Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Screensaver Images

On Dec 31, 8:57*am, Just A User wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:
Just A User wrote:
Sheldon Brown wrote:

It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle
images from my screensaver, so {snip}

But why no recumbents in there Sheldon?

He said they were BICYCLE images. *HTH!

LOL. Perhaps he should have called them human powered vehicles. Which
could have included pedal / paddle boats, which might be hard to use on
the streets.

This one ain't:
http://www.autocanoe.com/

Gotta love "As seen in Popular Science." Make mine in Kevlar.

Jeff

"Sheldon Brown" wrote in message
...
It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle
images from my screensaver, so I've prepared a collection of 127
images, all 1024 x 768 pixels, horizontal orientation that you're
welcome to download to use as a screensaver or desktop wallpaper.

Aw the best an' a guid new year, hope ye get back on a bike in 2008..

Jim J

Patrick Lamb asked:

wrote:
http://sheldonbrown.com/screensaver

Neato. *Is there a story behind some of these pictures? *For example,
where was the watertown-cellar picture taken and what's in it? *Or
what's the background to the thorn-weston shot?

http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screens...wn-cellar.html

This is the cellar of the house I lived in in Watertown, Mass. from
1974-79.
On the lower left you see the handlebars of my Moulton MkIII and
homebuilt tandem #2. You can see most of my Raleigh International
fixed-gear, then equipped with a TA 3-arm track crank and a "Wonder"
tail light on the seatpost.

From left center you see a bit of my seamless photo background paper,
the rear wheel of my then girlfriend's Robin Hood, then my own Robin
Hood camo commuter, and my Raleigh Twenty folder up against the water
heater and oil-burning furnace. Both the Robin Hood and the Raleigh
Twenty had been upgraded with Sturmey-Archer S5 5-speed hubs. Hanging
from the ceiling by its front wheel is my Brown. You can mainly see
the Unicanitor saddle it was equipped with at that time. The Brown is
mostly obscured by the reflector of one of my photo lights, and the
tripod with the bellows that goes to my Bronica S2A camera.

Slightly to the right of center, another fixed-gear bike is hanging. I
believe this was my Robin Hood fixed gear, based on a 3-speed frame.
Both the Robin Hood fixie and the Brown were painted with metallic
copper Krylon rattlecan paint, but it looks like the Robin Hood was
only wearing primer at this time. On either side of the Robin Hood
fixie, you see a pair of wooden uprights that I made to support a TV.
My bed at this time was a matress on the floor. I put one of these
uprights on each side of the matress, with a piece of angle-iron from
an old bed frame bridging between them. I had a little 5" Sony B&W TV
that would hang from modified coat hangers just above my head, so I
could watch TV while lying on my back in bed. This turned out to be
less desirable than it might have seemed, because I never saw the end
of any show I would watch...I would always fall asleep!

Over on the right, you see my typically cluttered workbench, and my
photographic copy stand behind it. Among other things on the workbench
is my original Bell Biker helmet. Back in the day, this was basically
the only decent bike helmet available, and everybody wore them. I
didn't like looking like everybody else, so I covered mine entirely
with red reflective tape.

http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screens...rn-weston.html

The Thorn image was made, if memory serves, along the trail that
encircles Weston Reservoir, Weston, Mass.

Sheldon "Old Photos" Brown

"Lou Holtman" wrote: No boneshakers, ordinary's, hard tyres, triplets etc
*), but last
time I looked a Greenspeed trike qualified as a recumbent.

I think Sheldon is owned an apology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh, yeah? If Sheldon wants to set himself up as a public utility, he takes
on certain obligations: not to discriminate against any oppressed minority.
TIC ;-) BG

Roger Zoul wrote:

Bill Sornson wrote:

Just A User wrote:

But why no recumbents in there Sheldon?

He said they were BICYCLE images. HTH!

Not that it matters, but recumbents are bicycles.

They are wheelchairs. HTH, as Sorni would say.

Chalo

Chalo Colina wrote:
Roger Zoul wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:
Just A User wrote:
But why no recumbents in there Sheldon?
He said they were BICYCLE images. HTH!
Not that it matters, but recumbents are bicycles.

They are wheelchairs. HTH, as Sorni would say.

No, recumbents are INLINE WHEELCHAIRS. Please get it right.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
POST FREE OR DIE!

In article ,
Tom Sherman wrote:

Sheldon Brown wrote:
It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle
images from my screensaver, so I've prepared a collection of 127
images, all 1024 x 768 pixels, horizontal orientation that you're
welcome to download to use as a screensaver or desktop wallpaper....

Fabrizio Mazzoleni is in the collection:
http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/pages/wrongwrongwrong.html.

Tires under inflated.

--
Michael Press

In article
,
Just A User wrote:

M-gineering wrote:
Lou Holtman wrote:


But why no recumbents in there Sheldon?


It was such a nice gesture from Sheldon. Why do you have to spoil it?

Lou

No boneshakers, ordinary's, hard tyres, triplets etc *), but last time
I looked a Greenspeed trike qualified as a recumbent.

I think Sheldon is owned an apology


*) non-conclusive summary not to be used for complaints

I didn't mean it to offend Sheldon. But I just didn't see any 'bents on
there. And I just looked again and still didn't see a Greenspeed. Can
you point it out to me or am I just blind.

You offended many people. Stop digging.

--
Michael Press

Michael Press wrote:
In article ,
Tom Sherman wrote:

Sheldon Brown wrote:
It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle
images from my screensaver, so I've prepared a collection of 127
images, all 1024 x 768 pixels, horizontal orientation that you're
welcome to download to use as a screensaver or desktop wallpaper....
Fabrizio Mazzoleni is in the collection:
http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/pages/wrongwrongwrong.html.

Tires under inflated.

From another perspective, the tires are properly inflated, but the
person on the bicycle is overinflated with junk food.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
POST FREE OR DIE!

Sheldon Brown wrote:
It occurred to me that some other folks might like to use the bicycle
images from my screensaver, so I've prepared a collection of 127
images, all 1024 x 768 pixels, horizontal orientation that you're
welcome to download to use as a screensaver or desktop wallpaper....

Tom Sherman wrote:
Fabrizio Mazzoleni is in the collection:
http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-screensaver1024x768/pages/wrongwrongwrong.html.

Michael Press wrote:
Tires under inflated.

So, you're saying the title should have been 'wrongwrongwrongwrongwrong'?
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www.yellowjersey.org
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