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The legacy of Charlie Craig

The legacy of Charlie Craig

The Ride For Charlie campaign was set up in memory of Charlie Craig, who tragically died five years ago, to support young off-road riders in...

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"Some women I have spoken to have gone into labour on the turbo, that would be the dream" Question Time with Elinor Barker

"Some women I have spoken to have gone into labour on the turbo, that would be the dream" Question Time with Elinor Barker

An Olympic, two-time world and six-time European champion in the team pursuit, Elinor Barker spoke to Rouleur about expecting her first child and her future...

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Cover Stories: Issue 109 by Paolo Martelli

Cover Stories: Issue 109 by Paolo Martelli

When photographer Paolo Martelli sent in an unsolicited photo essay on the Barcelona-based Genesis Cycling Team a decade ago, the sheer quality of the work...

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Robert Wyatt: Tribute to a Rouleur Photographer

Robert Wyatt: Tribute to a Rouleur Photographer

At a cycling event somewhere down in the Alps, the guy sitting next me at dinner introduced himself as a photographer – not an unusual...

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Cover Stories: issue 105 by Sean Conway

Cover Stories: issue 105 by Sean Conway

3D imagery, vintage Swiss cartography and the Jungfrau

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Amanda Spratt – Question Time

Amanda Spratt – Question Time

A favourite for the Olympic Road Race, we sat down to chat with Amanda Spratt for issue 102 of Rouleur

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Tour de France 2021

Here come the Belgians!

Who wants to see an all-Belgian break in this Tour de France? Gilbert, Naesen, and the plot to unify a nation

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The Slow Cycling Movement

The Slow Cycling Movement

What's the obsession with speed? Rouleur takes a close look at the joys of slow (and often happy) cycling

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Concussion at the Giro: Dombrowski, Mohorič and the latest protocol

Concussion at the Giro: Dombrowski, Mohorič and the latest protocol

Is cycling finally making progress on the troubling problem of concussion?

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Opinion: Team Directors should be directing riders, not driving cars

Opinion: Team Directors should be directing riders, not driving cars

A scene from the 2005 documentary Overcoming, shadowing Team CSC’s Tour de France campaign, features one scene where Bjarne Riis, behind the wheel of the...

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“I know what it's like to be at rock bottom”: Shanaze Reade Profile

“I know what it's like to be at rock bottom”: Shanaze Reade Profile

From top of the tree to bottom of the barrel, Shanaze Reade has experienced extreme highs and lows in her sporting career. The remarkable story...

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Concussion Repercussions: The real consequences of head traumas in cycling

Concussion Repercussions: The real consequences of head traumas in cycling

Blows to the head are a common occurrence in racing. But total recovery is not a given. We speak to riders suffering the consequences of...

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Introducing issue 102, True Grit

Introducing issue 102, True Grit

Join us on an adventure in our latest issue. Executive Editor, Ian Cleverly, reveals what's inside...

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Opinion: Give Canyon a break, mechanical failures are part of the sport

Opinion: Give Canyon a break, mechanical failures are part of the sport

Mathieu van der Poel's broken Canyon Aeroad handlebar set the internet alight, but mechanical issues are nothing new, and new technology always comes with new problems

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Cover Stories: issue 102

Cover Stories: issue 102

Art director Enric Adell details the design process behind our next issue, coming very soon. From early mock ups through to the finished article, Enric...

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Rouleur 101

Tipping the balance - the future of Rouleur

Our all-women issue 101 sold like no Rouleur before it. What lessons have we learnt?

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The Column: Absolutely tucked

The Column: Absolutely tucked

The UCI has banned the controversial top-tube mounted 'super tuck'. But is it the right decision?

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Tour de France 2040: On Tour with Bowie

Tour de France 2040: On Tour with Bowie

There are 33 David Bowie song titles shoehorned into this feature. Good luck, Bowie-philes... The year is 2040. The 127th edition of the Tour de...

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When Zwift met Mathieu van der Poel: Watopian Ideals

When Zwift met Mathieu van der Poel: Watopian Ideals

Rouleur goes behind the scenes on a Zwift advertising campaign, and gets beneath the skin of the training app sweeping the cycling world

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Rouleur Volata

Introducing Rouleur Italia and Volata

Spanish and Italian versions of Rouleur launched

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The Column: Tao’s Giro Fantastico – the moment of 2020

The Column: Tao’s Giro Fantastico – the moment of 2020

Tao Geoghegan Hart winning the Giro may be the decisive moment of 2020,  but for Rouleur Executive Editor Ian Cleverly one specific comment said it all

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yes it hurts

Yes, it Hurts: National Hill Climb by Russ Ellis

Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland, 2017 "I was on the very first section, no more than 250 metres from the start line, when I saw...

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Arc de Triomphe

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 21

It's been an emotional three weeks, but our panel has made it to Paris. Who will bag the final win on the Champs-Ẻlysées?

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Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 9

Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 9

Last chance saloon as Van der Breggen defends her lead over Niewiadoma to the end

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Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 20

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 20

Just a mountain TT to go before Paris - prime Primož territory. Or is it?

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Teniel Campbell

Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 8

Everything to play for now as crash takes out race favourites in Maddaloni

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Lennard Kamna

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 19

Kämna, Trentin, Martinez, GVA and Arndt. It's a mixed bag of sausages for stage 19 as we near Paris. Who's a chipolata, and who's a...

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Giro Rosa

Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 7

That's three stage wins out of six for the insatiable Marianne Vos, sensational racing.   And three wins to date for our panellists, too. Top...

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Tour de France 2020

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 18

Another big day in the saddle. Yates, Sivakov, De Gendt, Pogacar or Carapaz? The Mole runs his beady eye over out punts, then goes wild

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