Late 1902. The newspaper L'Auto is losing money, outsold by its rival Le Vélo. Around a table, a twenty-five-year-old writer floats an idea judged outlandish: a bicycle race around the whole of France. The Tour de France was not born of a sporting dream. It was born of a cash-flow problem.
A newspaper on the brink of bankruptcy invents the Tour de France to sell paper — and creates a monument.
New bike sales are sliding while second-hand climbs: start-ups worth hundreds of millions, worn-out batteries, stolen bikes — anatomy of a market with no rules.
Start-ups worth hundreds of millions, tired batteries, stolen bikes: a market with no rules.
On 11 September 2024, a 38-year-old American rode back past Buckingham Fountain in Chicago after four continents and twenty-two countries. Lael Wilcox had just circled the world by bike in 108 days. The story of an epic.
From Chicago to Chicago, a round-the-world ride that ends in a record.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the bicycle did more for women's emancipation than most political speeches. The story of a quiet revolution.
The bicycle tears through skirts and corsets, and rides with the first suffragettes.
Late 1902. The newspaper L'Auto is losing money, outsold by its rival Le Vélo. Around a table, a twenty-five-year-old writer floats an idea judged outlandish: a bicycle race around the whole of France. The Tour de France was not born of a sporting dream. It was born of a cash-flow problem.
New bike sales are sliding while second-hand climbs: start-ups worth hundreds of millions, worn-out batteries, stolen bikes — anatomy of a market with no rules.
On 11 September 2024, a 38-year-old American rode back past Buckingham Fountain in Chicago after four continents and twenty-two countries. Lael Wilcox had just circled the world by bike in 108 days. The story of an epic.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the bicycle did more for women's emancipation than most political speeches. The story of a quiet revolution.