Road Racing

Race leader Chris Froome hoping for a positive atmosphere on the often rowdy Alpe d'Huez climb

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For three years, Rob Ijbema has painted his favorite moments from the Tour de France on a daily basis.

BrakeThrough Media captures Tour's brutal week two, which included rainy Pyrenean climbs, hot southern stages, and everything in between.

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With a finish on l'Alpe d’Huez, the penultimate stage of the Tour will offer one last day of Alpine fireworks.

Why does Chris Froome end up looking at his stem on the Tour de France's tough climbs? The yellow jersey has a simple explanation.

Only one day remains for Nairo Quintana to try for a stage win and perhaps one last tilt at the yellow jersey.

Vincenzo Nibali attacks to victory on the Tour's queen stage, but his win is tainted by controversy after Chris Froome's mechanical.

Vincenzo Nibali's long-range attack earns him a stage win. Behind, Nairo Quintana attacks Chris Frooome, but it's not enough for yellow.

Vincenzo Nibali made his race-winning move when yellow jersey Chris Froome was stopped with a mechanical in stage 19 of the Tour.

Nibali rode aggressively to capture the victory on stage 19 of the Tour de France and moved up to fourth in the general classification.

Former UCI president Pat McQuaid makes an appearance at the start of Friday's stage at the Tour de France, this time as a fan.

Two races are occurring in Friday's Tour de France stage 19: one at the front and one at the back

Nairo Quintana is targeting history on Saturday's finishing climb up the Alpe d'Huez in the name of a famous Colombian rider.

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The driver of the moto that caused Jakob Fuglsang to crash near the top of the Col du Glandon has been ejected from the Tour.

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Global Cycling Network throws the rulebook at you with 10 Tour de France rules that may be surprising and unexpected.

The final climb of the Tour's stage 18 was closed to fans due to the narrow roadway, giving the racers a surreal experience.

The 24-year-old French star is relieved to notch his first career stage win, under the weight of the host nation's great expectations.

With a number of near-misses at this Tour de France, Andrew Talansky and Cannondale-Garmin are undeterred in their quest for a stage win.

With strong climbing and fearless descending, Romain Bardet claimed his first career Tour win, the second this year for his Ag2r team.

After a dismal day in the saddle on Thursday, two-time champion Alberto Contador says he is not optimistic for Tour's final stages.

Despite being in fourth overall, Sky's Geraint Thomas is only worrying about securing yellow jersey for Chris Froome in Paris on Sunday.

Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) captured his first career Tour de France stage win on stage 18 from Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.

Bardet unleashes daring descent off the Col du Glandon, grits out final 40 kilometers to win. Froome keeps yellow, calm and in control.

The Sky rider says his rivals' moves and attacks in Wednesday's stage 17 were "impressive."

Art's Cyclery demonstrates the best way to apply lube to a new chain and how to keep it lubed moving forward.

Chris Froome is leading the Tour de France on two fronts: On the road and at the post-stage microphone.

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Katie Hall makes it two in a row for the American contingent at the German stage race as her UHC teammate won Tuesday as well.

When Giant-Alpecin chose to leave Marcel Kittel home, Simon Geschke got the call, and he pays back the team tenfold with stage 17 win.

Alberto Contador's stage 17 was a day to forget as the Giro d'Italia champion lost over two minutes due to a late-race crash.

Nagging illness became worse on the Tour's second rest day, and van Garderen found himself unable to carry on, ceding his podium placing.

Chris Froome was isolated late in stage 17, but the yellow jersey fought back all challenges in another impressive display of strength.

Hannah Grant, once a chef at the world's best restaurants, is in charge of feeding the Tinkoff team during the Tour — no easy task.

Poll data indicates that interest in the Tour is growing worldwide, but in France, it has actually decreased recently.

The American from Team Cannondale-Garmin will ride two mostly identical Cannondale SuperSix Evo bikes with different gearing

On a day for the climbers, Geschke out-witted the breakaway with an early move before the final climb to win his first career Tour stage.

Nairo Quintana may be running out of road to wrest the yellow jersey off Chris Froome's shoulders with three climbing days left.

Simon Geschke won stage 17 of the 2015 Tour de France. Geschke attacked the breakaway before the penultimate climb and powered to the win.

Stage 17, the first day of Alpine racing, delivers drama: Van Garderen abandons; Quintana attacks, Contador crashes, and more.

Race organizer ASO assigns hotels to each team near the finish of each day's stage

The American's podium hopes are shattered after suffering from an unknown illness throughout Wednesday's mountain stage

Froome is in the driver's seat with just four days of hard racing across the Alps; here's what his rivals can do to beat him

The 15.9km descent of the Col d'Allos could see riders press their luck and attack off the front

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The Tour de France is so much more than just a race. Manual for Speed captures all of the festivities and atmosphere of the Grande Boucle.

Team Sky's modern, technology-driven approach is often at odds with cycling's traditionalists, who sometimes push back at new innovations.

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Coryn Rivera sprints to victory in stage 5 of the Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, her first win since April.

Caley Fretz and Andrew Hood talk to Lionel Birnie about the second week of the Tour de France, the favorites, doping allegations, and more.

Now that we're wise to indiscretions of cycling's doping-tainted era, movies from then can be viewed in a different, interesting light.

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Lennard Zinn answers questions about how you can run a mix of different parts and gets a tip on how to help out a weak derailleur.

Global Cycling Network scopes out FSA's new shifting system at the Tour de France on the race's second rest day.

After months of rumors about a new player in the drivetrain game, FSA showed off new parts on the Tour de France's second rest day.

Known as a strong finisher in three-week tours, Quintana will fight for victory in four brutal Alpine stages this week.

Nairo Quintana, Tejay van Garderen, and Alejandro Valverde all feel that the doping suspicions surrounding Froome are out of hand.

Joaquim Rodríguez and Katusha announced on the Tour’s second rest day that the Spanish rider has extended his contract through 2016.

Alberto Contador may have started the Tour on the back foot after a difficult Giro, but he says he'll keep fighting in the Alps this week.

David Brailsford says that France 2's televised "ambush" led Sky to release Froome's power numbers in order to set the record straight.

With a technical descent into the finish of stage 17, this might be the stage for Vincenzo Nibali to make an attack.

Amid all of the chaos and commotion, the Tour de France remains equally exhilarating and exhausting — this year, more than most

Team Sky says that Chris Froome has unfinished business at the Spanish grand tour and may try for the red jersey later this year.

Critics have suggested that Froome, the leader of the Tour de France, is not racing clean

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Global Cycling Cycling Network takes a look inside the Team Sky mobile kitchen at the Tour de France.

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Chloe Woodruff and Jill Kintner dominate the women's events, while Gwin, Fintsterwald, and Grotts win men's races.

Geraint Thomas, one of Chris Froome's key lieutenants in the mountains looks to be uninjured after frightening stage 16 crash.

Peter Sagan put it all on the line, descending like a madman into Gap, but he was unable to pull back lone escapee Ruben Plaza in stage 16.

A big breakaway fights for one final opportunity to win a stage before the Alps commence in earnest. Sagan is close, but not close enough.

Warren Barguil crashes Geraint Thomas off the road on the descent to Gap, blames van Garderen, but the American disputes the details.

Warren Barguil lost control on a fast descent to Gap and crashed into Geraint Thomas, sending the Sky rider off the road in Tour stage 16.

Ruben Plaza wins stage 16 of the Tour de France from Bourg-de-Péage to Gap, with a solo attack on the Col de Mans.