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Why Romain Bardet and Team DSM Is an Unlikely Success Story

Why Romain Bardet and Team DSM Is an Unlikely Success Story

Team DSM’s approach is not for everyone, and it has left some of their most talented riders looking elsewhere. However, for Romain Bardet, it’s the...

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Are you being served? A domestique’s guide to the Tour de France

Are you being served? A domestique’s guide to the Tour de France

Previously Romain Bardet’s right-hand man, Axel Domont talks us through the high and lows of being a Tour de France super-domestique

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Romain Bardet: The art of descending

Romain Bardet: The art of descending

Romain Bardet is one of the best descenders in cycling. Rouleur's regular columnist shares what's going through his mind when the road heads downhill

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Desire: Factor’s New Home

Desire: 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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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Bardet bounces back in the Alps, nabs a spotty jersey and lands a banana

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Romain Bardet: The pleasure principle

Romain Bardet: The pleasure principle

In his debut as a Rouleur columnist, Romain Bardet examines how a rider must live by certain key principles, and achieve a balance between pleasure...

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Rouleur podcast: Michael Woods, Nick Craig and more

Rouleur podcast: Michael Woods, Nick Craig and more

Team EF Education First’s leader in Australia, cyclo-cross and MTB legend Nick Craig in the UK, plus our very own Stu Clapp in Essex…

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What’s in the next issue? Rouleur issue 19.1 with Dan Martin

What’s in the next issue? Rouleur issue 19.1 with Dan Martin

Plus Notes on Belgium, Sep Vanmarcke, Romain Bardet, Ned Boulting, Philippa York, Ag2r at altitude, Alex Dowsett, pre-Roubaix cobbled chaos and more

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Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest surprise? Rouleur contributors look back...

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Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Romain Bardet, Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert soak up the high altitude atmosphere of the Sierra Nevada in more ways than one

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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 9 – Oliver Naesen

Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 9 – Oliver Naesen

Stage 9 brought us a second splendid serving of stones for 2018, though it could have also brought the house down on so many Tour...

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Heroes in the Tuscan mud: scenes from a remarkable Strade Bianche

Heroes in the Tuscan mud: scenes from a remarkable Strade Bianche

The roads turned to sludge and faces were covered in grime, but remarkable things happen in the mud. Max Leonard and Paolo Ciaberta pay homage to the drama,...

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Punk rock to PR – ‘on tour’ has dual meanings for Giro’s liaison man

Punk rock to PR – ‘on tour’ has dual meanings for Giro’s liaison man

All too familiar with the pressures of performing in the spotlight, band member Chuck Platt was a ‘shoe-in’ for the job of looking after Giro’s...

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Romain Bardet: Off the Wall

Romain Bardet: Off the Wall

“Don’t take it too seriously, it’s only sport.” Karaoke choices, drinks with Wiggins and apologies to maths teachers. Ag2r-La Mondiale’s dynamic team leader goes deep

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Romain Bardet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Romain Bardet

Another podium place was a far lesser prize than Romain Bardet wanted from this year’s Tour, but for fighting right to the line, we award...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention

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