Cycling races before 1903 is one of the newest categories on Peloton&Tales – home of great cycling stories blog. It includes blogposts on the achievements of the late 19th century. Places, races and names, famous records. And as it usual, the most exciting stories as it possible from the era when the new vehicle also symbolized something new, fress, progressive. I mean, somethin “modern”.
Please, scroll down and take a look at the entries of this category!
Josef Fischer, the winner of the first Paris-Roubaix (1896) was born on the 20th January, 1865 in Atzlern (near München, Germany). Fischer participated in several… Read More »Faces from the peloton: Josef Fischer (1865-1953)
The second edition of Paris-Roubaix was held on the 18th April 1897. 32 professional and 28 amateur cyclists departed in the rainy Paris, but the… Read More »Maurice Garin after winning Paris-Roubaix 1897
The first Bordeaux-Paris was held on the 23rd May in 1891. The route was 560 km long, the race was won by George Pilkington Mills.
The founding father of the Tour de France, Henri Desgrange (1865-1940) was a cyclist in his younger days. He set twelve world track cycling records,… Read More »Henri Desgrange, the cyclist
The penny-farthing bicycle was the first vechicle called bicycle. With its large front wheel, it was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, before the modern bicycles became fashionable.Read More »What was the penny-farthing bicycle?
Edmond Jacquelin, one of the first stars in the history of cycling races was born on the 15th March 1875 in Santenay, France. He started… Read More »Cycling Who’s Who: Edmond Jacquelin
Lisette Marton, “Mademoiselle Lisette”, or Amélie le Gall”, the women’s world champion in 1896 was born in 1869, in Quintin, France. In the early days… Read More »Cycling Who’s Who: Lisette Marton
The Stade Vélodrome du Parc des Princes was the first successful cycling related enterprise of Henri Desgrange (“the founding father of the Tour de France”)… Read More »Iconic Places: Stade Vélodrome du Parc des Princes