Well, that website is a nice new discovery.
There are some interesting articles/essays on this French website - various On-Topic race related subjects... (Coppi, Bartali, Anquetil, Poulidor, etc.)
Just click on the "L'Historie du velo" tab at the left... or this link should pull up the page:
http://velo101.com/
Oops, sorry. I should mention they are all in French... but you should be able to google at least an passable (albeit typically awkward) translation.
BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA