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Robert Millar and the Muddy Marmite

Robert Millar and the Muddy Marmite

Cyclo-cross? Seriously, don’t bother, says refusenik Robert Millar

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Gallery: Quick Step training camp on the Costa Blanca

Gallery: Quick Step training camp on the Costa Blanca

The Belgian team enjoy sun and sea views at a pre-season training camp on Spain’s southeastern coast

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School of hard Knox: a neo-pro’s journey from fell-running to Quick Step

School of hard Knox: a neo-pro’s journey from fell-running to Quick Step

It took some tough lessons and a lot of patience before James Knox got noticed by the World Tour. But the young climber has a...

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What? When? Where? An early season race guide

What? When? Where? An early season race guide

With the 2018 international road season getting underway, we take a look at the far flung races that host the first skirmishes of the year

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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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What’s in the next issue of Rouleur magazine? 18.1 – a Classic

What’s in the next issue of Rouleur magazine? 18.1 – a Classic

Philippe Gilbert, Svein Tuft, forgotten finishes of the Classics, Philippa York, Belgian bicycle worship gone mad and more

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Coming together: new class meets old at Katusha-Alpecin

Coming together: new class meets old at Katusha-Alpecin

Once as Russian as ice-cold vodka, in recent years Team Katusha-Alpecin have transformed themselves into the UN of professional cycling. Rouleur sits down with riders old and...

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World of pain: facing up to the dangerous reality of racing bikes

World of pain: facing up to the dangerous reality of racing bikes

Starting each race knowing it may well result in agonising injury is a psychological strength often overlooked in professional cyclists. Matt Rendell pays homage to a bunch...

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Philippe Gilbert: Ned Boulting meets the Belgian in Monaco

Philippe Gilbert: Ned Boulting meets the Belgian in Monaco

A year in Quick Step blue paid dividends for the Classics star – the first Belgian to win both Flanders and Amstel Gold in the...

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2017 Rouleur Photographer of the year competition

2017 Rouleur Photographer of the year competition

As 2017 came to a close, we asked our regular photographers to pick their six best cycling images from this year, before asking our readers to choose their favourite

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Sky culture: Ian Boswell reflects on five years with the British team

Sky culture: Ian Boswell reflects on five years with the British team

Ian Boswell started his World Tour career at Team Sky in 2013. Now as he says goodbye to that most British of teams, he looks...

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Chantal Blaak: How I won the Worlds

Chantal Blaak: How I won the Worlds

Women’s World Champion Chantal Blaak reflects on her victory in Bergen, and how she started the 2017 season targeting one jersey but finished it with...

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Nicolas Roche on the demands of the modern day pro

Nicolas Roche on the demands of the modern day pro

Cycling has changed a lot since his dad’s days in the peloton. Pros race less, train more and have bigger hang-ups about weight and days off....

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Mark Cavendish dreams of running his own team

Mark Cavendish dreams of running his own team

From solo breaks to retirement plans, Mark Cavendish discusses his ambitions and aspirations with our special guest editor

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Helen Wyman: High and Dry

Helen Wyman: High and Dry

One of the best cyclo-cross riders in the world is on top of her game, winning races and aiming for the World Championships in February....

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Summit Finish: The Tour de Yorkshire’s Cow and Calf

Summit Finish: The Tour de Yorkshire’s Cow and Calf

The Tour de Yorkshire will feature its first summit finish in 2018. But for cycling author and journalist Pete Cossins who used to live at the bottom of...

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Doing the double: Miguel Indurain on Froome’s Giro-Tour ambitions

Doing the double: Miguel Indurain on Froome’s Giro-Tour ambitions

Miguel Indurain is one of the few riders to have won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year. What advice does he have...

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Fighting for life: the despair and hope of Stig Broeckx’s family

Fighting for life: the despair and hope of Stig Broeckx’s family

After a collision with a race motorbike in the 2016 Tour of Belgium, things have never been the same for Lotto-Soudal rider Stig Broeckx or...

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Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.8 – Yes It Hurts by Russ Ellis

Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.8 – Yes It Hurts by Russ Ellis

A very British race: Russ shot the National Hill Climb championships in Northumberland for our latest member’s cover

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Gallery: the Revolution of small things

Gallery: the Revolution of small things

Photographer Conan Marshall centres his attention on the cameras and cakes, bidons and bags at November’s round of the Revolution series

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Number Crunchers: Pro Cycling Stats

Number Crunchers: Pro Cycling Stats

“You must be some kind of nerd to visit out website”. We sincerely hope not, as PCS is the single most useful cycling database on...

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Best breakthrough rides of 2017

Best breakthrough rides of 2017

Getting your World Tour contract is one thing, but being truly competitive at that level is another. We take a look at the rides this...

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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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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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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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