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Trash Talk: Tour de France and the environment

Trash Talk: Tour de France and the environment

ASO have been cleaning up their act when it comes to the environment at the races. How can they improve at the Tour de France...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Deceunink-Quick Step’s young Spaniard Enric Mas sneaks into the white jersey and gives Alaphilippe an ace card in the mountains

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

King of invisibility, prince of stealth, Buchmann will ‘do a Zubeldia’ all the way to Paris

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Rouleur Podcast: Jonathan Vaughters and Mapei

Rouleur Podcast: Jonathan Vaughters and Mapei

Jonathan Vaughters discusses his frank and revealing new book, One Way Ticket, plus a history of Mapei as seen in the latest Rouleur 

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Red, White and Blue: Kristian House

Red, White and Blue: Kristian House

“The Tour of Britain I did that year in the jersey, it was insane. My profile was elevated through the roof.” 2009 British champion

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Rouleur cover stories: issue 19.1 – Sierra Nevada by David Serrano

Rouleur cover stories: issue 19.1 – Sierra Nevada by David Serrano

With Ag2r at the altitude performance centre high in the Spanish Sierra Nevada

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Rouleur podcast: Grand Tour preview, Radio Tour and more

Rouleur podcast: Grand Tour preview, Radio Tour and more

Looking ahead to the Giro, Tour and Vuelta – what can we expect from the Big Three? Will Sky go out on a high?

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Gallery: double vision at Berlin Six-Day

Gallery: double vision at Berlin Six-Day

As the 2019 Berlin six-day approaches later this month, we look back to 2017 when native photographer Timm Kölln captured the 106th edition of the...

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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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Philippa York: riding the bike again

Philippa York: riding the bike again

In this extract from her feature on The Women’s Tour, Philippa York’s explains her recent on-off relationship with her own bike

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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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The Tour on telly (part 4): the outsider – Gary Imlach

The Tour on telly (part 4): the outsider – Gary Imlach

In the words of Francis Ford Coppola, live television is a high wire act. And without an autocue, it’s even... The post The Tour on...

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The Tour on telly (part 3): The man in the director’s chair

The Tour on telly (part 3): The man in the director’s chair

Surrounded by screens, flashing buttons and high-tech controllers it’s a complex mission to broadcast the Tour de France. ITV’s director-producer Steve Docherty has seen a...

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The Tour on telly (part 2): Ealing, we have a problem

The Tour on telly (part 2): Ealing, we have a problem

As one team are trawling their way thousands of kilometres around France, the other are in dark rooms in Ealing piecing everything together. Calm is...

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The Tour on telly (part 1): how ITV captures a moving circus

The Tour on telly (part 1): how ITV captures a moving circus

The 2017 Tour de France was the first edition of wall-to-wall live coverage for ITV4. Andy McGrath goes behind the scenes with Boardman, Boulting and...

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On the cusp: the formative years of Ineos’s Eddie Dunbar

On the cusp: the formative years of Ineos’s Eddie Dunbar

Writer Tom Daly has witnessed Team Ineos’s Dunbar go from an 11-year-old kid in Kanturk without a bike to one of the brightest prospects in...

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The Knowledge: Larry Warbasse takes an impulse deep dive

The Knowledge: Larry Warbasse takes an impulse deep dive

  Sign up to the Rouleur Chronicle newsletter to receive a weekly supply of curated cycling content   I’ve lived... The post The Knowledge: Larry...

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Rouleur cover stories: issue 18.7 by Wilfrid Wood

Rouleur cover stories: issue 18.7 by Wilfrid Wood

Former Spitting Image puppet maker Wilfrid Wood sculpted our very special member cover for the latest issue – Peter Sagan

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George Bennett guest column: a stitch in time

George Bennett guest column: a stitch in time

Crossing the world to pursue professional cycling in Europe is not to be taken on by the faint hearted. Thousands of miles away from home...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?

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Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Arguably the finest, most complete racer of the current generation and one that we’re looking forward to seeing back racing at La Vuelta. Here’s the...

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Matt Seaton column: Doored in the USA

Matt Seaton column: Doored in the USA

Whether you’re practising or preaching, it’s always worthwhile taking time to slow down and think about how you ride through the city. Matt Seaton comments...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Valverde, Martin, Sagan, Roche or Fraile are the Rouleur panel’s picks. But Cycling Mole says no – it’s Kwiatkowski for the win

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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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Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

“A photo shoot should never take more than five minutes, in contrast to the subsequent meal which may easily stretch to over three hours.” Timm...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

LottoNL-Jumbo land their third Top Banana of this Tour. This time it’s lanky Dutchman Gesink taking the plaudits. And the fruit

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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 11 – Warren Barguil

Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 11 – Warren Barguil

Barguil stakes claim to retake his king of the mountains crown in La Rosière

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