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Seven women’s cycling races to watch in 2021

Seven women’s cycling races to watch in 2021

Which women's races should you keep your diary clear for?

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Letter from the Editor: The Women's Issue

Letter from the Editor: The Women's Issue

What did you think when you looked at the front cover of this women’s issue?

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The beauty of Drillium

The beauty of Drillium

This is a story with holes in it. Lots of holes. The weight savings are slight and the aerodynamics terrible. So why would anyone still...

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Thibaut Pinot

The Bounce Back: Riders who need a return to form in 2021

Rouleur looks at the riders that need to bounce back to their best form ahead of the 2021 cycling season

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Marcel Kittel, Matteo Trentin and Peter Sagan

Marcel Kittel's Guide to Sprinting

With 14 Tour de France stages and almost 100 wins to his name, Kittel’s guide to being the best in the harum-scarum world of bunch...

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Remembering how Tom Dumoulin almost won La Vuelta

Remembering how Tom Dumoulin almost won La Vuelta

Tom Dumoulin was a 1,000-1 outsider before the Vuelta a España that kickstarted his career. How “The Butterfly of Maastricht” nearly pulled off the greatest...

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Top 10: Terrible Cycling Kits

Top 10: Terrible Cycling Kits

The sport of cycling has seen some sartorial shockers over the years. From Phonak to Footon, we’ve narrowed it down to the 10 worst kits

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WorldTour Cycling Team Kits 2021: The best, the worst and the bravest

WorldTour Cycling Team Kits 2021: The best, the worst and the bravest

Who's wearing what for the coming season? And more importantly – what looks good?

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Snapshots

Snapshots

Orla Chennaoui examines the significance of the snapshot in cycling, as we showcase a handful of Rouleur's unique collection of disposable Tour de France photographs

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Koksijde

Dirty weekend in Koksijde: How to be a cyclo-cross spectator

One of the few cycling formats still going strong in the Covid-era, here's Rouleur's guide to the unique experience of being a cyclo-cross spectator – complete...

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Baltimore Son: A Black cyclist in America

Baltimore Son: A Black cyclist in America

“When a Black dude asks whether a place is okay, what we really want to know is, ‘Is it safe for Black folks?’" Life on...

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Ditch the GC: Why teams are giving up on the battle for the podium

Ditch the GC: Why teams are giving up on the battle for the podium

The way teams approach Grand Tours could be changing. Many, including Jakob Fuglsang and Astana, may look to follow Sunweb’s lead at the 2021 Tour de France

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Ian Stannard

Stannard's last stand: Ian Stannard on retirement and arthritis

British Classics champion and Team Ineos lifer Ian Stannard speaks exclusively to Rouleur about retiring from pro cycling following struggle with rheumatoid arthritis

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The Column: Chris Froome and the dream of Israel’s cycling team

The Column: Chris Froome and the dream of Israel’s cycling team

Just over a year ago, in a bar in Jerusalem, Israel Start-Up Nation co-owner Sylvan Adams was holding court. Amongst a group of journalists and...

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What does 2021 hold for Mark Cavendish?

What does 2021 hold for Mark Cavendish?

We take a look at why Deceuninck-Quick Step have coaxed Cav into a second stint with the team, and what can be expected of the...

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Flashback: Froome was overweight, in pain and thinking of quitting  

Flashback: Froome was overweight, in pain and thinking of quitting  

There were mutterings of dissent and an audience unsympathetic to his plight. From inside the Sky camp at the Giro in 2018, Kenny Pryde reports...

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Why are Deceuninck-Quick Step so dominant?

Why are Deceuninck-Quick Step so dominant?

With the Deceuninck-Quick Step team launching their bid for 2021 at their training camp in Spain, we look at the reasons behind the team's historic dominance

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Kasia Niewiadoma: Pole position

Kasia Niewiadoma: Pole position

Feisty, fun and very fast, Katarzyna Niewiadoma takes her inspiration from Vincenzo Nibali at Sanremo: "He showed that if you attack, you just have to...

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A Guide to the 2021 Women’s WorldTour Teams

A Guide to the 2021 Women’s WorldTour Teams

With an exciting season of women’s racing ahead of us, we take a deep-dive into the character of the women’s WorldTour teams for the season...

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The lady in yellow who rides at the front of the Tour de France

The lady in yellow who rides at the front of the Tour de France

Claire Pedrono is the ardoisière at the Tour de France - the woman who relays time gaps to the riders on a blackboard. But with no...

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Philippe Gilbert: The Road to Recovery, Dreaming of San Remo

Philippe Gilbert: The Road to Recovery, Dreaming of San Remo

Philippe Gilbert has spoken about his recovery from the second fractured patella of his career, while revealing his ambitions for the 2021 season

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Cycling transfers 2021: the smartest moves

Cycling transfers 2021: the smartest moves

As the 2021 season begins, we look at the shrewdest bits of transfer business from the WorldTour

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Miguel Indurain

Rain

A heavy dread. It starts the moment you wake. It’s like an unpleasant taste lingering in your mouth, a bad dream, something unresolved that still...

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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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“People will say: When's the men's issue, then?” Orla Chennaoui on editing Rouleur’s women’s issue

“People will say: When's the men's issue, then?” Orla Chennaoui on editing Rouleur’s women’s issue

Issue 101 of Rouleur will be an all-female issue, guest edited by broadcaster and Rouleur columnist Orla Chennaoui. Rouleur chatted to her ahead of the...

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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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Six Reasons to Follow Women’s Cycling in 2021

Six Reasons to Follow Women’s Cycling in 2021

Paris-Roubaix, the Olympics and a wealth of characters, if you have yet to take a keen interest in women's pro cycling, then 2021 is the...

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"If you have got a job today, you’re incredibly fortunate": NTT's Doug Ryder on the struggles of 2020

"If you have got a job today, you’re incredibly fortunate": NTT's Doug Ryder on the struggles of 2020

After a turbulent year in the World Tour, we interview Team Qhubeka Assos manager Doug Ryder ahead of the 2021 season 

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Rouleur Volata

Introducing Rouleur Italia and Volata

Spanish and Italian versions of Rouleur launched

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Design a jersey, earn a ride-along at the Spring Classics, and help change lives with bicycles

Design a jersey, earn a ride-along at the Spring Classics, and help change lives with bicycles

Long associated with the team, next year South African not-for-profit organisation Qhubeka now enjoys a titles spot in Team Qhubeka Assos (currently NTT Pro Cycling)...

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