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The Cycling Jersey – Craftsmanship, Speed & Style
Not just jerseys but bottles, bike parts, caps and medals. There’s a reason why, amongst collectors of cycling memorabilia, Patrick Den Hert is known as...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Simon Geschke
Windy stages promise danger, present opportunities, and call for hard riding by the hardest of men. Sunweb, and Michael Matthews, must be glad they have...
The Link: Armstrong strong-arms Simeoni
The 2004 Tour and a sorry tale of peloton politics and downright bullying
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Michal Kwiatkowski
The Polish domestique de luxe and his quick hands saved the day and the yellow jersey for Chris Froome
Gallery: Tour de France stage 14 – Matthews masterclass, while Fabio flounders
The ramp to Rodez provided last-minute drama as the yellow jersey changes hands once again
Tour de France: Caravan of Love part two
Will we go home with any freebies thrown out by the lovely people of the publicity caravan? Will our gyrating thespian Jonathan make it to...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Warren Barguil
Another fine day for Team Sunweb, but it was Warren Barguil’s fine teamwork that stole the show
Tour de France: Robert Millar on form, feeling and the fundamentals of climbing
Robert Millar was the most successful British climber of his generation. Here, he shares the accumulated knowledge gleaned from a career spent up the road
Top Banana: stage 13 – Alberto Contador
Rather than rolling back the years, Alberto Contador found a new way to race. He remains a rider of relevance, one who can still excite and...
Coryn Rivera: Living the Dream
In her first full season, Coryn Rivera has made a real splash in the WomensTour. Still, with the World Championships on the horizon, she’s not...
Top Banana: stage 12 – Steve Cummings and his one-man tribute
The British champion goes it alone over the Port de Balès in memory of Tom Simpson. We enjoyed it immensely
Gallery: Tour de France stage 11 – Kittel takes five
A wing and a prayer: five stages for Kittel and three Hail Marys for any other sprinters hoping to land a win before Paris
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Maciej Bodnar
Pole vaulted after a valiant effort: with more insipid tactics from everyone but Quick Step, breakaway hot rod Bodnar deserves all the kudos
Nacer Bouhanni: A ‘Rough’ Guide
Fined and penalised for throwing a punch on stage 10. Wasn’t Sagan disqualified for a lesser infringement?
Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet
Four stages wins and counting for the dominant sprinter of this Tour – Marcel Kittel
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Julien Vermote
He’s done over 800 kilometres on the front of the Tour bunch already and has great hair. Here’s to Quick Step’s breakaway buster extraordinaire Julien...
Tour de France: Caravan of Love
The Tour can wait. There’s a carnival procession to be witnessed and freebies to be had. We join the publicity caravan, Henri Desgrange’s 1930 marketing...
Gallery: Men at work: Cannondale-Drapac mechanics
Rest day for the riders, but the mechanics are hard at it as usual. Bike prepping with the Cannondale crew
Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns
Digging deeper to uncover the digits that other publications just can’t find: it’s the Tour de France Week 1 Alternative Facts
Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran
Brilliance from Barguil, single-speed sprinting by Uran, sickening crash for Porte – stage 9 had everything and more
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin
The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane
No competition today. The excellent Lilian Calmejane rode brilliantly in a stage of non-stop action and constant attacking
Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson
A bon vivant who liked to drive fast and laugh hard, Simpson crammed many adventures and memorable moments into his 29 and a half years
Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker
Just six millimetres separated Marcel Kittel from Edvard Boasson Hagen in Nuits-Saint-Georges, apparently. Wafer thin.
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
With Cavendish out, Dimension Data should have been reduced to also-ran status in the sprints. Janse van Rensburg showed their train is still on the...
Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways
The breakaway: natural home of cycling’s dreamers and romantics. Matt Seaton considers what it takes to succeed in the sport’s most kamikaze of spectacles.
A letter from the Editor
ITV4 has a new guest expert in the studio next week. Meet Philippa York
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Frederik Backaert
Today’s scorching temperatures limited the break to only the hardiest of souls. Here’s to the young farmer who is no stranger to long days in the sun
Krasna Lipa: the Czech Republic’s long-running women’s race
The Tour de Feminin, based on the small Czech town of Krasna Lipa, celebrates its 30th edition this week. Our editor was on soigneur duties...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 5 – Aru conquers the mountain
Aru takes the stage, Quintana loses time, Thomas loses yellow, Froome takes the biscuit

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