The Spring Classics
Clattering through agrarian hamlets on roughly paved routes carved from the hills more than a century ago, the spring classics test cycling’s toughest riders with the worst conditions...
View ArticleTeam 7-Eleven
In 1980, there were exactly four professional bike racers in America. Six years later, an American cycling team would wear the coveted yellow jersey of the Tour de France. And that same team would go...
View ArticleIron War
The 1989 Ironman® World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports. In a spectacular duel that became known as the Iron War, the world’s two strongest athletes raced side by side at...
View ArticleItalian Racing Bicycles
There are bicycles. And then there are Italian bicycles. As with high fashion or sports cars, when the world speaks of racing bicycles the conversation soon turns to Italy. Seasoned cyclists know that...
View ArticleArgyle Armada
From winter training camp on the cobbled lanes of medieval Girona, Spain, to hard-earned stage victories in July’s Tour de France, to flesh-shredding crashes at the Tour of Spain in September, Argyle...
View ArticleSlaying the Badger
Bernard Hinault is “Le Blaireau,” the Badger. Tough as old boots, he is the old warrior of the French peloton, as revered as he is feared for his ferocious attacks. He has won 5 Tours de France,...
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Merckx 525
Merckx 525 celebrates the unmatchable career of Eddy Merckx, the greatest cyclist ever and the most dominant athlete of the 20th century. Known as “the Cannibal” for his insatiable hunger to win,...
View ArticleAs the Crow Flies
When he became just the fourth man to win three Ironman® World Championships, Craig “Crowie” Alexander joined triathlon’s most elite inner circle of champions. In As the Crow Flies, the five-time world...
View ArticleTour de France 100
The Tour de France, first staged in 1903, is the world’s greatest sports spectacle, packed with heart-stopping drama, legendary rivalries, bitter tragedy, and outright farce. In its 100 runnings—the...
View ArticleMy Time
On July 22, 2012, Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. Ten days later, at the London Olympic Games, he won the time trial to become his country’s most...
View ArticleThe Land of Second Chances
Nearly two decades after the 1994 genocide that tore the country apart, the African nation of Rwanda remains haunted by its dark past. Yet modern Rwanda, a tiny, landlocked country dropped like a...
View ArticleAt Speed
Written off as “fat” and “useless” in his youth, Mark Cavendish has sprinted to the front of the Tour de France peloton to become cycling’s brightest star—and its most outspoken. Following his debut...
View ArticleThe Elite Bicycle
The Elite Bicycle is a portrait of the world’s greatest bicycle artisans, examining the philosophies, the workmanship, and the personalities behind cycling’s most prestigious brands. Every bicycle has...
View ArticlePro Cycling on $10 a Day
Phil Gaimon has no business being a professional cyclist. Inexplicably abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the grand ambition of shedding...
View ArticleEtape
Étape is the French word for “stage”, and it refers to the daily drama of the world’s greatest bike race, the Tour de France. In Étape (“ay TOP”), critically acclaimed sportswriter Richard Moore...
View ArticleFat Tire Flyer
It all started with a small crew of bicycle-obsessed hippies bombing the downhill trails of Mount Tamalpais, in Marin County, California. As the friendly competition intensified on the steep dirt trail...
View ArticleGoggles & Dust
Drawn from the one of the world’s finest collections of cycling artifacts, Goggles & Dust collects over 100 stunning photographs from competitive cycling’s heyday. Spanning the 1920s and ’30s,...
View ArticleRusch to Glory
Rebecca Rusch is one of the greatest mountain bikers of her generation, but she began her journey toward greatness from an ordinary beginning. A scrawny, asthmatic kid from Chicago who leaned toward...
View ArticleBike Mechanic
Bike Mechanic takes a look inside the daily life of the unsung heroes of the peloton, the bike techs who keep the stars riding smoothly and safely on the sport’s steepest climbs, the most technical...
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Shoulder to Shoulder
BEGINS SHIPPING October 30. PREORDER NOW! With a comb in his pocket, his glamorous blonde wife by his side, and an unyielding will backed by blazing speed, Jacques Anquetil became cycling’s leading...
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