Racing is religion

Images from the Koers is Religie ('Racing is Religion') exhibit in the (deconsecrated) Paterskerk in Roeselare, Flanders.

El T can personally testify to this fervour; Eddy Merckx has a metro station named after him in Brussels, which is must be a bit weird for him, given as how he is still very much alive...

Images from Rouleur magazine.

Cycling and tattoos don't mix

I'm judging your crappy tattoo, Pippo Pozzato

Andreas Klöden's gammy Devil

wtf, Sylvain?

And our own Tom Boonen

Cyclists & tattoos: not even once.

As seen on VeloBeats.

Don't Swear Like That!

Originally found somewhere on Pinterest; this image from devilduck.tumblr.com

Text of the original pamphlet available to read online, for those who are interested.

Jing-Jin-Ji

Never ones to do anything by half when it comes to urban planning, officials in China aim to link Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei into a megalopolis of 130 million people.

Via The New York Times

Book Covers: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron (1887) & Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (1901)

Via ✍ Bibliophilia

L'enfer du nord, as viewed from the broom wagon

Ayolt Kloosterboer's film of the 2013 Paris-Roubaix, from the perspective of the dreaded broom wagon.

Via cyclingtips.com.au

Adieu - Guy Laramée

 
Guy Laramée carved is mountaineous landscape 'Adieu' from an Encyclopedia Britannica set.

Pictures from Colossal, via Saatchi Gallery Twitter.

MAVEN

The MAVEN spacecraft before its launch today.

Image from NASA HQ, via @pourmecoffee

Like a Boss

Piet van Kempen, Dutch track cyclist and general all-round bad-ass, taking a break during a six-day event in Wembley, 1936.

via @History_Pics

Saturn Photo Mosaic

Planet-porn courtesy of Bad Astromony's Flickr.