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Review: Ride for your L1fe Documentary – Behind the scenes of Team Novo Nordisk

Review: Ride for your L1fe Documentary – Behind the scenes of Team Novo Nordisk

A film crew followed Team Novo Nordisk for the entire 2021 racing season. Nick Busca explains why the resulting documentary is a must-watch, not only for cycling...

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Five Preview - a second sprint finish expected

Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Five Preview - a second sprint finish expected

Rouleur previews stage five of the Giro d’Italia, where Mark Cavendish is again expected to face-off against the other elite sprinters

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The Giro d’Italia 2022: Mark Cavendish’s best sprint ever?

The Giro d’Italia 2022: Mark Cavendish’s best sprint ever?

A long, dominating sprint proved that the Manxman is showing no signs of slowing down

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Four Preview - Mount Etna summit finish

Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Four Preview - Mount Etna summit finish

The GC battle begins at the Giro in earnest with a stage four mountain top finish at Mount Etna, where the top contenders for the...

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Three Preview - first chance for the sprinters

Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Three Preview - first chance for the sprinters

Rouleur previews stage three of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, set to be a battle between the star sprinters like Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan

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Itzulia Women 2022 Preview: Route, contenders and predictions

Itzulia Women 2022 Preview: Route, contenders and predictions

We look ahead to the first ever edition of this three-day WWT event in the Basque Country of Northern Spain

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Things to Look Out For

Giro d'Italia 2022: Things to Look Out For

What we're looking forward to about the 2022 Giro d'Italia, from Mark Cavendish to Mathieu van der Poel and Biniam Girmay, plus the riders both young and...

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755 bidons per rider per year: How to solve cycling’s water bottle problem

755 bidons per rider per year: How to solve cycling’s water bottle problem

Aiming to minimise its environmental impact, Cannondale has created compostable water bottles to be used by its professional teams this season

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Giro d’Italia 2022: The Toughest Stages

Giro d’Italia 2022: The Toughest Stages

The decisive stages of the 2022 Giro d’Italia where the race for the pink jersey will be won or lost

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Giro d'Italia 2022: The GC Favourites

Giro d'Italia 2022: The GC Favourites

Rouleur assesses the GC riders in with a shot of claiming the pink jersey of the 2022 Giro d'Italia

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Rouleur 111, The Youth Issue - Out Now

Rouleur 111, The Youth Issue - Out Now

We celebrate the ongoing youthquake that is revolutionising cycling

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Two Preview - a short time-trial

Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage Two Preview - a short time-trial

Rouleur previews stage two of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, a short time-trial in Budapest. Strong time-triallists like João Almeida and Tom Dumoulin will hope to...

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Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage One Preview - uphill finish for puncheurs

Giro d'Italia 2022: Stage One Preview - uphill finish for puncheurs

The 2022 Giro d’Italia kicks off with a punchy uphill finish, with Mathieu van der Poel among the contenders vying for the first pink jersey

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Riders at the 2021 Tour de France

Tour de France - how does it work?

New to the Tour? Here's a quick run down of how exactly the race works

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Pinarello Bikes: an interview with Fausto Pinarello

Pinarello Bikes: an interview with Fausto Pinarello

"I like beautiful bicycles, I think everyone does." In conversation with the man behind Cicli Pinarello, first published in Rouleur issue 107

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Tales of the Giro d’Italia: Gangsters, great Danes, seven-hour slogs and gods of the road

Tales of the Giro d’Italia: Gangsters, great Danes, seven-hour slogs and gods of the road

Tall tales of epic mountain stages and the hard men of Italian cycling from the annals of the Giro d'Italia

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The Giro d’Italia Trophy Maker: inside the factory

The Giro d’Italia Trophy Maker: inside the factory

From Issue 19.3, Andy McGrath and Paolo Ciaberta tracked down the maker of the Giro d’Italia’s instantly recognisable trophy, the Trofeo Senza Fine

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Richard Carapaz: Strong Like the Wind

Richard Carapaz: Strong Like the Wind

From Rouleur issue 20.3, first published in 2020, Matt Rendell travelled to Ecuador to meet the 2019 Giro d'Italia winner, Richard Carapaz

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Ernesto Colnago: This Cycling Life

Ernesto Colnago: This Cycling Life

From Rouleur issue 19.7, first published in November 2019, Marco Pastonesi sits down with the inimitable Ernesto Colnago

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Giro d'Italia 2022 Preview: Route, favourites and predictions

Giro d'Italia 2022 Preview: Route, favourites and predictions

Route details and contenders for the 2022 Giro d'Italia, the first Grand Tour of the season, which begins in Hungary on May 6th

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Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

The Danish rider tested positive for coronavirus a few days after the Tour of Flanders and was forced to miss the Ardennes Classics that followed....

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2022 Debrief: Monumental Remco Evenepoel

Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2022 Debrief: Monumental Remco Evenepoel

The 22-year-old Belgian became the youngest winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in over 50 years after attacking on the Côte de la Redoute and riding solo to...

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2022 Debrief: Hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2022 Debrief: Hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

The hardest one-day race on the calendar delivers a race hard enough for the peloton's hardest individual: Annemiek van Vleuten

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Will Demi Vollering be able to take another win in Liège–Bastogne–Liège?

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Could Tadej Pogačar deny Julian Alaphilippe victory for the second year in a row? Or will we see a surprise winner?

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Comment: Tub-thumping for Thibaut Pinot at the Tour of the Alps

Comment: Tub-thumping for Thibaut Pinot at the Tour of the Alps

He couldn't come back and win, could he? Oh yes he could. Thibaut Pinot has won a bike race at the Tour of the Alps,...

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Tour de Romandie 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Tour de Romandie 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Who will take victory in the 2022 Tour de Romandie, the week-long stage race in Switzerland featuring Giro d'Italia and Tour de France contenders?

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About Liège, the Belgian city only a mother could love

About Liège, the Belgian city only a mother could love

“Liège is authentic. Which means beautiful. Are you with me? You are not with me. Nevermind.” Morten Okbo‘s paen to the Wallonian heartland

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La Redoute: the centrepiece climb of Liège-Bastogne-Liège

La Redoute: the centrepiece climb of Liège-Bastogne-Liège

As an armchair fan, by the time the leaders have grovelled up the final ascent to the finish line in the Liège suburb of Ans,...

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La Flèche Wallonne Debrief: Dylan Teuns faster than a speeding bullet

La Flèche Wallonne Debrief: Dylan Teuns faster than a speeding bullet

Forty-two-year-old Alejandro 'Bala' Valverde comes up short in his final Flèche Wallonne, with Alexandr Vlasov in third ahead of Julian Alaphilippe and Tadej Pogačar

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