July 5 - July 27: Tour de France Stage 18 Live Updates July 24, Stage 18: Pau - Hautacam 1. Vincenzo Nibali 2. Thibaut Pinot 3. Rafal Majka GC Leader: Vincenzo Nibali July 6 - 13: Österreich Rundfahrt July 13, Stage 8: Podersdorf - Vienna 1. Marco Haller 2. Jacopo Guarnieri 3. Raymond Kreder Final GC Leader: Peter Kennaugh June 22 - 29 National Championships Roster of 2014 national road and time trial champions June 28: Trofeo Melinda/Italian Championships June 28: Malè - Fondo 1. Vincenzo Nibali 2. Davide Formolo 3. Matteo Rabottini June 25: Halle - Ingooigem June 25: Halle - Ingooigem 1. Arnaud Demare 2. Kris Boeckmans 3. Michael van Staeyen Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

News: July 24: Stage 18 notes July 20: TDF Stage 15 notes July 19: TDF Stage 14 notes Plus: It's mid-season and you've got a lot more races to ride. Stay motivated! Todd Scheske explains how to stay fresh and avoid the blahs.   BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

Now an audiobook! 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. To get Tour de France: The Inside Story as a print or Kindle eBook, just click here. For the downloadable audio version, just click here. Are you a Tour de France history buff? We've got results (with hundreds and hudreds of photos) for every stage of every edition posted.

From the 1908 Tour de France. Lucien Petit-Breton is pictured after he won his second consecutive Tour, one of the most dominating and effective victories in Tour history. He won five stages and in only one stage did he finish outside the top four. About the riders in the 1908 edition, Tour father Henri Desgrange wrote, "With their legs and courage, they express more eloquently than others can with words the beauty of effort and the august splendor of the will." That's why I love this sport.

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.