Anatomy Of A Photo: Looks Don’t Kill, Guns Do

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• Mmm, hairnet draped from obscenely long quill stem! Properly worn cap! Lubed guns! Freshly shaved face. And, how about the classy watch?

  Too many gaudy "Real Housewives" oversized watches adorning toothpick wrists these days.

• Uh oh, not quite so smooth and dapper...

• I see two scenarios here: 1) From the look on face of the fellow behind him, Planckaert must of told Mr Green Polo to F-off. Or 2) He's about to tear a new one into disembodied hand about to touch the spotless jersey.

  Either way, badass then, badass now. Except now he looks like an almost washed-up roadie for an 80's hair band.

• Perfect cap luft with upturned peak.

• Awesome. I wonder which edition of worlds the photo is from. Based on the logo on the bibs, I'd guess 79 or 80.

• The year would be 1988 and the picture taken at the worlds. He rode for Panasonic the year before and ADR-W Cup, Bottechia, Coors Light in 1989. 190 victories listed for the man with his Panasonic years (84-87) being the best with 61 wins.

  In the famous Jeff Pierce photo of the "sprinters with sponges" Eddy is on the left, Van Calster in the middle and Hinault on the right.

  Talk about being from a cycling family: Willy and Walter were older brothers, Jo was his uncle and Francesco is his son. And anyone would question anything he did on the bike?

  I think that could be Fondriest behind Mr Red polo shirt. If it is, it's the year Fondriest won after Bauer and Criquelion got "tangled" up in the sprint. Eddy didn't place.

• @wiscot

  The year would be 1988 and the picture taken at the worlds. He rode for Panasonic the year before and ADR-W Cup, Bottechia, Coors Light in 1989. 190 victories listed for the man with his Panasonic years (84-87) being the best with 61 wins.

  In the famous Jeff Pierce photo of the "sprinters with sponges" Eddy is on the left, Van Calster in the middle and Hinault on the right.

  Talk about being from a cycling family: Willy and Walter were older brothers, Jo was his uncle and Francesco is his son. And anyone would question anything he did on the bike?

  I think that could be Fondriest behind Mr Red polo shirt. If it is, it's the year Fondriest won after Bauer and Criquelion got "tangled" up in the sprint. Eddy didn't place.

  Thus the "F-you and all of your decedents" look on his face.

• @wiscot

  Is that Eddy P?  Why did I think it was Walter?

• He makes Marcel Kittle look like Marcel Kittens with quads like that!

• @brett

  Perfect cap luft with upturned peak.

  3PS perfection.

  And those guns.

  Don't even start me on how perfectly that jersey fits him. The biggest bane of the modern Cycling fashion is the speed jersey and speed suit. Fuck that shit. Just push on the pedals for Merckx's sake.