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The Spartacus Quote T-Shirt
Everyone wants to be the best; but then again, everyone wants to beat the best. Being the best therefore, is a time of personal triumph and professional challenges. It is a strength that immediately begins to look for any weakness, a strength that works against your strength at every turn.
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In this, our ode to one particular Swiss leader, we remember some of the things that the Swiss do best: quality and consistency. (We also remember chocolate and neutrality, but those have little to no bearing on this conversation.) Quality and consistency do not always get you the win, but they will make you the best in the long run. Signore Cancellara summed up that same race with yet another pithy statement: “Today, I lost, but the others lost a bit more than me.” Setting up a win within a loss! One of the reasons this man will always be a Hero to us.
The Details: Designed by Neil Donnelly. American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve. Fits well. 100% Cotton.
Shipping is a flat $3.25 in the states, and $7.50 international.
The Cannibal Quote T-Shirt
Many men have won the Tour de France. Yet only Eddy has won with three leader’s jerseys, six stages and seventeen minutes and fifty-four seconds of pure Belgian panache. Such panache, such a desire for not just victory but beautiful victory, is one of the reasons we love this rider, and this sport.
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It’s not a very American idea, this quantifying not just the result but how you got to the result. It’s not enough to simply win with this perspective; you must also show who you are through the manner of that winning. This notion conjures up feelings of good old European chivalry, of honor and gallantry in a time of knaves and lesser persons. And why do we follow these riders, if not for something to look up to?
The Details: Designed by Neil Donnelly. American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve. Fits well. 100% Cotton.
Shipping is a flat $3.25 in the states, and $7.50 international.
The May 1968 Quote T-Shirt
Il est interdit d’interdire. It is forbidden to forbid. In the spring of 1968 in the streets of Paris, this phrase meant much to students who were struggling to scale the mountains of social injustice. In a world that tells us to Just Do It and that Impossible is Nothing, we believe a more nuanced motto would behoove Heroes and their heroes alike.
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Every cyclist and every athlete, every man who strives for glory, must first and foremost conquer himself. Il est interdit d'interdire. To forbid: to hinder, to prevent, to command against. This struggle is at least in part about learning how to stop from forbidding ourselves, how not to forbid our own future. And in that struggle is perhaps exactly where Heroes are made.
The Details: Designed by Neil Donnelly. American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve. Fits well. 100% Cotton.
Shipping is a flat $3.25 in the states, and $7.50 international.
Quotations Collection
Like a proper health food store, the Hero quote t-shirts come in bulk. Save some money when you buy all three. Your dresser drawer will look like a Mondrian painting which is not a bad way to start the day.
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The Details: Designed by Neil Donnelly. American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve. Fits well. 100% Cotton.
If you would like order multiple sizes within your collection, please send us an email at info@tenspeedhero.com
Shipping is a flat $7.00 in the states, and $12.50 international.
Tenspeed Hero T-Shirt
We wanted the first Tenspeed Hero T-shirt to be one thing: simple. Twelve letters on an asphalt-grey American Apparel t-shirt is pretty simple, but we Heroes have thought long and hard about its applications.
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Sixteen-year-old Heroes: we advise you to wear this under your ill-fitting tuxedo when you go to prom; you will not be wearing the jacket all night long. For 18-year old Heroes: wear this to your world literature class this autumn; while you peruse Kundera, Márquez, and Gordimer your classmates will come to understand your complexity. For thirty-year old Heroes: wear it at any function where potential riding partners could be found; turning people into Heroes is your main calling in life. For those Heroes in the forty-to-fifty-range; wear the t-shirt at every family backyard barbeque; it is important to let your children see all aspects of your hero-ness. For those Heroes over 60: please wear anytime you wish. We will be honored.
The Details: American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve. Fits well. 100% Cotton.
Shipping is a flat $3.25 in the states, and $7.50 international.
Hero Wool Socks
Socks are old. Like Greek old. Like Roman old. Socks can be made from just about anything: duck fat and grass, animal hair, cornhusks, or newspaper and a little gaffers tape.
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These charcoal colored socks are made of 65% merino wool by the good people at Defeet. They are the thinnest wool socks we could find, perfect to wear in summer or fall. Of course the number one selling point is the Hero-ness they convey. From the front, the five inch cuff and simple white line go well with your dinner jacket or wingtips and board shorts. From the back they speak in the most simple terms: HERO.
Shipping is a flat $2.25 in the States and $4.50 International
Tenspeed Hero Newspaper
Designed by Neil Donnelly with contributions from every Hero, we made this newspaper for mechanics, amatuers and professionals alike, to hang in the shop, the bathroom, the den, the attic, the garage, the library, and above the shop sink, or after a few months beneath your cockatiel.
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In it you will find: Flanders, Roubaix, Team Buses, Sheep, Hero Headquarters, Fabian and a couple of cool Flemish Hero brothers of ours. Full color, it measures 14.5 inches by 22.75 inches and is printed on high-quality newsprint. If you plan to hang the complete set of posters you will want to buy two copies because the posters are double sided.
Price includes shipping and tax in the states.
International shipping is a flat $4.50.
Bulk pricing is available. Please email for details.
