The way back machine...

[Jason E]

If you've only been riding for 15 years, you may not be able to keep up (I'm kidding)...

http://crev.vo.llnwd.net/o42/mtbreview/images/products/product_350866.jpg

Points to whomever can find a pic of one in florescent yellow, or a copy of the add that had all the colors.

Additional points for lycra saddle covers for racing bikes, that tri-athlete that had the Farah Fawcett hair, and pretty much anything rediculous we used to do.

[Fixed]

cheers

[TPetsch]

http://www.rtpcompany.com/info/apps/photos/bicycle.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_NUT3v0pNW04/TKkLCVJTfEI/AAAAAAAAOdk/9O_U_y2tjwQ/DSC_0032.jpg

[TPetsch]

http://gallery.roadbikereview.com/data/roadbike/652/medium/Avocet_800x533.JPG

[oliver1850]

"Hey, it's what the Euro pros are using". I still have some dead Avocets with the splash colors in a drawer.

[malcolm]

I may still have a flourescent yellow one somewhere. Decent computer in the day

[choke]

I have a celeste 40 that was still working as of a couple of years ago. One of the wires broke where it goes into the mount and I never bothered to look for a replacement.

[Black Dog]

One of the best computers ever.

[DfCas]

My Avocet 50 altimeter was my favorite computer of all time. Alas it got wet and died.

[scrubadub]

I see your fluorescent yellow and raise you with fluorescent yellow plus splash!

I keep it around for adventure races where I can't use a GPS unit.

[SpeedyChix]

Live action shot. Combo of the lime green Avocet and the day-glo Sidi shoes (and their yellow sole). The shoes must have been new that summer. A little mud quickly helped dull the glow. Merlin with the the pressed in BB, no sus fork yet then. Oakleys with lime green and blue frames. Sugar Loaf '91? When a single entry fee meant a weekend of racing fun filled with dual slalom, hill climb, XC, downhill and trails racing. Great weekend.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t137/RiverKnife/Forum%20Help%20Images/ScreenShot2012-08-19at94555PM.png

[Jason E]

Speedy... This is the complete package, mazel tov!

Seriously, awesome pic. Makes me miss my old Trek 8000 with STX RC.

[avalonracing]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t137/RiverKnife/Forum%20Help%20Images/ScreenShot2012-08-19at94555PM.png

Hey you and I (and an ad I saw with Tinker Juarez) may be the only versions of that pair of Sidis that I've ever seen! I think they were a Euro version of a mesh Dominator. They were purple, yellow, blue, green and pink. They looked great with my purple S-Works M2 (back when S-Works was kind of exclusive). Those Sidis were BAD ASS! I wish a had a new pair just to display.

[rounder]

I see your fluorescent yellow and raise you with fluorescent yellow plus splash!

I keep it around for adventure races and can't use a GPS unit.

There is one on my wife's bike. I just changed batteries about two weeks ago at Radioshack. It takes hearing aid batteries and had to buy 8 at 6.99.

[Fivethumbs]

FYI the bike in the ad is a Richard Sachs...Circa 1986

[GuyGadois]

Finally, shorts us Never-Nudes can wear. There are dozens of us!

http://forums.thepaceline.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=100410&stc=1&d=1345394787

[mcteague]

Yeah, the 80s were a bad time.

Tim

[TPetsch]

Flashback an additional 10 or so years:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5307/5642482578_736fc52a9d.jpg

[Keith A]

You will need these to go with your Avocet...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5183/5649273792_fa9d43e1d0_z.jpg

[Keith A]

These would work too...

http://www.iamfatterthanyou.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/staple-design-oakley-eyeshield-01-570x454.jpg

[Aaron_Kellogg]

You will need these to go with your Avocet...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5183/5649273792_fa9d43e1d0_z.jpg

These are suuweeet!

[DHallerman]

Just in case this Avocet-initiated nostalgia makes you want to restore some bikes to early-1990s brilliance, here's my earlier classified for 20 Avocet computers in very good to excellent to new condition in a package deal:

Come on, you know you want to click here (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=108317)

Dave, who should say or best offer since that makes sense to him

[SpeedyChix]

Speedy... This is the complete package, mazel tov!

Seriously, awesome pic. Makes me miss my old Trek 8000 with STX RC.

Thanks. It is from a different time for sure. Though neon seems to be trying to make it back.

[SpeedyChix]

Hey you and I (and an ad I saw with Tinker Juarez) may be the only versions of that pair of Sidis that I've ever seen! I think they were a Euro version of a mesh Dominator. They were purple, yellow, blue, green and pink. They looked great with my purple S-Works M2 (back when S-Works was kind of exclusive). Those Sidis were BAD ASS! I wish a had a new pair just to display.
Yeah, never saw too many of them around. The brightness might have had something to do with it. Mine had served a good life and finally gave up the ghost during a week of mtn bike riding that involved endless stream crossing. They didn't have much color left to them by then either. I'd love to find a current pair of shoes that offered the traction of that yellow sole.

[SpeedyChix]

The Carrera denim team shorts were too much.

[Gothard]

I still have an Avocet 50 altimeter that I am debating putting on a bike. Worked flawlessly forever. Even through a washing machine cycle once.

[oldpotatoe]

cheers

Yikes, my eyes.....

[torquer]

The Carrera denim team shorts were too much.
Too much was never enough. I've still got the winter jacket; warmest top I own. No need for long sleeved jerseys underneath, either, so I could still rock my old team kit (but only I would know;))
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-8oj31rqOJ19BIg9mEqoKGa-doh5SfHoMKj-MmImGGy34duvO5A

[pdmtong]

Avocet 30 and 40....great easy computers back in the day

Avocet cross K inverted tread city tires....worse tires ever.

Both, from a tiny shop above my LBS. who knew?

[fiamme red]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EIi6iF5R4KI/S9oSMCspEhI/AAAAAAAAATM/aZPcJM1vqlQ/s1600/bell.jpg

[fiamme red]

http://www.archivalclothing.com/2009/10/shoe-shopping-from-bicycling-circa-1980.html

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_if_XeEEAXGM/Sup1vL7szQI/AAAAAAAAGbE/f6N4ETF7TI0/s1600/4050097953_d4b2c29ea4_b.jpg

[guyintense]

Thanks. It is from a different time for sure. Though neon seems to be trying to make it back.

For some it never left.

[SpeedyChix]

For some it never left.

Recognize a VERY nice stem along with the glow.

I'd forgotten about Beta bikers (earlier post above)

[guyintense]

Recognize a VERY nice stem along with the glow.

I'd forgotten about Beta bikers

Good eye, Ibis stem. Joe Bell paint on the frame. Sorry, Beta bikers?

[Jaq]

My Detto woods, which I just resurrected.

[bikinchris]

You will need these to go with your Avocet...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5183/5649273792_fa9d43e1d0_z.jpg

I still have some of those lenses around here.