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This Week in Desire | October 9th

New bikes from Canyon, Aurum and Orbea, funky ducks and Cannondales with EF, Fizik gravel footwear and tube lines in kit form. This Week in...

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Canyon's new Aeroad update - worth the wait?

Canyon's new Aeroad update - worth the wait?

Canyon have analysed every bit of data, finessed every detail and reviewed every variable. The result is the latest iteration of the Canyon Aeroad, the...

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Win with Rouleur | Lion of Flanders Prologo Scratch

Win with Rouleur | Lion of Flanders Prologo Scratch

Prologo are having a rather stella time of it of late, with young Slovenian Tadej Pogacar winning the Tour de France from his Prologo perch...

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Cannondale

Stu reviews... Team EF's Palace X Rapha Giro Collab

Rouleur Desire editor Stuart Clapp offers his take on EF Education's divisive collaboration with skateboarding super-brand, Palace. You're certainly not going to mistake this livery for...

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Campagnolo Ekar gravel groupset scales the Finestre

Campagnolo Ekar gravel groupset scales the Finestre

The all-new gravel set from the Italian masters makes a splash with 13 gears in a lightweight package. Things take time in Italy. Exquisite food, fine...

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This Week in Desire | 28th September

This Week in Desire | 28th September

Off the back of Campagnolo's Ekar launch, unsurprisingly, we've got enough all-road machines to sink a ship, with solid representation from carbon, steel and titanium. The...

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Win with Rouleur | Campagnolo Ekar Gravel Groupset

Win with Rouleur | Campagnolo Ekar Gravel Groupset

Some things are worth waiting for. If the Italian masters are late to the gravel party, then they’ve clearly not been stood outside the club...

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This Week in Desire | September 18th

This Week in Desire | September 18th

There's a mixed bag this week. We've got luxury folders, superbike e-bikes, ingenious winter-wear and Batman's city cruiser. Welcome to this week in Desire, presented...

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The Desire Edit - Getting the Band Back Together | Issue 20.3

The Desire Edit - Getting the Band Back Together | Issue 20.3

We're taking a trip down memory lane, looking at our favourite Desire Edits of the past 12 months. The third edit of 2020 struck a...

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This Week in Desire | Thursday September 10th

This Week in Desire | Thursday September 10th

This week, we've got even more luxury than normal, with picks from Breitling, Vadolibero and more stellar bike releases from Basso and Factor. Welcome to...

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This Week in Desire | Thursday September 3th

This Week in Desire | Thursday September 3th

The Tour is here and with the biggest race in cycling, comes a plethora of new releases. Welcome to This Week in Desire, our weekly...

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Turbo Trainers, Meet Fashion Week

Turbo Trainers, Meet Fashion Week

Sales of home trainers went through the roof in the early days of lockdown as riding in the great outdoors was an impossibility in many...

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Rouleur Picks - How to conquer everyday

Rouleur Picks - How to conquer everyday

A new normal is upon us, we've made a few selects to help you better your everyday

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The Tarmac SL7 just made N-1 a reality

The Tarmac SL7 just made N-1 a reality

The Specialized S-Works Tarmac is to cycling what the Ferrari 412 T2 is to motorsport, one of the most successful machines in modern history. The next...

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BMC TeamMachine SLR 2021

The 2021 BMC Teammachine

Words: Miles Baker-Clarke | Photos: BMC Switzerland/ Forstus It's a strange feeling to see so many superbike launches come and go without cycling's biggest platform...

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Heroïn, but not as you know it

Heroïn, but not as you know it

We look behind the curtain of one of cycling's lesser-known superbrands - starting with their first rather impressive drop in the sea that is hyperbikes....

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Rapha’s new disco slippers

Rapha’s new disco slippers

Whether you follow cycling style or not, you’ll likely have noticed that footwear has been moving in one direction for a good few years. We’re...

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Fizik’s Saddle of the Future

Fizik’s Saddle of the Future

3D printing is here to stay and Fizik are embracing the tech with both hands. We welcome Adaptive, Fizik’s fresh saddle concept.  

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Stuart Clapp’s Factor ViSTA

Stuart Clapp’s Factor ViSTA

It’s new bike day for Desire Editor, Stuart Clapp. He even claims that the Factor ViSTA is his N-minus-2 – what is the world coming...

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Colnago G3-X

Colnago G3-X

Few bikes command respect and turn as many heads as a Colnago, but take the name off-road and what do you get?

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Product of their environment: Q36.5’s Italian-made Unique shoes

Product of their environment: Q36.5’s Italian-made Unique shoes

Fresh road and adventure shoes see Q36.5 covering every contact point

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Rouleur Issue 19.8 - the wrap-up

Rouleur Issue 19.8 - the wrap-up

For the last edition of Desire in 2019, we decided to do things a little differently. Welcome to a wrap-up of issue 19.8. To buy...

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Desire: In-between days, in-between rides

Desire: In-between days, in-between rides

Desire Editor Stuart Clapp get misty-eyed over dewy mornings and vintage Vespas

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Factor's New Home

Factor's New Home

British brand, Factor are going back to where it all began. Superbikes, hyperbikes and everything in-between.

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Pinarello’s latest thoroughbred

Pinarello’s latest thoroughbred

There are horses for courses, but Pinarello’s most recent steed has proven it can win on them all. We take a deep dive following a...

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Specialized S-Works Roubaix - Parra x Romance

Specialized S-Works Roubaix - Parra x Romance

Do you remember that stunning, uber glamorous Specialized Allez Sprint from the 2018 Rouleur Classic? Romance are at it again and this time they’ve brought...

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Me and my Factor O2

Me and my Factor O2

Rouleur’s Desire editor, Stuart Clapp, recently decided he needed a new bike, but what to get? Should he go with rim brakes or discs? Electronic...

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Colnago V3RS

Colnago V3RS

When you think of Colnago, you’ll likely be drawn to the classic shapes, pure Italian craftsmanship and sublime detailing. The master craftsman and his engineering...

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Why grovel when you can gravel?

Why grovel when you can gravel?

Issue 19.3 of Desire sees Rouleur’s first foray into the gravel and as usual, we’ve turned the dial up to 11.

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Win with Rouleur - Kask Wasabi

Win with Rouleur - Kask Wasabi

We've teamed up with Italian helmet maestros KASK to offer you a chance to win the latest addition to their range of cycling helmets: the...

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