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Interaction: Léon van Bon’s Ghent six-day photography

Interaction: Léon van Bon’s Ghent six-day photography

Photographer and former rider Léon van Bon turns his lens on rider interaction at his favourite six-day event in Ghent

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Joanna Rowsell-Shand: I haven’t “retired”

Joanna Rowsell-Shand: I haven’t “retired”

With a second gold medal in the team pursuit in Rio, Joanna Rowsell-Shand was able to end her cycling career on a high. Just don’t...

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It’s the pits: inside cyclo-cross’ technical area

It’s the pits: inside cyclo-cross’ technical area

Step into a world of jet washes and waterproofs at the Gavere round of the Superprestige cycle-cross series in Belgium

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Power couples: car and bike brand collaborations

Power couples: car and bike brand collaborations

Making a concept bike is a rite of passage for a car company. Tapping into automotive prestige and expertise is a dream for many bike builders....

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Remembrance: D-Day, seasickness and an unloaded pistol

Remembrance: D-Day, seasickness and an unloaded pistol

The 2016 Tour de France paid tribute to the soldiers of D-Day in Normandy. Our own tribute from issue 63 of Rouleur

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Kyoto Keirin: The colourful world of Japanese track racing

Kyoto Keirin: The colourful world of Japanese track racing

Laura from the Peloton Brief lays her bets at the velodrome in Kyoto and goes behind the scenes for the money shot   

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Cav gets a grilling, and other photos from the Asian crits

Cav gets a grilling, and other photos from the Asian crits

At the end of every season the stars of the Tour de France head east for exhibition races and some slightly embarrassing photo shoots. We’ve...

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Patrick Lefevere: “If I had signed Sagan, I’d have no team anymore”

Patrick Lefevere: “If I had signed Sagan, I’d have no team anymore”

Quick Step’s CEO on why he didn’t sign Peter Sagan, pro cycling’s unhealthy business model and the folly of six-rider Grand Tour teams

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Tiffany Cromwell’s off-season: rest, relaxation and running a marathon

Tiffany Cromwell’s off-season: rest, relaxation and running a marathon

The off-season is a time for a bit of R & R, which in Tiffany Cromwell’s case stands for rowing and running a marathon – just two activities...

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New colours reflect bright future for EF Education First-Drapac

New colours reflect bright future for EF Education First-Drapac

The POC made kit for the next incarnation of Cannondale-Drapac made its first outing at the Rouleur Classic on Friday

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Gallery: Stars come out for opening night of Rouleur Classic

Gallery: Stars come out for opening night of Rouleur Classic

First part of three-day show sees Bradley Wiggins, Fabian Cancellara, Philippa York, Johan Museeuw and Jonathan Vaughters make appearances

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Annemiek van Vleuten wins Voxy Award 2017

Annemiek van Vleuten wins Voxy Award 2017

Having been on winning form from January through to September, world time trial champion Annemiek van Vleuten has had a remarkable season

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The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

Early cyclo-cross: winter training for roadies or preparation for war?

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Gallery: Drillium and sawn-off bars at the national hill-climb

Gallery: Drillium and sawn-off bars at the national hill-climb

Photographer Chris Auld zooms in on the modified and minimalist bikes raced by Britain’s best hill-climbers

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Gallery: Six Day London by Benedict Campbell

Gallery: Six Day London by Benedict Campbell

Cavendish rocks London: action from Lee Valley Velopark

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Anti-Social Media: Twitter addiction and high anxiety in the peloton

Anti-Social Media: Twitter addiction and high anxiety in the peloton

A useful promotional tool when you get it right; a world of bickering and insults when it goes wrong. Pro riders share their experiences from...

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Philippa York: The Hammer Series and Dutch cheese

Philippa York: The Hammer Series and Dutch cheese

The Hammer Series felt like the biggest thing to hit cycling in 2017. Many of the pundits seemed to love it, but Philippa York has...

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Larry Warbasse blog: The lows and highs of La Vuelta

Larry Warbasse blog: The lows and highs of La Vuelta

It was the race he and his team, AquaBlue Sport, had been building up to all season, but in the Vuelta’s first week, it all...

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Matt Rendell: Cycling and the age of post-truth

Matt Rendell: Cycling and the age of post-truth

With the arrival of Trump, the world seems to have woken to an age of disinformation. Unfortunately in cycling, as Matt Rendell reminds us, post-truth is nothing new

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Brief encounters: short Tour de France road stages

Brief encounters: short Tour de France road stages

Short Tour de France stages are not an especially new phenomenon. They’re more an eighties revival thing

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Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Having moved up a category, the junior world champion took two top-ten placings on the opening weekend of his cyclo-cross season. Tom Pidcock reflects on struggling in...

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Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Former professional cyclo-cross rider Matt Ellis was recently appointed manager of the British cyclo-cross squad. How bright is the future, Matt?

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Gallery: Girona Gala for Qhubeka

Gallery: Girona Gala for Qhubeka

The social season kicked off in style, with a fine dinner and auction in aid of African charity Qhubeka in Girona

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How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

Seamless with sewn-in logos, Gazprom-Rusvelo’s is a team kit with properties like no other. Morten Okbo finds an Italian factory where technology trumps tradition

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Desire: wind-cheating gear for faster time trials

Desire: wind-cheating gear for faster time trials

Speedy kit from Santini, Castelli, Endura, Giro, Poc, Lazer, Mavic, Suplest and Bont. Fast bikes from Ridley, Cervélo and Neil Pryde.

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Race Preview: Il Lombardia

Race Preview: Il Lombardia

The final Monument of the season, and for many the most beautiful, Il Lombardia offers the climbers one last chance for redemption

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Farewell to Backstage Pass

Farewell to Backstage Pass

In praise of Backstage Pass, Orica-Scott’s behind-the-scenes documentary series that changed the game in professional cycling

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Desire: Pro rides & dreamy bikes from the Colnago Owners Day

Desire: Pro rides & dreamy bikes from the Colnago Owners Day

An Elizabethan manor house, top professionals and rows of glistening Italian bikes on the lawn: it could only be the Colnago Owners Day

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Alberto Contador: a champion for modern times

Alberto Contador: a champion for modern times

In his racing style, personality and even his ban, there was a solidity to Alberto Contador that places him amongst cycling’s greats

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Txomin Perurena: Light in Dark Years

Txomin Perurena: Light in Dark Years

Racing through the Franco era, Basque separatism, and losing the Vuelta by 14 seconds… “I’ll never get that silence out of my head”

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