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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 3 – Tejay van Garderen
BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day
Highs and lows of the Tour de France team time trial
Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 2 – Lawson Craddock
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,...
Tour de France: Chapatte’s Law and the art of the breakaway
“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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 1 – Yoann Offredo
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...
Tour de France: the watery world of the 2018 Grand Départ
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...
Inside line: a detailed look at the first stage of the 2018 Tour de France
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...
Imagining another Grand Tour with Adam Hansen
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...
What Thomas Voeckler did next
Transition, TV punditry and team management as the French fan favourite sips on his cycling career digestif
‘I am a machine, an escaped robot. I attack.’ – Anquetil Alone
“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...
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig – conveyor belt to success
The Cervélo-Bigla’s dynamic Dane on her rise from supermarket worker to super talent
Gianni Savio: the gentleman rogue who ‘discovered’ Egan Bernal
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...
Ryan Eastman on his transition from pro cyclist to paramedic
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 remarkable rise of Ben O’Connor
The Australian only started racing his bike four years ago but nearly bagged himself a top ten at his debut Grand Tour
The trouble with room-mates: Jacopo Guarnieri blog
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...
Like father, like daughter (and son): cycling dads and their able offspring
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...
Cover stories: issue 18.4, Tour de France special, by Simon Gill
“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...
For the love of cycling: Q&A with Nathan Haas
Unionisation, love of the bike and Crema Catalana
Tour de France quiz: Win a Rouleur membership plus entry to this year’s Étape du Tour
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...
Can Adam Yates learn from his brother’s mistakes to beat Froome at the Tour?
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...
Tour de France 2018: 21 stages, 21 stories – Party on, Alpe d’Huez
Fever pitch: Euro disco, booze aplenty and helping hands on the legendary 21 hairpins
Forgotten Finishes
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?...
Yorkshire terrier: Q&A with Ben Swift
The UAE-Emirates rider spills the beans on the high and lows of his career and what he does with his downtime
Hammer Series part three: Chase
“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...
Hammer Series part two: Sprint
“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...
Why Mario Cipollini should just shut up
Quick Step DS Brian Holm issues a badinage-filled response to our recently re-posted interview with Mario Cipollini
Hammer Series part one: Climb
“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...
The wrong Simon Yates: a funny case of Twitter mistaken identity
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...
Svein Tuft: living on cycling’s wild side
Camping out on mountain ridges and plunging into freezing streams, this is the Svein Tuft way of professional cycling
Tour de Ned: Boulting hits the road
“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...
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