A suggestion-
Instead of bike porn with vintage bikes under young lasses (and lasso's...?- naaah that would NEVER sell), maybe the vintage bikes could be framed in similar backgrounds as period bike posters. For example, a Cycles Gladiator 'poster' but with a real bike and a real human in the same pose, etc.
Another example: Jamie Swans business card could be updated with an Ahhnuuld type person holding a sledge hammer and a smarmy accountant type holding the lightweight bike with one finger between them.
or something like that.......
Tom Martin
Oakland CA
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; "Bruce C." <BruceCumberland@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Suggestion for Dale Re: [CR]Velo Pics
> I'm happy to volunteer to design and oversee production and printing of a
CR
> calendar. Besides being a bike-a-holic, vintage and otherwise, I'm a
graphic
> designer in my day job.
> We'd need high resolution photos for the best reproduction. (Don't know if
> Dale's images began as higher resolution before they were posted on the
> website.) Most likely this should be planned as a 2005 calendar (we're
> already a bit late for a 2004 project) and we can use the next 10 or so
> months to collect the best images.
> One of the calendars I did for a international client included English,
> Spanish and Japanese, which might be nice for the CR audience.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fred Yavorsky
> Jenkintown, PA
>
>
> on 10/7/03 1:46 PM, Raoul Delmare at Raoul.L.Delmare@worldnet.att.net
wrote:
>
> > I REALLY like the idea of a calendar !!
> >
> > Don't so much like the idea of a spoof .
> >
> > Things which seem funny at the time , may not be so funny when you
stare at
> > them for a whole month , starting a year and a half from now .
> >
> > But , I'd buy a bunch of calendars and give them away as presents !
> >
> > I'd be good for maybe a dozen my own self .
> >
> > I WISH somebody would put together a calendar !!
> >
> > And we might want to go with nostalgia , rather than with young models
in
> > skimpy swimsuits .
> >
> > Nostalgic clothing , settings , posters in the background , etc. ,
with
> > fine & beautiful vintage cycles in the foreground , would sell to a
much
> > larger general audience .
> >
> > But , on the other hand , ya never know .
>
> > HEY JAN !!!!
>
> > :^)
> > Raoul Delmare
> > Marysville Kansas
> >
>
> >
> > Dale and all
> >
> > After checking out the photos from the show, I was struck with an idea.
I
> > have a suggestion...a sick suggestion but a good one nonetheless...Do
you
> > remember the GT/Dyno Swimsuit calendar of a few years ago?? They
featured
> > the muscle bikes and hot rod bikes...you remember that one
everyone...admit
> > it now, it was the one with the swimsuit models and hot rod cars!! I
> > suggest we put together a CR calendar for the future. Classic bikes in
> > classic bike settings...CR members bikes...classic rendezvous swimsuit
> > calendar. I will let the swimsuit section up for grabs...real swimsuit
> > females or podium girls OR...spoof on the swimsuit calendar with the
likes
> > of Brian Baylis or some other CR characters in
speedos...whoa...goosebumps
> > and chills on that thought!
> >
> > Walt "obviously not too busy today" Skrzypek
> > Falls Creek, pa