Stage races transform professional cycling into a journey across entire regions and countries, with the competition developing over consecutive days rather than a single route. Mountains, coastlines, cities, time trials and transitional stages combine to create races in which geography continuously changes both the sporting challenge and the world surrounding the peloton.
Around the Peloton follows these tours stage by stage, exploring the history, landscapes, architecture and communities encountered along each route. From famous climbs to places rarely seen by international audiences, every stage becomes an opportunity to understand the territory through which the race travels and the stories hidden beyond the road.
The second stage of the Tour of Britain begins and ends in two Lincolnshire towns whose histories were transformed by journeys away from them. From Boston, religious dissenters crossed the North Sea and eventually the Atlantic, carrying with them a…
There are few better places in Britain to begin a bicycle race than the square between Lincoln Castle and Lincoln Cathedral. On one side stands a fortress ordered by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion; on the other rises…
There are stages in which the geography seems to have been designed with little sympathy for cyclists. Stage 9 of the 2026 Vuelta a España is one of them. From the Mediterranean at Villajoyosa, the road turns almost immediately towards…
There is always more than one journey hidden inside a cycling stage. The first is the one we watch: riders attacking and chasing, gaps opening and closing, gradients rising on the screen and the number of kilometres to the finish…
