June 15: Paris - Camembert June 15: Pont Audemer - Livarot 1. Dorian Godon 2. Pierre-Luc Perichon 3. Geoffrey Bouchard June 10 - 13: Route d'Occitanie June 13, Stage 4: Lavelanet - Duilhac sous Peyrepertuse 1. Magnus Cort 2. Gianluca Brambilla 3. Tony Gallopin Final GC leader: Antonio Pedrero June 9 - 13: Baloise Belgium Tour June 13, Stage 5: Turnhout - Beringen 1. Mark Cavendish 2. Tim Merlier 3. Pascal Ackermann Final GC leader: Remco Evenepoel June 6 - 13: Tour of Switzerland June 13, Stage 8: Andermatt - Andermatt 1. Gino Mader 2. Michael Woods 3. Mattia Cattaneo Final GC leader: Richard Carapaz May 30 - June 6: Critérium du Dauphiné June 6, Stage 8: La Léchère les Bains - Les Gets 1. Mark Padun 2. Jonas Vingegaard 3. Patrick Konrad Final GC leader: Richie Porte June 4: GP Canton Aargau June 4: Leuggern - Leuggern 1. Ide Schelling 2. Rui Costa 3. Esteban Chaves May 8 - 30: Giro d'Italia May 30, Stage 21: Senago - Milano individual time trial 1. Filippo Ganna 2. Rémi Cavagna 3. Edoardo Affini Final GC leader: Egan Bernal May 23: Vuelta Ciclista Murcia May 23: Los Alcázares - Alcantarilla 1. Antonio Soto 2. Angel Madrazo 3. Gonzalo Serrano May 22: Tour du Finistère May 22: Saint Evarzec - Quimper 1. Benoit Consnefroy 2. Sean de Bie 3. Rasmus Tiller May 18 - 22: Vuelta Andalucia-Ruta del Sol May 22, Stage 5: Vera - Pulpi 1. Ethan Hayter 2. Philipp Walsleben 3. Toms Skujins Final GC leader: Miguel Lopez May 16: Tro Bro Léon May 16: Lannilis - Lannilis 1. Connor Swift 2. Piet Allegaert 3. Baptiste Planckaert May 13 - 16: Challenge Illes Balears May 16, Race 4: Trofeo Alcúdia 1. André Greipel 2. Alexander Kristoff 3. Christophe Noppe   May 5 - 9: Volta ao Algarve May 9, Stage 5: Albufeira - Alto do Malhao 1. Elie Gesbert 2. Joao Rodrigues 3. Joni Brandao Final GC leader: Joao Rodrigues Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature posts: June 9: Strategies for dealing with flat tires: John Neugent has some suggestions for making one of cycling's irritation less bothersome. News: June 16: Tejay van Garderen to retire after USA Nationals; Wilco Kelderman and Peter Sagan to lead Bora-hansgrohe at Tour de France; Chris Froome to ride Tour de France June 15: Ag2r-Citroën to ride Paris-Camembert; Deceuninck-Quick Step riders headed to national champonships races; Giacomo Nizzolo makes World Championships his next goal; Mike Woods to lead Israel Start-Up Nation team at Tour de France June 14: Tour of Switzerland final reports from GC winner Richard Carapaz's Team INEOS Grenadiers, the race organizer, stage winner Gino Mader's Bahrain Victorious team, GC 3rd place Jakob Fuglsang's Team Astan-Premier Tech & GC 4th place Max Schachmann's Bora-hansgrohe team; Route d'Occitanie stage final team reports from GC winner Antonio Pedrero's Team Movistar & 2nd place Gianluca Brambilla's Trek-Segafredo team June 13: Tour of Switzerland stage seven reports from GC leader Richard Carapaz's Team INEOS Grenadiers, stage winner Rigoberto Uran's EF Education-Nippo team, third-place Gino Mäder's Bahrain Victorious team, Julian Alaphilippe's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, which notes that he is leaving the Tour before it finishes, Max Schachmann's Bora-hansgrohe team & Antwan Tolhoek's Jumbo-Visma team; Route d'Occitanie stage three team reports from stage winner Antonio Pedrero's Team Movistar & third-place Oscar Rodriguez's Team Astana-Premier Tech June 12: Tour of Switzerland stage six team reports from GC leader Richard Carapaz's Team INEOS Grenadiers, stage winner Andreas Kron's Lotto Soudal team, Rui Costa's UAE Team Emirates & Matteo Fabbro's Team Bora-hansgrohe; Baloise Belgium Tour stage three team reports from stage winner Caleb Ewan's Lotto Soudal team, GC leader Remco Evnepoel's Deceuninck-Quick Step team & Team DSM 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. You can get all the info on the Tour de France: The Inside Story 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 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis winning stage 9 in Sestriere. Because of bad weather, the stage was shortened to just 46 kilometers. Going into that stage Riis wasn't even in the GC top ten, but that win made him the GC leader. Bjarne Riis clearly tired towards the end of the Tour but his superb domestique, Jan Ullrich, grew stronger with every passing day and was clearly the race's strongest rider by the time the Tour reached Paris. 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.