Team 7-Eleven: How an Unsung Band of American Cyclists Took on the World and Won

Great to find out the history of my favourite team.

I was a big Andy Hampsten fan as a boy which I'd why I bought the book, it turned out to be a really good read, gives a great insight in to what the team achieved. Really enjoyable read.

For nearly two decades I have watched the Tour de France and even developed my friend to follow along on long wave radio when a television wasn't available. In those early years I dreamed of being one of the lycra clad marathon men that waited at the start and one of the lesser number that actually finished.Team 7/11 were the first of the teams that actually lead me to believe that one didn't have to be from cycling's heartland in Europe and that an English speaker could compete and indeed thrive on Europe's top stage and a book about the team was long overdue.While this book fills a gap in the market, it could have gone a lot further and been more of a chronicle of American cycling to date as opposed to a narrow era. An excellent picture of the cycling scene is created and mirrors my own experience of following cycling from the UK, but this takes up a huge bulk of the book and many of the individuals in the book have stories so similar that telling them all separately, while thorough, seems far too repetitive.In conclusion, a book that a cycling fan will dip into but I feel will come away wishing for slightly more.

So much fun to read and learn about the history of cycling in the United States. The best place to start is this book with America's greatest cycling team in history...still. I won't go into the details because it is too much fun of a book to listen (I made an audio book out of it from the kindle version (into a pdf and then OCR-ed to voice)/ read without spoiling. If you have a true love for the sport of cycling, and care about it's history here in the United States; this is really the hallmark of that genesis.

Bought from Japan.It took a few weeks to get. Great condition with reasonable price.

If you were passionate about late 80s early 90s cycling, this is a great read. This book chronicles the birth of modern era American cycling and is a must read for true cycling aficionados.

I thought this was a very good intro to American Cycling, though seemed to end too fast. I also thought the author could have given a bit more history into American cyclists that had experienced European racing in the past. Initially it seemed as though no one really did it, then as you read on there were more and more American cyclists with experience there, thus seemed a bit contradictory.Overall though, great reading about how American TEAMS got to Europe and how the mid-west was such a hub for it. I guess the focus was really on how the team got put together, rather than a history of American cyclists, so it achieved this goal well.Though I would have like to hear more of what happened after 7-Eleven ended and moved to the new sponsors...what successes, failures, etc came from it. Also with the recent exposure of doping, I'm sure they had some info to share on that. I believe there was one mention of 7-Eleven's strict anti-doping, but I'm betting they knew more from the inside...suspect the Omertà may have kept that out of the book.

The book captures a great time in American cycling. I’m certain there is more dirt they didn’t want to write about but it’s an interesting book about the godfathers of Pro-cycling in America.