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Anatomy of a Photo: Campagnolo Candy Van

Every night I pray to Merckx that in the morning when I wake up I’ll have a Campagnolo Free Candy Van with a Super Dome.

And every morning, its a fresh disappointment that it didn’t come true.

This photo also serves as further evidence that Cool peaked some time around the summer of 1977.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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PeakInTwoYears says:

Feb 15 2013 at 6:31 pm

@Sauterelle

HUGE BeBop Deluxe fan here! Bill Nelson was amazing, way ahead of his time.

This makes me happy. The owner of the head shop slash record store who sold me their LPs in the backwoods of Oregon, USA in the mid-70s is the only other person I've ever heard from who has ever heard of them.

His playing on "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" on Live! In the Air Age can still reduce me to tears, sentimental idiot that I am.
PeakInTwoYears says:

Feb 15 2013 at 6:33 pm

Love Neil Young. Still don't quite get why people are so in love with hating Santana. Is it some sort of "I'm not gay" thing?
Sauterelle says:

Feb 15 2013 at 6:44 pm

@PeakInTwoYears

@Sauterelle

HUGE BeBop Deluxe fan here! Bill Nelson was amazing, way ahead of his time.

This makes me happy. The owner of the head shop slash record store who sold me their LPs in the backwoods of Oregon, USA in the mid-70s is the only other person I've ever heard from who has ever heard of them.

His playing on "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" on Live! In the Air Age can still reduce me to tears, sentimental idiot that I am.

THAT is my favorite BBD song!! In fact, after I posted this earlier I went looking for it on YouTube. Beautiful!
Carl says:

Feb 15 2013 at 7:11 pm

R.I.P. - Bill Woodall
scaler911 says:

Feb 15 2013 at 7:26 pm

@PeakInTwoYears

Love Neil Young. Still don't quite get why people are so in love with hating Santana. Is it some sort of "I'm not gay" thing?

I saw Santana some 20 odd years ago at PIR (since you're a Oregon guy) and as far as I can remember (I may or may not have been under the influence of something stronger than IPA) he blew our doors off. Carlos is no Hendrix, Page or Ray Vaughn, but it was good music and a good time.
Daccordi Rider says:

Feb 15 2013 at 7:47 pm

@PeakInTwoYears not that there's anything wrong with that. I find him a bit ummm bland for my taste. And there was that thing he did with the arsehat from Matchbox 20......
PeakInTwoYears says:

Feb 15 2013 at 7:57 pm

@scaler911

[...] as far as I can remember [...]

Well said. This is the problem, for those of us who were there.

@Daccordi Rider

Cf. Abraxas. He learned his trade playing in Tijuana bars and whorehouses. Later, things became less interesting.
Tobin says:

Feb 15 2013 at 8:08 pm

@Buck Rogers

@Tobin

Give me Hendrix over the Harlem Shuffle any day! Well, maybe except this Harlem Shuffle...you may need some retinal bleach after this one...

http://youtu.be/nVxeBiD8ZE0

what the FUCK was that???

This is what happens when you are at stuck at home with a wicked bout of Norwalk and a laptop...apparently the latest trend...the Harlem Shake, not Norwalk. Makes the day fly by at 30 second intervals.
Daccordi Rider says:

Feb 15 2013 at 8:14 pm

@PeakInTwoYears got a utube for us? I'm prepared to be swayed.
Tobin says:

Feb 15 2013 at 8:14 pm

Just watched

@frank

@PeakInTwoYears

Watching "It Might Get Loud," I just about shit my pants when Page started playing "Whole Lotta Love." That sound. There is nothing-nothing at all-like the sound of a Les Paul and a Marshall stack. A quintessentially 70s sound.

And I love that both White and The Edge walk over and are like "How the fuck are you doing that?"

I just watched "It Might Get Loud", Page makes playing air guitar look fucking cool.