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The first real superstar of Italian cycling: Costante Girardengo, six-time Milan-San Remo winner

The first real superstar of Italian cycling: Costante Girardengo, six-time Milan-San Remo winner

The first of cycling's five monuments, Milan-San Remo, is fast approaching. Rouleur tells the the story of Costante Girardengo, a legend of Italian cycling and a prolific...

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Eddy Merckx: Photographs from a family album

Eddy Merckx: Photographs from a family album

This rare collection of photos portraits Eddy Merckx at various races including Paris-Nice and The Tour de France

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Bernard Hinault: The Punch

Bernard Hinault: The Punch

The wrath of the Badger

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Colnago and Pope John Paul II: the Man with the Golden Bike

Colnago and Pope John Paul II: the Man with the Golden Bike

It’s 1979, and Ernesto Colnago is at the peak of his frame-building powers. He’d made bicycles for the likes of Gianni Motta, actor Jean-Paul Belmondo...

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Pedro Delgado: Spanish Steps and the 1988 Tour de France

Pedro Delgado: Spanish Steps and the 1988 Tour de France

Fifteen years on from Luis Ocaña in 1973, no Spanish rider had won the Tour de France. Delgado starts the race downbeat, but soon has...

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Paris-Roubaix 2002, the last wet Hell of the North

Paris-Roubaix 2002, the last wet Hell of the North

With the 2021 edition of Paris-Roubaix set to be postponed for another year, Rouleur looks back on the story of the last wet Paris-Roubaix, in the words...

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Top 10: Finish Line Faces of Milan-San Remo

Top 10: Finish Line Faces of Milan-San Remo

It must be the distance – almost 300km from the city to the sea – and the herculean effort that brings out the rawest of emotions on...

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Dreamlike memories of the Vuelta’s first visit to the Angliru

Dreamlike memories of the Vuelta’s first visit to the Angliru

The riders attacked it with triple chainsets and nervous anticipation. But even the support vehicles struggled with the Angliru’s preposterous reality.

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Last place Luigi, the Giro’s greatest loser

Last place Luigi, the Giro’s greatest loser

On the 10th of June 1949, high on the mountain roads between Cuneo and Pinerolo, Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali duelled for the 32nd edition...

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“Ours was a true rivalry”: Moser v Saronni

“Ours was a true rivalry”: Moser v Saronni

The infamous feud between two of Italy’s greats started in 1977.Marco Pastonesi finds the quarrelsome duo still at loggerheads more than 40 years on

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Sean Kelly and the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble: the most prized trophy of all

Sean Kelly and the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble: the most prized trophy of all

“That’s the one I have great memories of.” Sean Kelly tells Rouleur why the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble is the most cherished item in his vast...

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Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

  Sign up to the Rouleur Chronicle newsletter to receive a weekly supply of curated cycling content      ... The post Sean Kelly: Providence...

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Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

At home with his parents, Colin O’Brien explores modern cycling’s great tragedy – Marco Pantani

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Ruthless: Stephen Roche on his path from Rás winner to World Champion

Ruthless: Stephen Roche on his path from Rás winner to World Champion

Off the bike, Stephen Roche is Mr Nice Guy; on it, he was a cold-blooded killer. Ireland’s Triple Crown king on 1987, tussles with team-mates...

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Greg LeMond, Marianne Vos, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen to be inducted into the Cycling Hall of Fame

Greg LeMond, Marianne Vos, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen to be inducted into the Cycling Hall of Fame

The Cycling Hall of Fame welcomes a new class of special icons celebrated for what they have accomplished and given to the world of cycling....

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The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: The case for Greg LeMond

The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: The case for Greg LeMond

Who should be inducted into the Cycling Hall of Fame? Ian Cleverly argues in favour of Greg LeMond, an outspoken, trailblazing American who singlehandedly transformed...

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Rouleur cover stories: issue 19.2 – Roubaix showers by Michael Blann

Rouleur cover stories: issue 19.2 – Roubaix showers by Michael Blann

Michael Blann on how he found inspiration from – as well as a new angle on – one of the most venerated spaces in cycling

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Patrick Sercu: The Phenomenon

Patrick Sercu: The Phenomenon

“Eddy and I complemented each other. I was the speed, he was the strength and we were friends.” At home with sixties six-day superstar, Patrick...

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Bernard Hinault interview (part 3): on the attack

Bernard Hinault interview (part 3): on the attack

From walking off air during a TV interview, to openly criticising Chris Froome, the Badger’s fierce reputation precedes him. But underneath it, maybe there is...

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Bernard Hinault interview (part 2): the toy box in the corner

Bernard Hinault interview (part 2): the toy box in the corner

Part two of three of the life of Bernard Hinault; as a professional cyclist you miss out on family life, grandchildren can be the way...

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Bernard Hinault interview (part 1): hunting for The Badger

Bernard Hinault interview (part 1): hunting for The Badger

A look into the remote world of Bernard Hinault. The Badger focuses his hunt on a different type of prey nowadays but still with the...

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What SRAM and Kanye West have in common

What SRAM and Kanye West have in common

Chicago, home to Kanye West and SRAM. Linking the rap revolutionary to cycling’s radical thinkers

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Philippa York column: who’s the Patron?

Philippa York column: who’s the Patron?

If there’s more than one name bandied around as the Patron, that means there probably isn’t one. Back in the day of Bernard Hinault there...

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Merckx, Burton and Colnago inducted into the Cycling Hall of Fame

Merckx, Burton and Colnago inducted into the Cycling Hall of Fame

The inaugural Cycling Hall of Fame saw three very special icons celebrated for what they have accomplished and given to the world of cycling. Welcome...

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When Bradley Wiggins met Eddy Merckx

When Bradley Wiggins met Eddy Merckx

What happened when Eddy Merckx sat down with Bradley Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara to discuss icons of the sport at the Rouleur Classic

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Cyrille Guimard: You need to be a rouleur to win the Tour de France

Cyrille Guimard: You need to be a rouleur to win the Tour de France

Having managed Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon and Greg Lemond, legendary directeur sportif Cyrille Guimard knows a thing or two about winning the Tour de France. But...

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Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Pasta was nearly his career downfall when he moved to Italy, but the way of life lured Hampsten in and is now where he calls...

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Team kit and leading out Cav: František Raboň’s services to British cycling

Team kit and leading out Cav: František Raboň’s services to British cycling

The former HTC and Quick Step domestique on clothing Britain’s world champions, riding with Cav and falling asleep in the shower at the Giro

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Chairman of the Board: the Greatest Cycling Board Games

Chairman of the Board: the Greatest Cycling Board Games

Cycling Board Games celebrates its fifteenth birthday. Our feature from issue 54 on the best of collector Anki Toner’s 300-plus games

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The Coupe – making the Tour de France trophy

The Coupe – making the Tour de France trophy

Tour winners receive a trophy handmade in Sèvres by a team of highly-skilled craftsmen and women, using centuries-old techniques and endless patience

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