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Milk Race 1966: missing, believe wiped

Milk Race 1966: missing, believe wiped

Glorious 16mm colour film from the former Tour of Britain in the Welsh mountains

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Rouleur podcast: Orbea and Cycling Mole

Rouleur podcast: Orbea and Cycling Mole

Basque country riding with Orbea, top tipster Cycling Mole studies the Vuelta form, and Desire’s Start Clapp hankers after a vintage Vespa

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 13

Los Machucos beckons, a brute of a ramp to end stage 13. Valverde territory, Pogačar’s turf, or Lopez to leapfrog Alejandro?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 12

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 12

Fraile? Izagirre? Jon Aberasturi? If we didn’t know better, we might think our panel was trying to provoke Cycling Mole. They’ve gone for breakaway but...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 11

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 11

Stage 11 could end in a sprint… but it won’t says our panel. Cycling Mole doesn’t think much of some of our picks but one...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 10

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 10

Stage 10 is individual time trial day, so all of our panel are going for Primoz Roglič, right? Apparently not. Do they know something the...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 9

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 9

Between them our panelists seem determined that Ineos are going to get something out of this Vuelta. Cycling Mole think Stage 9 is one for...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 8

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 8

Half of our panel think Stage 8’s single categorised climb isn’t steep enough to stop a sprint. Cycling Mole disagrees. Who’s going to be proved...

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The world (of cycling) according to Alejandro Valverde

The world (of cycling) according to Alejandro Valverde

The world champion before he wore the rainbows. Alejandro Valverde opens up about his fears and his fitness, friends and rivals, his early years in...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 7

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 7

Can the breakaway take three stages on the trot? Or will stage 7 finally be one for the GC men? Some of our panel are...

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Desire at the Rouleur Classic: Technological wonders from POC

Desire at the Rouleur Classic: Technological wonders from POC

Helmets embedded with NFC tech, sunglasses that change tint with the weather and natural break-friendly bib shorts for women. POC really are going to be...

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The column: Farewell Marcel

The column: Farewell Marcel

Marcel Kittel’s retirement was met with sadness in some quarters. We should instead be cheered, for he has finally felt able to shed an enormous...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 6

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 6

A few of our panel hovered over Herrada, but no-one came close to Madrazo in Stage 5. Stage 6 looks the Costa del Ardennes, but...

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Talking shop with Andy Schleck

Talking shop with Andy Schleck

Retroactively awarded the 2010 Tour de France, Andy Schleck retired early due to injury. The Luxembourger and bike shop owner looks back on what was...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

No question that La Vuelta’s stage 5 will be one for the climbers, but which climbers? Cycling Mole gets the red pen out to mark...

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Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

From our 21 stages, 21 stories series: The harum-scarum life of a sprinter, staying cool in the Tour cauldron, and truth and reconciliation

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Finally, some splits in the bunch. Sam Bennett didn’t let the pressure of being firm favourite phase him on Stage 3. Can he can deliver...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

No-one had Nairo, so still no score in our game. Casquettes will be consumed if Bora Hansgrohe’s Sam Bennett doesn’t deliver a result on Stage...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

A calamitous start for Jumbo-Visma in the TTT meant none of our panel, nor Cycling Mole, got a score on the board yesterday. Will they...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

The 2019 Vuelta a España begins, as is tradition, with a team time trial. There’s one obvious favourite but who on our panel will play...

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The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Jacques Anquetil

The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Jacques Anquetil

Grace and control personified on the bike, chaos and controversy off it. In appreciation of this past master

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Rouleur podcast: Yanto Barker and Phil Anderson

Rouleur podcast: Yanto Barker and Phil Anderson

Elite cyclist turned entrepreneur, Yanto Barker, talks to Ian Parkinson about taking Le Col to the top, while the first non-European maillot jaune, Phil Anderson...

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The column: The Jumbo conundrum

The column: The Jumbo conundrum

Will the arrival of Tom Dumoulin bring Ineos level success for Jumbo Visma, or could it create a few Movistar-style headaches?

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Top Mañana 2019

Top Mañana 2019

The daily Vuelta prediction game, that made its debut last year and definitely wasn’t reverse engineered from a laboured pun, is back for 2019

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Desire: Trending topics

Desire: Trending topics

Tyres are wider, jerseys are jazzier and sprockets are now available by the dozen. The latest developments in design from aero bikes to – whisper...

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Bob Varney:  A Duty of Care

Bob Varney: A Duty of Care

Prize money for the Prudential RideLondon races may be on a par, but similarities end there. Bob Varney from Drops Cycling Team highlights the differences...

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The column: Greg Lemond puts it all on the line

The column: Greg Lemond puts it all on the line

Rouleur editor Andy McGrath meets Greg LeMond in Switzerland and finds this American icon to be open, principled and passionate, and still just as in...

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Generation Z

Generation Z

 How a truly traditional team morphed into one of the most modern and, with the help of a certain Greg Lemond, cycling entered a new...

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Rouleur Classic Competition: Guess the star guest…

Rouleur Classic Competition: Guess the star guest…

Tell us who you think we’ve got coming to the Rouleur Classic 2019 to be in with a chance of winning tickets to all three...

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Rouleur podcast: Rob Hayles and Café du Cycliste

Rouleur podcast: Rob Hayles and Café du Cycliste

Gold medals, rainbow jerseys, national championships bands, TV commentary – Hayles has done it all. Now it’s bespoke jewellery from carbon and titanium, and bits...

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