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Anatomy of a Photo: Greg LeMan

This is more like it

Is it the shades?
The W.C. Jersey?
The Z kit?
The d.t. shifters?

Talk amongst yourselves. I just had to get a pic up that’s worthy of this site. Thank me now.

Marko

Marko lives and rides in the upper midwest of the States, Minnesota specifically. "Cycling territory" and "the midwest" don't usually end up in the same sentence unless the conversation turns to the roots of LeMond, Hampsten, Heiden and Ochowitz. While the pavé and bergs of Flanders are his preferred places to ride, you can usually find him harvesting gravel along forest and farm roads. He owes a lot to Cycling and his greatest contribution to cycling may forever be coining the term Rainbow Turd.

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Erik says:

Dec 17 2010 at 7:34 am

Benotto cello tape. My heart strings are quivering. Yet I'm positively appalled at the price of it now. I am clearly old. And way too fat to climb.

Wonderful shot of LeMan. Now if I could just find all my old Winning magazines.
Adam says:

Dec 17 2010 at 10:31 am

Where can I get me some of them bidons.
Steampunk says:

Dec 17 2010 at 10:34 am

@Adam
I just threw out a similar Pepsi one that came with a beater frame I bought last week.
frank says:

Dec 17 2010 at 10:57 am

@Adam
You can't get them anymore; I used to only ride with Coke bottles, no exceptions. They were magnificent and looked oh so PRO. My last set still lives, but I'm trying not to loose them. In fact, I'm planning a Deference article on them. That and my green PMU hand.
Adam says:

Dec 17 2010 at 11:18 am

A quick search has found this; http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-COCA-COLA-WATER-BOTTLE-11-TALL-/120659226069?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c17d9add5#ht_500wt_949

But it's just not the same.
sgt says:

Dec 17 2010 at 11:29 am

@Adam
Added to my Watch List, thx!... I foretell a Velominati bidding war in a couple weeks...
Jarvis says:

Dec 17 2010 at 12:22 pm

@ChrisO
No, I meant the rules

@frank
your green PMU hand wasn't the one that nearly decapitated Thor was it? You have a bad track record in maiming PRO cyclists
Dave Harding says:

Dec 18 2010 at 6:21 am

Jeff in PetroMetro :
It's the white lever hoods. It's the pearl white Benotto tape. It's all the shiny bits. It's the stem. It's the round, deep bars. It's the glint from the summer sun on the DT spokes and box rims. It's the 53 x 11. It's the Number 1 on his rainbow jersey. It's the violet Avocet and Z's. It's the fork rake. It's the bidons that say, "American Caffeine and Sugar. Serve it ice cold. Bitches." It's the blue iridium Oakley Razor Blades that we wish we still had and could wear just one more time. It's riding without a helmet and not giving it a thought. It's descending at 80kph with more than enough cool to flash us a smile.
That was twenty years ago. I remember it so clearly, like it was this afternoon.
That's Greg LeMond. That's my hero.

awesome !! :-)
Oli Brooke-White says:

Dec 18 2010 at 3:43 pm

I'm such a wanker.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24439014@N05/5272576766/
Jeff in PetroMetro says:

Dec 18 2010 at 4:39 pm

@Oli Brooke-White
Celeste is transcendent.