Monthly Archive for March, 2012

Heroes In Ghent/Gand: New Greys

When traveling it is important to pick a place to start your day every morning, to talk about the night…

Movistar, Campagnolo Electric, Hyperon Ultra

Movistar, Campagnolo EPS, Hyperon Ultras for the Cobbles, Continental Professional Tires, Campagnolo SRM /

Neil Rodgers Speaks or Types!

Velo News’ own Neil Rodgers (who we do not know) has called Wouter Vandenhaute’s (who we also do not know)…

Aluminum Will Never Die and Craig Gaulzetti Dresses Well

Whatever happened to aluminum race bikes? Just a few years ago, it was the preferred race frame material –most of…

Ghent Wevelgem Gallery One

By Neil Hero / When your 5D Mark II is having lens problems you do what you can. At the…

Zeus, Not Made in Greece

Rouleur’s latest issue has a lovely piece on Zeus Industrial S.A. What else could be done but to follow suit?…

Eddy Merckx, Books, Weights and Measures

“I am living the most difficult day of my life. I can no longer prepare myself for the Tour de…

In Brugge

Hero Headquarters at Die Keure Printing and Publishing / The Heroes often find themselves scheduling their activities around the cycling…

Look but also Touch

Hard to imagine anything that screams, “Touch me!” louder than bikes and bike parts. Unless it is handmade bikes and…

Today’s Money, Yesterday’s Avocet Crank Set

Soon after discovering that ancient Palo Alto Bicycles catalog, we found these ancient Avocet cranks on a popular Internet auction….

Poler

Jeremy Dunn Reveals an Unholy New Team / There was a new team out there this year. Now I’m not…

Bernie Eisel, Giant TCR-ROUBAIX

We examine Bernie Eisel’s Paris-Roubaix Giant-TCR with just an image gallery and very few words. We have been tinkering and…