A really nice picture
 

at least I thought so.

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I'd have that hanging on my wall, honestly.

So go to the newsstand and grab a copy :)

Yeah, I rode through the Pine Barrens early in June, and that's what the picture reminded me of. What's the title, 'solitude' or something?

Came in my mailbox a few days ago, one of the better covers in a while :thumb:

edit: The title is "The Joys and Torments of Solitude"

I copied the cover and uploaded it so it would display here. Here's a link to the cover on the NYer site along with a subscription pitch. This is already last week's issue but I am pretty sure it can be ordered. BTW It's not a bad magazine to subscribe to if you are an effete pretentious would-be elitist. ;)

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2010-08-02

Just checked The Cartoon Bank, where you can order prints of some NYer covers and cartoons (or even buy the original art for $2K and up). They have quite a selection of covers by this artist, Jean-Jacques Sempe, and it would not surprise me if this one becomes available. Prints start at $125 matted.

Coulda been inspired by one of my fave road rides around here. Sweet.

SP
Bend, OR

I'm searching my bookmarks for a cycling-related website I found a couple of months back...

It had all of the New Yorker covers depicting biking and bicycles from the past 30 years, large sized and available for download.

I'll come back if I find it.

Please do! I'm waiting patiently

More of Sempe's bicycle works:

http://www.jimlangley.net/brake/Jean-JacquesSempe.htm

very nice
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...2&d=1280929698

except that the pine barrens are flat as a pancake.

Well, I can't find the specific site I was referring to, but this Flickr stream has an impressive collection of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9866331...7624067535696/

Jim Langley's site was the one I was thinking of! It totals at fewer than I remembered but they are certainly large enough to display nicely if downloaded. The flickr stream I posted above has tons many others which Jim doesn't have.

One of my favorites from Jim Langley's collection (also a Sempre)

http://www.jimlangley.net/brake/sempe571979lg.jpg

Can be a very boring ride. Too flat for my liking

Now, that's really not true. The elevation varies from sea level to over 200 feet. I know, that's nothing like your part of PA, but riding in the Pinelands you always have a sense of going uphill or downhill. You don't reach high ridges with endless views, but there are lots of long views over the wetlands and that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, I really like hills. But I really liked the Pinelands as well.

I like them to. I've toured from the cape may lewis fairy to philly a few times coming home from Virginia. But 0-200 feet=flat.

This one looks like the workshop of a few of our forum members.

http://www.jimlangley.net/brake/newyorkercover1lg.jpg

I like the way there's a ridge not too much farther up the hills. I wonder if he knows it's there and how close he is to the joy of cooling off while coasting downhill after a long hard climb.