BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day

Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...

They make ’em tough in Texas. No-one would have blamed Lawson Craddock for calling it a Tour after yesterday’s horror crash, but despite being bloody,...

“The winner from the break is the rider who won’t bargain for anything less. Even with himself.” Matt Seaton goes up the road in search...

Christian Prudhomme waves his flag, lowers his body through the sunroof of the red lead car, and the Tour de... The post Top Banana: Tour...

A sleepy island of 10,000 and a mesmerising marshy hinterland hosts the start of the 2018 Tour de France. Andy McGrath dips his toes in...

Quirky churches, stunning coastline and a baguette vending machine: we drove the route of the opener between Noirmoutier and Fontenay-le-Comte, which should end up being...

After riding 20 Grand Tours on the trot, Adam Hansen is taking a bit of time off during the 2018 Tour de France. But what...

Transition, TV punditry and team management as the French fan favourite sips on his cycling career digestif

“I didn’t choose it; the bike chose me. I don’t love the bike, the bike loves me. It’s going to pay for it.” An extract...

The Cervélo-Bigla’s dynamic Dane on her rise from supermarket worker to super talent

If there’s anyone who can keep Italy’s cycling economics spinning it’s Gianni Savio. This septuagenarian still has an eye for talent and a nose for...

A career-ending crash finished this young American’s dream of professional cycling. Now he’s helping his former fellow racers at the Tour of California

The Australian only started racing his bike four years ago but nearly bagged himself a top ten at his debut Grand Tour

From music etiquette to toilet talk, Groupama-FDJ rider Jacopo Guarnieri uses his new Rouleur blog to assess the bedside manners of ten seasons worth of...

If your dad was a bit handy on two wheels, chances are you’ll be ditching the balance bike and reaching for the cleats before too...

“Editing over a rehydrating beer after each stage, the rider numbers started to leap out as a graphic in their own right.” Simon Gill’s photo...

Unionisation, love of the bike and Crema Catalana

Ten stages, ten stories. Test your knowledge with our Tour de France-inspired quiz and win yourself a Rouleur membership, plus entry to this year’s Étape...

Simon Yates led the Giro d’Italia into its final week but came undone after a heavy assault by Chris Froome. What lessons can his brother...

Fever pitch: Euro disco, booze aplenty and helping hands on the legendary 21 hairpins

From football stadiums to hippodromes, Classic finishes are moveable feasts. But what makes an iconic finish, and what do the places mean to past winners?...

The UAE-Emirates rider spills the beans on the high and lows of his career and what he does with his downtime

“Lotto NL-Jumbo, Cannondale-Drapac, Movistar and Orica-Scott sweep past in a 20-up time-trial formation.” Drama aplenty in our dispatch from the final day of the 2017...

“Have you ever raced in Holland, Belgium and Germany? We don’t hang around. Full gas from the start.” Fighting talk from Andre Greipel in our...

Quick Step DS Brian Holm issues a badinage-filled response to our recently re-posted interview with Mario Cipollini

“It was very different to what I expected: no control, but that is five-man racing.” Tao Geoghegan-Hart gets Hammered at the 2017 debut of the...

Due to one letter’s difference in Twitter usernames, a US-based market researcher called Simon Yates has been inundated by messages of support during the Giro. “It’s...

Camping out on mountain ridges and plunging into freezing streams, this is the Svein Tuft way of professional cycling

“There’s going to be in-depth analysis of how a team time trial, composed solely by the core members of the Wombles, might perform.” This, Boardman’s...