RACING
Updates, stories and opinions from inside the world's greatest sport, written and captured by Rouleur journalists
Darkness and light: remembering Fabio Casartelli
An exploration of love, loss and life with Annalisa Casartelli, widow of the last competitor to die during the Tour de France
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 5 – Toms Skujins
Trek-Segafredo’s potato-powered Latvian TT champion plays it smart in Brittany to land the polka dot jersey
Matt Seaton column: The Plight of Icarus
The Sochi scam, The Cold War and Trump, how politics and sport are so often intertwined. Matt Seaton believes the problem is us
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...
Philippa York: saints, desire and religion
An emerald-green Colnago bike can be the object of desire and the ultimate betrayal. Philippa York’s Rouleur column on growing up in Glasgow’s Presbyterian society
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
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
Cancellara: “Take it. Test it. Scan it. Do what you want”
Stashed away in a basement in Bern is a bike at the centre of speculation that has dogged Fabian Cancellara since 2010. Look inside, he says,...
Fabian Cancellara: doing the double at Flanders and Roubaix
Private jets, boozy post-Flanders celebrations and banging hangovers. How will he go at Roubaix? Not bad, it transpires…
What’s in the next issue of Rouleur magazine? 18.1 – a Classic
Philippe Gilbert, Svein Tuft, forgotten finishes of the Classics, Philippa York, Belgian bicycle worship gone mad and more
Desire: Bastion Road Disc
Filament-wound carbon tubes, 3D printed titanium lugs and automotive industry engineering, plus fine looks: these Aussies made a beaut
Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.8 – Yes It Hurts by Russ Ellis
A very British race: Russ shot the National Hill Climb championships in Northumberland for our latest member’s cover
Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson
A bon vivant who liked to drive fast and laugh hard, Simpson crammed many adventures and memorable moments into his 29 and a half years
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