Willy Streblow est un jeune cycliste pauvre qui entre dans l'équipe d'un riche constructeur de bicyclettes. Il remporte gloire et fortune et peut alors épouser la fille du riche constructeur de bicyclettes.
Un meurtrier supprime cinq coureurs sur le Tour de France 1948 et signe ses crimes d'une tulipe rouge. Une journaliste (Colonelle) et un inspecteur de police (Ricoul) mènent l'enquête pour arrêter l'assassin à l'arrivée du Tour, au Parc des Princes.
Au début des années 1970, Ghislain Lambert est un coureur cycliste belge, né le même jour qu'Eddy Merckx, a l'ambition de devenir un champion. Il parvient à intégrer une grande équipe mais comme porteur d'eau. Déterminé dans son rêve de victoire et de gloire sportive, Ghislain Lambert attend impatiemment son tour, quitte à sauter le pas du dopage. Tout sera bon pour briller enfin...
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia follows the story of a professional Spanish cyclist, Pepe Benengeli, as he competes in the Vuelta a España road bicycle race through his home town in the Iberian region of Andalusia. As the story progresses, Pepe is faced with frustrating consequences, with him facing pressure from his sponsors and the wedding of his former girlfriend, Carmen, to his elder brother, Angel, coinciding on the same day of the penultimate stage of the bicycle race. Originally is meant to be a backup racer (domestique) whose job is to assist his more prominent team-mate to win the race. However he accidentally overhears a conversation in his sponsor's van through his radio com-link which had been negligently left open, in which he finds out, to his shock, that his sponsor intends to fire him after the race. Realizing that he may not find another team for the next season and that he has nothing left to lose, he disregards his instructions and sets out to win the race for himself.
Un rallye cycliste consiste en l'ascension du col du Parpaillon, dans la Haute-Ubaye (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Les concurrents amateurs s'élancent, et leurs efforts ont des fortunes diverses...
En 1901, Jules Duroc, un bricoleur, a conçu une bicyclette comportant de nombreuses innovations techniques. Mais comme il s'est endetté pour réaliser ses recherches et son prototype, un de ses créanciers veut la faire saisir. Jules s'enfuit au guidon de sa bicyclette, poursuivi par un des huissiers. Tenace, celui-ci le poursuit pendant toute la course Paris-San Remo où il multiplie les traquenards.
Nasim, a poor Afghan refugee in Iran, gives a demonstration in his town's square where he rides his bicycle without stopping for seven days and seven nights, with the aim of raising money for life-saving surgery for his dying wife. In the end, even after seven days, he continues to pedal endlessly, too fatigued to hear his son's and the crowd's pleas to get off his bicycle. One scholar analyses the film as an allegory which parallels the exploitation that Afghan refugees suffer from in Iran and from which they are unable to escape.
It focuses on five individuals from around the world: Fred, a caregiver from Zambia who rides from village to village visiting AIDS patients; Carlos in Guatemala, who invented a pedal-powered device that offers a small-scale alternative to diesel-fueled machines; Sharkey, who avoids gang life by working in a Santa Barbara, California neighborhood bike shop; Bharati, a young girl in India who gets an education because she has a bicycle to ride to school; and Mirriam, a bike mechanic in Ghana stricken with Polio.
Fortuné est un passionné de vélo. Il n'hésite pas à abandonner son poste de groom pour rejoindre une course cycliste quand elle passe devant l'hôtel où il travaille. Renvoyé, il finit par trouver un emploi chez un fabricant de cycles avant de réussir à participer avec succès au Tour de France.