April 19 - 23: Tour of the Alps April 22, Stage 4: Naturno - Pieve di Bono 1. Pello Bilbao 2. Aleksandr Vlasov 3. Simon Yates 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 April 11 - 18: Tour of Turkey Apr 18, Stage 8: Bodrum - Kusadasi 1. Mark Cavendish 2. Jasper Philipsen 3. Kristoffer Halvorsen Final GC leader: José Diaz April 14: De Brabantse Pijl April 14: Leuven- Overijse 1. Thomas Pidcock 2. Wout van Aert 3. Matteo Trentin April 5 - 10: Vuelta al País Vasco Apr 10, Stage 6: Hondarribia - Ondarroa 1. David Gaudu 2. Primoz Roglic 3. Alejandro Valverde Final GC leader: Primoz Roglic April 7: Scheldeprijs April 7: Terneuzen - Schoten 1. Jasper Philipsen 2. Sam Bennett 3. Mark Cavendish April 4: Ronde van Vlaanderen April 4: Antwerp - Oudenaarde 1. Kasper Asgreen 2. Mathieu van der Poel 3. Greg van Avermaet April 4: La Roue Tourangelle April 4: Sainte Maure de Touraine - Tours 1. Arnaud Démare 2. Nacer Bouhanni 3. Marc Sarreau April 3: GP Miguel Induráin April 3: Estella - Estella 1. Alejandro Valverde 2. Alexey Lutsenko 3. Luis Leon Sanchez March 31: Dwars door Vlaanderen March 31: Roeselare - Waregem 1. Dylan van Baarle 2. Christophe Laporte 3. Tim Merlier Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature post: Increase the Size of Your Bathtub of Fitness. Peaks Coaching Group founder Hunter Allen uses a simple metaphor to explain how to become a better rider. Good stuff! News: April 23: Tour of the Alps stage four reports from GC leader Simon Yates' Team BikeExchange, the race organizer, stage winner Pello Bilbao's Bahrain Victorious team, second-place Aleksandr Vlasov's Astana-Premier Tech team & Team Bora-hansgrohe April 22: La Flèche Wallone reports from the race organizer, winner Julian Alaphilippe's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, second-place Primoz Roglic's Jumbo-Visma squad & Max Schachmann's Bora-hansgrohe team; Tour of the Alps stage three reports from the race organizer, winner Gianni Moscon's INEOS Grenadiers & GC leader Simon Yates' Team Bike Exchange April 21: Tour of the Alps stage two reports from the race organizer, winner Simon Yates' Team BikeExchange, second-place Pavel Sivakov's INEOS Grenadiers, Team DSM & Dan Martin's Team Israel Start-Up Nation; Team Deceuninck-Quick Step headed to La Flèche Wallone; Vincenzo Nibali fitted with carbon wrist brace; Philippe Gilbert returns to competition at Flèche Wallone after short break April 20: Tour of the Alps stage one team reports from the race organizer, winner Gianni Moscons' INEOS Grenadiers, fifth-place Nick Schultz's Team BikeExchange, Team Bora-hansgrohe & third-place Aleksandr Riabushenko's UAE-Team Emirates; Team DSM's upcoming racing; Amstel Gold Race team reports from winner Wout van Aert's Jumbo-Visma team, third-place Max Schachmann's Bora-hansgrohe team & fourth-place Michael Matthews' Team BikeExchange BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling’s greatest riders.  Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time he spent with some of the finest riders from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Rik van Steenbergen, Rik van Looy, Jan Janssen, Wim van Est, Hennie Kuiper and Peter Post were some of the most colorful and dominating riders of an era that produced many of the sport’s greatest-ever champions. In this book Woodland has collected their and other riders’ precious and fascinating recollections, some going back to a time of leather saddles, cloth caps and spare tires wrapped over riders’ shoulders; when screaming fans packed smoke-filled velodromes to see their heroes up close; when a stage of the Tour de France could take more than eleven hours. Cycling Heroes is available in Print, Kindle ebook & 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 1988 Tour de France winner Pedro Delgado on his way to winning the fifteenth stage of the 1988 Tour, a 38-kilometer time trial. Delgado had taken the GC lead the day before in a tough stage that ended at the top of L'Alpe d'Huez. Delgado kept the lead to the end, beating second-place Steven Rooks by more than seven minutes. Late in the race Delgado was found positive for Probenicid, a steroid masking agent. The drug was banned by the Olympic committee, but the UCI wasn't going to add it to the list of banned drugs for professional racers until after the Tour. At the time Delgado was found to have the drug in his system, it wasn't against the rules. So, Delgado gets his Tour victory while the rest of the world holds its nose. 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.