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Gallery: Men at work: Cannondale-Drapac mechanics
Rest day for the riders, but the mechanics are hard at it as usual. Bike prepping with the Cannondale crew
Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns
Digging deeper to uncover the digits that other publications just can’t find: it’s the Tour de France Week 1 Alternative Facts
Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran
Brilliance from Barguil, single-speed sprinting by Uran, sickening crash for Porte – stage 9 had everything and more
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin
The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane
No competition today. The excellent Lilian Calmejane rode brilliantly in a stage of non-stop action and constant attacking
Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson
A bon vivant who liked to drive fast and laugh hard, Simpson crammed many adventures and memorable moments into his 29 and a half years
Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker
Just six millimetres separated Marcel Kittel from Edvard Boasson Hagen in Nuits-Saint-Georges, apparently. Wafer thin.
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
With Cavendish out, Dimension Data should have been reduced to also-ran status in the sprints. Janse van Rensburg showed their train is still on the...
Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways
The breakaway: natural home of cycling’s dreamers and romantics. Matt Seaton considers what it takes to succeed in the sport’s most kamikaze of spectacles.
A letter from the Editor
ITV4 has a new guest expert in the studio next week. Meet Philippa York
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Frederik Backaert
Today’s scorching temperatures limited the break to only the hardiest of souls. Here’s to the young farmer who is no stranger to long days in the sun
Krasna Lipa: the Czech Republic’s long-running women’s race
The Tour de Feminin, based on the small Czech town of Krasna Lipa, celebrates its 30th edition this week. Our editor was on soigneur duties...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 5 – Aru conquers the mountain
Aru takes the stage, Quintana loses time, Thomas loses yellow, Froome takes the biscuit
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Stefan Küng
While Porte was ponderous on La Planche des Belles Filles, here’s to the BMC youngster who kept the breakaway of Voeckler, Gilbert and company in check
Got the minerals: Vittel, the peloton’s drink of choice
Vittel serves as the host of today’s Tour de France stage roll-out. But the little French spa town has a long history with the Tour...
The Peter Saga: A Rough Guide to the Stage 4 ‘Incident’
Peter Sagan: expelled from the Tour. Mark Cavendish: out with a broken shoulder. Arnaud Démare: in the green jersey. We try to make sense of...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
Guillame Van Keirsbulck’s road to the Tour de France has been a long one. Now that he’s finally made it, he seems determined to enjoy every...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 3 – Super Sagan takes Longwy
Complete control from Peter Sagan, Dan Martin close, Michael Matthews closer
Chute! A brief history of crash photography
Heavy rain and anxious riders made for a nervy beginning to this year’s Tour de France, with several big-name contenders hitting the deck. Duncan Forbes gives us...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Juraj Sagan
So often overshadowed by his younger brother, or cropped out of shot altogether, Juraj Sagan deserves more than a little of the limelight for today’s...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 2 – Standard Liège and Kittel’s Comeback
Teeming rain, the break caught within sight of the line and a sprinters’ battle royale: Düsseldorf to Liège had it all
Tour de France: Florence and the Machine
When the Tour de France inevitably begins to take its toll on the peloton, it is doctor Florence Pommerie who pieces it back together. The race doctor...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Gallopin
As is so often the case in the Tour, today’s fight at the back of the race was just as compelling as the one at the front
Gallery: Tour de France stage 1 – Geraint Thomas rocks Düsseldorf
Eighth Tour de France, first Tour stage win, first Grand Tour stage win, first maillot jaune. A landmark day for the Welshman
Geraint Thomas: Grand Tour Contender?
Self-effacing, humble, humorous, but can the Welshman go the extra mile?
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Taylor Phinney
It’s been a long way back for the big American from his horror crash in 2014 to his debut Tour. We think he’s going to...
Tour de France 2017 preview: Fourth Title for Froome?
From Düsseldorf to Paris and all stops between, your guide to a thoroughly enjoyable 104th Tour
Breaking away for good: saying goodbye to Thomas Voeckler
Love him or hate him, Thomas Voeckler has been one of the most exciting riders of his generation. As his final Tour de France beckons,...
The Chairman: Former British champion Tim Harris and his Belgian Seat of Learning
Cavendish, Froome, Thomas, Dowsett, Yates, McLay – even Gaviria. The big draughty house in Belgium that provides an invaluable stepping stone to the professional ranks
Cummings, Phinney, Dowsett, Hutchinson: the art of the time-triallist
The ‘race of truth’ is both the most idiosyncratic and unforgiving of cycling’s disciplines. Rouleur sat down with a few of time-trialling’s most accomplished practitioners to talk suffering, science...
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