The Tour de France didn't finish in Paris this year (2024), but the Olympic Games road races do.  So look back to 1987 when Jeff Pierce was one of only two US riders to have won the final stage of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The other is Greg LeMond who won in 1989, Pierce took his victory two years previously, just ahead of Canada's Steve Bauer.

Roberto Visentini was a top rider, a classy rider and they say a playboy and he was a hero in Italy with a big palmarès. But many in the English speaking world know him from the Roche Giro of '87. Ed Hood had a long talk to Roberto about his life, on and off the bike and 'that' Giro d'Italia.

The USA has had a checkered Tour history, high points with wins from Greg Lemond, and... Well, we know the depths, but who was the first man from the US to ride the Big One? Ed Hood spoke to Jonathan sometimes 'Jock' or 'Jacques' Boyer.

In the fourth instalment of our series on North American road racing, we had the privilege to sit down with Kevin Field, one of the key "builders" in Canadian road racing over the last two decades.

VIDEO: PEZ and Chris talk about the season's first Grand Tour in our Giro d'Italia preview. We cover the big topics like why Chris only rode half of the 2009 Giro, who can challenge Tadej Pogacar for this year's Maglia Rosa, is a Giro-Tour double even possible, how much luck you really need, the key stages and more.

Sean Kelly was the 'King of the Classics' for many years, but the man from Carrick-on-Suir also won the Vuelta a España and many shorter stage races. His record at Liège-Bastogne-Liège is only beaten by Argentin and Merckx. Ed Hood caught up with the Irishman for his thoughts on the 'Old Lady' of the road.

The Amstel Gold Race signals the start of the Ardennes Classics and the climbers come out of the woodwork. Raced over the hills, dales, and forests of south eastern Holland, the course selects its own worthy winner. Twenty-nine years ago it was Mauro Gianetti who was making the news.

PEZ talks with Chris Horner about what makes the Paris-Roubaix cycling race so cool - the Queen of the Classics, l'Enfer du Nord, the Hell of the North. We breakdown the lore, talk key sectors of cobbles like the Arenberg trench, and Carrefour de l'Arbre, the finish on the track at the Roubaix velodrome, and those iconic showers, and of course the favorites for this weekend's race.

VIDEO: For many it's THE race of the season, and with a stacked field of cycling's biggest stars, this year's Tour of Flanders promises nothing short of fireworks. I talk with pro-cycling legend, Vuelta winner, and inimitable race analyst Chris Horner about "de Ronde" - what makes this race cool, how to race it and who he picks to win . You'll also hear the story about what happened in the '99 de Ronde when Chris jumped into one broom wagon, but his bike went in another - Pez