Bike porn

I absolutely adore these old raleighs:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/1976/images/03-76-professional-track.jpg

top bike photography too.

Watching the track racing from Majorca, can't help but still lust after Hoy's helmet:

I'm a straight man, but I can't help but lust after Hoy

PS, what year is that catalogue page from?

I dunno. Just tried to do reproduce the Google search that had me trip over it, but couldn't recall what I was looking for when I found it. Mid-1970's I think though... just a guess.

Flickr's pretty good for the bike porn:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/singlespeed/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/steelbikes/pool/

This is all over bf. It's jaw-dropping gorge..
http://boxwood.subtle.org/se/albums/pogliaghipista/purplepog01.sized.jpg

Love the sunglasses

It's the bianchi in the background... honest.

velocity boy:I absolutely adore these old raleighs: 

Hey, I'm sure I've seen something like that before...

I actually prefer mine, even if the photography ain't up to scratch.
Since I gave away my childhood bmx before my trip to the UK I'm over chrome. Those saddles are like block spitters to my nether zone. I don't do clips/straps any more. But I am fond of my brakes and the original fork and bars are in storage should I want to ressurect the original track setup.

Alright if this really turning into a Raleigh Track Porn thread, then the older Professionals wee all over the new ones

Now this is real porn ('72 Raleigh Professional)

See http://www.firstflightbikes.com/RaleighTrack.htm

or

See http://www.bikecult.com/works/collections/raleighTL.html

I should know I had one, then leant it to a friend who stacked it on the track and so now it looks like this:

cause I was too (and am) poor to get it repainted the way it used to look like.

http://www.moyercycles.com/xa.jpg

man, moyer's got some lovely bikes. love the top tube protector.

http://www.booboodog.net/images/img_0126.jpg

whoa! check out that lady's scarf! so many colours!

lol

And for those who don't want to drill their fork, yet want a front brake;

riding from Chelmsford to Danbury on A414 a couple of weeks ago I passed a large collection of hardcore mags by the roadside. needless to say I stopped and browsed for a while. it was full on stuff, no holes barred. alas I had no capacity for carrying any of it. and I had some trouble getting back in the saddle too! I've done a few miles here and there around the country and never come across this before and was wondering if its a phenomenon limited to the bounds of Essex or whether anyone else had had similar experiences?

Something similar whilst fixed mtbing in Epping Forest. I rounded a corner to find not a pile of mags - just one...

... plus a geezer sitting there wanking over it.

He obviously wasn't too phased. The trail kind of disappeared a little further on, so I had to double back - and he was still going at it like a chimp in the zoo.

the fork on the yamaguchi makes me feel ill.

different strokes for different folks though....

lmao@bringmemyfix

riding up the hill out of peaselake (some of you probably know where this is) on my mtb i noticed a magazine, closer inspection revealed it to be a pristine copy of transvestite today.
i didn't get past the 1st page before i had to release my grip on the sordid publication.
i left it open on the 'babe of the month' centrefold on the verge so it was clearly visible to anyone passing.

kipsy it was full on stuff, no holes barred.

that's a lovely mental image.

velocity boy This is all over bf. It's jaw-dropping gorge..
http://boxwood.subtle.org/se/albums/pogliaghipista/purplepog01.sized.jpg

OUCH!!! The only thing they got right on that thing is the seatpost. ...and maybe the front hub.

I've been enjoying this one a lot.

http://velospace.org/node/2969