Heroes on the Road

What does a Hero read when covering the biggest cycling event of the year in one of the most beautiful…

Mark Cavendish Wins Stage Eleven of the 2011 TDF

Stage 11-167.5 km Blaye-les-Mines to Lavaur / In two hours two heroes will be at O’Hare to catch a plane…

Andre Greipel Wins Stage Ten of the 2011 TDF

Stage 10-158 km Aurillac to Carmaux / We were packing our suitcases for France when the Heroes reminded me to…

Le Ramrod by TSH and paint by Joe Bell

We called Joe Bell to paint a team bike for the Heroes to ride at the Paris-Roubaix Challenge last spring….

Assos Early Winter Socks

If you’re like me, and I know I am, you buy your winter cycling clothes in the spring and your…

Contador, Hoban, Finches and Twitchers

When American L. Armstrong and Spaniard Alberto C. were on the same team together (remember that? 2009?) it was popular…

Luis León Sánchez Wins Stage Nine of the 2011 TDF

Stage 9-208 km Issoire to Saint-Flour / Sanchez has won today’s stage. Without doubt he celebrates tonight, perhaps with a…

Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa Wins Stage Eight of the 2011 TDF

Stage 8-189 km Aigurande to Super Besse Sancy / Today’s TDF coverage starts where yesterday’s left off: on the side…

Mark Cavendish Wins Stage Seven of the 2011 TDF

Stage 7-218 km Le Mans to Châteauroux / In every Tour de France the riders must get from here to…

Edvald Boasson Hagen wins stage six of the 2011 TDF

Stage Six—226.5km Dinan to Lisieux / Today’s route traveled the old roads of Normandy. In the spring of 1944 tens…

Mark Cavendish Wins Stage Five of the 2011 TDF

Stage Five—164.5km Carhaix to Cap Fréhel / Ernest Hemingway once said his home town of Oak Park, Illinois was a…

Cadel Evans Wins Stage Four of the 2011 TDF

Stage Four—172.5km Lorient to Mûr-de-Bretagne / Cadel Evans wins a gritty finish on stage four to the Mûr-de-Bretagne. This is…