Author Archive for Luke Hero

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Hero or Not Hero? A Pragmatic Approach

The Heroes often speak with a collective voice, yet being of our own independent minds we cannot help but have…

Tyler Farrar: An American Sprinter!

“I’m Tyler Farrar, Sprinter of Team Garmin-Transitions. During the race, I need perfect vision. I need to protect my eyes…

World Championship Coverage Starts Tuesday

Tenspeed Hero Coverage, such that it is, starts Tuesday. We’ll look at some of the favorites and some of our…

Lest We Forget: Laurens Ten Dam on the Alpe

“My legs feel just as good as they did before the crash. I would rather get hero status because of…

Geraint Thomas

We have a new favorite cyclist. That is, since our falling out with former favorite, Michael Rasmussen. This summer, Geraint…

Six Photographs of Tyler Farrar

Six Short Poems For The Hero

Eddy Merckx is a great name. It is also a fun name to say over and over. We think there…

De Vlaeminck, An Elixir, and one petition

In Six Well Captioned Photographs, the Tenspeed Heroes contemplate an elixir, Belgian politics, Legacies, Beer, and Roger De Vlaeminck /…

Tenebrae

By Emile Verhaeren / A moon, with vacant, chilling eye, stares At the winter, enthroned vast and white upon the…

Art and Alpe d’Huez

“People make references to Viennese art without really questioning the fact that there is a big difference between ketchup and…

We have traveled these roads

From Barcelonnette to the Col de la Bonnette. Heroes traveled by car and foot for 37 Kilometers. Frederico Bahamontes(1962, 1964),…

Giro Prolight Review, Not Really

At Tenspeed Hero we are not sure how we feel about product reviews It is not that they are not useful…