AMBC XC Enduro Series – Craigburn Farm

I really wanted to export the square, over-filtered versions of my Instagram photos and I wanted the EXIF data intact. While attempting this, I found that, for some reason, Instagram deletes all of the EXIF data from these square, over-filtered photos. While the orignal rectangular and uncorrupted photos were saved on the phone, I *really* wanted the broken ones.  All of the utilities I tried exported low-resolution versions of the photos and reset the file creation date for each photo, which makes recreating the EXIF data very difficult.  Here’s how I got my photos out of Instagram and restored some of the EXIF data.

Frist, I coped the photo files directly from my phone via usb.  In the case of my Android phone, the files were stored in /Pictures/Instagram.

Next, I used ExifTool to recreate some of the EXIF data using the following: exiftool -v -P “-FileModifyDate>AllDates” “-Make=[phone make]” “-Model=[phone model]” [path]/[file(s)]

-v Verbose (level 1)

-P Preserves the file creation date for the new files

“-FileModifyDate>AllDates” Sets the EXIF date from the file creation date

“-Make=[phone make]” Sets the camera make

“-Model=[phone model]” Sets the camera model

The wildcard (*) cane be used to specify all files

Eg: exiftool -v -P “-FileModifyDate>AllDates” “-Make=Samsung” “-Model=i9100T” /Volumes/Data\ HD/Pictures/Clichéd\ Sunsets/*

Here’s the result.  The EXIF data isn’t complete, but it’s enough for my purposes.

More help from Stack Exchange: Is there any software which will set the EXIF Dates based on the file’s modification date?

I’ve been continuing my no-solvent, lube-only maintenance schedule on all of my chains.  In the last chain wear post the Dura-Ace 7901 chain on the old Trek was showing 1/10 wear. It’s now just about three months and 1000km later and the chain is still showing 1/10 wear. I was expecting some measurable wear after a few very wet rides, but that hasn’t been the case. So, this Dura-Ace chain is just shy of 15 months and 3500km and still shows almost no wear. Not bad.

On the other hand, the cyclocross bike and it’s Ultegra HG-93 9-speed chain arean’t doing so well. At the last check, the chain was at 6/10 wear. Now, after three months and only 300km it’s at 10/10. Likewise, the HG-93 chain on the 1×9 hardtail was at maximum wear and replaced four weeks ago after 1390km and 17 months of use. The chain was replaced with a Dura-Ace 7701 that’s been used for about 100km.  The cyclocross bike will get the same 7701 chain.

• Road/Dura-Ace 7901 (10-speed): 15 months, 3500km, almost no wear
• CX/Ultegra HG-93 (9-speed): 19 months, 1735km, to be replaced
• MTB/Ultegra HG-93 (9-speed): 17 months, 1390km, replaced
• MTB/SRAM PC-1 (SS): 6 months, 235km, didn’t bother checking