General Cycling Discussion - Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Screensaver Images

It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle images from my screensaver, so I've prepared a collection of 127 images, all 1024 x 768 pixels, horizontal orientation that you're welcome to download to use as a screensaver or desktop wallpaper.

There's an index file with thumbnails at http://sheldonbrown.com/screensaver

The images are all located in the file http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/images

This index page gives you a preview of what the images are, so you can pick and choose if you wish.
Most of the images are original photographs, of bikes or parts. Some are scans from old catalogues, and others are from various other sources. Most of the strange-looking bikes are my own creations.

You are welcome to use these images as screensavers or desktop backgrounds on your own computer, but all other rights are reserved.

Sheldon "Shutterbug" Brown

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awesome!

Thanks Sheldon!

Bookmarked!!!!!!!!

If you upload them to an account on Flickr you can use the fantastic Slickr screensaver.

Thank you! :)

Love that cow bike!

Thanks Sheldon :) .

East Hill

thanks Sheldon- I don´t want to seem ungrateful but have you got any 1600 x 1200 images

Cool. The Lenton Sports Raleigh print ad is my new wallpaper. Looks fantastic. Thanks!

Thank you, Sheldon! Nice collection of pics.

what's up with that crazy ass bb?

my computer is 1200 X 800 :(

I am teh sux at editing photos but I think I can manage this.

my computer is 1200 X 800 :(

I am teh sux at editing photos but I think I can manage this.

Pity they weren't posted at a higher resolution! Many people are over 1024x768 now, and 1200x800 is getting to be low-end for laptops.

thanks Sheldon- I don´t want to seem ungrateful but have you got any 1600 x 1200 imagesActually, the version I use now is 1680 x 1050. I may upload a version in that size in the future.

Sheldon "20 Inch iMac" Brown

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:)

what's up with that crazy ass bb?Which bb are you asking about?

Sheldon "Not A Mind Reader" Brown

Pity they weren't posted at a higher resolution! Many people are over 1024x768 now, and 1200x800 is getting to be low-end for laptops.

yeah, I picked the low-end screen for my new laptop

yeah, I picked the low-end screen for my new laptop


Ditto. I needed small and light.

A hot source of screen saver eye candy is the disc of images at www.bgcycles.com/cycleshop.html Hi-Rez images of some of the finest bike frame and equipment shots I've seen.

Thanks for sharing Sheldon. Quite the nice collection of screensavers!!

Who is Ken Denny?

Which bb are you asking about?

Sheldon "Not A Mind Reader" Brown

http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/pages/thanetbb.html

Who is Ken Denny?
Ken is a bicycle collector/restorer of some note. He's got some amazing stuff. I had taken some photos of a couple of his bikes at the Larz Anderson bike show a few years back.

After I put up the screensaver images, I received a very rude and peremptory email from demanding that I "cease and desist" from offering the photos of his bikes.

Although he has no right to legally compel me to remove my own photos from my Website, I chose to go along, rather than to make an issue of it. However, I didn't want to go to the trouble of re-doing the various HTML links, so I just removed the images, not the pages.


http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/pages/thanetbb.html
Back in the day, English bikes often had oddball construction details, usually with rather questionable explanations of what might make them "better."

There's a theory that the real reason was to make the bikes distinctive looking. British racing was under a heavy cult of amateurism, to the point that racers' bikes weren't supposed to have the brand name prominently displayed. Oddball frame designs offered a way to show who was sponsoring a rider without violating the letter of the regulations.

Sheldon "Screensaver" Brown

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Ken is a bicycle collector/restorer of some note. He's got some amazing stuff. I had taken some photos of a couple of his bikes at the Larz Anderson bike show a few years back.

After I put up the screensaver images, I received a very rude and peremptory email from demanding that I "cease and desist" from offering the photos of his bikes.

Although he has no right to legally compel me to remove my own photos from my Website, I chose to go along, rather than to make an issue of it. However, I didn't want to go to the trouble of re-doing the various HTML links, so I just removed the images, not the pages.




Interesting. He displays his work publicly and intentionally at a bike show and then gets his panties in a wad when they end up on the internet.

Signed,

Probable "No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy" 556

Ditto. I needed small and light.

I needed cheap and fast. You can coax a few more fps out of your system with a lower resolution.

I needed cheap and fast. You can coax a few more fps out of your system with a lower resolution.

I don't game on the laptop, the new 'puter at home gets that job ;-)

Thanks, Sheldon.

great pics. :)
thanks

very nice! thank you very much

fyi:

for Linux folks, here's an easy way to get the images with a single command line (unless you're using gFTP, iGloo, ncftp, or konqueror):

wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.jpg http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/images/

and for the slide show (if you have the ImageMagick suite installed) with a 3-second pause between images:

display -delay 3 *.jpg

:-)

(i'm uploading one or two for my desktop on my Nokia N800)

A hot source of screen saver eye candy is the disc of images at www.bgcycles.com/cycleshop.html Hi-Rez images of some of the finest bike frame and equipment shots I've seen.

- umm... i'm sure the photography is excellent, but i got sort of a chuckle out of:

These are all signed, collectors quality CDs...

- so i guess if i signed all my CDs, they'd be 'collectors quality'???

:-)