May 8 - 30: Giro d'Italia May 8, Stage 1: Torino individual time trial Start list, overall map, stage 1 map & profile posted GC leader:   May 5 - 9: Volta ao Algarve May 6, Stage 2: Sagres - Fóia 1. Ethan Hayter 2. Joao Rodrigues 3. Jonathan Lastra GC leader: Ethan Hayter Apr 30 - May 3: Vuelta a Asturias May 2, Stage 3: Cangas del Narcea - Oviedo 1. Pierre Latour 2. Alejamdro Osorio 3. Victor de la Parte Final GC leader: Nairo Quintana Apr 27 - May 2: Tour de Romandie May 2, Stage 5: Fribourg individual time trial 1. Rémi Cavagna 2. Stefan Bissegger 3. Geraint Thomas Final GC leader: Geraint Thomas April 25: Liège-Bastogne-Liège April 25: Liège - Liège 1. Tadej Pogacar 2. Julian Alaphilippe 3. David Gaudu April 19 - 23: Tour of the Alps April 23, Stage 5: Idroland - Riva del Garda 1. Felix Großschartner 2. Nicolas Roche 3. Alessandro de Marchi Final GC leader: Simon Yates April 21: La Flèche Wallone April 21: Charleroi - Mur de Huy 1. Julian Alaphilippe 2. Primoz Roglic 3. Alejandro Valverde April 18: Amstel Gold Race April 18: Valkenburg - Berg en Terblijt 1. Wout van Aert 2. Thomas Pidcock 3. Max Schachmann April 14 - 18: Volta a Valenciana Apr 18, Stage 5: Paterna - Valencia 1. Arnaud Démare 2. Jon Aberasturi 3. Timothy Dupont Final GC leader: Stefan Küng Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

News: May 7: Caleb Ewan aims for stage wins in each of the the 2021 Grand Tours, starting with Giro d'Italia; Stage winner Ethan Hayter's INEOS Grenadiers team reports on Volta ao Algarve stage two; EF Education-Nippo unveils new kit for Giro d'Italia; Israel Start-Up Nation will have special jersey for the Giro; João Almeida and Remco Evenepoel headed to Giro d’Italia May 6: Dylan Groenewegen to re-start his racing at the Giro d'Italia; Bora-hansgrohe reports on first stage of Volta ao Algarve May 5: Emanuel Buchmann re-ups with Bora-hansgrohe until 2024; Team INEOS Grenadiers announces Giro d’Italia team; Giacomo Nizzolo and Domenico Pozzovivo to lead Qhubeka-Assos at Giro d’Italia; Baptiste Planckaert to start season at Volta ao Algarve May 4: Team BikeExchange names Giro squad; Team Deceuninck-Quick Step headed to Giro; Team DSM's upcoming racing; Vincenzo Nibali given green light to race the Giro with fractured wrist May 3: Tour de Romandie final reports from stage 5 winner Rémi Cavagna's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, GC winner Geraint Thomas' INEOS Grenadiers team, Team DSM, Wilco Kelderman's Bora-hansgrohe squad & Stefan Küng's Groupama-FDJ team BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

The Story of the Giro d'Italia, Vol 1, takes the story of the Giro from its origin as a desperate promotional gamble by a nearly broke newspaper to Eddy Merckx's convincing 1970 victory.  The great rivalry between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali is well known, mostly because of their adventures in the Tour de France. But for much of bike racing’s history the Alps have been a high wall and Italian sponsors preferred to keep their racers at home where they could earn valuable publicity. Because of this, there is a whole world of great athletes who are virtually unknown to the non-Italian cycling fan. How about Giovanni Valetti? In 1939 Valetti beat Bartali when Gino was at the very peak of his powers. Has anyone heard of Giuseppe Enrici, the Giro winner who was born in Pittsburgh? Alfonsina Strada was the only woman who entered (and unofficially finished) a Grand Tour. It's all in The Story of the Giro d'Italia. It is available in Print, Kindle ebook and Audiobook versions. You can get all the info on the book here. Or go straight to Amazon to get the book here.

Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Tour de France, in year order. For this week, here is 1990 Tour de France winner Greg LeMond just barely losing to Gianni Bugno at L'Alpe d'Huez in stage 11. This moved Lemond up to third place. In the background you can see Erik Breukink sprinting for third place. Note that LeMond is wearing the rainbow jersey of the World Road Champion. This was Greg LeMond's third Tour win. It was his first time to race the Tour with a powerful team unified behind him. In the first stage a powerful break that included LeMond's teammate Ronan Pensac arrived at the finish over 9 minutes ahead of the pack. In that break was Claudio Chiappucci, who proved to be a tenacious Yellow Jersey. LeMond ate away at the time gap, stage after stage, until he captured the lead in the stage 20 individual time trial. We have results for every stage of every edition of the Tour de France. You can find them here.

What you'll find in our site:

The Tour de France. Lots of information, including results for every single stage of every Tour.

Other important bike races: the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a España, along with the classics, stage races, national championships, world records, and Olympics.

We keep a running record of the races going on in the current year, with results, photos, maps, etc. We've been doing this since 2001, so the results for this year as well as previous years are available here.

This site is owned and run by McGann Publishing. We're a micro-publisher specializing in books about cycling history. Interested? Here's information on our titles in print.

We are devoted to cycling and all of its characters and events. The sport's past matters to us. We've been interviewing anyone who will sit down and talk to us, then writing up the interviews, and collecting other stories about cycling. We have rider histories—the stories of individual riders, many by the great cycling writer Owen Mulholland. We have our oral history project—the results of our interviews. And we've collected lots of photos over the years, of racers, racing, manufacturing, etc., which we have arranged into photo galleries for your enjoyment.

Being in the bike business for many years, we had to opportunity to travel a lot in Europe, riding bikes, attending trade shows, etc. We've written up many of our travels, and had some contributions from others whose travels differed from ours.

What would the day be without the funnies? Our friend Francesca Paoletti has drawn a series of comics about bike related stuff, poking fun at us along the way.

If you are interested in bikes, sooner or later you will want to know some technical information about bikes. We have articles here about bike weight, how bike frames are prepped and assembled, selected bike parts, and others.

And then there's food! The bicycle runs on the human engine, and the human engine runs on food, so of course we're interested in that.

Along the way we've been privileged to meet many people in and around the bike business who do things we like. The folks whose ads are up there on the right are friends of ours who we believe conduct their business knowledgably and honorably; here are a few others who do stuff we like.