Oct 20 - Nov 8: Vuelta a España Oct 21, Stage 2 Pamplona - Lekunberri 1. Marc Soler 2. Primoz Roglic 3. Daniel Martin GC leader: Primoz Roglic Oct 3 - 25: Giro d'Italia Oct 21, Stage 17: Bassano del Grappa - Madonna di Campiglio 1. Ben O'Connor 2. Hermann Pernsteiner 3. Thomas De Gendt GC leader: Joao Almeida Oct 21: Driedaagse Brugge - De Panne Oct 21: Brugge - De Panne 1. Yves Lampaert 2. Tim Declerc 3. Tim Merlier Oct 18: Tour of Flanders Oct 18: Antwerp - Oudenarde 1. Mathieu van der Poel 2. Wout van Aert 3. Alexander Kristoff Oct 14: Scheldeprijs Oct 14: Schoten - Schoten 1. Caleb Ewan 2. Niccolo Bonifazio 3. Bryan Coquard Oct 11: Gent - Wevelgem Oct 11: Ypres - Wevelgem 1. Mads Pedersen 2. Florian Senechal 3. Matteo Trentin Oct 11: Paris - Tours Oct 11: Chartres - Tours 1. Casper Pedersen 2. Benoit Cosnefroy 3. Joris Nieuwenhuis Oct 7: De Brabantse Pijl Oct 7: Leuven - Overijse 1. Julian Alaphilippe 2. Mathieu van der Poel 3. Benoit Cosnefroy Oct 4: Liège-Bastogne-Liège Oct 4: Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1. Primoz Roglic 2. Marc Hirschi 3. Tadej Pogačar Sept 27 - Oct 5: Volta a Portugal Oct 5, Stage 8: Lisbon individual time trial 1. Gustavo Cesar 2. Antonio Carvalho 3. Anthony Delaplace Final GC leader: Amaro Antunes Sept 29 - Oct 3: BinckBank Tour Oct 3, Stage 5: Ottignies Louvain la Neuve  - Geraardsbergen 1. Mathieu van der Poel 2. Oliver Naesen 3. Sonny Colbrelli Final GC leader: Mathieu van der Poel Sept 30: La Flèche Wallonne Sept 30: Herve - Mur de Huy 1. Marc Hirschi 2. Benoit Cosnefroy 3. Michael Woods Sept 24 - 27: World Road Championships Sept 27: Elite Men's Road Race 1. Julian Alaphilippe 2. Wout Van Aert 3. Marc Hirschi Sept 26: Elite Women's Road Race 1. Anna van der Breggen 2. Annemiek van Vleuten 3. Elisa Longo Borghini Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature posts: October 16: Strength training for cyclists: An overview with workouts. Bill McLaughlin, a Peaks Coaching Group elite coach explains how to get stronger for next season. News: October 22: Giro d'Italia stage 17 reports from GC leader Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, stage winner Ben O'Connor's NTT Pro Cycling team, GC second-place Wilco Kelderman's Team Sunweb & Rafal Majka & Patrick Konrad's Bora-hansgrohe team; Vuelta a España stage two reports from the race organizer, stage winner Marc Soler's Team Movistar and GC leader Primoz Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team October 21: Giro d'Italia stage 16 reports from stage winner Jan Tratnik's Team Bahrain-McLaren, GC leader Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, Matteo Fabbro's Bora-hansgrohe team; UAE-Team Emirates Fernando Gaviria is Covid-19 positive for the second time; Vuelta a España stage one reports from the race organizer, stage winner Primoz Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team & second-place Richard Carapaz's Team INEOS Grenadiers October 20: Mitchelton-Scott, Team Sunweb & Jumbo-Visma trade bike brands in big equipment shuffle; Tomasz Marczyński and Tosh Van der Sande re-sign with Lotto Soudal; Team Jumbo-Visma starts women’s team in 2021 October 19: Update on Julian Alaphilippe's Tour of Flanders crash, Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders reports from the race organizer, second-place Wout Van Aert's Jumbo-Visma team, third place Alexander Kristoff's UAE Team Emirates; Giro d'Italia stage 15 reports from stage winner Tao Geoghegan Hart's INEOS-Grenadier's team, GC leader Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick step team, second-place Wilco Kelderman's Team Sunweb & Rafal Majka's Bora-hansgrohe team BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

What’s the big idea? Former slave Epictetus argues that since we cannot control the external world, true freedom comes from the reasoned control of one’s own desires and passions. This is the core of stoic thought that Epictetus taught in Western Greece about 100 AD. Stoicism became the dominant moral philosophy of the Hellenistic and Roman world and Epictetus became its dominant and most respected teacher. Stoic philosophy echoed down the centuries, starting with St. Paul, whose Acts is shot through with Stoic thought. St. Ambrose and Tertullian show Stoic influence in their writings. In the modern world, stoicism remains important. Prussian emperor Frederick the Great, essayist Montaigne and even George Washington were inspired by the Stoics. Perhaps the most prominent modern writer influenced by the stoics is American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His Man the Reformer and Self Reliance are almost modern stoic handbooks. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus is available in Kindle 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 1962 Tour de France winner Jacques Anquetil leading Tom Simpson. I don't know what stage this is. This was the first Tour run with trade teams since Tour father Henri Desgrange began running the Tour with National teams in 1930. This was also Raymond Poulidor's first of 14 Tour participations. Although he would be second three times ('64, '65, '74) and third three times ('62, '69, '76), he would never spend a single day in yellow. Following stage 12, Tom Simpson became the first British rider to lead the Tour. Anquetil rode a masterful Tour, staying within striking distance, then at nearly the last moment, riding a superb time trial in stage 20 that won him the Tour. This was Anquetil's third Tour victory, tying him with Bobet and Thys. 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.