Fremont Solstice up until 2004

[spankycranky]

Originally Posted by ferdness

Wow Spanky, you're going way back! I'm wondering if you or anyone else has more photos of either of these two riders from 2004?

I do love me some Fremont solstice! I'm not home but I do have a couple. I'll post tomorrow!

[pennywiseguy2]

Nice group.

PWG2

[crispus]

With the far-from-trivial caveat that pre-2006, in the days before Daviddavin/Klondike (and are there any others so antediluvian as to discern Riverslug from the shifting mists of time?), that is to say the ineffable coupling of modern equipment and that unsurpassed eye, exemplars were often woefully tiny by our current standards, here's my little conceit: pre-ride pictures conjoined with how they looked in medias res (first two from '04, though this was not their only ride, third from '03)...

[Davidavin]

This is a good thread idea because as you mentioned, yearly threads didn't start until 2005 (I might have thought 2006. I need to have a look at the 2005 thread).

Anyway, so it was in the tribute thread that I started dumping many of my pre 2005 pics. Mine are only sorted according to whether they are pics of riders vs walkers, posers, etc. Very few are sorted by year.

I did get the idea, pennywiseguy, that you are a pretty dedicated collector of these pics. So having this thread hopefully will draw out more guys like you, kind of like how the retro NAP thread drew out a lot of stuff from collectors
Who might have remained obscure otherwise.

But we did get some participation already in the tribute thread as I recall. When I get back to portland ( I still have wreck beach in my sights this weekend), I'll try to contribute some.

K

[Davidavin]

Spanky, I had a look at that 2005 thread. It's not a general thread for that year, but just a handful of pics of one particular girl, a walker. And then I went and messed it up by posting some 2006 pics by mistake. So there is really no 2005 thread for riders.

K

[pennywiseguy2]

Super small unfortunately.

PWG2

[spankycranky]

Originally Posted by crispus

With the far-from-trivial caveat that pre-2006, in the days before Daviddavin/Klondike (and are there any others so antediluvian as to discern Riverslug from the shifting mists of time?), that is to say the ineffable coupling of modern equipment and that unsurpassed eye, exemplars were often woefully tiny by our current standards, here's my little conceit: pre-ride pictures conjoined with how they looked in medias res (first two from '04, though this was not their only ride, third from '03)...

dude: sweeet script!
cowgirl is one of my favorites!

[spankycranky]

Originally Posted by Davidavin

This is a good thread idea because as you mentioned, yearly threads didn't start until 2005 (I might have thought 2006. I need to have a look at the 2005 thread).

Anyway, so it was in the tribute thread that I started dumping many of my pre 2005 pics. Mine are only sorted according to whether they are pics of riders vs walkers, posers, etc. Very few are sorted by year.

I did get the idea, pennywiseguy, that you are a pretty dedicated collector of these pics. So having this thread hopefully will draw out more guys like you, kind of like how the retro NAP thread drew out a lot of stuff from collectors
Who might have remained obscure otherwise.

But we did get some participation already in the tribute thread as I recall. When I get back to portland ( I still have wreck beach in my sights this weekend), I'll try to contribute some.

K

It's definitely my biggest hope: that peeps like PWG will contribute. Already have pics of the cowgirl that are new to me!!!
I should start a 2005 thread ASAP then because my feeling is that the volume is out there to support that, given what i got.

[spankycranky]

sweet swirls

[spankycranky]

2003