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Updates, stories and opinions from inside the world's greatest sport, written and captured by Rouleur journalists

Glazed Over: Sunglasses of the 20th Century Peloton

Glazed Over: Sunglasses of the 20th Century Peloton

“Don’t masquerade with the guy in the shades.” Sunglasses at Night, Corey Hart 

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The Slow Cycling Movement

The Slow Cycling Movement

What's the obsession with speed? Rouleur takes a close look at the joys of slow (and often happy) cycling

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Etoile de Besseges, the tough season-opener bucking the trend

Etoile de Besseges, the tough season-opener bucking the trend

Five-day race Etoile de Bessèges should begin on Wednesday. We look back on Hampsten, Kirsipuu and Halgand trading tales from France’s back-to-school race “keeping cycling in...

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Top 10: Terrible Cycling Kits

Top 10: Terrible Cycling Kits

The sport of cycling has seen some sartorial shockers over the years. From Phonak to Footon, we’ve narrowed it down to the 10 worst kits

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Miguel Indurain

Rain

A heavy dread. It starts the moment you wake. It’s like an unpleasant taste lingering in your mouth, a bad dream, something unresolved that still...

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Romain Bardet: The art of descending

Romain Bardet: The art of descending

Romain Bardet is one of the best descenders in cycling. Rouleur's regular columnist shares what's going through his mind when the road heads downhill

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Arc de Triomphe

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 21

It's been an emotional three weeks, but our panel has made it to Paris. Who will bag the final win on the Champs-Ẻlysées?

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Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 20

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 20

Just a mountain TT to go before Paris - prime Primož territory. Or is it?

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Lennard Kamna

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 19

Kämna, Trentin, Martinez, GVA and Arndt. It's a mixed bag of sausages for stage 19 as we near Paris. Who's a chipolata, and who's a...

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Tour de France 2020

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 18

Another big day in the saddle. Yates, Sivakov, De Gendt, Pogacar or Carapaz? The Mole runs his beady eye over out punts, then goes wild

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Pogacar

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 17

Big mountains, big shakedown, or big break? Stage 17 of the Tour de France promises much. Will the Rouleur pundits deliver?

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Tiesj Benoot

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 16

Our Ben got a score on the board for stage 15, correctly picking Tadej Pogacar to win on Grand Colombier.  That's nine out of 15...

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Baling out

Baling out

Do you remember stage 9 of the 2013 Tour de France? It was the one where Chris Froome found himself isolated in a powerful lead...

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Just keep going: inside the fight for Tour de France survival

Just keep going: inside the fight for Tour de France survival

Behind the battle for Tour de France victory, there’s a bunch of exhausted riders simply trying to survive. Geraint Thomas, Malcolm Elliott and Alex Stieda...

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