Because of this, of course...

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My interpretation of the "fab four" t-shirt motive.

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/ima...asso_broch.jpg
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/ima...si/faliero.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gFhzvNJx_9...campagnolo.jpg
http://www.freewebs.com/magellan/Peg...s/image006.jpg

no idea why i picked these four...

The same thing happened to me. My avatar is (obviously) a tribute to Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes.

C&H - One of my all-time favorites. I was really bummed when Waterson retired.

What's the "CMC" represent?

DD

Mine's a Weinmann Vanquier centerpull caliper, because I love centerpull brakes, and I'm the champion of the low end.

My favorite so far is ColonelJLloyd's Porter Wagner LP cover.

Thanks Scooper! I was sure someone at C&V would recognize him... :thumb:

My current one is a photo of the FD on my 78 Gazelle A-Frame (campagnolo nuovo record)

Thanks for that! I've always gotten frustrated trying to get an avatar to work...... now I have one.

It's the seat tube of my Pinarello Vuelta:

http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/p...lbiked/022.jpg

http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/p...lbiked/013.jpg

My avatar shows me scuba diving under the ice in Antarctica. I've been twice, for eleven weeks total, 49 scuba dives. That photo shows me under six feet thick ice with water temperature nearly at freezing point of seawater 28.6 deg F

The "Vegetarian Cycling and Athletic Club."

At 122 years old, it's one of the oldest cycling clubs in the world.

Mine is a '75 Normandy high flange rear hub. It's been with me for over 30 years. It belonged to a set of wheels off a Peugeot that my best friend threw out. I salvaged the wheels, swapped the Rigida's for Mavic Module 3 rims. And so indoctrinated myself into "Real alloy" bike parts. These wheels carried me for years all over NYC before new campy wheels took their place.
I discovered the rear hub in a box in my parents' garage. I polished it up after my return to cycling following my divorce. I hope to put it to use once again. I still have the front wheel intact, but lost the rear 27" Mavic after loaning the wheel to a 'friend'.

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he he he Calvin and Hobbes is awesome....

My dad loved Calvin and Hobbes.

I have the special edition set they released a couple of years ago all in hardback and first edition.

CMC stands (quite brilliantly) for my initials....I wish I had been a little more creative when I signed up for bike forums. I had no idea then that this would become as much of a passion as it has.

Curious George unconscious next to an ether bottle - I'm a pediatric anesthesiologist. But I was going to use the old style Pinarello head badge from my '84 Record...

Mine is a detail shot of my (almost finished as of this posting) '83 Marinoni Special after it came back from the Marinoni workshop with new paint. The last pic is the day I got it (cheap) from its previous owner.

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The Italians are coming! The Italians are coming!

"Uppa de front, uppa de front!"

Mine is a photograph of two American cyclists c. 1910. I found it in the collections of a local history museum. The riders' outfits and attitudes caught my eye.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=176389Here's my avatar photo.

Back in the 20th century, when I was in college, a friend asked me to write an article for a journal he was starting. He asked me to write on the meaning of art. I didn't feel up to that task, so instead I wrote an essay defining the work of art in its late 20th century context. In it, I concluded that anything can be a work of art, provided you say it's a work of art and give it a title. I illustrated my point with this sculpture, by Picasso, which is my avatar. My essay did not meet with universal acclaim; one person exclaimed "Aw, bull! That's just old bike parts!" Whatever.

I don't recall ever hearing them calld "Dandy Horses" butI had seen pics where things like this were called Hobby Horses

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rlVonDrais.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Drais

That's a good one, made me laugh-:D

A page from an eighties Colnago catalog. Colnago is my favorite bike company and the brand of my favorite bike. Their frames, more so than many other brands, seem to focus on handling precision. As a result, the bikes seem to have a sort of steep learning curve. A lot of people say that they are 'twitchy'. I think it's a matter of what they are used for; using a high end Colnago for casual riding, is like using a scalpel when you need a chainsaw. The Colnago is a scalpel. Riding a good fitting 'Nago regularly, compels you to improve your bike handling and awareness level. They take finesse and attention to detail to master. As a detail oriented person, I quite like that. :)

Also, Ernesto Colnago was/is an innovator and a smart businessman. He takes chances and pushes the envelope. When you innovate, not everything you dream up will be a hit.

I'm into photography, mainly shooting random objects, odd people interactions and decrepit and abandoned buildings. This is the corner of an upside-down and rotted bathtub that was lying near the shore, sticking out of the ice.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9...67fishhead.jpg

Anatole, from the children's books by Eve Titus and Paul Galdone. Always liked the illustrations. Plus, being a French mouse, he's presumably riding a French bike.