Anyone got any amazing cycling wall paper?

frenchfighter

Gruber delivers in big style.

RonB

Colle del Nivolet from @cyclingalps

frenchfighter

Two amazing photos from 2014 TdF Stage 15:
La Roche de la Baume:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmcproteam/14699727421/
Lavender photo (much nicer than the sunflowers imo):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmcproteam/14697152701/

To download them click the symbol bottom right with an arrow pointing down and chose the res.

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frenchfighter

Uff, that one is awful!!!

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frenchfighter

Eh those are not really wallpapers, more just random cycling photos : )

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frenchfighter wrote:

Eh those are not really wallpapers, more just random cycling photos : )

Robin Williams has died, they were the best photo's I could find as a tribute to a cycling fan.

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pinno

Slow down folks. I am only on page 6.

Will Google Rotating Desktop - never heard it till now.

The old shots of the Pave are fascinating - they have ironed them out a little since then.

pinno

Here is a desktop wall paper manager. I found it very easy to use and so far haven't had to manipulate any of the pictures to fit.
It has a default 'Playlist' built in but you can add or delete at will.
I right clicked and downloaded 8 pictures into a pre-defined file on my PC straight off this thread and selected 'Playlist' > 'Add files' > [Select file] > [Open] in the Bionix dialogue box from my desktop...or you can click and drag. Dead easy. Brilliant. You can set the time intervals between frames from seconds to hours to days. there is a Vista, 7 and 8 as well as a Mac download. I use XP Pro.

Scanned with AVG:

http://www.bionixwallpaper.com/downloads/index.html

frenchfighter

Nice, thanks.

What photo has been your favourite so far?

pinno

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice, thanks.

What photo has been your favourite so far?

I have 15 pages to go and all the links in between . As you know, I posted a few onto this thread, which is a good source.

viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12960108 (which needs a bump back on to the first page BTW )

Now I don't have to pick a single favourite but I think it would be the alpine widescreen shot in the snow. What's the location?:

knedlicky

pinarello001 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice, thanks.
What photo has been your favourite so far?

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Now I don't have to pick a single favourite but I think it would be the alpine widescreen shot in the snow. What's the location?:

I'd be pretty certain this is the Stelvio.

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pinno

Is it me or do the old photo's look like men on bikes and the more modern one's look like boys on bikes?

frenchfighter

In general I suppose that is more or less correct simply because of the garish colours and style of these days in addition to the significantly smaller frames ridden.

pinno

frenchfighter wrote:

In general I suppose that is more or less correct simply because of the garish colours and style of these days in addition to the significantly smaller frames ridden.

Maybe the B&W ages the protagonists. Did some anorak work (blame it on the weather) from this site:

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jul/23/tour-de-france-winner-list-garin-wiggins#data

Average age of TdF winner per 25 editions chronologically: 28, 28, 28 and then for the past 25 years: 30!




What's with the newspaper on the saddle?

frenchfighter

Yeah that newspaper saddle is interesting.

knedlicky

Perhaps the newspaper was temporary protection that day against moisture?
All-leather saddles, as they had years ago, could take in a lot of water and, if saturated, be easily ruined (would easily deform).

Saddles then had to be regularly treated – some people used a leather grease (I suppose Brooks’ Proofide is the modern version of such), neatsfoot oil was also popular, others swore by waxing with polish (claiming leather grease and neatsfoot oil softened the leather too much and thus led to premature deformation).

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knedlicky wrote:

Perhaps the newspaper was temporary protection that day against moisture?
All-leather saddles, as they had years ago, could take in a lot of water and, if saturated, be easily ruined (would easily deform).

Saddles then had to be regularly treated – some people used a leather grease (I suppose Brooks’ Proofide is the modern version of such), neatsfoot oil was also popular, others swore by waxing with polish (claiming leather grease and neatsfoot oil softened the leather too much and thus led to premature deformation).

That's sounds like a good explanation.

pinno

I posted a shed load of pics on here:

viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12960108&p=19005789#p18993241

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knedlicky

pinarello001 wrote:

An interesting selection. I mean that positively.

I'm not sure I could cope with the above even on skis, and I'm good on them, in fact I know I couldn't, so hats off to whoever it is.

frenchfighter

Can we keep this thread the wallpaper thread rather than the photo thread. The whole idea is you can come here and get photos to use as your background and most of the ones above are too small or not your typical background photos, even if some of them are good photos in their own right. Thanks.

frenchfighter

Artic Race of Norway

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frenchfighter

Jen's last solo breakaway: