A few from a recent ride.

[mark145]

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

 

[ekimeno]

No. 4 for me - good shot with nice focus on the eyes

 

[Gary Wood]

 

[horizon]

defintely no4...

 

[Mercury]

Again, number 4. The first two seem too dark.

 

[CarlyDonna]

No4, the rest all seem a bit out of focus, and too dark. No4 sticks out and is a good motion shot!

 

[mark145]

thanks for the comments, I seem to remember using the flash on #4 and not on the rest, so that was probably the problem.

 

[robmiller]

thanks for the comments, I seem to remember using the flash on #4 and not on the rest, so that was probably the problem.

The problem in #1 and #2 is that you're using far too slow a shutter speed to freeze the motion--you'll probably need 1/500s or so, although you might get away with 1/320s or something similar. If you can't get those shutter speeds from available light, then you can use flash to freeze the motion like you did in #4--although you'll want to use rear curtain sync so that any ghosting looks natural.

The problem with #3 is that the camera has focused on the tree in the background, and not on the bike as you presumably wanted.