Sept 22: Paris-Camembert Lepetit Sept 22: Pont Audemer - Livarot 1. Dorian Godon 2. Maurits Lammertink 3. Nacer Bouhanni Aug 29 - Sept 20: Tour de France Sept 20, Stage 21: Mantes la Jolie - Paris/Champs-Elysées 1. Sam Bennett 2. Mads Pedersen 3. Peter Sagan Final GC leader: Tadej Pogacar   Sept 15 - 19: Tour de Luxembourg Sept 19, Stage 5: Mersch - Luxembourg 1. Andreas Kron 2. Diego Ulissi 3. Markus Hoelgaard Final GC leader: Diego Ulissi Sept 19: Giro dell'Appennino Sept 19: Novi Ligure - Genova 1. Ethan Hayter 2. Allessandro Covi 3. Robert Stannard Sept 17: Coppa Sabatini Sept 17: Peccioli - Peccioli 1. Dion Smith 2. Andrea Pasqualon 3. Aleksandr Riabushenko Sept 16: Giro Della Toscana Sept 16: Pontadera - Pontadera 1. Fernando Gaviria 2. Robert Stannard 3. Ethan Hayter Sept 7 - 14: Tirreno-Adriatico Sept 14, Stage 8: San Benedetto del Tronto ITT 1. Filippo Ganna 2. Victor Campenaerts 3. Rohan Dennis Final GC leader: Simon Yates Sept 6: Tour du Doubs Sept 6: Morteau - Pontarlier 1. Loïc Vliegen 2. Biniam Ghirmay 3. Aurelien Paret-Peintre Sept 1 - 4: Coppi-Bartali Week Sept 4: Stage 4: Forli - Forli 1. Pascal Eenkhoorn 2. Diego Ulissi 3. Jhonatan Narvaez Final GC leader: Jhonatan Narvaez Aug 30: Brussels Cycling Classic Aug 30: Brussels- Brussels 1. Tim Merlier 2. Davide Ballerini 3. Nacer Bouhanni Aug 30: Memorial Marco Pantani Aug 30: Castrocaro Terme - Cesenatico 1. Fabio Felline 2. Ethan Hayter 3. Aleksandr Riabuschenko Aug 27 - 30: Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine Aug 30, Stage 5: Thenezy - Poitiers 1. Arnaud Demare 2. Ivan Garcia 3. Alexander Krieger Final GC leader: Arnaud Demare Aug 29: Trofeo Matteotti Aug 29: Pescara - Pescara 1. Valerio Conti 2. Diego Rubio 3. Daniel Savini Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature posts: September 21: CycleItalia's Larry Theobald offers his thoughts on LeTour 2020. News: September 23: Groupama-FDJ director Marc Madiot looks back at 2020 Tour de France; Lotte Kopecky is Belgian road champion; Greg LeMond enters e-bike market with daily use models September 22: Reports: French police search Nairo Quintana’s room during Tour de France, Team Sunweb's upcoming races, Xandres Vervloesem and Sylvain Moniquet to join Lotto Soudal September 21: Tour de France stage 21 reports from the race organizer, stage winner Sam Bennett's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, 2020 Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar's UAE-Team Emirates, GC second-place Primoz Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team, GC third place Richie-Porte's Trek-Segafredo team, Adam Yates' Mitchelton-Scott team & Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe squad September 20: Tour de France stage 20 reports from the race organizer, stage winner and new GC leader Tadej Pogacar's UAE-Team Emirates, Primoz Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team, third-place Richie Porte's Trek-Segafredo team, Remi Cavagna's Deceunick-Quick Step team & Team Bora-hansgrohe September 19: Tour de France stage 19 reports from the race organizer, stage winner Soren Kragh Andesen's Team Sunweb, second-place Luka Mezgec's Mitchelton-Scott team, Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team & GC leader Primoz-Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team; UCI & Jumbo-Visma statements after team director Merijn Zeeman is kicked out of Tour de France September 18: Tour de France stage 18 reports from the race organizer, stage winner Michal Kwiatkowski's Team INEOS, GC leader Primoz Roglic's Team Jumbo-Visma, GC third-place Miguel Angel Lopez's Team Astana & Team Bora-hansgrohe; Tomasz Marczyński to leave Tour de Luxembourg; Crash takes down Annemiek Van Vleuten and Amanda Spratt in final of Giro Rosa stage seven BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those fascinating illustrative tales that make his books impossible to put down. Tour de France: The Inside Story is available in print, 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 1958 Tour de France winner Charly Gaul on his famous Tour stage 21 ride. Putting Raphaël Géminiani on a regional team rather than the French national team in 1958 enraged the emotional rider who then aimed all of his offensive racing efforts at the French team. He managed to gain the Yellow Jersey in stage 18. It all came for naught when Charly Gaul taunted Louison Bobet by telling Bobet exactly which corner on the Luitel in stage 21 he would attack. It was a cold, wet day and Gaul did exactly as he promised. By the end of the stage he had erased all but 67 seconds of his GC deficit. Being one of the few specialist climbers with superb time-trialing skills, he was able to win the 75-kilometer stage 23 time trial and take the lead for good. 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.