Get On Your Bike!

We at Retrotech like to celebrate success and also be topical. With the 2008 Bejing Olympics coming to an end, we salute the successful UK cycling team and their dash for Gold.

The bike is a true piece of RetroTechnology. The current Olympic version, pictured here, combines an old fashioned simplicity with the latest engineering and scientific research.

Victorious Victoria Pendleton (dressed for an evening ride?) is one of our UK Gold Medal winners. I think I might just take up cycling again. Who knows who you might meet in the bike sheds?

StarWars Retrospective - Leia Reunion?

This is one of those weird pictures that just catches the imagination. What is going on here? It has the look of a sixth form class photo with the form teacher at the back. (click to enlarge)

I found this in my researches for an article on Weird Sci-fi Glamour (click to read). I didn't use it in the article although it would have fitted in pretty well.

Although I've never been a great fan of Starwars you have to envy the guy at the back just a little.

Abba and Baking Foil

This is the ultimate lowtech PR. Abba clad only in aluminium foil. An indication of what a 'hot' band they once were.

This is ultimate weird glamour. If this is your bag then check out the following: Weird Glamour Link

Here you'll find even more bizarre fashion statements from the likes of Jane Fonda to David 'Baywatch' Haselhoff - Enjoy!

The Shape of Cars and Girls

The shape of cars and the shape of girls have changed over the years. Or rather the way girls are pictured in order to market cars has changed.

Cars have got sleeker and more streamlined. So have the girls that go with them. Of course this isn't reflected in real life. But only in the minds of those who sell. In particular the fashion industry.

Just as we often yearn for old, retro-shapes in technology so we also look back with longing for the way women used to look, or more accurately, the way women were portrayed.

So bring back real women. Or rather, give back to women the to freedom to be who they want to be. Talking of real women, if you want hot gossip on Kylie Minogue and a plumber from Birmingham then Click Here.

Cycling in the Bush

Couldn't resist posting this one because it is so weird. It does have a bit of glamour in it and some old technology so it fits the RetroTech brief.

You can imagine an argument going on here.

"Its my turn now! And I don't see why I have to hold up the sunshade when you've got the hat!"

"If you don't let me keep peddling a bit longer then we'll both have to get dressed again."

"Oh please don't say that - the corset was killing me."

"By the way, is that Zebra still following us?"

"You'd think he'd never seen scantily clad ladies with a bike in the bush before."