May 4 - 26: Giro d'Italia | |
May 4, Stage 1: Venariale Reale - Torino |
Overall map & profile, stage 1 map & profile, list of stages posted |
GC leader: |
May 1: Eschborn - Frankfurt | |
May 1: Eschborn - Frankfurt |
Course map & profile posted |
April 26 - 28: Vuelta a Asturias | |
Apr 28, Stage 3: Benia de Onis - Oviedo |
1. Finn Fisher-Black 2. Isaac Del Toro 3. Jordan Jegat |
Final GC leader: Isaac Del Toro |
April 23 - 28: Tour de Romandie | |
April 28, Stage 5: Vernier - Vernier | 1. Dorian Godon 2. Simone Consonni 3. Dion Smith |
Final GC leader: Carlos Rodriguez |
April 21 - 28: Tour of Turkey | |
April 28, Stage 8: Istanbul - Istanbul |
Stage neutralized |
Final GC leader: Frank van den Broek |
April 21: Liège-Bastogne-Liège | |
April 21: Liège - Liège |
1. Tadej Pogacar 2. Roman Bardet 3. Mathieu van der Poel |
April 15 - 19: Tour of the Alps | |
April 19, Stage 5: Levico Terme - Levico Terme |
1. Aurélien Paret-Peintre 2. Antonio Tiberi 3. Valentin Paret-Peintre |
Final GC leader: Juan Pedro Lopez |
April 17: La Flèche Wallonne | |
April 17: Charleroi - Huy |
1. Stephen Williams 2. Kévin Vauquelin 3. Maxim Van Gils |
April 14: Amstel Gold Race | |
April 14: Maastricht - Valkenburg |
1. Thomas Pidcock 2. Marc Hirschi 3. Tiesj Benoot |
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Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Paris-Roubaix, in year order.
For this week, here is a photo of 1907 Paris-Roubaix winner Georges Passerieu.
56 riders started and there were 22 classified finishers
Winner Georges Passerieu arrived at the velodrome alone, quite clear of the field.
But, he was stopped by a policeman at the velodrome entrance who wanted to check the bicycle license to make sure that the appropriate taxes had been paid to use the bike on the roads.
Passerieu was able to enter the Roubaix velodrome safely in front of second-place Cyrille Van Hauwaert, winner of the race in 1908.
Van Hauwaert entered the velodrome just as Passerieu crossed the finish line for the win.
We have complete results for every edition of Paris-Roubaix. You can find them here.
What’s the big idea? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius believed that in a palace or a soldiers’ camp one can live a life free of envy and desire, neither pursuing pleasure nor fearing pain as one performs the duties life has assigned.
Meditations is shot through with Stoic thought. Stoicism was the dominant philosophy of the era, not perhaps how we see philosophy today, an academic inquiry into life and the world. Instead, the ancients looked upon philosophy and therefore Stoicism as guide to living life correctly.
But Meditations is a wider-ranging work, touching on among other things, the existence of God or gods, the persistence of evil and injustice, and the value of knowledge. He wonders about the birth and growth of a child from a little seed.
So please travel back almost two thousand years ago and join Marcus Aurelius as sits in his camp in the evening meditating on life.
You can get Meditations as a Kindle eBook or audiobook here on Amazon.
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.