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Explain your profile picture 'nat

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   erok
   

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   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.

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   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.

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   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?

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   Mine was taken in Kauai on a boat. Behind me is the Napali coastline. I was sea sick.

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   netviln
   

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   Panther Hollow represent!!

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   reddan
   

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   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.

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   erok
   

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   reddan, yours is a profile profile

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   Kordite
   

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   Posted 4 months ago
   

   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.

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   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.

   

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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 :-)

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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.

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    erok
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    i always wondered what was up with your picture, troyer

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    rsprake
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Me too. I assumed you used a blur filter in Photoshop.

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    Team Decaf Weekend
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    That's my company logo. We're print and web media designers.

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    Marko82
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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.

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    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

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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.

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    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.

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    sloaps
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    @mark that hat reminds me of one of the guys from the fat albert band.

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    Mildsnbleu
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    It's a picture of myself playing some Saturday afternoon Polo under the Bloomfield Bridge.

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    unixd0rk
    

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    doc ellis pitched a no hitter while on LSD...

    http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ellis.asp

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    Lyle
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Mine reflects my personality.

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    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."

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    joeframbach
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    <--- Panther Hollow.

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    greenbike
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Mine is a wonderful piece of artwork courtesy of the message board.

    Heh.

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    Mick
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Mine reflects lyle's personality. :p

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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!

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    rachel_ding
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Or not? It shows up for me as the old, boring picture.

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    jeffinpgh
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    I see the new one.

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    rachel_ding
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    awesome. maybe i need to re-login!

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    Andrew
    

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    Mine is a 1950's era tandem photo. I found it in an article on http://www.crazyguyonabike.com

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Mine is a schematic of a Rohloff Speedhub which is on my now busted-up bike. Maybe I should change it.

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    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.

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    robjdlc
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Me, in my studio. Wah-wah.

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    dwillen... hows the hub? i don't remember any accidents involving you... maybe i just wasn't paying attention though

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    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!

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    @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...

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    

    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

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    Holy saturation batman!

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    greenbike
    

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    @asobi: that's the funniest thing I've seen all day!

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    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 ;)

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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.

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    Tabby
    

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    Posted 4 months ago
    

    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.

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    salty
    

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    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.

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    @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.

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