The sources I have used that I can remember:

Samuel Abt: Breakaway

David Armstrong: Merckx: Man and Myth

Don Alexander and Jim Ochowicz: Tour de France '86 The American Invasion

Philippe Brunel: An Intimate Portrait of the Tour de France

Jacques Duniecq: 1972 Tour de France

Peter Duker: Tour de France 1978

Graeme Fife: Tour de France. The History, the Legend, the Riders.

William Fotheringham: A Century of Cycling

L'Equipe: The Official Tour de France Centential 1903 - 2003

N.G. Henderson: Fabulous Fifties

N.G.Henderson: Yellow Jersey

Marguerite Lazell: The Tour de France, An Illustrated History

Sven Novrup: A Moustache, Poison and Blue Glasses!

Jean-Paul Olivier: Maillot Jaune

Pierre Martin: The Bernard Hinault Story

Owen Mulholland: Uphill Battle

Owen Mulholland: Various essays published over the years

Peter Nye: Hearts of Lions

Bob Roll: The Tour de France Companion

Jacques Seray: 1904 the Tour de France Which Was to Be the Last

James Staart: Tour de France

David Saunders: 1973 Tour de France

David Saunders: Tour de France 1974

Pascal Sergent: 100 Anni di Storia del Tour de France

JB Wadley: Eddy Merckx and the 1970 Tour de France

Les Woodland: The Crooked Path to Victory

Les Woodland: The Unknown Tour de France

Les Woodland: The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France

Websites

www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/races/tour/index.htm

www.dailypeloton.com

www.letour.fr

www.torelli.com (yes, I look up stuff on my own site)

www.cyclingnews.com

www.radsport-news.com

www.gazzetta.it (the website of La Gazzetta dello Sport)

Conversations, letters and e-mails over the years with the following generous people, not in any particular order: Owen Mulholland, Les Woodland, Frankie Andreu, Joe Lindsey, Steve Lubanski, Celestino Vercelli, Paolo Guerciotti, Valeria Paoletti, Antonio and Mauro Mondonico, Faliero Masi, Rene Moser, Derek Roberts, Franco Bitossi, Ferdi Kubler. Thank you all so much.

Magazines: Various issues of Velonews, Pro Cycling, Cycle Sport, Bicisport, Bicyclist

My televison

Memories of stories told to me over the years of my career by the many people in the bike industry whom I have had the good fortune to meet.

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