More Photos – More Stories – More Travel
A kind of Life Magazine meets cycling
I want to share my photos and travel adventures as well as the races, the action, ambiance, cultures, people, cuisines and locales.
All kinds of adventures are part of covering the sport. It’s great to be working and living in Europe for a month or more every year, meeting new people and seeing old friends as well as improving my language skills. Being at the Tour every summer is almost like camp and the camaraderie is always enjoyable. And now we have the Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado which is great.
In the summer of 1982 I stumbled onto the Coors Classic the very week I had quit my job to be a full time freelance photographer. I’ve since shot 20 years of the Tour de France, some Paris-Nice races, Dauphiné-Libéré, Giro d’Italia, the World Cycling Championships in Colombia and elsewhere, Coors Classics, Tour de Trump, Tour DuPont, Tour of Georgia, Tour of California, USA Pro Cycling Challenge as well as other road, mountain biking and other sporting events.
I got my first camera at age 7. It was a Brownie Scouts box camera with the dancing Brownie elf and a flash bulb holder that plugged into the side. I still have it and I remember the day I got it. It’s interesting that I also remember the day I got my first bicycle.
The two interests merged in 1982 with my first Coors Classic. It was a great environment in which to learn and work with all the pros here from Europe just after racing the Tour. In 1990 I went to photograph my first Tour de France.
It wasn’t easy. My high school French proved that I had learned something, but not nearly enough. The sheer size of the Tour was overwhelming. It was so much bigger and with so many more levels of protocol than anything I’d experienced before. I managed to survive and learn the ropes.
My cycling photos have appeared in Velo News, Outside Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Pez Cycling News, GreatOutdoors.com, and many other publications. They have also been in ads, catalogs, web sites and various projects for sponsors such as Giro Sports, Trek Bicycles, Gita Sports, Performance Bicycles, Full Speed Ahead, Michelin, Colnago, LeMond Fitness, Shimano and others.
The motivation in starting Peloton Post grew from my frustrations with the established cycling and sports entities. And there’s so much more to the cycling world than just what chain ring someone is in. I want to share the travel and tourism side as well.
I’ve often been asked why I keep going. Shooting the Tour and cycling in general is incredibly challenging and there’s always something else I want to try or shoot in a different way.
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Peloton Post is still in its infancy but is already reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers. This site is unlike the others as the photos are extremely important and the motto is “Bringing cycling to life through images”. The travel aspects are as interesting as the sport itself.
Our primary photographer, Beth SCHNEIDER, has been covering cycling for 30 years and is the only woman photographer with that kind of track record.
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