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Can Tadej Pogačar win the Tour of Flanders?
Tadej Pogačar starts the 2022 Tour of Flanders as both a debutant and a pre-race favourite. Can the Slovenian become the first Tour de France champion since...
Tom Pidcock: "No place for caution" at the Tour of Flanders
Ineos Grenadiers' young squad have proved themselves as contenders for the Classics. Could their leader, Tom Pidcock, bring home a win in De Ronde Van Vlaanderen?
Lone wolf without a pack: can Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl save their Classics season?
Belgium’s top men's team start the 2022 Tour of Flanders in the rare position of underdogs. Can they turn their Classics season around at De...
Lotte Kopecky – Bearing the weight of expectation at the Tour of Flanders
The 26-year-old Lotte Kopecky goes in to the Tour of Flanders as the home favourite and has had to learn how to cope with the...
Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Women Preview - Route, predictions and contenders
Route, contenders and predictions ahead of the 2022 Women's Amstel Gold Race
Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders
Cobbles are replaced by brutal bergs as the peloton heads to Limburg for the Amstel Gold Race. The route, contenders and predictions ahead of the...
Wout van Aert: Comeback Kid
Fully recovered from his horrific 2019 Tour crash, Wout van Aert is the most exciting bike racer in the world. Domestique, sprinter, climber, time-trials, cyclo-cross,...
Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders
De Ronde is arguably the most prestigious one-day race on the cycling calendar. With no Wout van Aert, who will delight the Belgian fans and take victory...
Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Women Preview – Route, predictions and contenders
With the Koppenberg included in the route for the first time, it’s going to be an exciting race for the women’s peloton
The last all-Belgian podium at the Tour of Flanders
Belgian 1,2,3’s used to be the norm at De Ronde, but it’s been a while… We recall the last time locals achieved a clean sweep
From the cobbles to the classroom – Flora Perkins on balancing racing and school as a neo-pro
Riding for Le Col-Wahoo in 2022, the British rider impressed in her first race and looks forward to a big year ahead. Once her A-levels...
Sergio Higuita: Straight outta Medellín
From a neighbourhood riddled with gunfire and ruled by drug gang lords to a WorldTour star – Sergio Higuita's irresistible rise to the top
Gent-Wevelgem 2022: Route, predictions and contenders
With a series of Flandrian Bergs to contend with, who will take victory in this year's edition of Gent-Wevelgem?
E3 Saxo Bank Classic: Route, predictions and contenders
Will it be Quick-Step or Jumbo Visma that prove themselves as the Classics team to beat in the first race of Flemish Cycling week?
Brugge-De Panne 2022: Route, predictions and contenders
A race where crosswinds can cause havoc, will it be a bunch kick to the line in this year's event?
Ride for Charlie and Kadeena Cox Academy among new Rapha Foundation grantees
The Foundation has been funding organisations since 2019 that are committed to supporting the next generation of riders from under-represented communities
Michael Woods on athletics, impostor syndrome and mission carbon zero
“Coffee?” Michael Woods turns on the machine and I utter an involuntary “Wow!” at the view from his living room: a towering mountain carpeted with...
Cover Stories: Rouleur issue 110 by Conspiracy Studio
Rouleur designer Enric Adell commissioned Conspiracy Studio, specialists in 3D designs and illustrations, to take the idea of the humble cobble stone and produce something...
The first real superstar of Italian cycling: Costante Girardengo, six-time Milan-San Remo winner
The first of cycling's five monuments, Milan-San Remo, is fast approaching. Rouleur tells the the story of Costante Girardengo, a legend of Italian cycling and a prolific...
Milan-San Remo 2022: Route, predictions and contenders
Five major one-day bike races are known as Monuments, and they begin with Milan-San Remo
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2022: Route, Predictions and Contenders
The third round of the women’s WorldTour is fast approaching – will anyone be able to take the leader’s jersey from Team SD Worx?
Anna van der Breggen: the next chapter
Undoubtedly one of the finest racers of the past decade, in a field packed with talent from The Netherlands, Anna van der Breggen hangs up...
"Fresh scenery and fresh motivation" – Salsa dancing and joining Bora-Hansgrohe with Ryan Mullen
Rival racers growing up, Daniel Stewart gets revenge on Ryan Mullen for the years of suffering, all through the medium of Salsa
“It’s about enjoying what you’re doing” – Velocio, SRAM and BMC’s new ‘No Borders’ Gravel Team
Uniting riders of five different nationalities, the team hope to show the endless possibilities of gravel riding to bring people together
"I’m tough on myself, but I am also tough on others." Inside the world of Mads Pedersen
At the end of last year, Morten Okbo went on the road with fellow dane and 2019 world champion Mads Pedersen. After a season of...
"A happy rider is a fast rider" How Cornish team Saint Piran is rewriting the script
The Cornish professional team has a focus on "person-centred success" rather than "win at all costs".
Ronde van Drenthe 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders
The second round of the Women’s WorldTour takes place in Drenthe and it’s a race that could be suited to the sprinters
Volta a Catalunya 2022: Route, predictions and contenders
The Volta a Catalunya is a race that attracts some of the world’s best climbers and 2022 is no different with João Almeida, Richard Carapaz...
Is Jumbo-Visma cycling’s next super team?
The performances of new signings such as Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot and Rohan Dennis have strengthened the team’s roster even further for 2022, making them...
“I want to show the world how good we are” Chantal van den Broek-Blaak’s next chapter with Team SD Worx
The Tour de France Femmes, mentoring younger teammates and full support if she wishes to go on maternity leave all fuelled Broek-Blaak’s decision to sign...

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