Seven themes

Articles keep their permanent addresses. The themes gather the connections and show their development in chronological order.

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Races and defining moments

Races, decisions and episodes in which the result sheet tells only part of the story.

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02

Riders of the period

Riders as people, competitors and products of their time.

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03

Bicycles and technical change

Mechanics, materials and solutions that changed the bicycle or the way it was ridden.

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04

Nutrition, training and science

From chops and instinct to fuelling plans, laboratories and watts.

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05

Cycling culture and everyday life

Cycling beyond the results: collectors, spectators, amateur riders and everyday use.

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06

Society and the times

Politics, media, work and the conditions that shaped cycling beyond road and track.

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The people behind cycling

Mechanics, soigneurs, organisers and others who kept races and bicycles working.

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Story · 1934–1939

Hand slings, cabins and 144 hours in Forum

Forum’s small cabins, the division of labour between partners and six days on the track reveal how Copenhagen’s six-day race worked in the 1930s.

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Story · 1990–2012

Michele Ferrari, training science and the doping era

Michele Ferrari helped make training measurable and was later banned for life by USADA. His story separates measurement, explanation and documented doping violations.

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Story · 1933–1945

Jan van Hout and the 44,588 metres

Jan van Hout rode 44.588 kilometres in an hour in 1933. A dispute followed his ride; he later closed his café and joined the resistance.

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Story · 1903–1973

When the rider was his own mechanic

Early Tour riders repaired their own bicycles. From Christophe at the forge to neutral service, the tools gradually moved into the following cars.

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Story · 1959–1960

Coppi’s last journey and the missed malaria

Fausto Coppi returned ill from Upper Volta. Fellow traveller Raphaël Géminiani had the same disease, but malaria was recognised too late in Coppi’s case.

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Story · 1985

When Oosterbosch found the time trial again

On 6.6 wet kilometres through Winschoten, Bert Oosterbosch beat team-mate Eric Vanderaerden by eleven seconds and briefly recovered his speciality.

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Story · c. 1900

The centimetres between Gresse and Nasq

A surviving postcard naming stayer Gresse and pacer Nasq opens the story of motor-paced racing, where two people and two machines had to work as one.

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Story · 1984

The blood bags at the 1984 Olympics

The US cycling team’s transfusion programme sat between medical experiment, sporting ambition and rules that had not caught up.

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Story · 1940–1952

Coppi, Bartali and a divided Italy

Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali began as team-mates and became rivals through whom post-war Italy told stories about itself.

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Story · 2017–2026

Tour of Guangxi: Six days and one steep finish

The final stage race of the WorldTour season crosses the rolling landscape of Guangxi and is decided on the short, steep road to NongLa.

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Story · 1971

When Gimondi opened the sprint against Merckx

At the 1971 World Championships in Mendrisio, Eddy Merckx and Felice Gimondi reached the finish alone. Gimondi opened, but Merckx took his second rainbow jersey.

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Story · 1868

The race that was called the first

James Moore won a short race in Parc de Saint-Cloud in 1868. The day was later cast as the beginning of cycle racing—but the history is more complicated than that.

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Story · 1893–1896

The world champion who changed from skates to bicycle

Jaap Eden became world champion in speed skating and track cycling in the 1890s—and one of the Netherlands’ first sporting celebrities.

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Story · 1983

Kund Rindbøl’s time trial on the old main road

A reader remembers 30 kilometres against the clock, a 54 × 14 gear and his mother at the roadside between Holbæk and Roskilde.

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Story · 2017

The comfort break that nearly cost Dumoulin the Giro

Tom Dumoulin had to stop with stomach trouble on stage 16 of the 2017 Giro and defend the pink jersey alone.

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Story · 1984

When Hinault rode into a workers’ protest

Paris–Nice met a road blockade by La Ciotat shipyard workers. Bernard Hinault was knocked down, got up and struck a demonstrator.

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Story · 2011

French champion at 52

Jeannie Longo won the 2011 French time trial championship at the age of 52, finishing 42 seconds ahead of the runner-up.

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Story · 1956

When Magni bit an inner tube to stay in the Giro

With a badly injured shoulder, Fiorenzo Magni continued the Giro with an inner tube tied between his handlebars and teeth.

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Story · 1953–2019

Why the whole Forum cheered for Pair Number 7

From Kay Werner Nielsen and Evan Klamer to Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen: one race number became the Danish crowd’s own pair.

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Story · 1934

The spectator's bicycle that cost Lapébie Paris–Roubaix

Roger Lapébie punctured near the finish, borrowed a spectator's bicycle and crossed the line first. The rules awarded victory to Gaston Rebry.

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Story · 1978

The condom that cost Pollentier the yellow jersey

Michel Pollentier won on Alpe d’Huez and took the yellow jersey. That evening, the doping control revealed a container of someone else’s urine beneath his jersey.

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Story · 2017

A Man of Steel

Albert is 82 and still rides every day. A photographic reader story about a yellow steel Gazelle, daily kilometres and an iron will.

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Story · 1990–2007

Principia and the Danish aluminium dream

Three triathletes in Aalborg began welding the aluminium frames they could not afford to buy. Within a few years, Principia was racing far beyond the basement workshop.

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Story · 1968

Ole Ritter's hour in Mexico City

On 10 October 1968, Ole Ritter rode farther in one hour than anyone before him. The thin air of Mexico City helped the speed, but it did not make the effort easier.

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Story · 1972–1977

When the neutral service car became everyone’s mechanic

A car broke down during the Dauphiné Libéré. The following year, Mavic sent out a yellow service car to help the entire field — including riders far from their own mechanic.

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Story · 1973–1977

When the Brooklyn team turned GIOS blue

A sponsor's request joined the Brooklyn jersey, the GIOS Super Record and Roger De Vlaeminck's team — and the colour outlived the contract.

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Story · 1959–2026

When the bicycle left its first owner

A gold Favorit F11, its 1960 receipt and a meeting with the man who had kept the bicycle for more than six decades.

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Story · 1995

When Olano finished on a flat rear tyre

Abraham Olano punctured shortly before the finish at the World Championships in Duitama. Behind him, Miguel Induráin kept the chase under control.

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Story · 1959–1966

When the coal had been delivered, training began

Yvonne Reynders delivered coal on a three-wheeled cargo bicycle before winning seven world titles on road and track.

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Story · 1926

When the Tour had to pay the taxi fare

Three riders stepped out of a car in Luchon and disappeared, according to a story passed down from the 1926 Tour. The driver instead took his bill to the race officials.

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Story · 1982–1989

When heart rate joined the rider on the road

A chest strap and a small wrist receiver made it possible to follow the heart without laboratory cables. Training acquired a new number to discuss.

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Story · 1946–1970’erne

Bianchi on the down tube, Drali at the file bench

Peppino Drali built made-to-measure Bianchi frames in Milan. The large factory supplied the name and materials; the small workshop supplied the fit and handwork.

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Story · 1980’erne

When pasta took over the breakfast table

Steak did not vanish in a morning, but during the 1980s carbohydrate became something teams could measure, mix into bottles and put on the plate.

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Story · 1948

The track bicycle said to weigh 3.48 kilograms

Ugo Bianchi built bicycles for Legnano’s finest riders. A later account credits him with a 3.48-kilogram track machine—a number that invites both curiosity and a raised eyebrow.

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Story · 1946

The gear change with a loose rear wheel

Cambio Corsa offered several gears, but demanded two levers, back-pedalling and a moment with the rear wheel released while the bicycle was moving.

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Story · 1980–1983

When even the pedal thread had to be aerodynamic

Shimano built a wind tunnel and gave Dura-Ace AX smooth forms. The idea reached all the way to the pedal and showed how far a complete system could be pushed.

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Story · 1980

The day snow emptied Liège–Bastogne–Liège

A field of 174 began in the cold and only 21 finished, while Bernard Hinault rode roughly 80 kilometres alone and suffered lasting damage to his hands.

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Story · 1899

Major Taylor also had to win the right to race

Marshall “Major” Taylor became world sprint champion in 1899. His route there passed through records, packed velodromes and a cycling establishment that repeatedly tried to exclude him.

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Story · 1930’erne

When the Tour had to provide dinner

National teams made the Tour organiser responsible for the riders’ food and lodging. Menus were heavy, advice plentiful and nutritional science still far from the measuring cup.

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Story · 1949–1969

The tailor beneath the Vigorelli

Faliero Masi built bicycles beneath Milan’s velodrome and fitted them to riders including Anquetil, Van Looy and Merckx – often with another name on the down tube.

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Story · 1948–1959

When television found the Tour

First came a live finish. In 1958 moving pictures arrived from the mountains, and a year later the helicopter joined the travelling television production.

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Story · 1968–1979

Keetie won almost everything that existed

Keetie van Oosten-Hage became world champion on road and track and set an hour record. She did it in a sport without the Olympics, a Tour or proper daily support.

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Story · 1894–1895

Annie Londonderry turned a bicycle journey into a performance

Annie Cohen Kopchovsky travelled around the world by bicycle, ship and train, making names, clothes, advertising and storytelling part of the feat.

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Story · 1947

When the Tour returned to a hungry France

The Tour returned after the war and had to feed a race over 4,640 kilometres while France cut the daily bread ration to 200 grams.

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Story · 1985–1986

When 7-Eleven came to Europe

The American team learned Europe’s unwritten rules at the Giro and became the first US-based team in the Tour de France a year later.

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Story · 1992

The bicycle without the usual triangle

Mike Burrows’s monocoque idea, Lotus engineers and Chris Boardman met in a black track bicycle that won Olympic gold in Barcelona.

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Story · 1896

Teddy Hale and 142 hours in New York

In December 1896, Teddy Hale won the individual six-day race at Madison Square Garden after 142 hours and roughly 3,074 kilometres.

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Story · 1899–1927

From Paris–Roubaix to spark plugs

Albert Champion won Paris–Roubaix at twenty. His work and a dispute over his name later produced two American spark-plug brands: Champion and AC.

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Story · 2018

When Froome attacked with 80 kilometres remaining

On the Colle delle Finestre, Chris Froome rode away alone and overturned a Giro he began that day 3 minutes 22 seconds from the lead.

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Story · 2019

When a Tour stage ended without a finish line

Egan Bernal attacked on the Col de l’Iseran as hail and a landslide made the road to Tignes impassable and stopped the stage.

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Story · 2017

When Philippe Gilbert rode away on the Oude Kwaremont

An attack more than 50 kilometres from the finish became a solo ride over cobbles and climbs and Gilbert’s first Tour of Flanders victory.

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Story · 2015

When the gear cable disappeared

SRAM RED eTap made road shifting wireless and gave riders, mechanics and frame designers a new way to think about control.

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Story · 2009

When the Roubaix favourites disappeared one by one

Flecha crashed at Carrefour de l’Arbre, Hushovd hit the barriers and Tom Boonen rode alone into the velodrome for his third victory.

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Story · 2006

The blood bags that reached the Tour before the start

Operación Puerto led from a Madrid clinic to the Tour start in Strasbourg, where Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich never took the line.

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Story · 2001–2009

When Bjarne Riis built Team CSC

A struggling Danish team became an international organisation built around clear roles, training data and a team spirit tested far from the road.

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Story · 2000–2009

When the carbon bicycle reached the weight limit

Carbon gave designers new shapes while the UCI’s 6.8-kilogram minimum made ballast and gram counting part of the mechanics’ work.

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Story · 1984

When Moser rode 51.151 kilometres in an hour

In Mexico City, Francesco Moser made aerodynamics, disc wheels and a new riding position visible on the stopwatch.

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Story · 1984–1985

When the toe strap gave way to a click

LOOK transferred the ski binding’s lock to the racing bicycle. Bernard Hinault’s fifth Tour victory made the clipless pedal visible to the whole peloton.

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Story · 1988

When the summer peloton rode into snow

Rain turned to snow on the Passo di Gavia. Johan van der Velde reached the summit first, Erik Breukink won the stage and Andy Hampsten took pink.

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Story · 1989

Eight seconds on the Champs-Élysées

Greg LeMond began the final time trial 50 seconds behind Laurent Fignon and finished the Tour eight seconds ahead.

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Story · 1970’erne

Steak at five and coffee with cognac

Before gels and precise carbohydrate plans, the soigneur packed sandwiches, fruit and tarts, filled the bottles and tried to keep riders eating through a long working day.

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Story · 1942

The Tour the occupation wanted

The six-stage Circuit de France was meant to resemble a national revival. Instead, it showed how difficult a major bicycle race was under occupation.

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Story · 1943–1944

Bartali's training rides had another purpose

During the German occupation of Italy, Gino Bartali used the familiar sight of a professional rider in training as cover while carrying material for a rescue network.

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Story · 1943–1949

From prisoner of war to Giro–Tour winner

Fausto Coppi had already won the Giro when he was captured in North Africa. Six years later, he became the first rider to win the Giro and Tour in the same season.

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Story · 1947

Robic took yellow on the final day

Jean Robic began the last stage of the 1947 Tour in third place. On the road to Paris, he attacked and overturned the entire classification.

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Story · 1951

When gear shifting finally became modern

Campagnolo Gran Sport allowed the rear wheel to stay fixed while a spring-loaded parallelogram moved the chain between sprockets.

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Story · 1956

The Tour winner nobody expected

Roger Walkowiak won no stage in the 1956 Tour. He won the race because the favourites first underestimated his breakaway and later could not drop him.

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Story · 1956

When the snow broke the Giro peloton

On the 242-kilometre stage to Monte Bondone, Charly Gaul rode through snow and cold from eleventh place into the pink jersey.

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Story · 1954

When the Tour left France

The Grand Départ in Amsterdam was the first Tour de France start outside France and showed a race becoming a European spectacle.

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Story · 1952

When “necessary” meant almost always

In a RAI interview, Fausto Coppi spoke unusually openly about the peloton’s use of “la bomba” in an age without effective doping controls.

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Story · 1946–1951

The hide-and-seek contest for the Giro's black jersey

Luigi Malabrocca tried to finish last in the 1949 Giro. The problem was that bricklayer Sante Carollo was already almost two hours further behind.

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Story · 1995–2004

The man behind the Pirate

Marco Pantani returned from a shattered left leg to win both the Giro and the Tour. The rider’s story also contains the vulnerable man.

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Story · 1974–1983

When Herning acquired its own wooden track

A wooden track from London, a new six-day race in Herning and Ole Ritter as the rider the crowd came to see.

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Story · 1970

When Mogens Frey won after a hand on the handlebars

Joaquim Agostinho crossed first in Mulhouse, but the jury awarded victory to team-mate Mogens Frey after visible interference in the sprint.

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Story · 1968

When Fredborg equalled the world record and won silver

Niels Fredborg equalled the world record in the Olympic kilometre in Mexico City. Eleven starters later, Pierre Trentin went faster.

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Story · 2015

When the peloton finished, Christine Lueber's working day began again

A day of musettes, Alpine driving, laundry and massage reveals the part of the Tour de France that the results do not measure.

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Story · 1955

When a bent crank gave Colnago access to the Giro

Ernesto Colnago was 23 when a mechanical observation on Fiorenzo Magni's bicycle took him into the Giro service crew.

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Story · 1948

Did Bartali really bring peace back to Italy?

After the attempt on Palmiro Togliatti, Gino Bartali won three consecutive Tour stages. His victories gave a political crisis its most enduring hero.

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Story · 1948

The Peace Race – two pelotons going opposite ways

In May 1948, two fields raced simultaneously between Warsaw and Prague. The future Peace Race began with two routes and two Yugoslav winners.

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Story · 1891

Paris–Brest–Paris 1891 – Charles Terront's three days

Charles Terront covered 1,200 kilometres in 71 hours 37 minutes. The newspaper race tested both the rider and the young safety bicycle.

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Story · 1949

Paris–Roubaix 1949 – one race, two winners

André Mahé crossed first after being misdirected at the track. Serse Coppi protested. Months later, the race had two winners.

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Story · 1960’erne–1970’erne

Drillium – when the drill became a weight-saving tool

Chainrings, brake levers and derailleurs went under the drill. Drillium became weight saving, workshop craft and decoration.

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Story · 1912

Three men held at the start on the Buffalo track

A press photograph from Paris shows Thorvald Ellegaard, André Perchicot and Gabriel Poulain in the still moment before a sprint match.

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Story · 2018

When the alarm clock cost twenty minutes on the Paris–Roubaix route

Jonas B. Hansen woke up 45 minutes late in Roubaix. By the time he reached the start, the others had left and the rest of his day became one long chase.

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Story · 1930s–today

When the Tour de France moved into the children’s room

Small cast cyclists turned pavements, sandpits and carpets into stage races — and later became collectibles with their own moulds, poses and peculiarities.

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Story · 1913

Christian Christensen – out of the Tour, but on to Paris

Christian Christensen missed the time limit in the 1913 Tour. Later accounts describe how the Danish dairy worker continued to Paris outside the classification.

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Story · 2003

The white wilderness and the chicken farmer’s thirst

The bottle was empty on Mont Ventoux. Then a Danish Tour rider from 1958 helped decide whether the reader should accept water.

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Story · 1967

The day Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux

Heat, dehydration, exhaustion and stimulants came together on the bare mountain during the 1967 Tour de France.

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Story · 1967

Beryl Burton, twelve hours and a liquorice allsort

Beryl Burton rode 277.25 miles in twelve hours, broke the British men’s record and handed Mike McNamara a liquorice allsort as she passed.

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Story · 1965

Bordeaux–Paris — with a motor pacer ahead

Jacques Anquetil won the Dauphiné and, a few hours later, began the 557-kilometre Bordeaux–Paris with motor pacing over the final part of the race.

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Story · 1966

When the Tour peloton protested against doping controls

Shortly after leaving Bordeaux, the riders stopped. New doping controls had entered an old working culture.

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Story · 1964

When Anquetil and Poulidor rode shoulder to shoulder

Poulidor won the duel on the Puy de Dôme, but Anquetil kept the yellow jersey by fourteen seconds.

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Story · 2013

When the rainwear came up in the sunshine

A rucksack full of dry clothes, long trousers and a jacket travelled about 30 kilometres up the Großglockner — in 28-degree heat.

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Story · 1953

When Coppi found a loophole in the Stelvio agreement

Koblet led the Giro by almost two minutes. Then Coppi sent a young team-mate up the road on the Stelvio.

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Story · 1890s–1930s

Insomnia, butter and cold beer

Chops, cigarettes and imitation: when one rider’s meal could become the entire peloton’s nutrition theory.

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Story · 1890–1903

When cycle racing was the Wild West

The heroes, machines, six-day races and physical limits before modern cycle racing.

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Story · 1904

Cheating, nails and chaos at the 1904 Tour de France

The scandal that nearly killed the Tour, and the road from travelling circus to organised sport.

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Story · 1935–1937

When gears arrived — and beer fooled the peloton

The Tour’s resistance to gears and Julien Moineau’s unusual breakaway towards Bordeaux.

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Story · 1927

When the cold created the quick release

Tullio Campagnolo’s frozen wheel change became the beginning of a new mechanical solution.

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Story · 1948

The star who fell from the top

Aldo Bini completed the Giro d’Italia with a broken hand and found distinction in the black jersey.

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Story · 1997

When old bicycles found new roads

L’Eroica began with 92 riders on Tuscany’s white gravel roads.

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Story · 1987

When the race car drove over Skibby’s bicycle

Jesper Skibby led alone on the Koppenberg in the 1987 Tour of Flanders when an official car drove over his bicycle.

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Story · 1998

When the Festina affair brought the Tour de France apart

A car full of doping products was stopped before the Tour. Three weeks later a team was expelled, riders were protesting and the peloton was nearly halved.

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Story · 1954

The 16-year-old mechanic who became two years older overnight

Ivo Faltoni was 16, good at building wheels and too young for the Giro service caravan. A false document made him eighteen on paper.

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Story · 1948

When the Michelin name nearly became a problem

The story of Stella Veneta, Ferdinando Michelin and the name MICHE.

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Story · 1964–1990

The patent headache that lasted twenty years

SunTour found the slant movement. Shimano answered with indexing, cables and a complete system whose parts had to work together.

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Story · 1968–1988

When Gunnar Asmussen made the bicycle lower

From Olympic gold in Mexico City to a yellow-and-black funny bike from a bicycle workshop in Aarhus.

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Story · 1924

The woman the Giro could not get rid of

Alfonsina Strada arrived outside the time limit in Perugia. Even so, she continued all the way to Milan.

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Story · 1951

The yellow jersey disappeared down the mountainside

Wim van Est crashed over the Aubisque and was hauled back up with an improvised rope made from inner tubes.

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Story · 1925–1930

When the Giro paid Binda to stay at home

Alfredo Binda had made the Giro so predictable that the organisers paid him 22,500 lire not to start.

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Bicycle · 1994

Vitus 992

A French bonded-aluminium racer with a Danish frame number, Shimano 105 and Henning Jørgensen’s name on the tubes.

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Bicycle · 1959

Favorit F11

A gold Czechoslovak Favorit racer with a documented Serbian ownership history, restored by reader Stefan Đurić.

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Bicycle · 1978, oplyst

Olympia

An orange Italian steel racer with Campagnolo Nuovo Gran Sport, Universal brakes and an Ofmega chainset, preserved in the owner’s photographs.

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Bicycle · c. 1980

Bernardi

A turquoise Italian steel racer with Campagnolo Nuovo Gran Sport, high-flange hubs and Universal brakes, preserved with an uncertain connection to Guido De Bernardi.

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Bicycle · 1986

Faggin

An Italian Columbus Aelle racer in its original net-pattern paint, built with Shimano 600 and Cinelli — a precise meeting of two bicycle industries.

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Bicycle · 2013

Scapin K6

A modern Italian carbon racer with Campagnolo, Fulcrum wheels and a design in which frame, equipment and riding position were conceived together.

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Bicycle · 2007

Principia Evolution

A Danish aluminium racer with large shaped tubes, a WEAVE carbon fork and Dura-Ace components from the years around Principia’s change of ownership.

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Bicycle · 1975

GIOS Torino Super Record

A Gios-blue Columbus racer with Campagnolo Super Record and details from the heyday of the Brooklyn team.

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Bicycle · 1978

Rossin Record

An early Italian Columbus SL racer with Campagnolo Record, pantographed details and a distinctive yellow-and-blue finish.

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Bicycle · c. 1988

Asmussen Super Prestige

A Danish custom-built time-trial bicycle with a small front wheel, low front end and Campagnolo equipment from the funny-bike period.

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Bicycle · 1995

Colnago Super Thron

A classic lugged steel frame with Campagnolo Chorus and Shamal wheels — from the decade in which carbon fibre was taking over.

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Bicycle · 1993

Colnago

An Italian racer in Japanese Tange Prestige steel, equipped with Shimano Dura-Ace 7400-series components and Campagnolo Shamal deep-section wheels.

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Bicycle · Early 1950s

Giamé

A rare Turin racer whose drilled seatpost, Simplex derailleur and surviving Giamé parts show the pursuit of low weight.

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Bicycle · 1947

Stella Veneta

An Italian racer with Campagnolo Cambio Corsa — a gear system that required two long levers, balance and a very particular sequence.

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Bicycle · 1965

Schrøder

A Copenhagen-built Reynolds 531 racer whose workshop ledger links frame PS 1018 B to Gert V. Nilsen and 22 May 1965.

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Bicycle · 1983 model

Koga-Miyata Gentsracer-Aero

A silver-green steel bicycle with Shimano 600 AX and Dyna-Drive from the first major experiments with aerodynamic components.

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Bicycle · c. 1978–1982

Atala Sanremo

A red Italian racer with Campagnolo, Gipiemme and a name that reaches back to the early Giro.

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Bicycle · c. 1919

Cycles France-Sport

The bicycle that waited almost 100 years in a barn — with a brass nameplate and a flyer hidden inside the handlebar.

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Bicycle · 1937

Wonder Saint-Étienne

Monsieur Paubert’s bicycle for road and track, preserved with its purchase receipt, original paint and Super Champion Course derailleur.

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Component · 1946

Campagnolo Cambio Corsa

Two levers, a released rear wheel and a gear change that demanded balance and a particular sequence.

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Component · 1967

Campagnolo Valentino

Campagnolo’s attempt to build a derailleur for riders outside the professional elite.

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Component · 1978

Shimano 600 EX Arabesque

Japanese engineering dressed for the European racing bicycle.

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