Grenoble Cycling Pages - The Cycling Wallpaper Page

For Christmas 2008, I've added some new wallpapers with a number of themes including Grenoble Cycling Pages Wallpaper, Lance Armstrong Cycling Wallpaper and a Dauphine Libere Cycling Wallpaper. All are sized for modern screen resolutions so if I haven't created your size, let me know.

The Grenoble Cycling Pages have been online since 1999, and over that time, I have taken hundreds of photos while riding in the Alps, running cycling holidays and following races like the Dauphine Libere and the Tour de France. This page is dedicated to some of my favourite photos, that have been resized to be used as a desktop wallpaper.

If there is a photo that you feel should be added here, please let me know. On Windows XP using Internet Explorer 6.0, to add the photo as your wallpaper, open the image and then right click and choose the 'Set as Background' option. Other operating systems may differ.

The following wallpapers use individual photos and have been created for smaller screen resolutions and have been broken down into the following areas.

The Races : The Alps : The Vercors : Mont Ventoux : Grenoble

Wallpaper Guide

On a computer that is provided with a desktop kind of user interface, wallpaper is the background pattern or picture against which desktop menus, icons, and other elements are displayed and moved around. A wallpaper image can be in a JPEG or a GIF file format. Wallpaper is commonly used in Microsoft Windows, Macintosh Mac OS, Linux, and in other operating systems as well. Each operating system provides several pre-installed wallpapers images for the user to choose from. A user can also choose to download and install third-party wallpapers and use one of these instead.

Typically, a wallpaper image may be centered, stretched, or tiled. When an image is centered, it is placed in the middle of the desktop and is surrounded by a solid color. When an image is stretched, it is stretched to cover all of the desktop. Only certain images can be stretched or they look distorted. An image that is tiled is placed on the desktop much like tiles are placed in a shower or a tiled floor. Tiling is commonly used for patterns instead of photos because a pattern is one square image that repeats itself across and down the screen, effectively forming a single image.

Adding different wallpapers to you computer allows you to change the background image of your desktop.

	Lance Armstrong Cycling Wallpaper - photos taken at the Tour de France and Dauphine Libere. 1280 * 1024 1280 * 800 1440 * 900 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1080
	Grenoble Cycling Pages Cycling Wallpaper 1 - including photos from the Dauphine Libere (Lance Armstrong and Jonathan Vaughers), Tour de France (Michael Boogerd), Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer, Vercors 1280 * 1024 1280 * 800 1440 * 900 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1080
	Grenoble Cycling Pages Cycling Wallpaper 2 - including photos of Paris Nice (Tom Boonen), Dauphine Libere, Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Lautaret, Mont Ventoux 1280 * 1024 1280 * 800 1440 * 900 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1080
	Grenoble Cycling Pages Cycling Wallpaper 3 - a selection of alpine shots including the Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer, Mont Ventoux and the Vercors 1024 * 768 1280 * 1024 1280 * 800 1440 * 900 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1080
	Dauphine Libere Cycling Wallpaper - photos taken in Grenoble, Col du Galibier, Briancon, Mont Ventoux amongst others 1024 * 768 1280 * 1024 1280 * 800 1440 * 900 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1080

Grenoble Cycling Pages Desktop Wallpapers