Anatomy of a Photo: Things That Are Hard To Come By


Museeuw rockin’ the bands riding with Cipo decked out in yellow as he twists one up. There are only two things cooler than this and both of them are impossible to get. One is Led Zeppelin playing at your shitty graduation party in the late 70’s and the other is one of those awesome Coca Cola bidons. Fuck yeah!

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135 Replies to “Anatomy of a Photo: Things That Are Hard To Come By”

  1. I always wonder what the Italian teams think of riding Cannondales? Probably seen as a bit sacrilegious coming from Italy and all those amazing Italian bike companies. And what the hell is Cippo doing here? Texting? (would not surprise me at all).

  2. @itburns

    @Buck Rogers
    “twists one up” = rolling a cigarette (at least I’m assuming cigarette in this context)

    Seriously? At speed no less! Why doesn’t this surprise me in the context of Cippo?

  3. @Buck Rogers
    I’m guessing it was something like “Sure, Cippo, roll one. Climb coming. See you at the next race start.” The barely disguised smirks are hilarious.

    Kind of like the last cigarette before the firing squad.

  4. I don’t think that is tobacco. I bet Super Mario was a mountain biker at heart. I gotta say, even with bright yellow fingerless gloves, the guy is stylin’ like no other.

  5. His hair is perfect! And thank you @Mikael Liddy, for showing me probably the only photo of his outlandish kits I hadn’t seen. Holy Merckx’s ball sack……..

  6. Maybe they’re smirking because they’re on the brakes and Cipo’s not paying attention.

  7. @scaler911

    His hair is perfect! ..

    That’s it! He’s holding one of them little mirrors.

    Not to fix his hair, but to check again how fucking awesome it is.

  8. He is moulding his energy bar into a likeness of himself. The next shot will see him showing this likeness to the other four in the group, accompanied by the words – “See, even my energy bar is cooler and better looking than the rest of you, ha!”

  9. Mario had it in spades but even he struggles to pull of celeste shoes matched with full yellow kit.

    Some of the other shit going on is fairly shocking, Spinergy wheels and aerobars.

  10. Who’s the guy in front of the Spinergy man wearing my Time shoes? I still have them in the garage if anyone wants a suitably retro look to recreate this photo.

    My brother thought Spinergy wheels were cool and used them in triathlons – which tells you all you need to know about Spinergys

  11. I have an awesome photo of Cipo but I think you guys wouldn’t appreciate it as much as I do. ;-)

  12. @the Engine

    “Hey, Mario, fancy a bit of a triathlon to keep loose on the rest day”

    “Fuck, no, some chick’s just texted me about my saddle to bar drop, if you catch my drift, ciao”

  13. Can’t vouch for the authenticity of the first one but the second one looks real enough.
    Mountain climbers used to refer to it as oxygen deprivation training.

  14. @Sauterelle
    Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there’s more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

    Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

  15. @Jonny

    @Sauterelle
    Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there’s more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

    Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

    Much as I’d like to, I’m going to restrain myself. I doubt the Velominati want to wake up to the sight of unclad man-ass, no matter how spectacular.

  16. @Jonny

    @Sauterelle

    Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.


    Looking Pro – with & with out helmet!
    Cippo’s hair gel has set that hard, his hair is a helmet!

  17. @Mark1
    .
    Mountain climbers used to refer to it as oxygen deprivation training.

    JA in oxygen deprivation training?

  18. Don’t know what’s safer? Those bar end shifters could do some damage!

  19. @sthilzy

    @Mark1
    .
    Mountain climbers used to refer to it as oxygen deprivation training.

    JA in oxygen deprivation training?

    Now that is the definition of “casually deliberate”!

  20. @silkrider

    I don’t think that is tobacco. I bet Super Mario was a mountain biker at heart. I gotta say, even with bright yellow fingerless gloves, the guy is stylin’ like no other.

    Not only is he overflowing with Rule violations, he’s violating the Rule violations. And having it video taped to send to the other Rules.

    And yet somehow, when I get up in the morning and look in the mirror, I know that all I want is to be 1/1000000th as much of a badass as Super Mario.

    Women want to be with him, and men want to be him.

  21. @RedRanger

    Actually I’m just in the middle of the Fotheringham Merckx book and he says Eddy used to smoke under advice from the Faema team doctor – Roger Swerts was the ‘team smoker’ so Eddy would bum one off him every now and then.

  22. @RedRanger

    The Apostle looks fuckin great in that cap btw.

    Not to mention those Briko Stinger shades. Those were my favorite cycling shades ever. I don’t have them anymore, but I have managed to hold onto my second-generation ones which look a little different.

    For as much as I like modern Oakleys, Briko in the 90’s was so fucking tits. They also made the first airblock vest which I wore threadbare. Fucking awesome.

  23. @Chris

    Mario had it in spades but even he struggles to pull of celeste shoes matched with full yellow kit.

    Some of the other shit going on is fairly shocking, Spinergy wheels and aerobars.

    They’re not aero bars; they are Spinassi bars. They were the balls in 1997.@the Engine

    Who’s the guy in front of the Spinergy man wearing my Time shoes? I still have them in the garage if anyone wants a suitably retro look to recreate this photo.

    My brother thought Spinergy wheels were cool and used them in triathlons – which tells you all you need to know about Spinergys

    Is it Frédéric Guesdon?

    @Sauterelle

    I have an awesome photo of Cipo but I think you guys wouldn’t appreciate it as much as I do. ;-)

  24. @Sauterelle

    @Jonny

    @Sauterelle
    Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there’s more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

    Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

    Much as I’d like to, I’m going to restrain myself. I doubt the Velominati want to wake up to the sight of unclad man-ass, no matter how spectacular.

    Woops.

  25. @ChrisO

    @RedRanger

    Actually I’m just in the middle of the Fotheringham Merckx book and he says Eddy used to smoke under advice from the Faema team doctor – Roger Swerts was the ‘team smoker’ so Eddy would bum one off him every now and then.

    Absolutely – the effects were poorly understood, but smoking was appreciated for its relaxing effect; team doctors routinely prescribed smoking to their riders.

  26. OK, a few more and I’m out. Seriously. Dude is a stud.

    @Marko

    I just figured it out. Mario is the Robert Plant of Cycling.

    Plant was even a stud in little whateverthefucks.

    Thats it. I’m going on a Zeppelin bender.

  27. @ChrisO
    Thanks for filling in the gaps. As a
    Former smoker I can’t imagine riding a bike after a few smokes.
    At the bar/tabacco shop I worked at in Sicily we would get a large Sunday group and there was always a couple of guys who would pick up a pack along with their coffee.

  28. @frank

    @Sauterelle

    @Jonny

    @Sauterelle
    Fill your boots. The other Velominata (there’s more than one surely?) and probably one or two Velominatus might appreciate it too.

    Just be prepared for the debate about helmets to start up again.

    Much as I’d like to, I’m going to restrain myself. I doubt the Velominati want to wake up to the sight of unclad man-ass, no matter how spectacular.

    Woops.

    YES, that’s the photo!!

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