Overall Longest: Tour Divide, mountain bike race. Road: Le Tour de France
The Tour de France is the most famous bike race in the world.
France
Tour de France. a big, anual bike race. all it is, is professional bike racers that ride around France every year.
The Tour de France, possibly the world's premier bike race.
Tour De France, a multi-stage bike race in France spanning over several days.
No. That's probably the RAAM, Race Across AMerica. At 3000 miles, it's about 30% longer than the Tour de France.
It's a drop bar road bike for most of the race, and a time-trial road bike for the individual pursuit stage.
Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France in 1903.
A race road bike
In the Olympic and Commonwealth games the marathon is the longest non-motorised sporting event. The iron man triathlon is the longest recognised sporting event held in one day (2.4 miles swim, a 112 miles bike and a marathon (26 miles 385 yards, 42.195 km) run) The Tour de France cycle race is the longest non-motorised sporting event in total and covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi)
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