It started with a new business opportunity. After the years of La Sportive consortium, the usual structure of sponsored teams returned to Tour de France… Read More »26 June 1923 Ottavio Bottecchia’s first stage victory at Tour de France
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)
Nowadays, one of the basic things organizers of a cycling race have to prepare for is to make sure, that no one else uses the… Read More »Vintage Tour de France: cows on the road
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
The close proximity to the everyday life has always been one of the most intriguing essencial features of road cycling races. Since the beginning of… Read More »Robert Jacquinot having a meal in a café (Tour de France 1922)
In 1926, Tour de France started outside Paris for the very first time. In 1926, Evian, the famous high-market holiday resort and spa town on… Read More »Vintage cycling image of the day: first stage of Tour de France 1926
Since the first ever edition of Tour de France in 1903, the race always started in Paris. In 1926, Evian, the famous high-market holiday resort… Read More »First time Tour de France started outside Paris (1926)
Everybody knows the famous image of the “smoking cyclists” from 1927. One of them was Gustaaf Van Slembrouck. The Belgian cyclist Gustaaf Van Slembrouck (1902-1968)… Read More »Gustaaf van Slembrouck (Faces from the peloton)
Learn a bit more about the protagonists of vintage cycling images — that’s the purpose of the category Faces from the peloton. The Belgian cyclist… Read More »Faces from the peloton: Gustaaf Van Slembrouck
French cyclist Jules Deloffre (1885-1963) earned his nickname ‘The Acrobat’ (L’Acrobate) through his acrobatic performances after Tour de France stages. Especially during the last few… Read More »Vintage cycling picture of the day: ‘The Acrobat’ cyclist