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 post: October 15, André Leducq photo gallery. Leducq won the Tour de France twice, winning 25 stages along the way. Plust, he won Paris-Roubaix. Leducq was one of cycling best-ever racers. October 16: No news post today. Next post will be October 17.
BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary
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Professional cycling has been around for more than 100 years, more than enough time for nearly anything imaginable to have happened. Whether it's the Tour de France racer who thought the worst thing that could happen to him was being forced to wear the Yellow Jersey, or the communist team director who insisted, on a whim, that a rider have a toe amputated or the fit of jealousy that started the Giro d'Italia, the sport has an endless supply of examples of human folly. Les Woodland has the perfect knack for telling these improbable, silly, crazy and absurd stories. |
Here's a picture from a time long ago. It's of the finish of the seventeenth stage of the 1929 Tour de France. That day the pack raced from Belfort to Strasbourg. The man winning the stage is the great André Leducq, narrowly beating Frans Bonduel. The year before, Leducq was second in the Tour and had won Paris-Roubaix. In 1929 he would win five stages and spend a day in yellow. The next year (1930) Leducq won the Tour, spending 13 days in yellow and winning two stages. He won again in 1932, spending 19 days in yellow and winning six stages. After that Leducq seemed to have lost his magic, though he did spend a couple of days in yellow in 1938, his last year as a racing pro. He won 25 Tour stages in nine attempts, making him the fourth in the list of stage winners after Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Mark Cavendish. |
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.