With the Tour de France more than half over we think it’s a good point to take a step back and look at the past stage results. As we feel cycling is truly a team sport we thought it would be fun to give a totally meanlingless award to a the team that best represented the bike racing lifestyle we have come to admire.

Ream more to find out what team won the Brumble Bike Tour Award and why. Read More...

Americans, by and large, know one bike race - the Tour de France.   Truth be told, this is the biggest bike race of them all and it deserves to part of the american conscious.   It has all the elements: drama, history, epic stages and a three week timeframe that coincides with the peak of summer.    You really couldn't ask for a better set of variables.   Readers of our site know that at Brumble Bikes we think the biggest isn't necessarily the best.  While Le Tour de France is always called "the tour," there are other grand tour lasting three weeks with just as many variables that make for dramatic and historic events.  The Giro Italia and the Vuelta Espana are two such biking events. Read More...

As you can tell from earlier posts we here at Brumble Bikes are big fans of the Bike Lifestyle and conveying that lifestyle through image and, at times, the written word.    Without question Paris Roubaix is the best race to convey the pain, the suffering, the sense of history and the Bike Lifestyle of racing in Europe.   This race, rich in history on so many levels, has been accurately captured in  Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell by Philippe Bouvet, Pierre Callewaert, Jean-Luc Gatellier, and Laget Serge. Read More...

Cycling is a sport rich in drama and sometimes, if you’re lucky, someone captures an image that depicts the drama, pain and joy that are experienced during a race. There is one race in particular, the 1989 World Championships, that produced a win and an image that captured everything that makes bike racing such a personal and rewarding journey. Read More...