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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Valverde, Martin, Sagan, Roche or Fraile are the Rouleur panel’s picks. But Cycling Mole says no – it’s Kwiatkowski for the win

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Why Giorgia Bronzini will make an inspirational sports director

Why Giorgia Bronzini will make an inspirational sports director

With over 80 victories to her name, Georgia Bronzini has decided to hang up her wheels and move behind the steering wheel

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

An eight kilometre prologue – it’s got to be Rohan Dennis, surely? Or has it? Our picks for the Vuelta opener

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Inside Line: Three parties banking on a German cycling renaissance

Inside Line: Three parties banking on a German cycling renaissance

As the Deutschland Tour returns to the roads of southwest Germany this week, can the nation’s public re-embrace a sport that so badly burnt them?

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Desire: Colnago 64 Gold Private Collection

Desire: Colnago 64 Gold Private Collection

Ernesto Colnago’s desire is for his bikes to deliver the ‘simplice’  look. The new C64 Gold Private Collection doesn’t just limit itself to simple, it’s simply...

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Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

How turning down a pro cycling contract put Paolo Bianchini on the path to becoming one of Italy’s top winemakers with Ciacci Picclomini

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Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

There’s more to this man than 20 consecutive Grand Tours, there’s two stage wins and he can fix your computer

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Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Pasta was nearly his career downfall when he moved to Italy, but the way of life lured Hampsten in and is now where he calls...

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Desire: Sportful BodyFit Pro Light Jersey

Desire: Sportful BodyFit Pro Light Jersey

One for the weight weenies, Sportful have made a jersey so light riding along you’ll feel nothing but the breeze

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Pasta al denture: passed down dietary wisdom in cycling’s lower leagues

Pasta al denture: passed down dietary wisdom in cycling’s lower leagues

From spaghetti in a flask to an absolute ban on melted cheese, James Stout recalls the bizarre traditions and ill-founded nutritional knowledge handed down through...

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Team kit and leading out Cav: František Raboň’s services to British cycling

Team kit and leading out Cav: František Raboň’s services to British cycling

The former HTC and Quick Step domestique on clothing Britain’s world champions, riding with Cav and falling asleep in the shower at the Giro

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British Cycling: Manchester united?

British Cycling: Manchester united?

As BC’s new batch of hopefuls enters the medal factory in Manchester, we ask how the organisation sets them up for success

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Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

“A photo shoot should never take more than five minutes, in contrast to the subsequent meal which may easily stretch to over three hours.” Timm...

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Flourish or flounder: Egan Bernal and other cycling prodigies

Flourish or flounder: Egan Bernal and other cycling prodigies

Despite a nasty crash recently, the future looks extremely bright for Sky’s super Tour domestique Egan Bernal. But beware, history has shown us that young...

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Rising star: junior Gent-Wevelgem winner Pfeiffer Georgi

Rising star: junior Gent-Wevelgem winner Pfeiffer Georgi

A look at the emerging British talent coming through the ranks. This month: 17 year old Pfeiffer Georgi – a rider raised on the Herne...

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Desire: Katusha Light Rain Jacket

Desire: Katusha Light Rain Jacket

The matter of a good rain jacket is not to be taken lightly. It isn’t just about keeping the rain off you as Nathan Haas...

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Chairman of the Board: the Greatest Cycling Board Games

Chairman of the Board: the Greatest Cycling Board Games

Cycling Board Games celebrates its fifteenth birthday. Our feature from issue 54 on the best of collector Anki Toner’s 300-plus games

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Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are?

From rouleurs and grimpeurs to puncheurs and sprinteurs, an explanation of the types of riders that make the peloton 

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Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

If you were to pick the mother of all super-teams based on this year’s Tour de France, this one would be hard to beat

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Tour de France 2018: Rouleur Rider Awards

Tour de France 2018: Rouleur Rider Awards

Rouleur picks the best riders by coffee cup category for the 2018 Tour de France best in class. Who will be the best grimpeur, sprinteur,...

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Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

The descent off the Aubisque was probably the fastest and most thrilling of the Tour. Photography motorbike pilot Luke Edwardes-Evans was right there in the...

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Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest surprise? Rouleur contributors look back...

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Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Pippa was a firsthand witness to the greatest Tour finish in history. “The ride back to the hotel was an eerie affair, streets deserted, the...

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Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

For sheer enjoyment of racing, entertainment value and landing a tasty little result en route, we salute the Irishman with a renewed love of the...

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Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

“It’s a beautiful mess”: Groupama-FDJ’s lead-out man on what makes the Tour’s last stage so different and  returning to reality post-race

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The Coupe – making the Tour de France trophy

The Coupe – making the Tour de France trophy

Tour winners receive a trophy handmade in Sèvres by a team of highly-skilled craftsmen and women, using centuries-old techniques and endless patience

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

The big engines, those domestique bottle-carriers who suffer through the mountains of the Tour, are offered a ‘day off’ during a time-trial. But they don’t...

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What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

Tour de France 2018 – 21 stages, 21 stories. We talk to time-trial hot seat regulars Alex Dowsett, Ryan Mullen and Jos Van Emden about...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

LottoNL-Jumbo land their third Top Banana of this Tour. This time it’s lanky Dutchman Gesink taking the plaudits. And the fruit

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Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Fast and furious racing, beautiful scenery, Sagan crashing, and Froome and Thomas involved in dramatic incidents. We were on the Col de Portet taking it...

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