Follow the Peloton
Explore the world of professional cycling race by race. Follow the Grand Tours, Classics and stage races as the peloton crosses countries, climbs mountains and passes through places filled with history, culture and stories waiting beyond the roadside.
Latest from Around the Peloton
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Tour de France 2027 Stage 3: Welshpool to Cardiff — Through the Heart of Wales, from Medieval Kingdoms to the Coal Valleys
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Tour de France 2027 Stage 2: Keswick to Liverpool — Across England’s Lakes, Hills and Industrial Heartland
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Tour de France 2027 Stage 1: Edinburgh to Carlisle — Scotland’s Historic Grand Départ
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Tour de France 2027: A Race Against the Clock, a Battle in the Mountains
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BEKING Monaco 2026 – Cycling, Charity and Racing Around Port Hercule
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2026 African Road Cycling Championships – Kisumu → Kisumu · 175.1 km · 25 October 2026 | Route, History & Culture Guide
Stories from the Peloton
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Wallonia: Coal, Steel, the Ardennes and the Making of a Cycling Heartland
The Mur de Huy begins among the streets of a town built along the River Meuse. From the valley floor, the road climbs towards the wooded heights above Huy, passing old stone walls and religious buildings before bending sharply through the Virage Claudy Criquielion, named after Walloon cycling champion Claude “Claudy” Criquielion. The gradient becomes…
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How a Professional Cycling Team Is Built: Leaders, Domestiques and Specialists
On 31 August 2023, Sepp Kuss crossed the finish line at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, high in the mountains of eastern Spain, to win the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España. The American had escaped into a large breakaway before leaving his remaining companions behind on the final climb. Behind him, his Jumbo-Visma…
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Bordeaux–Paris: The Rise and Fall of Cycling’s Great Endurance Classic
On the morning of 24 May 1891, spectators gathered near the Porte Maillot on the western edge of Paris to await a cyclist who had left Bordeaux the previous day. The rider they were expecting had travelled across much of France, through a night on roads that were often rough, poorly lit and shared with…
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Madonna del Ghisallo: The Sacred Mountain of Italian Cycling
The road from Bellagio begins close to the waters of Lake Como, then turns away from the lake and climbs into the wooded hills of the Triangolo Lariano. The first kilometres are steep, with bends that force cyclists to settle quickly into a climbing rhythm. Beyond Guello, the gradient eases before the road rises again…
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Major Taylor Against the World
At the end of the nineteenth century, one of the most famous athletes in America rode a bicycle. His name was Marshall Walter Taylor, but cycling crowds knew him as Major Taylor, a young man whose extraordinary speed made him a celebrity in a country where bicycle racing was one of the great spectator sports.…
