PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE Middle of the first week and we already have a juicy Tour on the boil, and some spot on predictions from the Rouleur...

WORDS: ANDY MCGRATH | PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE Hennie Kuiper reflects on his runner-up finish at the 1980 Tour, which saw unprecedented Dutch dominance and a 1-2...

PHOTOS: SWPIX/ASO There were some, including a certain rider who may or may not spend most of her time in a somewhat striking rainbow striped outfit,...

Will this Tour produce the anticipated fireworks? Can Jumbo-Visma really challenge the unstoppable Ineos express for GC honours? And, most importantly, will the race even...

Here we go then. A trifling 96km for the women on Sunday, while the guys are beginning their three-week jaunt around France. Ho hum... It...

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/ASO 4 minute read You know what’s more interesting than speculating who will win the Tour de France? Speculating who will...

PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE   Will this Tour produce the anticipated fireworks? Can Jumbo-Visma really challenge the unstoppable Ineos express for GC honours? And, most importantly, will...

A building industry behemoth that sells industrial adhesives, grouts and sealants. How unromantic, how un-Italian. And yet, its team forged in chaos became the greatest...

Do you remember stage 9 of the 2013 Tour de France? It was the one where Chris Froome found himself isolated in a powerful lead...

WORDS: IAN CLEVERLY | PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/LEQUIPE 3 minute read No Chris Froome at this year’s Tour, then. Not a massive surprise, to be honest. No...

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: ALEX BROADWAY/ASO In an unprecedented cycling season, an unusual incarnation of a race won by an unlikely team's rider. Team EF's first WorldTour level...

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: PRESSESPORTS/GOMEZ/CORVOS/SWPIX.COM/LAPRESSE After the success of Top Mañana and Tomorrow’s Worlds, we’ve expanded the franchise of our popular race prediction game...

Once the scourge of cyclists, we now glorify in gravel sectors. Hugh Gladstone on how we learned to take the rough with the smooth

I was fast. Seriously fast. I had a yellow Peugeot jersey, black woolly shorts and perforated leather shoes.  Admittedly,... The post Paper Trail: Or How...

From the 1950s to the present, the Tour of Lombardy has showcased some of the most spectacular scenery Italy has to offer. The racing’s not...

WORDS: IAN CLEVERLY | PHOTOS: ASO Trashy TV blooper programmes were quite the thing in the pre-internet era – compilations of people doing silly things...

The white roads of Tuscany welcomed back the Women's and Men's WorldTours at the weekend, as the 2020 cycling season officially started for the second...

WORDS: ORLA CHENNAOUI | ILLUSTRATION: MATTHEW GREEN | PHOTOS: SWPIX.COM  17 minute read This essay was originally published in The Road Book 2019, available from the...

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/BRAKETHROUGH MEDIA/RCS After the success of Top Mañana and Tomorrow’s Worlds, we’ve expanded the franchise of our popular race prediction...

"He's a guy who, give him another year or two under his belt, these races are perfectly suited to," says Jonathan Vaughters to camera for...

Words: Nick Christian | Photos: Swpix.com 2 minute read This is the sixth part of an article entitled ‘Rouleur’s Super Six’, originally published in Rouleur issue...

Don't write him off just yet. Why Chris Froome's chances of winning another Tour de France are higher than most people seem to believe

More than just fast, fun can be life-changing too. The latest graduate of the Zwift academy, Jess Pratt, is going places

This year’s Tour de France will be unlike any other. For our Tour special we needed a cover to match. Longtime Rouleur photographer Sean Hardy...

In which our contributor explains why the Tour de France is not about a bike race and Jaws is not about a shark

“Can we talk about the crash?” He doesn’t hesitate. “Sure.” He shows me some of his scars.

This feature was originally published in Rouleur 18.5. Download the Rouleur app to read the whole issue. It’s twilight on... The post Festina ’98: Into...

In 2019 Giulio Ciccone won the King of the Mountains at the Giro d’Italia and spent two stages in yellow at the Tour de France....

As pro racing prepares to return to our screens, a few thoughts on what it will look like when it does

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