Rouleur Performance

What makes Alpe d'Huez so hard?

What makes Alpe d'Huez so hard?

Nick Busca explains what exactly makes this Tour de France icon so imposing

Why do professional cyclists train at altitude?

Altitude training is more popular than ever with riders spending greater chunks of the year living and training at 2,000m. Rouleur investigates why…

How fit are Tour de France riders?

What does it really take to race, finish, and even win the world's toughest endurance sport event?

What is VO2max, why is it important and how can you improve it?

It's often regarded as the most important metric in endurance sports. But what does it really tell about your physiology?

Cleat position: why it's so important and how to get it right

It’s often neglected, but the connection between you and your pedals will make or break your ride

Man cycling indoors, turbo training to test FTP

What is FTP and how do I use it?

We answer the most asked questions around one of the key metrics of cycling performance

One kilo of carbs a day: how riders fuel on hard, Alpine stages at the Giro

We asked Bora-Hansgrohe's head nutritionist, Robert Gorgos, how much riders eat and drink on the hardest Giro stages

Can ketones really enhance your performance? We tested them for a month to find out

Ketones boost endurance performance and accelerate recovery – those are the claims, anyway. We examined them with our own vigorous testing

Cameron Wurf: from Paris-Roubaix to Ironman World Championships in three weeks

The Ineos Grenadiers domestique and professional triathlete tells Rouleur how he balances riding at the world’s toughest bike races with competing ...

Fuelling for female cyclists

Trek-Segafredo rider Leah Thomas and Dr Kathyrn Ackerman reveal the evidence behind female-specific nutrition advice

Proper science or hocus pocus? Pros and cons of using VLamax

VLamax might be new to you but, says its proponents, it has the potential to become as beneficial and popular to cyclists as FTP and VO2max. Its cr...

What does it take to win Paris-Roubaix? The numbers behind Dylan van Baarle's victory

We looked at Dylan van Baarle's Strava numbers to understand what kind of effort he produced on Sunday to win the Hell of the North

GT rider vs Ironman World Champion. Who's the strongest?

Cycling historians may recall the atypical anatomy of Mr Lance Edward Armstrong when competing for his first professional cycling team, Motorola, b...