trying to create a 'fake' pic, he created something different, take a look at the other pics in my album, hes one hell or a photographer and rider, tilt the monitor to where you think it should be, the shot still looks cool in my mind
it's actually pretty easy to notice if you see that the fork is not compressed much. If the rider was actually leaning this far into the turn, the fork would be a lot more compressed.
The picture still came out nicely though!
i know evryone is saying the fork isnt compressed and its almost 2 inches off the ground, everyone is so spectacle, ""the camera is tilted 30 degrees" but yet you dont notice the actual rider and his bike, DONT HATE APPRETIATE
Fox 40's blow... if he was a real man he wouldnt have his fingers on the brakes. def. photoshopped, he isnt even moving, he is standing still and they just tilted the shot, look, you can tell by the ferns!!! If he was moving, they would be too! Such a fake, quit posting fake pics as POD!
LMAO yeah explain how hes pshoped the front tire, not an easy job that takes a good 30 mins to make it look real, tilter camera...so what some of the best pics in the world are tilted.... NOOB allso it has been shoped so its darker but the colors been done as well its what most professional photographers do. and allso if he isnt moving why is the rider slightly blerd, oh because hes moving juses stop being such a effing hater just cos you cant take a good pic pfft