July 4 - 19: Virtual Tour de France July 5, Men's Stage 2: Mountain 1. Julian Bernard 2. Freddy Ovett 3. Nicolas Edet GC leader: NTT Pro Cycling July 5, Women's stage 2: Mountain 1. Lauren Stephens 2. Joscelin Lowden 3. Enrica Magnaldi GC leader: Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank April 22 - 26: Digital Swiss 5 April 26, Stage 5: Camperio - Disentis Sedrun 1. Rohan Dennis 2. Nicholas Roche 3. Jonas Vingegaard April 5: Tour of Flanders, Virtual edition April 5: 31 km of virtual racing to finish at Oudenarde 1. Greg van Avermaet 2. Oliver Naesen 3. Nicholas Roche March 8 - 14: Paris - Nice Mar 14, Stage 7: Nice - Valdeblore La Colmiane 1. Nairo Quintana 2. Tiesj Benoot 3. Thibaut Pinot Final GC leader: Max Schachmann March 3: Le Samyn March 3: Quaregnon - Dour 1. Hugo Hofstetter 2. Aimé De Gendt 3. David Dekker March 1: Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne March 1: Kuurne - Kuurne 1. Kasper Asgreen 2. Giacomo Nizzolo 3. Alexander Kristoff March 1: Royal Bernard Drôme Classic March 1: Livron sur Drôme - Livron sur Drôme 1. Simon Clarke 2. Warren Barguil 3. Vincenzo Nibali Feb 29: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Feb 29: Gent - Ninove 1. Jasper Stuyven 2. Yves Lampaert 3. Soren Andersen Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

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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, Kindle e-book & Audiobook versions. You can get all the info on Tour de France: The Inside Story here.

Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Tour de France, in year order. For this week, here is 1947 Tour de France winner Jean Robic. Last week's photo was of 1939 Tour winner Sylvère Maes. The Tour de France was not run during the war and didn't resume until 1947. After a good time trial in the '47 Tour's stage 19, Robic was set for his famous coup. In the final stage, he attacked while the yellow jersey Pierre Brambilla (the other rider in the photo) was blocked in the peloton. Robic's break was successful (perhaps partly because of post-war French resentment against the Brambilla's being Italian) and made Robic the first rider to win the Yellow Jersey without ever having worn it in the Tour. 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.