Anne Hed

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Anne Hed cofounded HED cycling with her late husband Steve. Their focus is to bring a rider the best possible, most reliable, fastest and most well-rounded cycling products. Lance stopped into the HED headquarters in Minnesota to catch up with Anne. They talked about her decision to continue on with the business after Steve’s passing a few years ago. They discussed being one of Lance’s first sponsors as a teenager, patterning on a new bike and memories of Steve.

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0:00.0	Hello welcome back to the forward podcast I'm Lance your host
0:05.9	Really cool conversation this week with an old dear friend of mine
0:09.6	Annie Head for those of you who know Cycling, actually this is the Cycling related
0:15.5	podcast and its intro is going to have a lot of Cycling News too, but for those of you in the
0:20.0	Cycling World you probably very well remember Steve had one of the pioneers of
0:25.0	wheel technology and bike equipment who passed away probably three years ago and you know I think a lot of people thought what
0:38.1	will become of head wheels and head composites without Steve and you know Annie took a real forward approach and I'm so
0:47.0	proud of her for everything she's done with that company and not only has it survived under her leadership, but it's actually thrived.
0:56.1	So amazing conversation.
0:58.8	Annie, thanks for sitting in.
1:00.6	In other news, cycling related news. two things. One, so proud of my one of my older
1:06.2	daughters, Grace Armstrong, has gotten into cycling. She rode her bike up to Ashcroft the other day, which is for those of you who have been in
1:15.2	Aspen that's not an easy ride it's a pretty good climb up there but tough
1:21.1	girl great way to go, girl. And finally, more cycling news. I know that I rarely discuss
1:29.8	cycling on this podcast, but I gotta say I I'm sort of I'm sort of into it and so I've decided
1:37.6	to launch a new podcast sort of a sub-brand of the forward during the Tour de France.
1:44.4	It's going to be a daily recap show, co-hosted with a friend of mine who was a radio
1:49.7	DJ in Austin for a long time, J.B. Hager. So, you know, daily recaps, thoughts, opinions,
1:58.0	predictions, tidbits, facts from my history and as well as some special guests. I got George Hincap he's sitting in, I got
2:06.4	Dylan Casey sitting in, and you know the aim is to have this, have the podcast up probably within an hour or so of the finish.
2:17.2	So you can find that on iTunes, you can find that on the website, as well as new swag, we do swag and Tour de France podcast,
2:26.7	Schwag.
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