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'Hopefully the luck will come back' - Reflections on a hard Tour de France for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had high hopes going into the 2024 Tour de France, with a realistic target of finishing on the podium with Primož Roglič, even...
Krave, karaoke, and looking cool: Question time with Josh Tarling
The Ineos Grenadier and World Championships TT bronze medallist on his craving for Krave, his throwing ability and the necessity of committing when it comes...
The Tour de France and the Boulder Problem
Tadej Pogačar went into the Pyrenees with a slim lead in the 2024 Tour de France, and emerged with a significant one. Rouleur looks at...
Anthony Turgis masters the chaos
The TotalEnergies rider takes his biggest ever win, and his team’s first at the race in seven years
A day out in La France Profonde
Stage eight was a classic ‘quiet’ stage of the Tour, taking their riders through La France Profonde, the heart of rural France
Julien Bernard makes a party out of a time trial
What Julien Bernard lost in time by stopping to greet his friends and family in the Burgundy time trial, he gained in making the Tour...
How I won the Tour of Flanders
Edward Pickering speaks to several riders who have won Belgium's most prestigious Classics, to find out how they did it and what the victory meant...
'A bit mind-bending' – how Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice
Matteo Jorgenson tells Rouleur about how he took his biggest victory yet at Paris-Nice
An American in Nice
Rouleur editor Edward Pickering reflects on Matteo Jorgenson's Paris-Nice win
Jay Vine: The numbers game
Jay Vine has endured a challenging season, despite winning the Tour Down Under in January. He reflects to Rouleur on the highs and lows of...
Edward Pickering’s five things to look forward to at Rouleur Live 2023
Rouleur Editor, Edward Pickering, looks ahead and picks some highlights from the star-studded Rouleur Live 2023 line-up
What's inside Issue 122 of Rouleur?
There is no better way of travelling than by bike. It is the cheapest, cleanest and healthiest way of getting from A to B, and...
A lifetime with Phil Liggett
Television commentator Phil Liggett has covered 50 Tours de France and has been ever present as the sport of road cycling has grown and changed beyond recognition....
A duel in the sun
Strange things are afoot in this Tour de France Femmes, and the latest unpredictable stage saw Ricarda Bauernfeind win solo in Albi
The Tour’s culture war
Jonas Vingegaard won the 2023 Tour de France and looks set for an era of dominance, but his style has not been a hit with...
Thibaut Pinot: Once More, With Feeling
France’s favourite cycling son tried hard to achieve a stage win on home ground in his penultimate day in the Tour, but despite passionate support,...
Friends forever… almost
The break held off the chasing peloton in Bourg-en-Bresse. Rouleur looks at the temporary alliances which win and lose bike races
Vingegaard twists the knife
In an implacable show of dominance, Jonas Vingegaard killed off the 2023 Tour de France, and for good measure psychologically crushed Tadej Pogačar
A dramatic turn of events
The story of the 2023 Tour de France took a surprising twist in the stage 16 time trial to Combloux
Pogačar and Vingegaard are fighting each other to a standstill
The two main protagonists of the 2023 Tour de France, along with their immensely strong teams, are in a position of stalemate, but has momentum...
There are still two: why 2023 is a Tour de France for the ages
The gap between Vingegaard and Pogačar is wafer-thin, and neither looks stronger than the other. This is a Tour that is going to go down...
Marginal gains: was all that effort by UAE Team Emirates worth it for eight seconds?
Tadej Pogačar continued to chip away at Jonas Vingegaard’s lead, with the GC battle even more finely poised as the race enters its third weekend
A quiet stage in a quiet town
Stage 11 of the 2023 Tour de France took the race to Moulins, in the heart of La France Profonde, for the first time ever
Chess on wheels: mastering the Tour de France breakaway
Pello Bilbao was the winner of stage 10, in a finely-balanced finale that saw a fair fight between a number of riders
Pain, probability and the Puy: How bike racing works
Mike Woods won stage nine of the Tour de France atop the Puy de Dôme, after a complicated and absorbing battle between the 14 riders...
A lighthouse: The history and meaning of the Puy de Dôme
The Tour de France returns to the iconic Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years in 2023. From Issue 120 Rouleur takes...
No fairytale for Mark Cavendish
The greatest sprinter ever dramatically crashed out of the Tour de France on stage eight, between Libourne and Limoges, leaving the 2023 race short of...
Anatomy of a sprint: The Space Between
Mark Cavendish found himself with the space to operate in the stage seven sprint in Bordeaux, but bad luck and a rampant Jasper Philipsen denied...
The Tour de France is not over after all
Tadej Pogačar turned the tables on new yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard by winning in Cautarets and closing to within 25 seconds of his lead
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