just curious.
i'll go first. mine was some street art that i saw in valparaiso, chile during a bike trip that i took there about 2 years ago. i like cats. the town is one of the most beautiful towns i've ever seen, full of artists, and subsequently full of street art, and inclines! i hesitate to call it graffiti, because the town seems to fully embrace it. there's a neighborhood where pretty much every wall is covered with a different mural, so walking around was like walking thru an outdoor museum.
Mine is simple enough. That's me riding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Not on the active part, mind you, but on the 11 mile abandoned section that is now dedicated to biking and hiking near Breezewood.
It's a dream. Four lanes of divided highway and no cars. No SUVs. No tractor trailers.
man, i keep meaning to ride that, but always forget it exists. was that you that told me about the bear that you saw when you were in the tunnel? the same tunnel that was in the movie The Road, no?
Mine was taken in Kauai on a boat. Behind me is the Napali coastline. I was sea sick.
Panther Hollow represent!!
Cropped from this one:
Mt. Washington Overlook, from a few years back when Magali was soliciting local cyclists to pose for a project.
Beard? Check. Sandals with wool socks? Check. Hideous commuter jacket? Check. Aero-belly? Check.
We have achieved full-blown recumbent dork stereotype status.
reddan, yours is a profile profile
Yes, the Pike 2 Bike trail is where they filmed some of "The Road". No, I didn't see a bear, but I have heard about them being on the trail.
Dan, I figured you'd be pointing somewheres off into the horizon...
Mine's a landslide which occurred upslope from a historically significant house in the Lincoln area of Allegheny County.
mine is from a wedding I photographed. a groomsman insisted on taking a picture of me but had no idea how to use the camera. I generally use it in public places 
Mine's a view of the Velosteel coaster brake hub on my "city bike", specially obtained from Kogswell a couple years ago. They're interesting things, a lot more approachable than internal-geared hubs, but still with interesting insides. Here's the Centrix hub I borrowed from FreeRide once. The Velosteel has a quite different arrangement of parts.
For Pittsburgh hills, high-temperature grease is necessary.
i always wondered what was up with your picture, troyer
Me too. I assumed you used a blur filter in Photoshop.
That's my company logo. We're print and web media designers.
my pic is a native brook trout taken on a very small stream that's about a two mile hike to the nearest dirt road. I only fish it twice a year but I've never run into another fisherman and only a few small black bear. I did run into a hiker once who could'nt figure out why I was hiking with a fly rod in the middle of nowhere.
mine is a picture i set up riding in hurricane winds in northcarolina... it never really turned out how i wanted but i'm pretty into it still
I needed a photo for the 40 GASP Environmental Heroes awards ceremony back in October. I wanted a photo of me mounting my bike on a bus bike rack. My son and I went in search of a parked bus one rainy Saturday and found 5502 laying over at a Park & Ride.
To magnify any of these images, right-click on it, click View Image, and when it comes up in a window by itself, change the "s=80" to "s=640" in the URL.
I'm sitting at a rest stop in Scottsville, Virginia on the the first day of Bike Virginia 2009. It was supposed to be the lunch stop but we were there 2 1/2 hours before lunch started so all I got was a water fountain. (They seemed to time their lunch stops to a riding pace of about 12 mph). It was a hot humid day and we were sitting in a little shelter out of the sun.
I picked this one because it showed my face, my previous profile photo was a blurry helmet shot.
@mark that hat reminds me of one of the guys from the fat albert band.
It's a picture of myself playing some Saturday afternoon Polo under the Bloomfield Bridge.
Mine reflects my personality.
At the 2009 bikefest. I gave the guy with the snakes some cash to have one climb and wind around on me, bf took a picture. I asked the guy, "this is a constrictor type snake, the kind that wrap themselves around something and squeeze when they want to kill/eat it?" he said yes and went on to do something else. I got his attention again and asked, "But it won't kill me? Even if you weren't here to make sure?" "No." (He again finds something more interesting to do, which was easy, it was a great party.) But I get his attention one more time: "why is that?" "You're too big."
<--- Panther Hollow.
Mine is a wonderful piece of artwork courtesy of the message board.
Heh.
Mine reflects lyle's personality. :p
As you can all see, I have a new picture. This thread made me realize that my old picture had no interesting explanation, plus it was a few years old.
This is a much more recent picture me in Mexico with an avocado and a mamey fruit for eyes!
Or not? It shows up for me as the old, boring picture.
I see the new one.
awesome. maybe i need to re-login!
Mine is a 1950's era tandem photo. I found it in an article on www.crazyguyonabike.com
Mine is a schematic of a Rohloff Speedhub which is on my now busted-up bike. Maybe I should change it.
My 1969 Bottecchia "Giro d'Italia" that I bought used in 1974 for $200 (the cost of a good new bike) from a bike shop in Dayton, we drove four hours to get there, and on which I rode thousands of miles around Ohio, the U.S., and Europe, has had numerous replacement wheels, 4 different paint jobs, a replacement fork, many parts. Just completely re-finished it last year, with a powder coat job from Thick (current photo), and it rides fantastic.
Valparaiso sounds incredible, might need to ride there.
Me, in my studio. Wah-wah.
dwillen... hows the hub? i don't remember any accidents involving you... maybe i just wasn't paying attention though
Me, bike, Texas hill, monopod, film camera, delayed shutter. While going 20-30 mph downhill hold monopod with camera at other end about 2-4 inches above the ground, get a couple of snaps before bottom, develop film, look at contact sheets, reshoot, reshoot again. Done. God bless digital!
@unixd0rk: hell yeah dock ellis! tried to bean the entire cinci reds roster... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14
Prince shaking the green weenie cracks me up...
Photo of me infront of Mayer China in Beaver Falls, one of the many businesses that collapsed in Beaver County during the early 1980s. The building sat vacant at the edge of town for the next 20 years, until this past winter when most of it was torn down. Taken by a friend and talented photographer, Cory Morton
Holy saturation batman!
@asobi: that's the funniest thing I've seen all day!
Mine was just a funny text on the Joe Mama's sidewalk chalk board in Oakland. If there's anyone who couldn't see what it says it says, "OK Sid, You're Forgiven." This was of course the week following the Olympic hockey final game.
Also @netviln: Technically that's Junction Hollow. The Anderson Bridge in the shot is less than a block from my place 
Friend snapped a pic of me with my old bike and the panniers I made for it in front of Pamela's... but I guess you can't really see them all that well in a thumbnail.
My old (stolen) bike in all its commuter glory. Just felt like taking a pic before work one day. Glad I did because it's the only evidence I have of my sweet yellow rear baskets.
my picture from the "snap a picture of yourself in your winter gear" thread from a couple months ago... except it doesn't really look like winter inside.
@mark: hows the hub? i don't remember any accidents involving you... maybe i just wasn't paying attention though
I love the hub. I swore I'd never go back to derailleurs again, but for the time being I am rocking the external gears. I was told not to talk about the incident. Maybe I can share later. It pretty much sucked in every imaginable way, but I'm mostly all better now.
Mine is a picture I took for my company's website.
mine's the illustration of Yinzy the Mon Monster stomping on downtown that i did for the Thick Bikes jerseys.
@edmonds- i used to ride an old late 60s/early 70s bottecchia. never did the research to place it. was yours fully chromed under the paint? mine was painted yellow, then i took all the paint off and the chrome looked pretty hot.
also, if you're interested in seeing shots from my chile bike trip, they're here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erokore/sets/72157604034636114/
here's a shot that i took in the same town, valparaiso
last oktoberfest at penn brewery. i'm wearing a wig.
you should grow your hair out
Erok, yep, fully chromed under the paint, although only the lugs were polished to look right after chroming, the tubes were left kind of rough, since they would be painted anyway. They only did that on their 2 top models, so if yours was like that, it must have also been Columbus tubing with Campy dropouts.
Mine is downtown Pittsburgh seen from the North Shore Trail, through the spokes of my last bike, in 2007.
Mine is the brake bridge on an old orange Miyata similar to mine.
A tip: if you want to see any of these pictures bigger, copy the URL and change the 's' variable to something larger than 80.
My Bianchi is chromed under the paint. The chainstay is exposed and shiny. I hit the paint chips with black spray paint to uglify it. The chroming underneath is my secret thrill.
Mine is a photo from my bike trip last summer when my odometer rolled over to 12000 miles on my touring bike. Still the original battery!!!!!!!!!
Seems like I mention this in every thread I post in, but mine is from my trip to Wales. It is also the most recent semi-good picture of me in cycling gear.
It was the last day that we were cycling through what was left of Hurricane Bill (third day of an 8 day trip), and we'd taken a wrong turn.... so instead of a nice peaceful ride down the coast we ended up at the top of the hill next to the steepest hill in the UK.
The one we did had several curvy miles at a 20% grade... it was about half way up that this pic was taken. (I can't imagine what the steepest hill was like!)
Most of the rest of the day was single track that was so over grown that we couldn't see where our wheels met the ground... or the sheep and squirrels that kept leaping out of the undergrowth in front of us. It was an insane day, also the best of the trip.
inspired by the "what bike did you have as a kid?" thread, hit my mom up to see if she had any pics of me on 2 wheels from back in the day...
1983ish
Great pic!
Was your dad the neighor guy from "That '70's Show"?
Mine is from the bathroom at a Rollapaluza event in London. I had just flown into town alone a few hours before hand, put my bike together, got terribly lost, stumbled upon the event, had a killer time, and snapped this dazed image as I stood in the bathroom washing my hands figuring out ho0w exactly I would get back to my hotel.
i took my picture while waiting for the east busway to wilkinsburg. i was visiting pittsburgh for the three rivers bioneers conference to decide if i really wanted to move to pittsburgh. met someone at the conference whose friend had a room open for $250/mo (incredible rate for a girl from dc used to paying $600-$900/mo) for two months so i went to see it and found a place to live a week after spontaneously deciding to move here. so i lived with mike carroll for two months and now i live on the north side with a number of remarkably charming folks and a hell of a lot of bikes.
Mine was taken in a back alley in Regent Square. I was out with my Surly Long Haul Trucker dialing in the seat, racks, fenders, etc. You may recognize her beauty from the Bike Pittsburgh newsletter
I'm very paranoid of my bike getting stolen, so I posted a photo of it on here so you all know what it looks like just in case. There's a reason I painted it hot pink & black, so it is quite identifiable and is maybe not so alluring to a macho thief. And that so happens to be my favorite color combination
It's a crappy 70s Japanese tenspeed I rescued from a shed, where it had been rusting away for a few years, and is still a work in progress, but it's my bike dammit and I love it. I'd be furious if it vanished.
lol edmonds
there's another pic from that day where he has an Andre the Giant oaf thing goin on
totally conflicts with my memory!
uh oh saltm513, changed your pic, now have some 'splainin' to do.
Hah, you're right, "Ricky." That's a shot of me fire hooping. Hooping is my burning passion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ-jfssyQbw&feature=related
wow! that's amazing. just watched the video - never saw that before. How do you not get burned?
very cool indeed!
Whoa! That's nifty! How do you not get burned...is the trick to spin it faster?
And your family was worried about you bike riding?!!!
Haha, Well, I don't advertise this activity to my family... And as of right now, in being newly back to biking, I'm pretty sure I still feel less frightened in a burning ring of fire than I do on Pittsburgh roads. @ Bikefind & Greenbike: I've only done this a couple times, but I think keeping the hoop spinning is best because the wind is a factor- when I just stood there with it I definitely singed a bit of the hair on my arms.
next year's sticker:
I'm pretty sure I still feel less frightened in a burning ring of fire than I do on Pittsburgh roads. bike-pgh.org
Haha, Nice! It's true though- I'm the one in control of whether or not I get hurt.
Finally I got a picture up! That's my bike at the 32nd Street Bridge to Polish Hill when the 'snowmageddon' came down! I had so much fun riding through the snow, falling in the snow, getting up, etc..... one of my best rides ever!
Fill in the blank with the name of any modern racing cyclist:
" ______________ isn't qualified in talent nor class to carry Eddy Merckxs' luggage from the hotel to the team car." (my poor attempt to paraphrase an old Phil Liggett quote).
Mine is from the G-20 craziness. i was riding out of downtown (or trying to) when I saw these monks meditating with a s.w.a.t. truck in front of them. it was surreal.
as a post script to this story, eventually a riot cop gave me directions on how to get to the strip through the barricades, which led to another officers trying to rip my bike out of my hands when i attemped to inform him that this was what the other cop said. he swore at me a bunch and i eventually ended up riding begelow from the arena to polish hill.
me in front of the cathedral of notre dam last year
when when i was on tour.
Mine is from the Jackie Ride Tri this summer - my first sprint distance race since my ankle injury...and I placed. Woot!
tattoo of a tandem with my wedding date on my right forearm.
me after having a screaming match over the phone with my mom. every time I cry, I wonder how red my face looks, so I attempted a picture and only got half of my face.
I was sitting in that plaza on grant st.
candid pic my wife took of me dancing around our living room to some silly hip hop while wearing my son's cub scout neckerchief on my head and sunglasses (inside and at night). why? I have no idea.
Me waving at you...reflected in the tip of a ball point pen, photographed w/a DIY web cam macro lens.
Mine is me infront of my favorite piece of art in town. I always called it the three amigos but I understand it is called the street musicians or something to that extent. On Liberty next to the toonseum.
mine is me feeding a little momma kangaroo (who has Joey in pouch) at an animal rescue place outside Hobart, Tazmania (Australia). Turns out lots of people get baby kangaroos as pets, then abandon them when they get bigger (and very ornary and pushy) - not so great in the city. Like stray dogs but more willing and able to fight people, and bigger. This place "rehabbed" them but couldn't turn a lot of them loose after, they were too used to people feeding them.
We bought little bags of food, and the 'roos heard the bags rustle and came for food. When we ran out, they took the bags and looked in them, then looked at us with that "you jackass, you didn't bring enough for everybody" look. The pushier ones tried our pockets but didn't find anything and hopped off. Kind of surreal interacting with an animal almost our size (the big ones at least) that was clearly thinking and planning and learning and totally capable of kicking our asses. We felt very vulnerable when we ran out of food.
I still have mixed feelings about that encounter, but this picture makes me smile.
I have relatives in the bay area. When I see cheep airfare I’ll go out to visit. Then I'll take my cousin’s bike and ride all over the place with my camera.
I'll just repeat my little observation that, on this board anyway, if you want to see a larger version of someone's profile pic, right-click on the image, click View Image. It'll come up by itself in that window. Up in the address line, look for the sequence "s=80". Change that "8" to "64" and press Enter. Yay! Bigger photo!
Inserting another zero after the 80 also works. Fewer keystrokes means more time to bike.
