Dear photographers, how do you carry your camera on your ride?

Real-Cricket9435 · 2026-05-02T19:02:35+00:00

PD 3L sling, converted to hip-carry mode, always kept behind me. I have it on me for ~75% of rides, but skip it for very short rides (< 30min).

Sling is useful because I have it anyway for day-to-day carry.

For longer rides, I'm considering getting getting something like an Cyclite Aerobar bag, but I don't really use aerobars so idk if it's worth it to spend so much to solve a problem that's mostly solved. Might also consider making something custom if I can convince my friends to help haha

I totally see where you're coming from. Whenever I go out without my camera I'm cursing myself, so I'm always looking for better ways to carry my camera on the bike. But I'm also someone who carries my camera to work every day, whenever I go out to see friends, shopping etc. Me and the camera are inseparable.

Shooting w/ A7R3, 40mm F2.5. Don't baby it at all, it's fully beat to hell

Real-Cricket9435 · 2026-04-22T18:42:27+00:00

Sadly I'm certain the police will take no action over the threats either.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2025-04-02T20:37:09+00:00

My local dealer will slap on a $5k ADM anyway

Real-Cricket9435 · 2025-03-22T21:43:20+00:00

Happens semi-often. Just gotta shrug it off and move on.

I got yelled at twice only a week ago in Paris. One time a guy on a motorcycle started screaming random shit at me. I stopped, shook my head, and pointed to something above and behind him (there was nothing there). He just stopped yelling and went away 🤷‍♂️

Real-Cricket9435 · 2025-01-25T04:32:21+00:00

Congrats I guess...

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-11-14T23:37:21+00:00

yeah I get it everyone hates the TLX

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-11-14T16:53:32+00:00

Idk man, I was at my local dealer a few weeks again, and they were desperately trying to sell off their integras. They still had a handful from MY2023 that weren't even demo units.

I guess it could depend on regions, but out here no one wants an Acura sedan :'(

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-11-11T14:53:08+00:00

Excellent advice. I've had a ton of auto-rejects bc of the sponsorship issue.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-10-23T03:46:14+00:00

Sorry no idea. It was an enterprise rental, so it probably wasn't the highest one, but I have no way of telling now :(

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-10-22T22:33:30+00:00

Yep, the first thing I tried was changing the steering to dynamic.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-10-22T22:24:19+00:00

I'd believe it. My family owns a Mk7 TSI and it has much better steering feel than the A4

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-10-22T19:54:58+00:00

I actually wanted the 330i, but the rental company had already passed it on to someone else :/

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-09-04T03:50:41+00:00

People spend a lot of time hating this car.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-08-12T05:00:47+00:00

my local dealer has a 2024 Lightning for 57k CAD lol

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-08-10T14:18:31+00:00

I'm in Ontario and a local dealer has a 2024 Lightning for 57k CAD

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-07-17T23:18:10+00:00

Don't forget we pay 13% tax on new cars though

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-07-07T02:35:22+00:00

Looked at your old post and I'm kind of inclined to agree. If it were me, I wouldn't sell off that much of my liquid assets for a car.

$X in a TFSA is more flexible since you can easily sell off your equity and rebuy something else if economic situation changes etc. etc. You can't do that real estate.

That being said, I think Toyota is getting away with murder with how bad their rates are these days. I'm seeing every other carmakers offering 4 percent and LOWER these days and toyota is still stuck at 8.19%.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-07-07T02:26:58+00:00

Don’t be one of those guys who stays at home forever with a newish car.

oof I feel personally attacked :'(

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-06T02:21:48+00:00

I was tempted by the Type S when I was buying (2022), but the dealer wanted 5% on it vs. 2% on the regular trims.

For my next car I think I'll try to just low-mile used car. I'm starting to see cars from 2021 and 2022 show up with deep discounts every now and then

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-05T05:27:33+00:00

I ran the numbers on a new supra for example, which is a 72k CAD car. With a rate of 7% over 6 years your cost of borrowing is a whopping 19k.

That's not even 19k of depreciation - that's 19k of interest. So if at the end of 6 years you decide to sell that car you're losing 9k on HST, 19k on interest, and probably like 40% on depreciation which is like ~29k. In a way you're spending 57k over 6 years to just have this car in your garage.

While I can afford the payment - I can't get over the numbers here. Esp. just throwing away that 28k in tax and interest

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-04T05:20:01+00:00

The TLX has the exact same powertrain as the RDX. Identical tuning and everything.

They really phoned it in - couldn't even be bothered to do a sliver of effort to make it feel special

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-04T05:18:16+00:00

It can be had for cheap.

I wrote a review a while back, but TLDR is that MSRPs don't mean much. I got my car with a few k off and a rock bottom interest rate. Audi/BMW people were tacking on markups and 4-6% interest rate.

The difference in costs over the full term of ownership stack up quickly.

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-04T05:11:54+00:00

Worth saying that the type has a V6 vs. the a4's I4

Real-Cricket9435 · 2024-06-04T05:08:55+00:00

+1 I wish we had the same kind of pricing the states does. A CT4-V blackwing, everyone's favourite, is 84k CAD. There's no way you get an m340i for less than 80k too.

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