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Make or break: Dotout Cruiser Wool Light Jacket

Make or break: Dotout Cruiser Wool Light Jacket

The new jacket from Italian brand Dotout that insists you stop what you’re doing and just get out for a couple of hours

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Calling the collectors

Calling the collectors

Share your cycling treasures with us and we could give them the platform they deserve

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Gallery: the recurring problem of Paris-Nice’s nickname

Gallery: the recurring problem of Paris-Nice’s nickname

A race to the Riviera. Oh the glamour of it all! Except Paris-Nice takes place in early March. Chris Auld braved the elements to capture...

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Smooth operator: Endura D2Z Aeroswitch helmet

Smooth operator: Endura D2Z Aeroswitch helmet

Endura bring Simon Smart’s latest creation, the versatile D2Z Aeroswitch helmet, out of the wind tunnel for all to see

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Coureur – The Sporting Cyclist: online archive of Rouleur forerunner

Coureur – The Sporting Cyclist: online archive of Rouleur forerunner

A major inspiration behind Rouleur, all 132 editions of Jock Wadley’s pioneering publication uploaded

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Matteo Trentin: I needed more responsibility before I got too old

Matteo Trentin: I needed more responsibility before I got too old

After dominating on the flat stages of the Vuelta but being eclipsed by the stars in Quickstep’s Classics line-up, Matteo Trentin is ready for a...

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Rebellion: The day 125 riders were time cut in Tirreno-Adriatico

Rebellion: The day 125 riders were time cut in Tirreno-Adriatico

No matter how much you stamp and bang your cleats, the race jury’s word is the final one

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Opinion: In women’s cycling, we must think beyond the minimum wage

Opinion: In women’s cycling, we must think beyond the minimum wage

Establishing a minimum wage is often held up as a key priority for the women’s pro peloton. But what are the realities of doing so?...

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Simon Smart: the cycling world’s fast thinking brain

Simon Smart: the cycling world’s fast thinking brain

Meet the former Formula One aerodynamicist behind Endura’s new Encapsulator skinsuit technology

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Heroes in the Tuscan mud: scenes from a remarkable Strade Bianche

Heroes in the Tuscan mud: scenes from a remarkable Strade Bianche

The roads turned to sludge and faces were covered in grime, but remarkable things happen in the mud. Max Leonard and Paolo Ciaberta pay homage to the drama,...

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Cover Stories: Rouleur issue 18.2 – Paris Roubaix by Pauline Ballet

Cover Stories: Rouleur issue 18.2 – Paris Roubaix by Pauline Ballet

Fine photos from David Powell, Pauline Ballet and Paolo Ciaberta vied for the coveted Rouleur cover spot. Which one won?

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Fabian Cancellara: doing the double at Flanders and Roubaix

Fabian Cancellara: doing the double at Flanders and Roubaix

Private jets, boozy post-Flanders celebrations and banging hangovers. How will he go at Roubaix? Not bad, it transpires…

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Alex Edmondson: “I remember winning my first novice race on a borrowed bike, riding with sand shoes”

Alex Edmondson: “I remember winning my first novice race on a borrowed bike, riding with sand shoes”

After his surprise win in the Australian road championships, Rouleur talks to Alex Edmondson about his formative years and “inspirational” sister

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Much ado about March – a guide to this month’s glut of racing

Much ado about March – a guide to this month’s glut of racing

With several notable week long stage races and a wealth of important one-day events, March is a busy month on cycling’s calendar.

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“I thrive visually on the chaos…the dust, the riders, the accidents”

“I thrive visually on the chaos…the dust, the riders, the accidents”

With Rouleur issuing a new set of prints that celebrate the Monuments, we catch up with one of the makers of those images – photographer Kristof...

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Dispatch from the desert: Abu Dhabi Tour

Dispatch from the desert: Abu Dhabi Tour

As the Middle East’s only WorldTour race, the 2018 Abu Dhabi Tour attracted the fastest riders around. With a time trial and a summit finish, however,...

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Larry Warbasse blog – eight things I’d tell the younger me 

Larry Warbasse blog – eight things I’d tell the younger me 

Aqua Blue Sport’s Larry Warbasse recalls the frosty reception he got when he first joined the pro-ranks and considers what he might have done differently

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Over the rainbow: Pearl Izumi P.R.O Leader v4 shoes

Over the rainbow: Pearl Izumi P.R.O Leader v4 shoes

Pearl Izumi don’t care what’s at the end of the rainbow. They just took the whole thing and used it to decorate the bottom of...

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Under wraps: images from Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

Under wraps: images from Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

As if the cobbled hills and other riders weren’t enough, there was another factor to take on in Belgium: that bitter wind.

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Luke Rowe on breaking his leg: “Sh*t happens”

Luke Rowe on breaking his leg: “Sh*t happens”

A freak accident cost Luke Rowe six months of his career, but it might have been much worse. As he returns to action at the...

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Toni Maier – how Assos championed lycra, carbon and aero wheels

Toni Maier – how Assos championed lycra, carbon and aero wheels

As Swiss company Assos celebrate over 40 years in the sport, we take a look at the profound influence founder Toni Maier has had on cycling

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A sense of space: scenes from the pros’ track day in Abu Dhabi

A sense of space: scenes from the pros’ track day in Abu Dhabi

You can almost hear the tyres screech in Russ Ellis’s photos from the Yas Marina race track. It’s not the Grand Prix though, it’s the...

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Race preview: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Race preview: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

After our fill of desert races and riders taking selfies with kangaroos, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad lifts the curtain once again on the spring Classics. Here’s...

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Tony Martin: Commanding the cobbles

Tony Martin: Commanding the cobbles

After conquering the Worlds four times, Tony Martin has set his sights on the Hell of the North. Rouleur sits down with Katusha’s classics captain

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Jørgen Leth on the making of a cinematic cycling classic

Jørgen Leth on the making of a cinematic cycling classic

Jørgen Leth is the director of some of the most celebrated cycling films ever made. Jakob Kristian Sørensen visited him in a Haiti where they headed...

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What’s in the next issue? 18.2 goes big on the Classics

What’s in the next issue? 18.2 goes big on the Classics

Fabian Cancellara, Greg Van Avermaet, riding shotgun with Mavic at Roubaix, Tour of Flanders in photos and more

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Snow relation: cycling’s many ties to the Winter Olympics

Snow relation: cycling’s many ties to the Winter Olympics

Are those ski pants you’re wearing? Didn’t a triathlete invent the aero bar? What have cycling and winter sports got in common? Quite a lot actually

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Museum Pieces and Modern Masters

Museum Pieces and Modern Masters

When he’s not making roof racks for WorldTour teams, Leo Moors tends to his remarkable collection of vintage pro bikes.

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“Young, dumb but lots of fun” – dressing for cold weather back in the good old days

“Young, dumb but lots of fun” – dressing for cold weather back in the good old days

Two former pros reflect on winter cycling kit and extreme conditions in the 1970s and 1980s

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In pictures: glorious mud at the 2018 world cyclo-cross championships

In pictures: glorious mud at the 2018 world cyclo-cross championships

If there was one defining characteristic to all the races at this year’s world cyclo-cross championships, it was the muddy conditions they were run in

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