Anatomy of a Photo: Things That Are Hard To Come By
Museeuw rockin’ the bands riding with Cipo decked out in yellow as he twists one up. There are only two things cooler than this and both of them are impossible to get. One is Led Zeppelin playing at your shitty graduation party in the late 70’s and the other is one of those awesome Coca Cola bidons. Fuck yeah!
I would buy a Museeuw bike if it came with aluminum mini-donut aero bars.
Rollin’ while rollin’. Classic.
I always wonder what the Italian teams think of riding Cannondales? Probably seen as a bit sacrilegious coming from Italy and all those amazing Italian bike companies. And what the hell is Cippo doing here? Texting? (would not surprise me at all).
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Love pictures of athletes smoking. Very Casual deliberate.
@Buck Rogers
“twists one up” = rolling a cigarette (at least I’m assuming cigarette in this context)
@Buck Rogers
Maybe in Italy Cannondale is exotic.
http://www.ecrater.com/p/9727087/vintage-coca-cola-water-bottle
@itburns
Seriously? At speed no less! Why doesn’t this surprise me in the context of Cippo?
Nice Tomb. We’ve looked before but obviously not that hard – not cheap but maybe worth it.
@Buck Rogers
I’m guessing it was something like “Sure, Cippo, roll one. Climb coming. See you at the next race start.” The barely disguised smirks are hilarious.
Kind of like the last cigarette before the firing squad.
I don’t think that is tobacco. I bet Super Mario was a mountain biker at heart. I gotta say, even with bright yellow fingerless gloves, the guy is stylin’ like no other.
Saw this on Cycleboredom’s Tumblr page the other day…it’s a World Cup leading zebra!
Johan, you got some weed on you? Cuz it’d be a lot cooler if you did.
His hair is perfect! And thank you @Mikael Liddy, for showing me probably the only photo of his outlandish kits I hadn’t seen. Holy Merckx’s ball sack……..
@tomb
Awesome. $30 water bottle. Should have saved a few now I think. Frack.
Sweet photo Marko..
I’m heading out to the garage now. Thanks..
I have a feeling we’re about to make this ebayer very rich!
Maybe they’re smirking because they’re on the brakes and Cipo’s not paying attention.
The Apostle looks fuckin great in that cap btw.
@scaler911
That’s it! He’s holding one of them little mirrors.
Not to fix his hair, but to check again how fucking awesome it is.
@Mikael Liddy
Such a great photo – the hairnet – so long after hairnets went out of use – is just superb.
He is moulding his energy bar into a likeness of himself. The next shot will see him showing this likeness to the other four in the group, accompanied by the words – “See, even my energy bar is cooler and better looking than the rest of you, ha!”
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.
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
I have an awesome photo of Cipo but I think you guys wouldn’t appreciate it as much as I do. ;-)
@the Engine
“Hey, Mario, fancy a bit of a triathlon to keep loose on the rest day”
“Fuck, no, some chick’s just texted me about my saddle to bar drop, if you catch my drift, ciao”
Don’t remember there being Twitter in ’97?
Can’t vouch for the authenticity of the first one but the second one looks real enough.
Mountain climbers used to refer to it as oxygen deprivation training.
@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.
@Jonny
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.
@Jonny
Looking Pro – with & with out helmet!
Cippo’s hair gel has set that hard, his hair is a helmet!
@Mark1
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Mountain climbers used to refer to it as oxygen deprivation training.
JA in oxygen deprivation training?
Don’t know what’s safer? Those bar end shifters could do some damage!
@Mikael Liddy
I’ll go you one more, Museeuw rockin’ the bands riding with Faboo…
Needs a couple of Coke bidon bottles
its a little shocking, I know.
@sthilzy
OMM, Faboo looks about 14 there!
@sthilzy
Now that is the definition of “casually deliberate”!
@silkrider
Not only is he overflowing with Rule violations, he’s violating the Rule violations. And having it video taped to send to the other Rules.
And yet somehow, when I get up in the morning and look in the mirror, I know that all I want is to be 1/1000000th as much of a badass as Super Mario.
Women want to be with him, and men want to be him.
@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
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
They’re not aero bars; they are Spinassi bars. They were the balls in 1997.@the Engine
Is it Frédéric Guesdon?
@Sauterelle
@Sauterelle
Woops.
@ChrisO
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
YES, that’s the photo!!
“Anatomy of a Photo” or “Photo of Anatomy”?