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Songs in the key of bike: meet Chloe Marie Aston 'the Piano Bike Girl'
Chloe Marie Aston is a singer and performer from North Devon who has come up with an ingenious and eyecatching idea for transporting her piano from pitch to...
Breakaway Femmes: The untold and extraordinary story of the Tour de France Féminin
A new documentary film, Breakaway Femmes, covers the largely untold and extraordinary story of the Tour de France Féminin, a women’s race which ran alongside the...
Meandering of the soul - Stubbleman on his Mont Ventoux-inspired album
Stubbleman is the alter ego of music producer Pascal Gabriel, who had a number-one hit in the UK in 1988 with The Theme from S’Express,...
Three Mountains: The Pyrenean summit finishes of the 2025 Tour de France
The 2025 Tour de France will see three consecutive summit finishes in the Pyrenees: at Hautacam, Peyragudes and Superbagnères. Rouleur goes to explore the culture...
The ties that bind: a day of temporary and fast-changing alliances
Stage 11 was defined by the temporary alliances formed over the course of the stage, and the fight between two groups of five riders, working...
The Great Bike Race: the untold story of the Tour de France Féminin
A new documentary film, Breakaway Femmes, covers the largely untold and extraordinary story of the Tour de France Féminin, a women’s race which ran alongside...
Made in France: Pavel Sivakov on the Pyrenees, dealing with pressure, and finding a place in the peloton
Pavel Sivakov is one of Tour champion Tadej Pogačar’s most valued climbing domestiques, and a rider who has carved out a successful career, with, he...
The Lion King, digging deep, and reclaiming rainbows: Question Time with Ellen van Dijk
Get to know Lidl-Trek's Dutch star
'Hopefully the luck will come back' - Reflections on a hard Tour de France for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had high hopes going into the 2024 Tour de France, with a realistic target of finishing on the podium with Primož Roglič, even...
Krave, karaoke, and looking cool: Question time with Josh Tarling
The Ineos Grenadier and World Championships TT bronze medallist on his craving for Krave, his throwing ability and the necessity of committing when it comes...
The Tour de France and the Boulder Problem
Tadej Pogačar went into the Pyrenees with a slim lead in the 2024 Tour de France, and emerged with a significant one. Rouleur looks at...
Anthony Turgis masters the chaos
The TotalEnergies rider takes his biggest ever win, and his team’s first at the race in seven years
A day out in La France Profonde
Stage eight was a classic ‘quiet’ stage of the Tour, taking their riders through La France Profonde, the heart of rural France
Julien Bernard makes a party out of a time trial
What Julien Bernard lost in time by stopping to greet his friends and family in the Burgundy time trial, he gained in making the Tour...
How I won the Tour of Flanders
Edward Pickering speaks to several riders who have won Belgium's most prestigious Classics, to find out how they did it and what the victory meant...
'A bit mind-bending' – how Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice
Matteo Jorgenson tells Rouleur about how he took his biggest victory yet at Paris-Nice
An American in Nice
Rouleur editor Edward Pickering reflects on Matteo Jorgenson's Paris-Nice win
Jay Vine: The numbers game
Jay Vine has endured a challenging season, despite winning the Tour Down Under in January. He reflects to Rouleur on the highs and lows of...
Edward Pickering’s five things to look forward to at Rouleur Live 2023
Rouleur Editor, Edward Pickering, looks ahead and picks some highlights from the star-studded Rouleur Live 2023 line-up
What's inside Issue 122 of Rouleur?
There is no better way of travelling than by bike. It is the cheapest, cleanest and healthiest way of getting from A to B, and...
A lifetime with Phil Liggett
Television commentator Phil Liggett has covered 50 Tours de France and has been ever present as the sport of road cycling has grown and changed beyond recognition....
A duel in the sun
Strange things are afoot in this Tour de France Femmes, and the latest unpredictable stage saw Ricarda Bauernfeind win solo in Albi
The Tour’s culture war
Jonas Vingegaard won the 2023 Tour de France and looks set for an era of dominance, but his style has not been a hit with...
Thibaut Pinot: Once More, With Feeling
France’s favourite cycling son tried hard to achieve a stage win on home ground in his penultimate day in the Tour, but despite passionate support,...
Friends forever… almost
The break held off the chasing peloton in Bourg-en-Bresse. Rouleur looks at the temporary alliances which win and lose bike races
Vingegaard twists the knife
In an implacable show of dominance, Jonas Vingegaard killed off the 2023 Tour de France, and for good measure psychologically crushed Tadej Pogačar
A dramatic turn of events
The story of the 2023 Tour de France took a surprising twist in the stage 16 time trial to Combloux
Pogačar and Vingegaard are fighting each other to a standstill
The two main protagonists of the 2023 Tour de France, along with their immensely strong teams, are in a position of stalemate, but has momentum...
There are still two: why 2023 is a Tour de France for the ages
The gap between Vingegaard and Pogačar is wafer-thin, and neither looks stronger than the other. This is a Tour that is going to go down...
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