Professional Cycling For the Fans - Cool cycling shots & poses

Soccer has spectacular goals, football has amazing touchdowns, baseball has its great strikes, tennis its serves ... all of these make for awesome shots, posters, and subsequently, iconic images for publicity. As one article pointed out, the best cycling can come up with is the victory fist pump at the end. Most of cycling involves grimacing, panting, and very weary faces.

What are some of the most iconic images (single pictures, not videos) in cycling?

Pantani in the crucifix pose comes to mind...

Soccer has spectacular goals, football has amazing touchdowns, baseball has its great strikes, tennis its serves ... all of these make for awesome shots, posters, and subsequently, iconic images for publicity. As one article pointed out, the best cycling can come up with is the victory fist pump at the end. Most of cycling involves grimacing, panting, and very weary faces.

What are some of the most iconic images (single pictures, not videos) in cycling?

With the exception of finish line shots, almost all involve expressions of suffering:

Lance looking over his shoulder at Ullrich

Merckx climbing in the '69 Tour

Graham Obree supermaning the washing machine for an hour

The look on just about any kid's face the first time the training wheels come off.......

There are so many more.

Andy Hampsten riding through a blizzard on the Gavia Pass (Tour of Italy, 1988):

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I4Snyzw2IMM/SDnLhQpnblI/AAAAAAAAAuk/YEKZlvcqaY0/s400/andy.jpg

Sean Kelly at Paris-Roubaix:

http://www.sdbc.org/photos/albums/userpics/10002/kelly_pr.jpg

The Man:

http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/7/799/NUKI000Z/tour-de-france-incomparable-eddy-merckx.jpg

The Badger:

http://faculty.randolphcollege.edu/tmichalik/images/Hinault.jpg

i've seen this picture many a time...
http://blogs.mundodeportivo.es/rodri/files/2007/09/merckx.jpg

i absolutely love this... he's not even on a bike and he's a badass
http://www.biketype.com/pics/5573/small/eddy_merckx_stephan-vanfleteren-panos_pictures.jpg

there are a million great photos of lance in today's media age, but i think this one, love him or hate him, sums it up pretty well.
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00686/Lance_Armstrong_6862304x3.jpg

The Badger:

http://faculty.randolphcollege.edu/tmichalik/images/Hinault.jpg

This one is awesome! I think the sprinters tend to get the mot spectacular, poster-worthy shots, no?

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/break011_1.jpg

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/coppib009_1.jpg

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anquetil_j18-cut.jpg

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/long-road002_1.jpg

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/water008_1.jpg

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/q44.jpg

AND MY PERSONAL FAV:

http://www.holgablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/smoke007_1.jpg

There is one picture of the Dane who fell off the edge of the road, and they strung together their tires to pull him back up

Do you guys know the one I am talking about?

Love that one

I think this one is a classic too...

http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/2/1/d/7/Tour_de_France_c1fd.jpg

Soccer has spectacular goals, football has amazing touchdowns, baseball has its great strikes, tennis its serves ... all of these make for awesome shots, posters, and subsequently, iconic images for publicity. As one article pointed out, the best cycling can come up with is the victory fist pump at the end. Most of cycling involves grimacing, panting, and very weary faces.

What are some of the most iconic images (single pictures, not videos) in cycling?

Unfortunately, rarely do the good crashes get filmed or photographed from a close perspective. They would make for some memorable if gruesome pictures.

http://clubciclistailuro.iespana.es/super_edgar.jpg

There is an euskaltel euskadi rider somewhere in this position that more famous, cant find it though

From the Timm Kolln (http://www.timmkoelln.com/the_peloton/) photography website. These were taken right after a race.

Cavendish, Aldag, McEwan, Cancellara, Shleck. There's more on the site.

From the Timm Kolln (http://www.timmkoelln.com/the_peloton/) photography website. These were taken right after a race.

Cavendish, Aldag, McEwan, Cancellara, Shleck. There's more on the site.

Sweet!

From the Timm Kolln (http://www.timmkoelln.com/the_peloton/) photography website. These were taken right after a race.

Cavendish, Aldag, McEwan, Cancellara, Shleck. There's more on the site.

i've never seen those before. they are great!

here are a couple of mine that i like........

http://erader.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p972181482-4.jpg

http://erader.zenfolio.com/img/v2/p200011170-4.jpg

ed rader

Pantani in the crucifix pose comes to mind...

This?

http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/images/mpantani/$file/14.jpg

or this?

http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/images/mpantani/$file/17.jpg

Or the most iconic, at least IMO:

http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/images/mpantani/$file/23.jpg

This?


[img]http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/images/mpantani/$file/23.jpg

This is the one that I think about with Pantani.

When ever I hear Paul or Phil throw out the ol' "dancing on the pedals" line, I can't help but think about Pantani.

RIP, Marco.

A few I like:

http://www.dyhsoluciones.com.ar/laradio/images/flecha.jpg http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/269/cipollini2ui2.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/pressbox/2176/borraccia.jpg

http://www.anno.nl/gfx/content/actueel-zoetemelk-475.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/07/05/ogrady_wideweb__430x354.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/07/05/ogrady_wideweb__430x354.jpg

Holy smokes! Thats an insane pic!

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos/roubaix03/bauer2.jpg

The Kolln pictures are great, I wish it was an yearly thing.

I like this one from erader's Tour of California album (http://www.fototime.com/ftweb/bin/ft.dll/pictures?userid={B720F335-E8AE-48F8-B8AC-0C2DE9EA609F**&inv=8BD172406596AB5&userid={B720F335-E8AE-48F8-B8AC-0C2DE9EA609F**&inv=8BD172406596AB5) more here (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1029&message=17316199).

full size version (http://www.fototime.com/%7BF20D1AE5-06A0-44F9-8F80-AF348EAB24F1%7D/origpict/water%20water.jpg)

http://www.fototime.com/%7BF20D1AE5-06A0-44F9-8F80-AF348EAB24F1%7D/watermarkpict/exp=f&modt=40024.2735740162&ssdyn=1/water%20water.jpg

This is the one that I think about with Pantani.

When ever I hear Paul or Phil throw out the ol' "dancing on the pedals" line, I can't help but think about Pantani.

RIP, Marco.

Plenty more Pantani images on Graham Watson's site (http://www.grahamwatson.com/2004/pantani/coverpage.html).

There are some really good ones of Big Mig.
Greg Lemond has one good one too.

http://www.velonews.com/photo/88640

This is my favorite one of those I've seen. The expressions on the faces of the riders are hardcore.

This one is impressive to me :D
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs123.snc1/5300_127065627656_563442656_2680460_167685_n.jpg

But yeah, TONS of good shots in this thread.

^that's awesome

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You can almost feel their lactic acid.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/mysteron09/political/lance-and-basque.jpg

^^^ lmao.

This one is impressive to me :D
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs123.snc1/5300_127065627656_563442656_2680460_167685_n.jpg

But yeah, TONS of good shots in this thread.

Then you'll probably enjoy this :thumb:

http://subchaos.com/bike/floyd_landis_climbing_in_sf.jpg

Floyd Landis in San Francisco.

A few older pictures off the net:

^ Wrong thread, bro.

Its appropriate that many cycling photos depict pain. Cycling is in large part about who can endure the most suffering.

There is one picture of the Dane who fell off the edge of the road, and they strung together their tires to pull him back up

Do you guys know the one I am talking about?

Love that one

Wim Van Est on the Col d'Aubisque.

http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~edwinsel/pics/renners/est_van,ravijn%20(volkskrant,1%20mei%202003).jpg