Nice pics all

Up until just a few years ago my uncle had some shorts like those. I think my aunt finally snuck them into the garbage. Got plenty of pictures of him in them though.

OK, I'll play...



1961, department store fixie
1977, cat 4 road race, Colnago Super
1979, National 25 Mile TT Championships, Nishiki ONP
2005 century ride, 2002 Bianchi Alloro (the modern bike in the fleet)

Man, I wish I still had the bikes from pics 2 & 3, and the hair in pic 1.

thats the same hair style and beard I have right now!

me too (1983) and yes, I agree, cooler back then.

LOL. And I am soooo sick of bike shorts that come down to my knees. Might as well be wearing knickers. Where did all the 5"-6" shorts go? Today's 9"-10" shorts are just too long.

I really need to get some vintage or retro cycling clothing to go with my bikes. Somehow the cutoff shorts and T-shirts I wore back in the day wouldn't look right today.

+1. Female, class of '83. Thanks for making me feel 16 all over again.

Yes Mike has since moved on to Boulder and the shop is in a new place and seems to be still going strong. I still go down to Lusters Gate for TT training. It's about the only flat road around here

Just cause we are a little older...doesn't mean we can't look cool! We are cyclists. Hopefully, most of us are riding and keeping our weights down. That's 90% cool factor right there! Most guys our age look like crap cause their clothes don't fit so well (aka, out-of-shape).
Here's a tip from the TV show "What not to wear". Guys...don't wear baggy clothes! That looks bad. Get a size that actually fits and you are on your way to 99% coolness!
...I like the hair and beard...cool factor 10.

Best quote ever.

I as well (1981) favor things with an aged apearance. Take a look at a modern road bike. These new ergodynamic fame shapes may be all well and good, but it detracts from the lines of a classic road bike.

I don't know why, and I don't really try to reason it out, but I like things made from before my birth and around that time. I love old Toyota Land Cruisers. I love International Scouts. I love the lines of the C&V bikes I see on this site. I love my dad's old brushed metal Sony stereo set, complete with the wood cabnet speaker stacks. I love old camera's for their sound, weight, make-up. I love good vintage tee-shirts from the thriftstore. I love looking around in thriftstores for the old kitchenware and such.

Truely, things of decades past have more "character".

I may not be old enough to have been part of the era's depicted in these pictures, but had the right ideas.

Me too.
And I still have mine!

Mike had an orange Viner back then. He had just gotten into riding seriously around that time. I took him out to Catabwa, and he was toasted. Which was a bad thing, because we met a very friendly Great Dane on 311 that probably would have walked back to Blacksburg with us at the pace we were going. I sent Mike on ahead and finally managed to out sprint the dog on a downhill. It's funny seeing the pictures of Mike back in the '70s. Those were some fun times, we didn't know anything. They actually managed to get Bruce Springsteen to go to the store for a beer after a free concert he gave at Tech. It was after hours, I missed it.

Hell yes. Thats one nice Cruiser.

So I posted this in a thread here on the C&V and it got moved to the FOO thread. I wanted to share it with all of you on this topic. I thought it was just priceless the title or it is... Top reasons to date a cyclist. enjoy....

Type: Common Interest - Dating & Relationships This is from facebook, see what happens in the middle of the night when you can't sleep.... you discover obscure places on the net. Thought this was too good to pass up. Have fun with this thread.


Description: That bulge isn't just the chamois.

Balls of steel.

We can go for hours and hours even when it hurts.

We know how to take it easy.

We know not to go real hard right from the beggining.

Smoother legs than you.

Skin tight lycra is real easy to take off.

Can you say perfectly sculpted legs?

Better power-to-weight ratio than a small car.

We don't need booths to get our amazing tan...lines.

Perfect ass.

Diamond cut calves.

Incredible thigh definition.

Who else can perform for over 5 hours a day for 20 consecutive days?

When it gets hard, we find a rhythym and pound away.

We go hard and push until it gets even harder.

Some days we feel the need to attack, explore, and adventure.

We know that everything needs to be properly lubricated before it can be used to its full potential.

Even when we're about to explode, we can always hang on a little bit longer.

We always have water bottles and snacks laying around for those those times when it gets real long.

Thanks for posting, bmaxwell. Now I think I may take this bicycling a little more seriously!

Yeah, bmaxwell, I thought that was originally here in C&V. They probably just figured it was better suited for there, though. Oh well, the respones were great for that.
-Gene-

ya that is why I brought it back to here.... i just thought it was too much fun. LOL and it is probably better suited for the FOO but it also fits with the topic here... doesn't it?

A fun thread indeed. Good to see the passion lives on all these years. For some of us, it was rediscovered before it was lost. I dusted off my old bike in the following thumbs, during my separation with my ex-wife. Jumped back on it, and nearly died of a heart attack! LOL! The Avocet Racer II gave way to a cushier saddle, and swapped on a pair of Look style pedals. I ended up shedding 30 lbs, and have kept it basically off.
The pics were taken in '86 I believe. In Staten Island, NY. Please forgive the 80s Miami Vice look
I built that bike during junior year of high school (Brooklyn Tech class of 82), and continued to upgrade it. I still have her in the garage.
I don't have any recent biking pics. Might be a more recent one posted in a Foo thread.