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La Vuelta 2022 starts on 19th August 2022

La Vuelta 2022 stages

La Vuelta Ciclista a España (19 August -11 September 2022) Stage 1 19 August 2022 Utrecht – Utrecht 23,2 km (TTT)         Stage 2 20 August 2022 ‘s Hertogenbosch – Utrecht 181,6 km Stage 3 21 August 2022 Breda – Breda 193,2 km 1st rest day   Stage 4 23 August 2022 Vitoria-Gasteiz – Laguardia 153,5 km Stage 5 24 August 2022 Irún – Bilbao 187 km Stage 6 25 August 2022 Bilbao – Pico del Jano 180 km Stage 7 26 August 2022 Camargo – Cistierna 190,1 km Stage 8 27 August 2022 Pola de Laviana – Collado Fancuaya 154,6 km Stage 9 28 August 2022 Villaviciosa – Les Praeres 175,5km 2nd… Read More »La Vuelta 2022 stages

Vuelta a España starts with a time trial in the Netherlands

La Vuelta 2022 – Stage 1 (Utrecht – Utrecht)

La Vuelta Ciclista a España 2022 Stage 1 19 August 2022 Utrecht – Utrecht 23,2 km (TTT) Discover the history of Vuelta a España with PelotonTales! The history of the third grand tour of the year is the least known one. Come back to PelotonTales daily to find out something new about the Spanish three-week race. Learn more about Gustaaf Deloor, the winner of the first and second editions of Vuelta a España.  Browse among the interesting La Vueta fun facts If you still prefer the vintage stories and images of Tour de France,  the always busy Tour de France in the 1920s is the category for you! [su_posts posts_per_page=”7″ tax_term=”454″ order=”desc”]

Eddy Merckx winning the Vuelta a Espana in 1973

Eddy Merckx’s results at Vuelta a España

Eddy Merckx rode Vuelta a España only once during his extremely successful carreer, in 1973.  He won the race, managed to achieve the first ever Vuelta-Giro double in the history of road cycling races, also became the third cyclist after Jacques Anquetil and Felice Gimondi, who has won all the three grand tours at least once. The 28th edition of Vuelta Cyclista a España was held between 26 April and 13 May 1973. Merckx won six stages (3 of them were individual time trials).  He took the overall lead only after the 11th stage. The biggest rivals of Merckx were Luis Ocaña ( who that year, with the absence of Merckx would win the Tour… Read More »Eddy Merckx’s results at Vuelta a España

Vintage cycling image of the day on PelotonTales: Ferdi Kübler and Emilio Croci Torti at the Tour de France 1950

Ferdi Kübler and Emilio Croci Torti (Tour de France 1950)

Vintage cycling image of the day on PelotonTales: Ferdi Kübler and Emilio Croci Torti at the Tour de France 1950. Swiss rider Ferdi Kübler won the 37th Tour de France in 1950.  He became the leader of the general classification after the Italian team left the race. This was a protest action after Gino Bartali was attacked by French fans in the mountains. Which means, that the current leader of the race, Fiorenzo Magni had to give up his dreams of winning the Tour de France too. Ferdind “Ferdi” Kübler (1919-2016) had several other success besides the overall victory of Tour de France in 1950. He was a world champion (1951), also collected a silver… Read More »Ferdi Kübler and Emilio Croci Torti (Tour de France 1950)

La Vuelta 2022 Stage 11 (Alhama de Murcia – Cabo de Gata)

Stage 11 31 August 2022 Alhama de Murcia – Cabo de Gata 193 km PelotonTales is a small blog approaching the world of road cycling races from its storytelling abilities. The blog is focusing mainly on the history of road cycling events, the good old days of cycling races, the big stars and legendary momemts. While waiting for the start of La Vuelta 2022, please, take a tour on PelotonTales blog. Special topic of month August are the “grand tour giants”, the riders, who  have won all the three 3-week races at least one time. Also, take a look at the Vintage cycling image of the day or Faces from the peloton categories! CYCLING FUN… Read More »La Vuelta 2022 Stage 11 (Alhama de Murcia – Cabo de Gata)

Vintage Paris-Roubaix images on PelotonTales blog - Georges Speicher at Paris-Roubiax 1935

Waiting for La Vuelta 2022 (PelotonTales latest updates -7 August 2022)

August is the month of the Spanish grand tour (La Vuelta ciclista a Espana 19 August -11 September 2022). But did you know, that for decades, La Vuelta was held in April?  The first autumn Vuelta was held only in 1995. (For more La Vuelta fun facts click here>>) While you can find an overview of La Vuelta stages here>>, I have to admit, that from the point of view of a researcher and storyteller, unfortunatelly, La Vuelta provides far less exciting information, than the other two grand tours. During May and July it’s usually much more easier to focus only on the history of the actual race to be able to post interesting stories… Read More »Waiting for La Vuelta 2022 (PelotonTales latest updates -7 August 2022)

La Vuelta 2022 Stage 13 (Ronda – Montilla)

Vuelta cyclista a Espana 2022 on PelotonTales blog (a place for great cycling stories.) Take a closer look at the 13th stage of La Vuelta 2022 Stage 13 2 September 2022 Ronda – Montilla 171 km  

Stage 14 3 September 2022 Montoro – Sierra de La Pandera 160,3 km

La Vuelta Stage 14 (Montoro – Sierra de La Pandera)

Stage 14 3 September 2022 Montoro – Sierra de La Pandera 160,3 km For more information, please come back on the day of the stage!   Road cycling is permanent storytelling. Telling its greatest stories again and again. PelotonTales blog is here to celebrate the greatest stories of road cycling races. Please, take a tour on the blog, find YOUR favourite cycling story!

at the first Tour de France in 1903, there was a rider, who rode under the pseunonym 'Samson'.

Faces from the peloton: the cyclist called Samson

At the turn of the century, when Tour de France was born, the tiny little details of a sport event could tell much more about the society than nowadays. Bicycle was quite a democratic new vehicle in sense of every social class has found its own joy in it. But mostly in the bourgeoisie, the urban middle and upper middle class, the bicycle craze faced some rigid rules. Even Henri Desgrange, the strict founding father of Tour de France, was told in his younger years, that arriving to the workplace on a bicycle is considered as inappropiate for a clerk. He rather quit his job and focused entirely on cycling. Also, at the start of… Read More »Faces from the peloton: the cyclist called Samson