Sept 23- 30: Tour de Langkawi | |
Sept 26, Stage 4: Bukit Mertajam - Meru Raya |
1. Daniel Babor 2. George Jackson 3. Sasha Weemaes |
GC leader: George Jackson |
Sept 20 - 24: Tour de Luxembourg | |
Sept 24, Stage 5: Mersch - Luxembourg |
1. Tobias Johannessen 2. Alex Aranburu 3. Franck Bonnamour |
GC winner: Marc Hirschi |
Aug 26 - Sep 17: Vuelta a España |
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Sept 17, Stage 21: Zarzuela - |
1. Kaden Groves |
Final GC leader: Sepp Kuss |
Sept 17: Trofeo Matteotti | |
Sept 17: Pescara - Pescara |
1. Sjoerd Bax 2. Simone Velasco 3. Lorenzo Rota |
Sept 16: Super 8 Classic | |
Sept 16: Brakel - Haacht |
1. Mathieu van der Poel 2. Anthony Turgis 3. Florian Vermeersch |
Sept 16: Memorial Marco Pantani | |
Sept 16: Riccione - Cesenatico |
1. Alexey Lutsenko 2. Marc Hirschi 3. Pavel Sivakov |
Sept 15: Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen | |
Sept 15: Koolskamp - Koolskamp |
1. Jasper Philipsen 2. Dylan Groenewegen 3. Fabio Jakobsen |
Sept 14: Coppa Sabatini | |
Sept 14: Peccioli - Peccioli |
1. Marc Hirschi 2. Pavel Sivakov 3. Tadej Pogacar |
Sept 13: GP de Wallonie | |
Sept 13: Aywaille - Namur |
1. Gonzalo Serrano 2. Dylan Teuns 3. Jasper De Buyst |
Sept 13: Giro della Toscana | |
Sept 13: Pontedera - Pontedera |
1. Pavel Sivakov 2. Richard Carapaz 3. Felix Grossschartner |
Sept 3 - 10: Tour of Britain | |
Sept 10: Stage 8: Margam County Park - Caerphilly |
1. Carlos Rodriguez 2. Wout van Aert 3. Damien Howsen |
Final GC leader: Wout van Aert |
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September 18: With the Vuelta over, David Stanley sent me this excellent essay, asking some very serious questions: Looking Back at the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Giro d'Italia, in year order.
For this week, here is a photo of 2007 Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca finishing the stage twenty 43-kilometer individual time trial. Di Luca finished 8th in that stage, 1min 57sec slower than stage winner Paolo Savoldelli, but it was more than enough to keep his lead before the final stage into Milan.
Di Luca took the lead from Andrea Noè in the mountainous 12th stage with its ascent of the Coll Dell'Agnello & Col d'Izoard.
Though Di Luca is highly regarded for his 2007 Giro win, plus victories in the Giro Di Lombardia, Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, among others, he had a troubled history of doping.
It all came to a head with a positive dope test just before the 2013 Giro d'Italia, which resulted in a lifetime ban from racing.
We have results for every stage of every edition of the Giro d'Italia. You can find them here.
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.
Les Woodland's Tour de France, the Inside Story is available in Print, Kindle eBook and audiobook versions 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.