Team 7-Eleven: How an Unsung Band of American Cyclists Took on the World-and Won Hardcover – September 1, 2011

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.

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.

Outstanding read! Even if you're a casual cyclist or just enjoy an adventurous true-story, this is a truly fascinating tale. I think there's a full length feature film lurking inside this book. The story covers the earliest days of the awakening of US road cycling in places like the Wolverine Sports Club in Wisconsin. Because the story of Team 7-11 is so intertwined throughout early US cycling culture, the riders that make up the story line are like a roll-call of cycling legends: Jim Ochowicz, Andy Hampsten, Ron Keifel, Davis Phinney, Bob Roll, Eric Heiden and Alex Steida are just a few. Add to this the relationship of these competitors with the likes of Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong as part of the Motorola squad that 7-11 evolved to.Like I said, make a movie already!

It was a good book and I learned a lot about the history of the team and American cycling in the 80s and 90s. I really didn't get interested in cycling till about 99 so allot of the information was new to me. That being said it was written more documentary style then anything else so its not a real page turner. I would still buy it again though.

Fantastic overview of an important team that contributed to the Bicycle Racing that we see in the USA today. This comes from someone who raced in the USA Nationally in the years before Team 7-Eleven's existence....It was really different in the 1970's being a bicycle racer here in America. Just shaving one's legs and not being a swimmer was an oddity to be explained routinely. If one was wearing cycling shorts, the question would be which team do you race for?Thank you Geoff and Jim for the trip down Memory Lane. This book will be a good read for anyone who lived through it, as well as current fans and participants to see how it used to be, and how we got to today with routinely well run teams at our races.

Glad I bought and read it, felt like a lot of wheel spin. What I learned, cycling is a European sport, the midwest had a lot of hard working, sports loving cyclist and skaters, 7Eleven had a lot of money, the Olympics helped US cycling, criteriums are short and have few alpine passes, anyone could win on the team, Davis and Alex had lots of undisclosed conflicts, Ron was great, but usually supported Phinney's successes, Eric was a shy superstar, and the RanchDog was a fixture for a couple months, but there are no pictures.The story of Och is interesting, but moves too slowly. The first couple of years of the team are decently paced, but the last few years go by at light speed. Would love to have learned a little more about some of the B-players, some of the conflicts or issues, details of Descente, bike and other supply partners, We get it, 7 Eleven redefined North American cycling, if we care, we get it right away, if we don't care we close the book at 50 pages and place it on the shelf. We all know, Och didn't starve death before 1980. We respect his history, efforts and legacy, he was the right man at the right time.The pictures are great, the "where are they today" is great, but the players that I know and love, barely develop in a human sense during the book. Wanted more color, yet it's a must-have for 80's cycling fans, but it's not the thrill of a Colorado descent on a billiard smooth interstate highway.

Quick, fun read that I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought I already knew most of the story of team 7-Eleven having followed them directly during their prime. I did not. No spoiler, but the brief section covering Lemond was news to me. There are some good color photos in this -- if you have only an e-ink Kindle, you won't see them in full detail. Fortunately, I was also able to view them on the Kindle reader on my iPad. I wish it was longer and more detailed in a few areas, but would still strongly recommend to anyone interested.

Great to find out the history of my favourite team.

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 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.