Monthly Archive for September, 2011

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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…

Plants and Cranksets

Some of the Heroes think we went to a Philosophy lecture in college. It is possible that we were asked…

The Heroes are Campy Dudes, SRAM Fellows…

The Heroes are Campy Dudes, SRAM Fellows and Shimano Devotees. We ride them all and covet them all. But there…