Tour de France 1921

Cyclist riding on a dusty road at Tour de France 1919

The years of La Sportive consortium (1919- 1921)

by PelotonTales
13 February 202317 October 2023

Although Henri Desgrange was always keen to preserve Tour de France as a competition for individuals1, cyclists who were sponsored by the same bicycle manufacture… Read More »The years of La Sportive consortium (1919- 1921)

Honoré Barthélémy the cyclist with a glass eye

Faces from the peloton: the cyclist with a glass eye

by PelotonTales
18 January 202317 October 2023

The first decades of history of Tour de France are full with extraordinary stories. One of them is the story of the cyclist with a… Read More »Faces from the peloton: the cyclist with a glass eye