Sept 19 - 26: World Road Championships Sept 22: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay 1. Germany 2. Netherlands 3. Italy Sept 20: Women's Individual Time Trial 1. Ellen Van Dijk 2. Marlen Reusser 3. Annemiek Van Vleuten Sept 19: Men's Individual Time Trial 1. Filippo Ganna 2. Wout Van Aert 3. Remco Evenepoel Sept 21: GP de Denain Sept 21: Denain - Denain 1. Jasper Philipsen 2. Jordi Meeus 3. Ben Swift Sept 19: Trofeo Matteotti Sept 19: Pescara - Pescara 1. Matteo Trentin 2. Jhonatan Restrepo 3. Valentin Ferron Sept 19: Eschborn - Frankfurt Sept 19: Eschborn - Frankfurt 1. Jasper Philipsen 2. John Degenkolb 3. Akexander Kristoff Sept 18: Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem Sept 18: Brakel - Haacht 1. Florian Senechal 2. Tosh van der Sande 3. Jasper Stuyven Sept 18: Memorial Marco Pantani Sept 18: Castrocaro Terme-Cesenatico 1. Sonny Colbrelli 2. Vincenzo Albanese 2. Alex Aranburu Sept 14 - 18: Tour de Luxembourg Sept 18, Stage 5: Mersch - Luxembourg 1. David Gaudu 2. Joao Almeida 3. Pierre Latour Final GC leader: Joao Almeida Sept 17: Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Sept 17: Koolskamp - Koolskamp 1. Jasper Philipsen 2. Dylan Groenewegen 3. Martin Laas   Sept 16: Coppa Sabatini Sept 16: Peccioli - Peccioli 1. Michael Valgren 2. Sonny Colbrelli 3. Mathieu Burgaudeau Sept 15: GP de Wallonie Sept 15: Aywaille - Namur 1. Christophe Laporte 2. Warren Barguil 3. Tosh van der Sande Sept 15: Giro della Toscana Sept 15: Pontadera - Pontadera 1. Michael Valgren 2. Alessandro de Marchi 3. Diego Ulissi   Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature post, September 20: John Neugent takes a look back at the way things were. The 60s & 70s: The Good Old Days. News: September 22: GP de Denain reports from second-place Jordi Meeus' Bora-hansgrohe team, third place Ben Swift's INEOS Grenadiers & Quinten Hermans' Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert team; Team DSM's upcoming racing September 21: Women's time trial world championship reports from winner Ellen Van Dijk's Trek-Segafredo team & bronze medalist Annemiek Van Vleuten's Team Movistar; INEOS Grenadiers to race on disc brakes at GP Denain; Junior individual pursuit world record holder, Magnus Sheffield, joins INEOS Grenadiers September 20: Tony Martin calls it a day after 14 years in pro peloton; Men's Time Trial World Championships reports from winner Filippo Ganna's INEOS Grenadiers, second-place Wout Van Aert's Jumbo-Visma team & third-place Remco Evenepoel's Deceuninck-Quick Step team; Eschborn-Frankfurt reports from the race organizer, second-place John Degenkolb's Lotto-Soudal team, Team Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert, Pascal Ackermann's Bora-hansgrohe team & Team DSM September 19: Tour de Luxembourg final reports from stage winner David Gaudu's Groupama-FDJ team, GC winner Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team & the race organizer; Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem team reports from winner Florian Senechal's Deceuninck-Quick Step team, runner-up Tosh Van der Sande's Lotto-Soudal team & Team DSM BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

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. Tour de France: The Inside Story is available in print, eBook and audiobook versions. You can get all the info on the book here. Or go straight to Amazon to get the book here in Print. Kindle eBook or Audiobook.

Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Tour de France, in year order. For this week, here is 2017 Tour de France winner Chris Froome racing that year on stage 19's second climb, the third-category Côte de Bréziers. Froome finished 27th that day, 12min 27sec behind winner Edvald Boasson Hagen. Froome had seven other Team Sky riders with him as he finished. This was the 2017 Tour's final day in the mountains, with only a 22.5 km time trial stage in Marseille left that could affect the outcome. Froome increased his lead in the time trial, ending up 54 seconds ahead of final GC second-place Rigoberto Uran. This was Froome's fourth and last Tour de France win (so far), having previously won the 2013, 2015 and 2016 editions. 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.