[1] The competition was won by the Belgian Philippe Thys, after in the crucial sixth stage Eugène Christophe broke his bicycle and lost several hours because he had to do the repairs by himself.

In the last stage, Thys also had mechanical problems, but he got help during the repairs, and only got a penalty of ten minutes.

In the 1912 Tour de France, this system had been working against Eugène Christophe's chances, who would have been leading the time classification up until the final stage where he allowed a group to ride away.

The organisers preferred riders to ride solo, so they added a rule that if a cyclist would win a stage with a margin of 20 minutes or more, he would not only get his own prize money, but also the half of all the other cyclists' prize money of that stage.

[6] The first African cyclist took part in the Tour de France in 1913: Ali Neffati from Tunisia.

[7] This edition started with six former Tour de France winners (Louis Trousselier, Lucien Petit-Breton, François Faber, Octave Lapize, Gustave Garrigou and Odile Defraye), the most ever.

[10] The most important event occurred in the third stage, when former winner Lapize stopped the race; either because he considered his earning insufficient,[7] or because he thought his team was not good enough.

At the start of the sixth stage, last year's winner Defraye led the general classification, some 5 minutes ahead of Eugène Christophe.

On the way down from the Tourmalet, Christophe was hit by a race vehicle,[11] and his fork broke, rendering his bike unusable, and the rules said that he had to repair it himself.

When Christophe asked a small boy, of seven years old, to work the bellows, he was fined with ten minutes.

In the final stage, Thys stayed with Garrigou, and so won the 1913 Tour de France.