Anatomy of a Photo: Phil Anderson

Phil Rockin the Eye Shades

In honor of the first Australian to win KBK it seems appropriate to give a Chapeau to our mates down under. Congrats to perhaps the greatest up and coming cycling nation on earth and to Chris Sutton for a show of strength in what was a free-for-all to the finish in Kuurne today.

Lest our mates get too cocky though, have a look at the egregious attempt at the three-point system from the first Aussie to wear yellow in the tour. Yes, Phil is a stud and the hair net and eye shades rule. But in order for them to work some adjustment needed to be made.

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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il ciclista medio says:

Mar 1 2011 at 2:23 pm

Marko :
@CyclopsDude, WHAT THE FUCK is up with the dude's face on the left? It looks like he should be riding a Derney, not racing BMX. That is a weird picture.

Either that Dr. Evil's offsider or on Fantasy Island
Pedale.Forchetta says:

Mar 1 2011 at 5:20 pm

Looking at the photos, the one where he sport the TVM jersey, you can see that his bike is a Zullo, a beautiful Italian steel bike, still in production.
I think that the Kelly Concord was Italian too...
Oli Brooke-White says:

Mar 1 2011 at 11:18 pm

Zullo may indeed make beautiful frames, but that pus yellow with white and grey streaks paintjob TVM used the following season was a crime against humanity...
Oli Brooke-White says:

Mar 1 2011 at 11:19 pm

Before anyone asks, that's Gert-Jan Theunisse.
CJ says:

Mar 2 2011 at 12:03 am

Oli Brooke-White:
Before anyone asks, that's Gert-Jan Theunisse.

It's like you've clocked cycling.
Oli Brooke-White says:

Mar 2 2011 at 12:55 am

:-D
Ron says:

Mar 2 2011 at 1:00 am

I've seen a Zullo in person with that paint job and couldn't agree more, Oli. I was in my LBS one day and my friend, who works there, brings over a dude who also likes steel Italian bikes, as I do. We shake hands, then he turns to grab his bike...and it's a Zullo with that pus paint job! Very nice frameset, insanely bad paint job. I just tried to smile and be nice. I wanted to ask him what he was thinking buying a bike with such a horrendous paint scheme.

Zullo had a booth at the 2010 NAHBS in Richmond. I can't recall if this paint scheme was on display, but I hope it wasn't.

And in the BMX photo of Cyclops, is that really 1996? Or is it 1986?
mouse says:

Jun 20 2011 at 6:36 am

@Pedale.Forchetta

Looking at the photos, the one where he sport the TVM jersey, you can see that his bike is a Zullo, a beautiful Italian steel bikhe, still in production.I think that the Kelly Concord was Italian too...

Ah, indeed it was. Much like this one...

He, of course would have had the Columbus SLX Squadra, whilst this one was the humble Columbus SL Gavina.

I also had the Dia Compe aero levers as I swapped out the old Super Record ones. I think the Dia Compe ones worked much better than the Campag aero offering at the time.
Dr C says:

Jun 20 2011 at 7:58 am

Must be a heavy sadlle on that one - check out the compression on the tyres
frank says:

Jun 20 2011 at 12:42 pm

@Oli Brooke-White

Before anyone asks, that's Gert-Jan Theunisse.

Correction, that's Gert-Jan Theunisse, Ugliest Man Alive.