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Mont Ventoux: Fear and the Mountain

Mont Ventoux: Fear and the Mountain

The scene of so many of the race’s defining moments, Mont Ventoux occupies a unique space within the mythology of the Tour de France. Paul Maunder explores...

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Homage to Switzerland: Michael Blann’s mountain photography

Homage to Switzerland: Michael Blann’s mountain photography

Swiss climbs don’t have the same notoriety as some of those across the border but that doesn’t make them any less marvelous

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Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour: Back down to earth

Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour: Back down to earth

The NoGoTour duo have returned home to Nice. As he reflects on an incredible week of riding just to ride, Conor Dunne is forced to...

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Maintaining a profile: cycling’s most baffling elevation graphics

Maintaining a profile: cycling’s most baffling elevation graphics

What information can you garner about a race from it’s elevation profile? That depends on how it’s presented

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Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 8: A descent to normality

Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 8: A descent to normality

As Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne descend back to their homes in Nice after more riding hours in a week than they’ve ever done before,...

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Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 7: Crazy in love with cycling again

Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 7: Crazy in love with cycling again

Giddy, excited, butterflies in the stomach: Larry Warbasse hasn’t felt this way for a very long time

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 3: friends for life – or at least for now

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 3: friends for life – or at least for now

Conor Dunne picks up the narration and a new pair of sandals as his and Larry Warbasse’s NoGo Tour gets into the heart of the...

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Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 2: Finestre flip-flop farce

Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 2: Finestre flip-flop farce

Back to France for our intrepid Aqua Blue Sport bike packers via weird shops, the power of love and forever-lost footwear

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour blog: our bikes weigh a tonne

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour blog: our bikes weigh a tonne

Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne get a different flavour of cycling as they set out on day one of their bike packing expedition in the...

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Inside Direct Energie’s Vendee manor house

Inside Direct Energie’s Vendee manor house

Direct Energie do things differently, starting with their 19th century manor house cum service course in the Vendée, and extending to the team ethos: “It’s...

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Girona Nocturn: Serious racing or seriously good fun?

Girona Nocturn: Serious racing or seriously good fun?

Pro riders turn spectators watching amateurs smashing round the streets of Girona as the night draw in. What will they make of it?

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Reflections: racing between Jerusalem stone

Reflections: racing between Jerusalem stone

A photographer looks back on the opening three days of the Giro d’Italia in Israel

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Racing in the Alps like you’ve never seen it before

Racing in the Alps like you’ve never seen it before

With an illustrious list of champions and spectacular backdrops, the Tour of the Alps is a little gem in its pro-racing’s packed April calendar

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Why Specialized have a boardroom dedicated to Mario Cipollini

Why Specialized have a boardroom dedicated to Mario Cipollini

Rouleur takes a look round the gaudiest meeting room at Specialized HQ, recalling the impact Mario Cipollini had in introducing the Californian brand to the European pro peloton

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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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Red Planet: Inside Specialized’s HQ at Morgan Hill

Red Planet: Inside Specialized’s HQ at Morgan Hill

Rouleur takes a look around the design studio, wind tunnel and beigel buffet at the base of one of cycling’s biggest brands

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Sharon Laws in Taiwan: Hello, it’s me

Sharon Laws in Taiwan: Hello, it’s me

Seven months of chemotherapy concluded. What to do next? Sharon heads to Taiwan for a punishing mountainous event, of course…

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