Contest: What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by .
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Update: We have a winner! The answer I was looking for is backwards fork (or headset). The others were good answers too, but ‘scnottin’ is the winner. I’ve sent an email asking for his address.

Respond either here in a comment or as a reply to me on Twitter. Be the first to tell me what’s wrong with this photo of Kathy Ireland on a bicycle and win the prize, my slightly used copy of David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries.

I’m the judge on what constitutes a correct answer, and decisions are final. Hint on the correct answer: It has nothing to do with how Kathy is positioned on the bike or how she’s dressed. I have something else in mind, so look closely!

Kathy Ireland in a blue swimsuit riding a yellow bicycle



See also:

  1. David Byrne Bicycle Diaries
  2. Contest: Lance Armstrong book
  3. Contest: Win Mark Cavendish autobiography
  4. What’s wrong with this picture?


  • http://twitter.com/gussynichols Luke N

    Brake levers are to high.

  • mel

    it looks like she's biking through the ocean…

  • Mark

    Bent fork?

  • Scnottin

    If I had to guess, I'd say the fork looks as though it's turned backwards. It appears to curve back to the frame.

  • Damooo

    Rear brake is screwed

  • http://www.cyclelicio.us/ Cyclelicious

    Here's the winner! Backwards fork is the answer I'm looking for.

  • joemama

    stem isn't attached to bike

  • justin

    Fork looks like it's going backwards, seat is WAY back for the seat tube position and (worst) the steam is a million miles up from the fork.

  • http://twitter.com/TomWyland Tom Wyland

    backwards fork?

  • Cmatbmed

    Bike, what bike.

  • Bicicleto

    The photo was not taken on the move, she is posing quite simply, one can see the water falling perpendicular to the ground and also in that pose boobs are hit with the knee xD

  • http://www.cyclelicio.us/ Cyclelicious

    Thanks for playing, all! Stuart N posted the answer I was looking for: The fork or headset is on backwards.

  • Massiveneed

    Who cares whats wrong there is so much right!

  • Sam Berdoux

    I disagree that the fork is backwards. That bike is either a Continental, Super Sport or Sports Tourer. The upper part of the fork on all of those bikes is quite straight and parallel to the headtube where it meets the fork crown. I think it is much more likely that the fork is caved in due to a front end collision, something I see all the time on bikes listed for sale on eBay and Craigslist.

  • Sam Berdoux
  • Sam Berdoux

    Actually, it can't be a Super Sport or Sports Tourer, because it has the large, oval headbadge. Continental it is. Same fork as my bike, though.

  • Natron602

    Aint nothin wrong with this picture.