Cycling Board Games celebrates its fifteenth birthday. Our feature from issue 54 on the best of collector Anki Toner’s 300-plus games

From rouleurs and grimpeurs to puncheurs and sprinteurs, an explanation of the types of riders that make the peloton 

If you were to pick the mother of all super-teams based on this year’s Tour de France, this one would be hard to beat

Rouleur picks the best riders by coffee cup category for the 2018 Tour de France best in class. Who will be the best grimpeur, sprinteur,...

The descent off the Aubisque was probably the fastest and most thrilling of the Tour. Photography motorbike pilot Luke Edwardes-Evans was right there in the...

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest surprise? Rouleur contributors look back...

Pippa was a firsthand witness to the greatest Tour finish in history. “The ride back to the hotel was an eerie affair, streets deserted, the...

For sheer enjoyment of racing, entertainment value and landing a tasty little result en route, we salute the Irishman with a renewed love of the...

“It’s a beautiful mess”: Groupama-FDJ’s lead-out man on what makes the Tour’s last stage so different and  returning to reality post-race

Tour winners receive a trophy handmade in Sèvres by a team of highly-skilled craftsmen and women, using centuries-old techniques and endless patience

The big engines, those domestique bottle-carriers who suffer through the mountains of the Tour, are offered a ‘day off’ during a time-trial. But they don’t...

Tour de France 2018 – 21 stages, 21 stories. We talk to time-trial hot seat regulars Alex Dowsett, Ryan Mullen and Jos Van Emden about...

LottoNL-Jumbo land their third Top Banana of this Tour. This time it’s lanky Dutchman Gesink taking the plaudits. And the fruit

Fast and furious racing, beautiful scenery, Sagan crashing, and Froome and Thomas involved in dramatic incidents. We were on the Col de Portet taking it...

Twenty years ago a famous escape for Marco Pantani on the Galibier enlivened the 1998 Tour and led Giles Belbin into discovering the world of professional cycling

We were on the verge of having the first Tour de France since 1930 without a French team taking a stage. Groupama-FDJ won the day...

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...

For some riders, a Grand Tour can be a struggle to down enough calories. Not so for sports directors, like EF Education First’s Charly Wegelius, where long...

A good day for Colombia at the Tour de France. Nairo Quintana wins the stage and Egan Bernal takes the prize Sky are really concerned...

No one wants to have to reapply whilst on the fly, that’s why Pelotan sun protection receives a lot of summer loving from us at...

Romain Bardet, Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert soak up the high altitude atmosphere of the Sierra Nevada in more ways than one

Stage 17 of the 2018 Tour de France is a mere 65km. There have been shorter, including 1988’s dash to Pau of 38km. Four of the...

An untimely tumble put paid to Adam Yates’ hopes of a first Grand Tour stage win. In finding his feet again he came out every...

From the pilot’s seat of his motorbike, Luke Edwardes-Evans discusses the equipment he takes on Tour and observes the demeanour of Sky’s dual leaders  

Cartoonist Roger Blachon’s perfectly drawn illustrations graced the pages of l’Equipe for 20 years. Isabel Best meets those who knew him well

Another mountain stage breakaway, more points and a helping hand to Majka from the Tour’s remarkable green machine

Nicolas Portal’s pre-race recces are as thorough as they come and his relationship with Chris Froome is fundamental to the team’s success. Meet the young...

The groundwork was all laid, the result just didn’t turn out as planned. All the more reason then to recognise Philippe Gilbert’s effort

On Alpe d’Huez the quest for the perfect selfie ended one rider’s race and jeopardised the integrity of the whole Tour de France. What can...

Have you heard the one about the Kiwi and the banana? It’s been a long road from the foot of New Zealand to the top...