Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for all the nice comments guys. It's highly appreciated and let's me know that I'm obviously doing something right.
As to the set-up Newbie... well I'm quite new to this sort of photography myself. I've only recently started experimenting with People, portraits & model stuff.
Basically, the bike and the model are parked / stood on a white infinity curve which is quite large for obvious reasons.
The shots were taken at around 40mm with the lighting set up to work at 1/125th sec / f16. On some of the shots I pushed the f-stop a little to F18 which brings out the colours more but then you have to watch out for shadows and discolouration of the infinity curve (under the wheels etc). This was particularly useful when excess burn at extremitys (end of exhaust, inside of wheels, models shoulders / elbows etc) became a problem. Some areas of burn were quite hard to avoid like the top of the tank which is crushed flat from stunting the bike, reflections are spurious and it's hard to light properly so I used the effect as an asset rather than try to hide it.
As far as lighting goes, three soft boxes I think were used with two further flash guns with umberella reflectors one either side of the model plus some addition lighting at the back one either side to light up and maintain whiteness at the back of the curve. All fired using a radio trigger. The area was metered to try to maintain as constant as possible conditions across the subject(s). For model only shots taken at the same time, I spot metered on the model's face / skin to get the exposure right. The priority for me was really to get the skin tone good and worry about the bike later taking care not to burn out the extremities.
Pictures shot in RAW mode using my 30D and a 17-85 IS USM lens.
Hope that helps and thanks again for looking and the nice comments.
