La compagnie a utilisé ces photographies dans ses brochures, ses cartes postales et ses annonces de magazine au fil des ans — le Mexique que les cyclistes venaient voir : villes coloniales et églises baroques, volcans et lacs de cratère, côte Pacifique sauvage, pays maya et basses terres du Golfe, et les petits moments d'un vélo de randonnée chargé, loin de tout. En voici 26 parmi les meilleures, débarrassées de leurs anciens textes publicitaires.
Valle de Bravo — a hill town of red-tiled roofs above its lake, sailboats belowA packhorse resting by a crater lake in the volcano countryA fully-loaded touring bike leaning on a winding-road sign, high in the pine forestAloe blooms with a country church beyondA carved wooden devil — Mexican folk artAn old organ cactus reaching into the blueA mountain town of tiled roofs cupped in green hillsWild trumpet flowers along the roadA burro under a lone tree, the sierra behindA weathered colonial facade and its wrought-iron windowThe baroque splendour of Santa Prisca church, TaxcoThe group poled across a river by boat — no bridge hereA coconut palm plantation on the coastal plainTwo bulls on the skylineA rider's long shadow on the empty roadA village fiesta — flags, church steps and a market belowFlamingos lifting off the Yucatán lagoonsPalapas and a lone palm on a white-sand beachThe morning line-up of loaded touring bikesThe great yellow convent of Izamal, the golden townA tree alive with carved spiritsTiny figures on the black ash of a volcanoAn Olmec colossal head, La Venta, TabascoA flooded forest of bare treesA clear river winding through the green mountainsA whitewashed village church dressed in papel picado
