Article: A CYCLING BIG WHEEL; A Shoreview business plays a key role in equipping competitive cycling's most illustrious riders.(BUSINESS)

Byline: MATT McKINNEY; STAFF WRITER

When the riders of the Tour de France mount their bikes today, they'll compete in a time trial that pits each athlete against the clock, an individual effort aided by specially designed bicycles with superlight carbon wheels shaped like wings turned on edge.

Those wheels were perfected, in part, by a pony-tailed man from Minnesota who years ago figured he could make bike wheels in his garage out of carbon fiber.

Steve Hed succeeded with those wheels after many tries, and with the help of his business-minded wife, Anne, built Hed Cycling, with offices in a Shoreview office park.

"Steve has been ...

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