Your source for results of recent bicycle races, along with past race results, beginning in 1896 with the first Paris-Roubaix. Use the menu options above for archives.
| Aug 13 - 16: Arctic Race of Norway | |
| Aug 14, Stage 2: Bø i Vesterålen - Andenes |
1. Erlend Blikra 2. Ethan Vernon 3. Giovanni Lonardi |
| GC leader: Giovanni Lonardi | |
| Aug 3 - 9: Tour of Poland | ||
| Aug 9, Stage 7: Wieliczka ITT |
1. Stefan Küng 2. Finn Fisher-Black 3. Callum Thornley |
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| GC winner: Marco Brenner | ||
| Aug 4 - 8: Vuelta a Burgos | |
| Aug 8, Stage 5: Caleruega - Lagunas de Neila |
1. Giulio Pellizzari 2. Oscar Onley 3. Felix Gall |
| GC winner: Felix Gall | |
| Aug 2: Circuito de Getxo | |
| Aug 2: Bilbao - Getxo |
1. Natnael Tesfazion 2. Pau Miquel Delgado 3. Alex Aranburu |
| July 29 - Aug 2: Tour of Denmark | |
| Aug 2, Stage 5: Køge - Rødovre |
1. Rasmus Pedersen 2. Max Walscheid 3. Tom Crabbe |
| GC winner: Wout van Aert | |
| Aug 1: Clásica de San Sebastián | |
| Aug 1: Donostia - Donostia |
1. Remco Evenepoel 2. Richard Carapz 3. Ben Tulett |
| July 28 - 30: Tour de l'Ain | |
| July 30, Stage 3: Oyonnax - Lélex Monts-Jura |
1. Axel Mariault 2. Markel Beloki 3. Brieuc Rolland |
| GC winner: Markel Beloki | |
July 4 - 26: Tour de France |
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July 26, Stage 21: Paris Champs-Élysées - Paris Champs-Élysées |
1. Mathieu van der Poel 2. Jasper philipsen 3. Mads Pedersen |
| GC winner: Tadej Pogacar | |
| July 26: Clasica Castilla y León | |
| July 26: Benevente - Lubián |
1. Thomas Silva 2. Roger Adria 3. Christian Scaroni |
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Each week I'm starting to post a photo of a Tour de France winner, in year order.
Here's a picture of René Pottier, winner of the 1906 Tour, the race's fourth edition.
The 1906 Tour was 4,637 km long & raced at an average speed of 24.46 km/hr
This was a substantial increase from 1905's 3,021 km and resulted in a much slower average speed.
There were 76 starters and only 14 classified finishers.
Protesters continued to harass the Tour, spreading nails on the road.
René Pottier proved his climbing superiority with wins in several mountain stages. His stage three ride entailed an epic 220 km solo breakaway
We have complete results for every stage of every edition of the Tour de France. You can find them here.
At the dawn of the 20th Century, French newspapers used bicycle races as promotions to build readership. Until 1903 these were one-day events.
Looking to deliver a coup de grace in a vicious circulation war, Henri Desgrange—editor of the Parisian sports magazine L’Auto—took the suggestion of one of his writers to organize a race that would last several days longer than anything else, like the 6-day races on the track, but on the road.
That’s exactly what happened. For almost 3 weeks the riders in the first Tour de France rode over dirt roads and cobblestones in a grand circumnavigation of France. The race was an electrifying success. Held annually (suspended only during the 2 World Wars), the Tour grew longer and more complex with an ever-changing set of rules, as Desgrange kept tinkering with the Tour, looking for the perfect formula for his race.
Each year a new cast of riders would assemble to contest what has now become the greatest sporting event in the world.
Volume One explores the Tour's origins and takes the reader up to 1975, the year the great Eddy Merckx tried and failed to win a sixth Tour.
You can get The Story of the Tour de France, Vol 1 in print, Kindle eBook & audiobook versions here on Amazon.
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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.