Which rider won the first professional UCI Road World Championship in 1927?
Answer
Alfredo Binda
88 Cycling Trivia Questions with Answers
88 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What does the bicycle racing abbreviation BMX originally stand for?
Answer
Bicycle motocross
Who won the first women’s Olympic road race, held at the 1984 Los Angeles Games?
Answer
Connie Carpenter
Who was the youngest winner of the Tour de France, taking the title in 1904?
Answer
Henri Cornet
What is the name of the bicycle race known as the Hell of the North?
Answer
Paris–Roubaix
What is the name of the cycling race held between Milan and San Remo?
Answer
Milan–San Remo
Which cyclist won the 2012 Olympic men's road race in London?
Answer
Alexander Vinokourov
Which cyclist won the 2019 Tour de France?
Answer
Egan Bernal
What color jersey does the UCI world champion wear in road cycling?
Answer
Rainbow jersey
What is the name of the bicycle with a large front wheel and small rear wheel?
Answer
Penny-farthing
Which bicycle race is the oldest of cycling's five Monuments?
Answer
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Which cyclist won the first Olympic gold medal in BMX racing at the 2008 Beijing Games?
Answer
Maris Strombergs
Which cyclist won the 1996 Olympic men's mountain-bike cross-country race?
Answer
Bart Brentjens
Which rider won the 1988 Giro d’Italia, becoming the first non-European winner?
Answer
Andrew Hampsten
Who invented the draisine, the 1817 ancestor of the modern bicycle?
Answer
Karl Drais
Which cyclist set the women’s UCI Hour Record at 50.267 kilometers in 2023?
Answer
Vittoria Bussi
Who won the inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022?
Answer
Annemiek van Vleuten
Which cycling race is traditionally called La Primavera, meaning “The Spring”?
Answer
Milan–San Remo
Who designed the Rover Safety Bicycle, introduced in 1885?
Answer
John Kemp Starley
What nickname is commonly used for the Paris–Roubaix cycling race?
Answer
The Hell of the North
What distance did Eddy Merckx set for the men’s UCI Hour Record in 1972?
Answer
49.431 kilometres
Who won the first Vuelta a España in 1935?
Answer
Gustaaf Deloor
Who won the first Giro d’Italia in 1909?
Answer
Luigi Ganna
Who won the men’s road race at the 1896 Olympic Games, the first Olympic cycling road race?
Answer
Aristidis Konstantinidis
Who became the first cyclist to win the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España?
Answer
Jacques Anquetil
Which bicycle race awards its overall leader a pink jersey?
Answer
Giro d’Italia
Which mountain pass is traditionally the highest point of the Tour de France route?
Answer
Col de l’Iseran
In track cycling, how long is one lap of the standard Olympic velodrome?
Answer
250 metres
Which rider won the first five consecutive Tour de France titles from 1991 to 1995?
Answer
Miguel Indurain