UCI Women’s World Tour Calendar 2023

For the first time, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is included into the Women’s WorldTour series. The 132,2 km long  race Gent and Ninove starts at 13:30 (CET). Program Startlist Movistar 1 VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek 2 BIANNIC Aude 3 NORSGAARD Emma 4 LIPPERT Liane 5 MACKAIJ Floortje 6 SIERRA Arlenis Fenix-Deceuninck 11 DE BAAT Kim 12 DE … Read more

Paris -Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 8 April 2023 145,4 km

Strade Bianche 4 March 2023 136 km    

A new cycling season in underway. Both in the world of men’s and women’s cycling races. Here is a quick overview of the UCI Women’s World Tour Calendar 2023 15 -17 January 2023 antos Tour Down Under 28 January 2023 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race – Elite Women’s Race 9-12 February 2023 UAE Tour … Read more

Although the idea of a French cyclist in a striped shirt might seem like a little bit of a cliché, sometimes stereotypes are carrying quite much truth in themselves. Just take a look at Hippolyte Aucouturier! One of the most iconic characters from the early days of road cycling races. Nevertheless, he was not only … Read more

One of the reasons I’ve created the Faces from the peloton category on PelotonTales blog that there are so many cyclists from the good old black&white era, especially from the time period before the First World War who we know almost nothing about. Except the obvious thing, that they are the protagonsts of one of … Read more

On the 13 May 1909 115 cyclist started the first Giro d’Italia from the headquarter of Gazzetta dello Sport in Milano. The race contained 8 stages and covered  2447,9 km. The first stage was won by Dario Beni. Luigi Ganna was the first overall winner of the race.

During the early days of road cycling races, bicycle events quite often produced extraordinary scenes. One of the most hilarious (and also a bit sad)  ones, almost like a comedy sketch happened at the Paris-Roubaix in 1907. French cyclist Georges Passerieu, leader of the race arrived to the gates of the Velodrome in Roubaix alone, … Read more

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 of the earliest long-distance bicycle races, like the 582,5 km long Vienna-Berlin race in 1893, where he triumphed. The route took him 31 hours. Next year, among others, he attended … Read more

Not only men, but also women liked to compete against the hour since the beginning of the history of cycling.  Here are the women who set records during the last years of the 19th century. Mlle de Saint-Saveur 7 July 1893 Vélodrome Buffalo, Paris, France 26,012 km Renée Debatz 4 August 1893 Vélodrome Buffalo, Paris, … Read more

The hour record, riding the longest distance as possible during exactly 60 minutes was a populare challenge since the birt of the bicycle. Actually there were several “first” records during the 19th century: James Moore, a British cyclist set the record of 23,3 km in 1873, but most likely it wasn’t an accurataly measured distance, … Read more