Wallpaper on your PC's.
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From: Fallbrook,Calif./Palau del Vidre, France
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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.
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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From: Catching his breath alongside a road near Seattle, WA USA
Bikes: 1999 K2 OzM, 2001 Aegis Aro Svelte
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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From: Perth - Western Australia
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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.
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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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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From: London, England
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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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.
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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From: Austin, TX
Bikes: '76 Schwinn Paramout (Liberty) and an '89 Paramount (ol' Blue)
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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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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From: n.w. superdrome
Bikes: 1 trek, serotta, rih, de Reus, Pogliaghi and finally a Zieleman! and got a DeRosa
My Wallpaper is attached,
my screensaver is from lancearmstrong.com
(or Sodwanna bay if I'm in a diving mood!)
Marty
my screensaver is from lancearmstrong.com
(or Sodwanna bay if I'm in a diving mood!)
Marty
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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.
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.
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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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.
Right now, I have my two-year-old grandson on my desktop.
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From: Catching his breath alongside a road near Seattle, WA USA
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Originally posted by Portent
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.
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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2001 Aegis Aro Svelte
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." -- Jon Postel, RFC1122
1999 K2 OzM
2001 Aegis Aro Svelte"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." -- Jon Postel, RFC1122
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From: Bend/sunriver, Oregon
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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 
-Jonathan
I change them from time to time, i have a whole folder with different cool VW pics 
-Jonathan
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My wallpaper:
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Nice picture Marty.
Where was it taken and what's the event?
Where was it taken and what's the event?
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The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. - Psalm 103:8
I am a cyclist. I am not the fastest or the fittest. But I will get to where I'm going with a smile on my face.
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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
I use Graham Watson's site as well for my wallpaper.
https://grahamwatson.com/wallpapers/a...ortedwall.html
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Originally posted by nebill
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.
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.
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