Our new Intern: Ria Roberts

  

















Tenspeed Hero welcomes Ria Roberts

A Window in Germany

The Heroes find themselves on the periphery of just behavior, often waking up on hotel room floors, looking for first light after a night on the town. What happened this night is not possible to explain nor is it possible to explain why we like Jeremy Dunn's photographs of Julie Krasniak so much. Ria said it is because  her face exudes a romanticism that transcends a simple bike race. All the Heroes agreed as we sip our coffee and shelter our hangovers. Sometimes youth collides, with experience, joy, pain...And color And braided hair.  See More

italianicity carbonino

Italianicity
noun; derivation
all the possible properties of what is Italian Interpretation of intended meaning "the condensed essence of everything that could be Italian"- all the possibilities of being Italian

Etymology : Italian + ic (adj) + ity "condition or state of"
Source : Barthes- "The Rhetoric of the Image"

Carbonino
noun: derivation
having all of the properties of the lightest material with which to construct a bike frame. not being of aluminum or other.

Etymology: Carbon + ino "condition of italianicity: see above"

battre ANQUETIL!

A hero's holiday viewing of Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows revealed HERO ANQUETIL making headlines in 1958 noir cinema.