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What are we?

What are we?


Happy 10 year anniversary? You know, it's 10 years old now and I still don't know what Speed Hero officially is. Let's take a moment, you and I, to walk along a stream of consciousness towards defining this unexplainable feeling. 

I took a few minutes before beginning this article to ask myself the question: What is SpeedHero's agenda? The very reason for this question is although my current work is very automotive related, it's wrought with everything wrong. What I mean by this, is my work is very Anti-SpeedHero.

If it's so easy...


Back to the 80's

Back to the 80's

It's been a while since I wrote a post, so if you don't know, for the last year I've been operating as a full time performance driving instructor at a performance driving circuit. Although it's my job to teach others how to proficiently operate a car at a high pace, I too am constantly learning. I find most of my lessons are in understanding people and how to teach better. Some lessons are in how new cars are terrible, but today's lesson would be filed in the category of better understanding for my own driving. This is something I like. 
 
It...


SpeedHero Fall Collection 16

This is our fall collection for 2016. The theme is 2 wheels for this year.


We got out of the house!

Matt, Joel and I got out of the house and wandered around Victoria. Joel and I followed Matt in his 1UZ-FE powered corolla down to the Oak Bay Marina to do some sight seeing, followed by a visit to Kuma Noodles for some cheap and authentic Ramen. We finished the evening off with some Flatland and revscene. Was a rad night. You can find more of Joel's Daily Vlog on his Channel Platform Garage Films.

   

TFB - Design Project

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Click for a bigger version! :)[/caption] I think this is about as far as I'll go with my bicycle design project.
 
For those that don't know, I was hired by a company many years ago to design a bicycle for use in developing countries. After proving to them that buying $15 bicycles direct form China was actually the most cost effective and strangely enough, most environmentally sound method, they obvious chose that...