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The column: Let’s use this time to consider the future we want for cycling
Rather than dwelling on what we’re missing, the races that have been cancelled, let’s look forward, and imagine what cycling could one day be, once...
Larry Warbasse: The Other Side
“We are taught to be optimists: if we weren’t our careers would be too stressful and too short. We hope, we believe, we pray for...
He ain’t heavy… Cycling siblings through the ages
Felix Lowe on the benefits of having a brother in the sport and cycling’s stand-out siblings through time
Momma’s got a brand new E-bike
Morten’s mum is behaving strangely – Zwift, e-biking, wearing Pas Normal clothing… At home with the Okbos
Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“We are wild animals, we have to breath outside, to put our noses in the wind.” With no end to the crisis in sight, frustration...
Flattening the curve: How the cycling world is doing its bit
From the Bigla-Katusha rider who’s donned scrubs to the cycling-themed pub quiz keeping you entertained on lockdown, a few of the ways in which our...
The making of Freddy Maertens
“He made my character.” How an authoritarian upbringing that brought psychological suffering also put Freddy Maertens on the path to sporting success
The column: The need for escapism and distractions in the time of Coronavirus
At this uncertain, frightening time, it’s more important than ever to have ways to take your mind off things. Tell us what we can do...
Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“I am starting to get bored. Today, I opened my own small bakery inside my bakery. Then I cut my hair.” The bizarre becomes the...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7
We’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought...
The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“Every day I act like I am infected.” Groupama-FDJ’s Jacopo Guarnieri reflects on life under quarantine in Italy
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6
Stage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 5
One day closer to Nice. Will we go the distance? Looking at our predictions for Stage 5, Cycling Mole wonders if there’s something in the...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 4
We know there’s a cycling shortage at the moment, but Paris-Nice stage 4 is still a time trial, so just fax us the results, yeah?...
Cover stories: Issue 20.2 by Tom Jay
Dubbels, Tripels, Trappists and Saisons. Illustrator Tom Jay gets the beers in for the cover of our Belgian special
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 3
On a blustery Stage 2 in northern France, no one named Nizzolo as a possible victor. No one’s gone for him today, either, with most...
“There is no life in him. The boy is going to die”: Nairo Quitana’s spiritual story
“That is who we are.” We know Nairo Quintana was born in Colombia in 1990 but, as we discover in this extract from Matt Rendell’s...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 2
Seems to be a strong consensus that Paris-Nice Stage 2 will come down to a sprint, and there’s several to select from. The amateurs like...
The column: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Is it selfish of us to feel sorrow over the cancellation of bikes races at a time of global crisis? Or is it simply human?
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 1
With the way things are going, we might have to take what we can get in terms of racing for the foreseeable. This week we’ve...
Ron Webb, the doyen of track design
Ron Webb, who sadly died on Sunday, was a leading 6 Day promoter and race director, and a successful cycle track designer and builder. In...
Marcel Kittel: “The current anti-doping system is not working”
The German sprinter on clean sport, why anti-doping isn’t working and making sense of former room-mate Georg Preidler’s involvement in Operation Aderlass
The Cycling Hall of Fame – Vote on the 2020 shortlist
In 2019 you voted Greg LeMond, Marianne Vos, and Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen into the Cycling Hall of Fame. Who will be the next...
Rouleur predicts… Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2020
Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne is our second Belgian Classic of the weekend. Will it be a bunch sprint, a breakaway or something in between? Our panel places their...
Andrea Tafi: The Gladiator
Tales from the arena from Mapei’s Roubaix, Flanders and Lombardy champion Andrea Tafi.
The column: The last team to win
With only three wins in the whole of 2019 and none so far this year, times are looking tough at Team CCC
Rouleur predicts… Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020
And they’re off. The pre-season friendlies done and dusted, the real season begins on Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. But who fancies it, who...
The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part two
From Štybar picking GVA’s pocket at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to two of the greatest races we’ve ever seen in Amstel Gold, Ned Boulting with the...
The column: Of Nairo Quintana and green shoots at the Tour de la Provence
A re-Nairo-saissance? No, we don’t think that works either. Whether or not he’s returned to being a Grand Tour contender, at the Tour de la...
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