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1. Wout van Aert 2. Tom Pidcock 3. Eli Iserbyt |
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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 the winner and the runner-up of the 1925 edition of the Giro d'Italia. On the left is second-place Costante Girardengo (Giro winner in 1919 & 1923) and on the right is 1925 Giro winner Alfredo Binda.
This was the first Giro win for Alfredo Binda and was the first of five victories he would accrue.
Binda could do it all; climb, time trial and while not a sprinter, he would overwhelm the fast men with the sheer power he brought to a contest of speed.
Costante Girardengo won more stages, but he was never able to distance himself from the more powerful Binda.
We have results for every stage of every edition of the Giro d'Italia. 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.
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.
The Story of the Tour de France, Vol 1 is available in print, Kindle eBook and audiobook versions. You can get all the info on the book here.
Or you can go straight to Amazon and buy it here.
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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.