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Old 06-13-03 | 12:15 AM
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Wallpaper on your PC's.

Do you carry your cycling passion over to your PC.. We all search the web enough for cycling based information.
So my work PC, my desktop usually rotates between scenes of podium girls kissing cycling victors in Pro races or else an underwater cyclists cruising his hybrid on a watery bottom in full dive gear. Most often it is the podium girls. Those Italian podium girls should quicken the pace of many a red blooded Italian cyclist.
At home- We are both francophiles. Toured France lots on bikes.
My favorite bike kit is on full display.. The French gear I often wear out on the bike. Possibly France's most promising cyclist -Sylvain Chavanel in Bonjour gear.
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Old 06-13-03 | 01:03 AM
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I'm a sucker for sunsets. My "wallpaper" (I call it root background) on most of my machines currently consists of an image I took while on a bike ride on Orcas Island (an island in the San Juan chain northwest of Seattle). Lately, I alternate between this particular image and a few others which can be seen here.
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Old 06-13-03 | 01:06 AM
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Mine is a picture of two beautiful children. I love my kids even more than I love cycling. (And I love my wife even more again.)

Sorry .... this got way too mushy.

I will now return you to normal programmnig.
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Old 06-13-03 | 02:12 AM
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Oddly, my computer wallpaper does not reflect any bicycling themes.

I've never been a fan of computer games, but I got thoroughly involved in the Myst series. My desktop wallpaper is a photo from the Myst III game, Exile.
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Old 06-13-03 | 03:34 AM
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I don't use wallpaper (need my RAM too much), but I do use the Graham Watson Photography Screensaver at work. It downloads new images every day or two... probably wouldn't be worth the trouble on a dial-up line.
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Old 06-13-03 | 04:30 AM
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I usually use pictures I have taken. Right now I am still using pictures that I took last year in Europe. Pictures from the Alps in Austria at the moment.
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Old 06-13-03 | 05:22 AM
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I allmost allways have a picture along the family line. Right now it's a picture of my wife and her parents. Vacation pictures are sometimes used so we remember what a good time we had.
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Old 06-13-03 | 05:41 AM
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I use a picture of my dream bike as wallpaper. That bike is the 03 Cannondale Scapel 3000. However my next bike will be a road bike, and I haven't done enough research to know what my dream bike in that category is.
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Old 06-13-03 | 05:45 AM
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This is what I have on my work computer (when I'm employed) and my home computer. It's from the 2001 TdF. I found it on Graham Watson's site.

Almost everyone who walks by my computer stops to look and ask what's happening in the picture, where it was taken, etc. It get lots of smiles and a few bicycling conversations get started.

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Old 06-13-03 | 05:53 AM
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A black and white picture of my trusty Paramount. One morning, after doing a little photo work for some people, I woke up to find this marvelous heavy fog. I grabbed my camera, and headed for the local park. Printed the picture with a little higher contrast than normal, and I was very happy with how it turned out. Kind of a large file, if you are interested, you can see it at https://home.atcjet.net/~whitlow/paramt.jpg
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Old 06-13-03 | 06:20 AM
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I LOVE that picture.
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Old 06-13-03 | 06:48 AM
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I have this photo (https://www.velonews.com/images/int/3904.4483.f.jpg) as my background, it's from Stage 4 of the Giro d' Italia and I really like it...
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Old 06-13-03 | 07:03 AM
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My Wallpaper is attached,
my screensaver is from lancearmstrong.com
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Old 06-13-03 | 07:11 AM
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Thanks Chip..kinda fond of the pic and the bike myself!!
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Old 06-13-03 | 07:15 AM
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Originally posted by khuon
I'm a sucker for sunsets. My "wallpaper" (I call it root background) on most of my machines currently consists of an image I took while on a bike ride on Orcas Island (an island in the San Juan chain northwest of Seattle). Lately, I alternate between this particular image and a few others which can be seen here.
khuon:

LOL is that dr. hiebert's family walkin into Moe's bar?

and that also looks like one of Fat Tony's goons in the background.

I wonder what episode that's from
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Old 06-13-03 | 07:31 AM
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www.webshots.com has some pretty good pictures you can use as desktop pictures or as screensaver shots, as well as a program you can use to create your own albums, upload your own pictures, etc. There are great pictures of lighthouses, cyclists, mountain climbers, sunsets....you name it, they have it.

Right now, I have my two-year-old grandson on my desktop.
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Old 06-13-03 | 12:32 PM
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However my next bike will be a road bike, and I haven't done enough research to know what my dream bike in that category is.
Well... there are many to ponder but here's one to get you started... a Merlin Cielo.
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Old 06-13-03 | 02:45 PM
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This is what i have on my desktop at the moment, im a huge VW geek I change them from time to time, i have a whole folder with different cool VW pics

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Old 06-13-03 | 02:50 PM
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Old 06-13-03 | 06:46 PM
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Nice picture Marty.
Where was it taken and what's the event?
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Old 06-13-03 | 10:19 PM
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Cool pic, Nebil!

I use Graham Watson's site as well for my wallpaper.

https://grahamwatson.com/wallpapers/a...ortedwall.html
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Old 06-13-03 | 11:52 PM
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A black and white picture of my trusty Paramount. One morning, after doing a little photo work for some people, I woke up to find this marvelous heavy fog.
That is a work of art! And with a work of art as subject!
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Old 06-14-03 | 02:03 AM
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Here is my current one
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Old 06-14-03 | 12:54 PM
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My current wallpaper is one I took while riding this year's MS-150:
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Old 06-14-03 | 01:16 PM
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Click for full size image: (not dial-up friendly!)

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I love dual 19" monitors! Style is ExclipsOSX on XPH, Wallpaper by digitalblasphemy. I am still looking for a nice dual monitor cycling based wallpaper...
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