Jan 15 - 20: Tour Down Under Jan 18: Stage 4: Unley - Campbelltown 1. Daryl Impey 2. Patrick Bevin 3. Luis Sanchez GC leader: Patrick Bevin Jan 13: Down Under Classic Jan 13: Adelaide Circuit 1. Caleb Ewan 2. Peter Sagan 3. Alex Edmondson   Jan 1: GP Sven Nys Cyclocross Jan 1: Men 1. Mathieu Van der Poel 2. Toon Aerts 3. Laurens Sweeck Jan 1: Women 1. Jolanda Neff 2. Sanne Cant 3. Nikki Brammeier Dec 30: Diegem Cyclocross Dec 30: Men 1. Mathieu Van der Poel 2. Michael Vanthourenhout 3. Toon Aerts Dec 30: Women 1. Sanne Cant 2. Annemarie Worst 3. Denise Betsema Dec 28: Azencross - Loenhout Dec 28: Men 1. Mathieu Van der Poel 2. Wout van Aert 3. Toon Aerts Dec 28: Women 1. Lucinda Brand 2. Sanne Cant 3. Denise Betsema Dec 26: Heusden-Zolder Cyclocross Dec 26: Men 1. Mathieu Van der Poel 2. Wout van Aert 3. Joris Nieuwenhuis Dec 26: Women 1. Marianne Vos 2. Lucinda Brand 3. Sanne Cant Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature post: January 7: Sylvain Chavanel photo gallery. The man called "La Machine" won 45 races before his retirement at the end of the 2018 season. We've got lots of photos of this superb rider. News: January 18: Tour Down Under stage three reports from the race organizer & GC leader Patrick Bevin's CCC Team; Fabio Aru will ride 2019 Giro d'Italia January 17: Tour Down Under stage two team reports from winner Patrick Bevin's CCC Team, Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team & UAE-Team Emirates; Tramadol: UCI bans painkiller in competition starting in March; Team Sunweb extend contracts with Liane Lippert and Floortje Mackaij January 16: Tour Down Under stage one team reports from winner Elia Viviani's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team, CCC Team & UAE-Team Emirates   BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

"Were the television show Jeopardy to do a cycling-themed edition, Mr. Witherell's book could easily serve as the basis for each of the show's pieces of trivia. Bicycle History is a delightful volume that is as difficult to put down as a great glass of wine. The book is grab-bag of surprises, reminding us of forgotten riders, details lost to time and triumphs of both people and technology. It delivers to the reader fact upon fact that weave a tapestry of cycling history unlike any I've encountered. I can hear Trebek now: 'This American won the Grand Prix de la Côte d'Azur in 1940.' " —Patrick Brady, Editor Red Kite Prayer Click here to learn more and to get your copy of Bicycle History in print or eBook version.

Pictured above is Philippe Thys after he won the 1920 Tour de France I believe Philippe Thys (October 8, 1889–January 16, 1971) is the greatest Tour de France rider in history. Thys was the first three-time winner of the Tour (1913, 1914, 1920), a feat that was not matched until Louison Bobet won his third Tour in 1955 and not exceeded until 1963 when Jacques Anquetil won the Tour for the fourth time. His 1914 victory was over a superb peloton. All Tour winners from 1905 to 1923 except René Pottier were there, a total of eleven past and future Tour winners. He took the lead in the first stage of the 1914 Tour and held it to the end. In 1920 he took it on the second stage and kept it to Paris. There is more on Thys, including a photo gallery 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.