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wearyourtruth
05-23-06, 04:00 PM
OMG i just got some new favorite photos :love:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider.htm

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-4.jpg

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-25.jpg

that mustache...
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-11.jpg

number18
05-23-06, 04:02 PM
OMG i just got some new favorite photos :love:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-25.jpg

don't tell them at advocacy and safety about this one...
nme
05-23-06, 04:05 PM
OMG is he riding BRAKELESS Hes gonna die!

Cynikal
05-23-06, 04:47 PM
Anyone else have a collection of old bike pics like this? We are going to have a photo wall in the co-op we starting up. I have a small collection already but I would love to have more. Please post pics or links. Thanks
Tomity
05-23-06, 05:03 PM
This is Good old days Japanese Keirin pic,about 1955
OneTinSloth
05-23-06, 05:06 PM
whoa! that guy with the broken stem is so totally effed.
wesburt
05-23-06, 05:12 PM
that last one is recent, from the brooks vintage ride in europe, they have/had info and pics about it up on the brooks site a while back, looks awesome!
heres one i saved from it...

http://www.wesleyburt.com/bicycle/leroica-01.jpg
marqueemoon
05-23-06, 05:38 PM
I would totally grow a mustache for that ****.
zip22
05-23-06, 05:48 PM
this one is definately the better crash picture
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-26.jpg

check out the hand through the front wheel, the head to crotch action, and the 2 people laughing inthe background.
na975
05-23-06, 05:54 PM
this one is definately the better crash picture
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-26.jpg

check out the hand through the front wheel, the head to crotch action, and the 2 people laughing inthe background.now thats a freakin banked curve track:D
Tomity
05-23-06, 08:59 PM
whoa! that guy with the broken stem is so totally effed.

It is a demonstration to the spectator.
OneTinSloth
05-23-06, 09:05 PM
It is a demonstration to the spectator.

oh. ok.
Tomity
05-23-06, 09:22 PM
that last one is recent, from the brooks vintage ride in europe, they have/had info and pics about it up on the brooks site a while back, looks awesome!
heres one i saved from it...

http://www.wesleyburt.com/bicycle/leroica-01.jpg

This is old fashoned vintage cycle race,named L'Eroica
http://www.eroica.it/eroicae.htm
Boe
05-24-06, 04:58 AM
this one is definately the better crash picture
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/BillSchneider-26.jpg


This picture looks completley staged to me. No action, they are posing for this "unique" pic I think.
Terror_in_pink
05-24-06, 05:04 AM
american cyclery has a bunch of those photos on their site
coelcanth
05-24-06, 07:02 AM
http://www.hetchins.org/pix/toni.jpg
mcatano
05-24-06, 07:27 AM
Button-shoulder jerseys (would those be Breton-style?) are the things dreams are made of. Didn't Peterson-era Bridgestone make them? Someone needs to bring those back.