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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 5

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 5

One day closer to Nice. Will we go the distance? Looking at our predictions for Stage 5, Cycling Mole wonders if there’s something in the...

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 4

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 4

We know there’s a cycling shortage at the moment, but Paris-Nice stage 4 is still a time trial, so just fax us the results, yeah?...

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Desire: Stuart Clapp’s Factor ViSTA

Desire: Stuart Clapp’s Factor ViSTA

It’s new bike day for Desire Editor, Stuart Clapp. He even claims that the Factor ViSTA is his N-minus-2 – what is the world coming...

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Cover stories: Issue 20.2 by Tom Jay

Cover stories: Issue 20.2 by Tom Jay

Dubbels, Tripels, Trappists and Saisons. Illustrator Tom Jay gets the beers in for the cover of our Belgian special

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 3

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 3

On a blustery Stage 2 in northern France, no one named Nizzolo as a possible victor. No one’s gone for him today, either, with most...

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“There is no life in him. The boy is going to die”: Nairo Quitana’s spiritual story

“There is no life in him. The boy is going to die”: Nairo Quitana’s spiritual story

“That is who we are.” We know Nairo Quintana was born in Colombia in 1990 but, as we discover in this extract from Matt Rendell’s...

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 2

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 2

Seems to be a strong consensus that Paris-Nice Stage 2 will come down to a sprint, and there’s several to select from. The amateurs like...

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The column: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone

The column: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone

Is it selfish of us to feel sorrow over the cancellation of bikes races at a time of global crisis? Or is it simply human?

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 1

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 1

With the way things are going, we might have to take what we can get in terms of racing for the foreseeable. This week we’ve...

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Desire: Santini’s Got You Covered

Desire: Santini’s Got You Covered

With a rich history, dedication to garment technology and a family-owned factory, Santini know a thing or two about clothing.

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Ron Webb, the doyen of track design

Ron Webb, the doyen of track design

Ron Webb, who sadly died on Sunday, was a leading 6 Day promoter and race director, and a successful cycle track designer and builder. In...

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Marcel Kittel: “The current anti-doping system is not working”

Marcel Kittel: “The current anti-doping system is not working”

 The German sprinter on clean sport, why anti-doping isn’t working and making sense of former room-mate Georg Preidler’s involvement in Operation Aderlass

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The Cycling Hall of Fame – Vote on the 2020 shortlist

The Cycling Hall of Fame – Vote on the 2020 shortlist

 In 2019 you voted Greg LeMond, Marianne Vos, and Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen into the Cycling Hall of Fame. Who will be the next...

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Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

  Sign up to the Rouleur Chronicle newsletter to receive a weekly supply of curated cycling content      ... The post Sean Kelly: Providence...

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Rouleur predicts… Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2020

Rouleur predicts… Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2020

 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne is our second Belgian Classic of the weekend. Will it be a bunch sprint, a breakaway or something in between? Our panel places their...

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Andrea Tafi: The Gladiator

Andrea Tafi: The Gladiator

Tales from the arena from Mapei’s Roubaix, Flanders and Lombardy champion Andrea Tafi.

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The column: The last team to win

The column: The last team to win

With only three wins in the whole of 2019 and none so far this year, times are looking tough at Team CCC

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Rouleur predicts… Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020

Rouleur predicts… Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020

  And they’re off. The pre-season friendlies done and dusted, the real season begins on Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. But who fancies it, who...

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The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part two

The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part two

From Štybar picking GVA’s pocket at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to two of the greatest races we’ve ever seen in Amstel Gold, Ned Boulting with the...

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The column: Of Nairo Quintana and green shoots at the Tour de la Provence

The column: Of Nairo Quintana and green shoots at the Tour de la Provence

A re-Nairo-saissance? No, we don’t think that works either. Whether or not he’s returned to being a Grand Tour contender, at the Tour de la...

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Zdeněk Štybar: On a decade at Deceuinck-Quick Step

Zdeněk Štybar: On a decade at Deceuinck-Quick Step

  Zdeněk Štybar is closing in on his tenth season at Patrick Lefevere’s team. Far from slowing down, the Czech rider is arguably riding better...

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Desire: True Romance with Gore and Fabian Cancellara

Desire: True Romance with Gore and Fabian Cancellara

Best known for keeping us warm and dry, enter Gore-Wear, Fabian Cancellara’s premium race range and Romance’s jazzy collaboration Shakedry.

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The Knowledge: Abi Van Twisk, gallery gal

The Knowledge: Abi Van Twisk, gallery gal

When at home in London, Trek-Segafredo’s Abi Van Twisk enjoys a bit of gallery hopping. Back in Girona she likes to pick up a pencil...

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The column: Save our cyclists

The column: Save our cyclists

  Regardless of our level of ability, one thing all cyclists have in common is how vulnerable we are on the roads. The culture –...

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Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

At home with his parents, Colin O’Brien explores modern cycling’s great tragedy – Marco Pantani

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Rouleur podcast: The Medal Factory with Kenny Pryde

Rouleur podcast: The Medal Factory with Kenny Pryde

British Cycling and the cost of gold – from rank amateurs to world beaters, but at what cost?

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Chris Juul-Jensen: A new season begins

Chris Juul-Jensen: A new season begins

   Training miles are all well and good, but a racer wants to race. Chris Juul Jensen on how it feels to be back in...

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Mikkel Honoré, Deceuninck Quick Step’s philosopher-in-chief

Mikkel Honoré, Deceuninck Quick Step’s philosopher-in-chief

Meet Mikkel Honoré, the young Danish rider for whom “the classics” means more than just one-day races in the spring

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The column: In defence of… pronunciation policing

The column: In defence of… pronunciation policing

How did we reach a point where the way a rider’s name is said is something we argue over? In which we argue getting it...

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Cover stories: Issue 20.1 by Michael Blann

Cover stories: Issue 20.1 by Michael Blann

Mathieu van der Poel does Zwift for our latest member cover. The story behind the film shoot

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