V Point V Magnitude Awesome
People, please grab hold of your butts: we are experiencing a V.V magnitude Awesome Quake, and it is sporting a totally rad lid.
Further instructions will be provided. Have a pleasant day.
People, please grab hold of your butts: we are experiencing a V.V magnitude Awesome Quake, and it is sporting a totally rad lid.
Further instructions will be provided. Have a pleasant day.
Uh, that looks like what they put on folks missing parts of their skull. Which is ironic since that is a possibility if you hit your noggin wearing it.
Two words: toe clips. BTW, is that John Howard?
@chuckp
Three words: shoe polish, motherfucker.
When was the last time you polished your fucking CYCLING SHOES? Me an’ Hinault, we used to polish our Cycling shoes in the blackest, shiniest black we could find.
@frank
I actually polish my white cycling shoes. :-) So who is it?????
@chuckp
Fuck if I know, ask @MONSIEURBLOODPIPES
Lets also pay V minutes’ silence to @BIGRINGRIDING, who would have had a field day with this image.
MoVember approcheth
Fuck yeah.
Saw a bike messenger in SF today sporting a Brancale hairnet astride a well-loved and outlandishly painted Landshark. Probably this bloke’s nephew.
@Ccos
That’s totally inaccurate. Folks missing bits of their skull rarely have that sweet of a hairdo.
Could be David Auker.
@chuckp
With white shoe polish? LOVE IT.
I don’t think any of my cycling shoes are made of leather, so it hasn’t occurred to me to polish them for some time.
Unless, of course, there are troops of patent-leather orange monkeys running about the savanna.
A skid lid. I remember them well. Never owned one, thankfully.
It is not John Howard, but I don’t know who it is. Howard still has more hair than that.
Mine has a visor…
Bolle?
@frank
Yesterday, with carnauba wax.
@frank
whats with the tan lines ?
@frank
Who you calling a monkey dude….
@Ccos
Exactly!! Someone has said it! Those ugly POC helmets look like surgical issue.
Dave Auker. NW US stud from the 70s. John Howard much uglier.
@rockkk
Those are muscles.
@The Pressure
Um, non. Super light and the best helmet I’ve ever worn. If you’re looking at my head, you’re riding wrong.
@frank
Also: um, non.
More importantly, I’m quite pleased to see you finally coming around to my point of view on Rule #50.
@Joe Cline
FTW! Channeling your inner @Oli with that one, mate!
@Ccos
It’s a Skid-Lid…
@the Engine
Skid-Lids were not pretty, but Bell Bikers were not pretty either. Both pre-date Giro helmets. This was the era when hard shell helmets began replacing the leather hairnets that preceded them.
@the Engine
Oh I know what it is. They neither look good nor protect your head much. For the deduction in charisma they cause, I would favor the cycling cap.
@Steampunk
Hey, if I stuffed all my muscle on short stumpy little thighs like you have, they’d easily….Ok. I don’t want to finish this thought.
In fact, I wish I hadn’t started it. You can’t unthink that shit.
@Jay
I hereby vow to dedicate a thread to this very soon. It was an awkward adolescence for sure, and it was painful to experience. But fucking hilarious now. I mean, the Euros were the worst at it because they were so used to caps and hairnets and making those look the tits, they had no clue how to deal with a hardshell.
Greg LeMond was the pioneer on this, never suffering any horrible consequences.
Hairnet. Check.
Softshell with lycra cover. Check.
Full hardshell. Check. And always a pioneer of Rule #37.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/captainsideburns/Bm3RE3
Does it get an exemption from Rule #35?
@Steampunk
How awesome that someone knew who this cool cat is! This site rocks hard out.
@frank
Is that some kinda strange bar end going on ? I couldn’t imagine holding on to those. But there sure is a an awful lot of coolness going on in this snapshot.
@Steampunk
With all due respect…still fugly. I said with all due respect.
@The Pressure
Agree to disagree.
Regardless, the helmet is probably the one piece of cycling kit where function trumps form.
@frank
@Steampunk
Agreed. With my cavernous melon, fit is paramount!!
@frank
I seriously miss that website.
@frank
Full points, though, for the white elastic bands keeping the Catholic schoolgirl knee socks up (what else is keeping them from sliding down?). I can’t even see them…
@frank
LeMan made everything look good. He could have probably rocked that aberration of a skid lid.
@captainsideburns
Um…Wow. I can’t believe the top is actually open.
@Oli
Word up, son!
@Ccos
When you got it, you got it.
@wilburrox
Only SCOTT DROPINS!
They were one of the coolest things ever, and for some time I felt any bike that didn’t have them looked naked. I rocked a pair of them and while they were a tad flexy, nothing felt more Pro than tucking into them at full speed.
@frank ….dropping right in!
@frank
I got your Seattle sea coast. Hangin’
Assorted lids, 1982 style, giving it some V. Auker with excellent poker face.
Found this and others here: http://bikeportland.org/2011/02/03/photographer-captured-vibrant-era-of-portland-bike-racing-47270. Enjoy.
Hmm, who knew POC helmets had a long lost cousin out there! That’s what Auker’s lid looks like to me.
@frank
@frank
Not that long ago…
Big Mig with his aero rig
Big
@chuckp
This is a photo from the Portland International Raceway in Oregon, early 80s of my old teammate and dear friend David Auker. Riding a Strawberry, handbuilt in Portland. David is a great guy and cycling legend around here. Won the Circuit race on Mt Tabor (5000 ft climbing in 35 mi) in FOUR DIFFERENT DECADES (70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s). National Masters Cross Champ in 89 or so. Quite a character, won our District TT in 91 with a “disc” wheel he made w Mylar from a model shop. Had a stroke while riding years ago, very sad, and now lives in Corvallis. His helmet is a Skid Lid, I had one on my noggin from 83-85 or so. Second photo Mike Murray, founder of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association, leads, he was an ace track rider and brought 6 day racing back to America at Alpenrose. Best,
Dave Campbell
@nobby
It was called a “skid lid” in the US. Saw one on the head of a ‘vintage’ rider just the other day.
@nobby