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… →