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Vintage Cycling Race Poster

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Vintage Cycling Race Poster is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for poster work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 2:3 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more vintage prompts .

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Retro two-color screen-print poster of a cyclist speeding up a mountain road in red and cream
Vintage Cycling Race Poster — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 2:3

Prompt 

Vintage two-color screen-print cycling race poster, a lone road cyclist crouched low and speeding up a winding mountain switchback, bold flat blocks of red and cream ink, subtle halftone and paper-grain texture, a wide blank banner across the top left empty for a title, dramatic diagonal composition, mid-century sports poster style

Negative prompt 

text, gibberish letters, watermark, photorealistic, smooth gradient shading, extra colors, modern race graphics, blurry, low contrast

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
2:3
Steps
30
CFG scale
6
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

This lives or dies on restraint in the palette — 'two-color screen print, red and cream' forces flat blocks of ink instead of photographic shading, which is exactly what makes it read as a printed poster and not a render. Allow more than two or three inks and the screen-print illusion collapses into a digital painting. The 'blank banner at top' is a text hole you fill yourself later in Canva or Figma; SDXL cannot spell, so lean on the negative prompt to suppress its gibberish lettering rather than hoping for clean type. A subtle halftone or paper-grain overlay sells the letterpress era far more than any extra detail on the cyclist.

Variations to try

  • Alpine Tour theme — swap to yellow and navy, add hairpin switchbacks and a snow-capped peak behind
  • Coastal criterium — palette to teal and cream, a seaside road with palm silhouettes and a distant lighthouse
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Vintage Cycling Race Poster",
  "prompt": "Vintage two-color screen-print cycling race poster, a lone road cyclist crouched low and speeding up a winding mountain switchback, bold flat blocks of red and cream ink, subtle halftone and paper-grain texture, a wide blank banner across the top left empty for a title, dramatic diagonal composition, mid-century sports poster style",
  "negative_prompt": "text, gibberish letters, watermark, photorealistic, smooth gradient shading, extra colors, modern race graphics, blurry, low contrast",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "2:3",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "vintage",
    "screen-print"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "poster",
    "wall-art"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/vintage-cycling-race-poster/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.