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Anatomy of a Photo: Roulin’ Dirty


After a long, hard day of dishing out pain to the peloton it’s time to chillax with der Homies. Here we have der Kaiser and Klodenizzle pimpin’ in the T-Mobile bus. Roulin’ dirty fo’ sho’.

Marko

Marko lives and rides in the upper midwest of the States, Minnesota specifically. "Cycling territory" and "the midwest" don't usually end up in the same sentence unless the conversation turns to the roots of LeMond, Hampsten, Heiden and Ochowitz. While the pavé and bergs of Flanders are his preferred places to ride, you can usually find him harvesting gravel along forest and farm roads. He owes a lot to Cycling and his greatest contribution to cycling may forever be coining the term Rainbow Turd.

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  • That van interior is horrid - pretty goofy shot. Jan however is cool - one of my favorite pro riders of all time. Well, minus the blood doping and whatever the hell else he did....

    @Cyclops: Awesome VW pic. I'm a bit of a air cooled VW fan - nice job.

  • @Dan O

    Here's another one that I'm sure His Frankness will like - I've always wanted a celeste green bug with a Bianchi on top too.

  • @Geof
    Cipo, for all his Awesomeness is in blatant violation of Rule 7, and in fact features in the example photo.

    @Steampunk
    Got it, I'll not be so quick to judge next time; realize now the reference was towards the bling bit, not the doping bit.

  • @Salsa_Lover

    You seem to forget that Eddy Merckx wore black adidas ?

    Yeah, just another tick in the list of how awesome Adidas is. I wear their pants all over the place, shoes, sandals, wristbands on the turbo-trainer...Anything I can get my hands on.

    @Cyclops
    You must be right that we were separated at birth. I've considered having my Bianchi TSX repainted in Celest, but I can't bring myself to do it.

    Can you do a new rendering of that bug with some Velominati art on there? That one sucks. At least make the tires say "Obey the Rules" or something.

  • @Dan O
    I'm with you, brother. My favorite rider that I've watched race. Did I mention on sat on his TT bike before the '03 Gaillac ITT? Gave the security guard a sandwich and he let me into the place and sit on it.

    Before I sat on the bike:

    The Man sitting on the same bike:

    I'm pretty sure the two events are related. I mean, there's not really any other way about it.

  • The heinous first photo is made up by the awesomeness of the renditions from Cyclops and the V on display on the Bianchi.

  • And I am betting there is a big fat soigneur named Rudy or Willy very close by with chamois cream at the ready.

    I always had a feeling that Kloden dodged some bullets on the doping front. He rode so well for a few seasons in what turned out to be very bad company and then became a much lesser rider in his latter years with Lance et al. But then again, that aint exactly good company is it?

  • frank :

    @Salsa_Lover

    You seem to forget that Eddy Merckx wore black adidas ?

    Yeah, just another tick in the list of how awesome Adidas is. I wear their pants all over the place, shoes, sandals, wristbands on the turbo-trainer...Anything I can get my hands on.

    It's really too bad they seem to have discontinued their cycling line, unless they are just hiding it from me exclusively.

    I wear Adidas shoes exclusively while not at work or cycling (OK, sometimes I wear them to work as well), and in my mind there is no better brand of casual sneakers. I *tried* to like the lesser-Dassler brother's sneakers, but I just couldn't go against the trifoil.

    Back to the original photo: with all of the Adidas logos splashed about the clothing upon which these athletes are wearing, do you think the "bangin'" sound system that is installed underneath the bench seats is bumping RUN DMC "My Adidas"?

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