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Tour de France quiz: Win a Rouleur membership plus entry to this year’s Étape du Tour
Ten stages, ten stories. Test your knowledge with our Tour de France-inspired quiz and win yourself a Rouleur membership, plus entry to this year’s Étape...
Can Adam Yates learn from his brother’s mistakes to beat Froome at the Tour?
Simon Yates led the Giro d’Italia into its final week but came undone after a heavy assault by Chris Froome. What lessons can his brother...
Tour de France 2018: 21 stages, 21 stories – Party on, Alpe d’Huez
Fever pitch: Euro disco, booze aplenty and helping hands on the legendary 21 hairpins
Forgotten Finishes
From football stadiums to hippodromes, Classic finishes are moveable feasts. But what makes an iconic finish, and what do the places mean to past winners?...
Californian cubism: Giro Empire ACC Dazzle
Desire – If dazzling is your thing, then these new Giro Empires will grab your attention
Yorkshire terrier: Q&A with Ben Swift
The UAE-Emirates rider spills the beans on the high and lows of his career and what he does with his downtime
Hammer Series part three: Chase
“Lotto NL-Jumbo, Cannondale-Drapac, Movistar and Orica-Scott sweep past in a 20-up time-trial formation.” Drama aplenty in our dispatch from the final day of the 2017...
Hammer Series part two: Sprint
“Have you ever raced in Holland, Belgium and Germany? We don’t hang around. Full gas from the start.” Fighting talk from Andre Greipel in our...
Rough love: the Giro and the Colle delle Finestre
When the gravelled Colle delle Finestre first appeared in the Giro in 2005, it was an instant hit
Why Mario Cipollini should just shut up
Quick Step DS Brian Holm issues a badinage-filled response to our recently re-posted interview with Mario Cipollini
Hammer Series part one: Climb
“It was very different to what I expected: no control, but that is five-man racing.” Tao Geoghegan-Hart gets Hammered at the 2017 debut of the...
The wrong Simon Yates: a funny case of Twitter mistaken identity
Due to one letter’s difference in Twitter usernames, a US-based market researcher called Simon Yates has been inundated by messages of support during the Giro. “It’s...
Svein Tuft: living on cycling’s wild side
Camping out on mountain ridges and plunging into freezing streams, this is the Svein Tuft way of professional cycling
Tour de Ned: Boulting hits the road
“There’s going to be in-depth analysis of how a team time trial, composed solely by the core members of the Wombles, might perform.” This, Boardman’s...
“I came from nothing, I had nothing”: Sacha Modolo, self-made man
There’s a lot more to sprinters than meets the eye, as a long lunch with EF Education First’s Italian fast man shows
Vote for the Sharon Laws Road Rider of the spring
Anna Van der Breggen, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio and Kasia Niewiadoma among the riders vying for your votes in the Sharon Laws Rider of the Spring award
Giro d’Italia 2018: Why everyone loves Mitchelton-Scott
Whether their Giro success is because of or in spite of it, Mitchelton-Scott are possibly the happiest, most laid-back team on the World Tour circuit
Sore point: Rapha Pro Team and Classic Saddles
Desire – A bad saddle can be the bane of a cyclist’s life, finding the right one can be revolutionary. Rapha have taken the importance...
Inside line: what Bjarne Riis did next
Recognising potential is one thing. The question is what you do with it. Morten Okbo heads to Norway with Team Virtu Cycling talent Alexander Kamp
Maurizio and Marco: the Giro route inspectors
Ahead of the peloton, two former pro riders ensure safe passage for the Giro d’Italia
Is there an enemy in your coffee cup?
New research suggests that for around 10% of the population, caffeine can seriously undermine athletic performance
Reflections: racing between Jerusalem stone
A photographer looks back on the opening three days of the Giro d’Italia in Israel
Pink Banana: Giro d’Italia stage 4 – Valerio Conti
A bold late attack that briefly promised to flip the script lands Valerio Conti the first of our occasional Giro awards
Stay classy: Sportful BodyFit Classics Jersey
If brushed fleece is good enough for Haussler then it’s good enough for us. New kit from Sportful that strikes the balance for the Classics
Inside line: peloton pedigree at the Tour de Yorkshire
Rouleur jumps in the car with JLT-Condor manager John Herety for stage one of the Tour de Yorkshire
California sole: the making of Giro’s Empire
Giro’s Empire shoe is a modern cycling design classic. But its genesis and success falls firmly at the feet of a Taylor Phinney whim and a couple...
Culture Clubbed: Pippa York on cycling style
Italians, so stylish, aren’t they? So why are their jersey designs such a dog’s dinner? Pippa rages against the design
Win: Signed Tom Pidcock prizes
Yorkshire boy, multiple World Champion and Rouleur cover star… here’s your chance to win rare, signed products by the wonder kid riding his first Tour de Yorkshire.
Giro d’Italia protagonists: who’s in shape to claim pink
Days away from the first ever depart of a Grand Tour to be held outside of Europe we look at who’s in shape for the...
Tales from Yorkshire (part 2): there are no days for the sprinters
Continued from Tales from Yorkshire – a county of champions, in which we honour the area’s great cycling heritage with stories and reflections from native...
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