Author Archive for Luke Hero

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The Girls and Boys of the Caravan: Volume One

The publicity caravan, created in 1930, is one of the defining characteristics of Le Tour. The armada of floats, cars,…

A Hero’s Guide to France: Crossing the Alps, Part 1

Of recent years, many a Frenchmen (Virenque, Jalabert, Rinero) has won the illustrious red polka dot jersey in that Grand…

Par Avion

Par l’oiseau? Per chance? Non. Although I chose the lightest postcards I could find, which is to say I bought…

Requiem for Team Highroad

One of the interesting aspects of professional cycling is the often-short life span of the branded team. Their funerals are…

A Hero’s Guide to France: Stacking Wood

While the heroes waited for Stage Eighteen to come sweeping by on this year’s tour, we walked the few streets…

A Hero’s Guide to France: Les Alpes et les Pyrénées

If you ask the Heroes from whence they came they will often reference the West Coast or East Coast before…

Crit Season

It’s crit season in America. Coming into the long, hazy heat of summer, all over the wide expanse of this…

Col d’Izoard to Briançon

Photographs by Jonathan Sadler and Luke Batten

Tenspeed Hero and IL Peccato

Our visit to cover the Tour de France had us stumbling across the prehistoric caves of the Pyrenees, Roman aqueducts…

Cervières

As a photographer, going to Alpe D’Huez during the Tour is like dating the most popular girl in high school….

The 2011 Tour de France: Hero’s View

What the Heroes have learned covering our first Tour de France: No. 1. When three L’Equipe reporters walk out of…

Mark Cavendish Wins the Final Stage of the 2011 TDF

Stage 21-95 km Créteil to Paris Champs-Élysées / Well, we have reached the final stage, and there is little more…