Rouleur: Inside the peloton

Alberto Contador: a champion for modern times

In his racing style, personality and even his ban, there was a solidity to Alberto Contador that places him amongst cycling’s greats

Txomin Perurena: Light in Dark Years

Racing through the Franco era, Basque separatism, and losing the Vuelta by 14 seconds… “I’ll never get that silence out of my head”

Felice Gimondi: Rise of The Phoenix

“My first race was in Treviglio, and we had a little three-wheeled van belonging to a greengrocer as a team car, with us sitting in the back and th...

Suffer-age: elite women who’ve improved with age

From Beryl Burton in the sixties through to Amber Neben today, anecdotal evidence of women cyclists excelling later in their careers is plentiful

Shoe gazing: George Bennett and his hand-painted kicks

George Bennett’s profile rose in 2017 thanks to both his results and the hand-painted shoes he wore during the Tour de France

Where to start? The 2018 Giro d’Italia and the Israeli dilemma

The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Israel will sure look nice, but what about the ethics of its visit? Richard Abraham mulls it over

Richie Porte: On Froome and snakes in the grass

At home with BMC’s crocked captain, talking Froome, venomous snakes and the Dauphiné betrayal that affected their friendship

Comment: Processional final Grand Tour stages rock – leave well alone

Photo ops, champagne, tootling into town, then a big sprint at the end. It’s a winning formula that needs no alteration

Norway ’93: Lance Armstrong’s Worlds win revisited

Twenty-six years ago a brash Texan asserted himself as the new star of the English speaking cycling world. William Fotheringham was there

Worlds 1927: Alfredo Binda, Nürburgring and the first rainbow jersey

In an extract from his new book on the Worlds, Giles Belbin recalls the first championship opened to professionals

Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.7 – Tom Pidcock’s shed by Benedict Campbell

The junior Paris-Roubaix winner and world cyclo-cross champion opens an Aladdin’s cave of race jerseys and missing tools in Yorkshire. Benedict swo...