{"id":108624,"date":"2026-07-09T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/?p=108624"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:51:54","slug":"the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/the-tour-de-france\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 1907<\/strong>. Just one month has passed since the most extraordinary contest, the Peking-Paris Motor Race. Pirelli was still bathing in the glory of its victory with Prince Scipione Borghese\u2019s Itala, having helped him secure first place in the first rally in history, but almost immediately it drew up a new agreement for the supply of tyres. This time, the focus shifted to bicycles. Produced by <strong>OTAV<\/strong> (Officine T\u00fcrkheimer per Automobili e Velocipedi of Milan) they were used on the bicycles ridden by <strong>Carlo Galetti, Luigi Ganna and Eberardo Pavesi<\/strong> (aka \u201cThe Three Musketeers\u201d) in the fifth edition of the most famous transalpine cycling race: the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, the<strong> fourteen stages<\/strong> of the Tour were announced by La Gazzetta dello Sport: covering <strong>4,488<\/strong> km of France, it started in Paris and ended up back in the capital, after going through major cities such as Roubaix, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse, and Nantes. A total of ninety-three riders were vying for victory, but only thirty-three made it back to the Ville Lumi\u00e8re. Among these, the only one of \u201cThe Three Musketeers\u201d to make it over the line was Eberardo Pavesi, coming in sixth overall, and the first of the isol\u00e9s i.e. those riders who signed up for the race without being part of a team.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/exhibition\/pirelli-a-passion-on-two-wheels\/\">Back to main page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1907. Just one month has passed since the most extraordinary contest, the Peking-Paris Motor Race. Pirelli was still bathing in the glory of its victory with Prince Scipione Borghese\u2019s Itala, having helped him secure first place in the first rally in history, but almost immediately it drew up a new agreement for the supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Tour de France - Fondazione Pirelli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/the-tour-de-france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tour de France - Fondazione Pirelli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"September 1907. 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