YOUR (!!!) Greatest Cycling Photo of all time

ddraver

So as the other thread but only pictures that your or your bretheren have taken with your own fair hands!

Lets see some camera skillz!

Rules - does not have to be Pro Race Specific but must be of a cyclist, on a bike, in motion.

dabber

Tour de France 2012.... Blagnac / Brive-la-Gaillarde Stage 18.

Watched by the roadside then drove the 4 miles to our house and watched Cav take the win on tele.

Paul 8v

Definitely not pro race but my favourite picture someone has taken of me ;-)

My friend took this, his first attempt at a cycling photo!

RichN95.

Kennaugh & House sprinting at the 2009 Nationals


Just for its future significance:


The Tour in London 2007 (Zubeldia, I think):


It's track racing (Boooo!)


Wiggins on his way to Gold in 2008:


How about athletics? Beijing 100m 2008:


Hockey anyone?

No? Oh, well.

ddraver

It would be a better shot if it wasnt gonna miss

RichN95.

ddraver wrote:

It would be a better shot if it wasnt gonna miss

It was going in. He saved it too.

ddraver

Leiden Tuesday night racing night




And if we re allowing hockey...





Anyway, more cycling

thegreatdivide

2013 Tour - Stage 20 Annecy start.

The sun was blazing and all the team colours looked superb.

Viva Las Vegas!



The bloke on the left kept trying to get in the shot...



So I took another one

mr_poll

Wiggo in yellow, leading Cav in the rainbow jersey in Paris - what's not to like. Unforgettable experience.


POPwiggo2 by mr_poll, on Flickr


And last years ToB on Honister - never been so cold and wet in my life but the atmosphere was amazing not quite the Alpe D'Huez but it was a very wet Monday in September.


NNOKIA Lumia 800_130916_0050 by mr_poll, on Flickr

greasedscotsman

RichN95 wrote:

Kennaugh & House sprinting at the 2009 Nationals

Like that one. As I'm in it!

napoleond

Following Colin Pokerface, taken whilst moving, with one hand, on an iPhone 4.

I got it sorted (straightened) and printed by my dad (a rather talented professional advertising photographer) for Colin.

This is the original unedited shot

LutherB

Really like that pic Napoleon!

napoleond

Cheers, always nice riding with a world champ in their rainbow jersey

frenchfighter

The fact his head doesn't go above the curve at the top is just gold. Nice one.

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Rich, how did you get so close in Beijing?!

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich, how did you get so close in Beijing?!

It makes it look closer than I was. I was in the second row, but the Wiggins photo is quite heavily cropped.

Richmond Racer

ddraver wrote:

It would be a better shot if it wasnt gonna miss

Dont go messin' with Rich on hockey matters!

andyp

RichN95 wrote:

Just for its future significance:

Anyone who questions how Froome's performances have improved so much since 2008 should have that image as their wallpaper.

Thanks for sharing, Rich.

Pross

I never seem to get decent photos but will hopefully put that right at this year's Nationals and the Tour but here's one of the Welsh Crit Champs in Abergavenny from the early 90s. Nothing great but somewhere hidden in there is a future Giro rider who made the podium that day. The leader is Richard Wooles who did OK at Premier Calendar level and rode the 1990 junior worlds (he was also a regular on TV at the Olympics last year as the Canadian track coach).



As an aside, the circuit is far better that way round than the other way as currently used in the National Circuit Series IMHO.

Best taken of me - Beacon Little Mountain TT 2012. Probably the worst conditions I've ever ridden in, certainly the worst I've raced in - pouring rain, 3 degrees and 50mph gusts!

LutherB

Pross wrote:

Best taken of me - Beacon Little Mountain TT 2012. Probably the worst conditions I've ever ridden in, certainly the worst I've raced in - pouring rain, 3 degrees and 50mph gusts!

Heavyweight!

shazzz

2007 Tour


2008 Flanders, on the Bosberg

Pross

LutherB wrote:

Pross wrote:

Best taken of me - Beacon Little Mountain TT 2012. Probably the worst conditions I've ever ridden in, certainly the worst I've raced in - pouring rain, 3 degrees and 50mph gusts!

Heavyweight!

Yeah, I was carrying a few extra pounds

Cascadian

napoleond

Another couple, dead proud of my daughter first time at the track. She loved it and has been buzzing about track riding since! Again, iphone pic.



My mrs took this one with her phone.

Amazing how people were struggling up the hill before the ToB came through and even the sprinters were chatting away! Quintana and Martin having some light hearted conversation...

Mad_Malx

Cascadian wrote:

pics

Great first post Cascadian.

Guy in the crowd behind Spartacus looks like a young Sagan.

And who's the Garmin rider with the porno moustache?

RichN95.

Mad_Malx wrote:

And who's the Garmin rider with the porno moustache?

Zabriskie, I think

napoleond

Is it not Danny Pate?

Mad_Malx

I don't have many to choose from, but was pleased to get a current and future WC in the same shot :

Mad_Malx

RichN95 wrote:

Mad_Malx wrote:

And who's the Garmin rider with the porno moustache?

Zabriskie, I think

So have Garmin got form on dodgy 'taches? - my googling suggested Steven Cozza (who I know nothing about).

cookiemonster

A couple from a Euro trip a couple of years back

RichN95.

Mad_Malx wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Mad_Malx wrote:

And who's the Garmin rider with the porno moustache?

Zabriskie, I think

So have Garmin got form on dodgy 'taches? - my googling suggested Steven Cozza (who I know nothing about).

Zabriskie, Pate and Cozza have all had them. (A quick look at the start list says that DZ and Cozza were there, but Pate wasn't).

And looking again, it can't be Zabriskie as he's in one of the other photos. So Cozza it is.

Cascadian

DZ is in those pics sans mustache. I kept yelling "DZ Nuts!" at him till he turned around and gave me that wry look...

That's Cozza...