Your source for results of recent bicycle races, along with past race results, beginning in 1896 with the first Paris-Roubaix. Use the menu options above for archives.
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Latest feature posts: August 6: Master cycle historian Peter Joffre Nye sent me me this update: U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame announces four 2020 inductees.
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"After forty years of study on the subject, I can with some confidence say Bill and Carol McGann’s The Story of the Tour de France is the finest such work ever produced in the English language, and perhaps in any." "Besides towering over all bicycle races, the Tour de France endures for its unique Gaulic character, like Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. The McGann's passionate and insightful writing evokes the raucous cast of riders, promoters, and journalists thrusting through highs and lows worthy of opera. This volume stands out as a must-read book for anyone seeking to appreciate cycling's race of races." The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 1 is available in Print & Kindle e-book 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 1951 Tour de France winner Hugo Koblet in a photo dated 1950. Koblet was, along with Ferdy Kübler, part of the Swiss dominance of European high-end racing in the 1950s. He was a stunningly talented athlete. He was a particularly capable time trialist, an ability that allowed him to win the 1951 Grand Prix des Nations, beating Fausto Coppi in his prime. In 1950 he became the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia and in 1951 he won the Tour de France. That 1951 ride was Koblet's peak, and from there he went into a still-unexplained decline. His handsome features and easy, good nature make his nicknames Pédaleur de Charmeand Le Bel Hugo understandable. He always carried a comb and bottle of cologne to freshen up near or at the end of a stage. 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.