Style on a bike

[NickJHP]

This is my choice. Rudi Altig during a quiet moment of the 1964 Tour de France:

[mattr]

Stems not slammed, no style at all.

[Nefarious86]

Why dont we ever see this level of cool these days

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[kgt]

The days of style are long gone:

[Rondje]

And for the first photo:
Piet van Kempen 1936

And Pidcock with an attempt to recreate it for The Tour Series promo

[Johnny Rad]

Nah, not true - panache in the peleton still exists.

Thanks for sharing some great pics of hardmen. Hope to see more from then and now.

[wheelbuilder]

Very cool. Cyclists were so much more "manly" in those era's. Before power-to-weight was obsessed over. It was hardmen with a propensity to suffer like no other.

[Powerful Pete]

I think this calls for a few pictures of the Campionissimo...





Found the first on adventuremedic and the second on velominati but am pretty sure these can be found in multiple places on line.

[themidge]

Does anyone else think Fausto Coppi looks like an Ictheosaurus?

[kbbpll]

Bikes were so clean back then, before all this fat curvy giant-label plastic shit. I mean, just look at that hideous Dogma versus the rest of them.

[kgt]

There are much worse than the Dogma. The Madone, the new Systemsix, etc.
One of the last stylish riders:

[Miller]

One of the last stylish riders:

{Fignon] You say that but I was watching a vid the other day, maybe linked from here, of him chasing Indurain up a hill from the '91 Tour. He was rocking all over the bike to force the watts out. Looked powerful but not super-stylish. Whatever, he was a great rider who died way too young.

That photo of Merckx plus cohort up above; that's the entire foundation of Rapha right there.

[XCProMD]

Enter Bugno. Smooth as a velvet glove. Unfortunately he overlapped with Big Mig. But that leg spinning his bike perfectly parallel to the road...


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[853guy]

Ahhh... ankle socks and mid-thigh bibshorts...

The current obsession with long socks and long bibs continues to baffle me*.

853guy

* Actually, I'm not baffled at all. More lycra/wicking material = more surface area for branding and sponsorship logos. (Sigh.)

[micky]