Anatomy of a Photo: Things That Are Hard To Come By

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• @RedRanger

  Actually I'm just in the middle of the Fotheringham Merckx book and he says Eddy used to smoke under advice from the Faema team doctor - Roger Swerts was the 'team smoker' so Eddy would bum one off him every now and then.

• @scaler911
  Whats cool about that shit is that Super Mario invented the outlandish, over-matched kit. Its the other douchebags who killed it with their mimicing.

  Its kind of like having your mind blown the first time you heard Smells Like Teen Spirit, and then by the time you heard Self Esteem you wanted to puke.

• @RedRanger

  The Apostle looks fuckin great in that cap btw.

  Not to mention those Briko Stinger shades. Those were my favorite cycling shades ever. I don't have them anymore, but I have managed to hold onto my second-generation ones which look a little different.

  For as much as I like modern Oakleys, Briko in the 90's was so fucking tits. They also made the first airblock vest which I wore threadbare. Fucking awesome.

• @Chris

  Mario had it in spades but even he struggles to pull of celeste shoes matched with full yellow kit.

  Some of the other shit going on is fairly shocking, Spinergy wheels and aerobars.

  They're not aero bars; they are Spinassi bars. They were the balls in 1997.@the Engine

  Who's the guy in front of the Spinergy man wearing my Time shoes? I still have them in the garage if anyone wants a suitably retro look to recreate this photo.

  My brother thought Spinergy wheels were cool and used them in triathlons - which tells you all you need to know about Spinergys

  Is it Frédéric Guesdon?

  @Sauterelle

  I have an awesome photo of Cipo but I think you guys wouldn't appreciate it as much as I do. ;-)

• @Sauterelle

  @Jonny

  @Sauterelle
  Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there's more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

  Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

  Much as I'd like to, I'm going to restrain myself. I doubt the Velominati want to wake up to the sight of unclad man-ass, no matter how spectacular.

  Woops.

• @ChrisO

  @RedRanger

  Actually I'm just in the middle of the Fotheringham Merckx book and he says Eddy used to smoke under advice from the Faema team doctor - Roger Swerts was the 'team smoker' so Eddy would bum one off him every now and then.

  Absolutely - the effects were poorly understood, but smoking was appreciated for its relaxing effect; team doctors routinely prescribed smoking to their riders.

• OK, a few more and I'm out. Seriously. Dude is a stud.

  @Marko

  I just figured it out. Mario is the Robert Plant of Cycling.

  Plant was even a stud in little whateverthefucks.

  Thats it. I'm going on a Zeppelin bender.

• @ChrisO
  Thanks for filling in the gaps. As a
  Former smoker I can't imagine riding a bike after a few smokes.
  At the bar/tabacco shop I worked at in Sicily we would get a large Sunday group and there was always a couple of guys who would pick up a pack along with their coffee.

• @frank

  @Sauterelle

  @Jonny

  @Sauterelle
  Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there's more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

  Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

  Much as I'd like to, I'm going to restrain myself. I doubt the Velominati want to wake up to the sight of unclad man-ass, no matter how spectacular.

  Woops.

  YES, that's the photo!!

• "Anatomy of a Photo" or "Photo of Anatomy"?