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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 7

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 7

Can the breakaway take three stages on the trot? Or will stage 7 finally be one for the GC men? Some of our panel are...

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Desire at the Rouleur Classic: Technological wonders from POC

Desire at the Rouleur Classic: Technological wonders from POC

Helmets embedded with NFC tech, sunglasses that change tint with the weather and natural break-friendly bib shorts for women. POC really are going to be...

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The column: Farewell Marcel

The column: Farewell Marcel

Marcel Kittel’s retirement was met with sadness in some quarters. We should instead be cheered, for he has finally felt able to shed an enormous...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 6

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 6

A few of our panel hovered over Herrada, but no-one came close to Madrazo in Stage 5. Stage 6 looks the Costa del Ardennes, but...

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Talking shop with Andy Schleck

Talking shop with Andy Schleck

Retroactively awarded the 2010 Tour de France, Andy Schleck retired early due to injury. The Luxembourger and bike shop owner looks back on what was...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

No question that La Vuelta’s stage 5 will be one for the climbers, but which climbers? Cycling Mole gets the red pen out to mark...

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Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

From our 21 stages, 21 stories series: The harum-scarum life of a sprinter, staying cool in the Tour cauldron, and truth and reconciliation

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Finally, some splits in the bunch. Sam Bennett didn’t let the pressure of being firm favourite phase him on Stage 3. Can he can deliver...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

No-one had Nairo, so still no score in our game. Casquettes will be consumed if Bora Hansgrohe’s Sam Bennett doesn’t deliver a result on Stage...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

A calamitous start for Jumbo-Visma in the TTT meant none of our panel, nor Cycling Mole, got a score on the board yesterday. Will they...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

The 2019 Vuelta a España begins, as is tradition, with a team time trial. There’s one obvious favourite but who on our panel will play...

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The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Jacques Anquetil

The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Jacques Anquetil

Grace and control personified on the bike, chaos and controversy off it. In appreciation of this past master

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Rouleur podcast: Yanto Barker and Phil Anderson

Rouleur podcast: Yanto Barker and Phil Anderson

Elite cyclist turned entrepreneur, Yanto Barker, talks to Ian Parkinson about taking Le Col to the top, while the first non-European maillot jaune, Phil Anderson...

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The column: The Jumbo conundrum

The column: The Jumbo conundrum

Will the arrival of Tom Dumoulin bring Ineos level success for Jumbo Visma, or could it create a few Movistar-style headaches?

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Top Mañana 2019

Top Mañana 2019

The daily Vuelta prediction game, that made its debut last year and definitely wasn’t reverse engineered from a laboured pun, is back for 2019

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Desire: Trending topics

Desire: Trending topics

Tyres are wider, jerseys are jazzier and sprockets are now available by the dozen. The latest developments in design from aero bikes to – whisper...

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Bob Varney:  A Duty of Care

Bob Varney: A Duty of Care

Prize money for the Prudential RideLondon races may be on a par, but similarities end there. Bob Varney from Drops Cycling Team highlights the differences...

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The column: Greg Lemond puts it all on the line

The column: Greg Lemond puts it all on the line

Rouleur editor Andy McGrath meets Greg LeMond in Switzerland and finds this American icon to be open, principled and passionate, and still just as in...

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Generation Z

Generation Z

 How a truly traditional team morphed into one of the most modern and, with the help of a certain Greg Lemond, cycling entered a new...

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Rouleur Classic Competition: Guess the star guest…

Rouleur Classic Competition: Guess the star guest…

Tell us who you think we’ve got coming to the Rouleur Classic 2019 to be in with a chance of winning tickets to all three...

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Rouleur podcast: Rob Hayles and Café du Cycliste

Rouleur podcast: Rob Hayles and Café du Cycliste

Gold medals, rainbow jerseys, national championships bands, TV commentary – Hayles has done it all. Now it’s bespoke jewellery from carbon and titanium, and bits...

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The column: Why Fiona Kolbinger’s victory in the Transcontinental matters

The column: Why Fiona Kolbinger’s victory in the Transcontinental matters

Fiona Kolbinger might not be a household name in the world of cycling, but she deserves to be. She's just won the 4,000-kilometre Transcontinental Race with almost eight...

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The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Marguerite Wilson

The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Marguerite Wilson

Pioneering record breaker and superstar of pre-war cycling, Ian Cleverly impresses upon you to vote Marguerite Wilson into the Cycling Hall of Fame

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A short sit-down with Paul Fournel

A short sit-down with Paul Fournel

“I ride to rest and to tire myself out. I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm.” An interview with master of...

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Desire: Specialized S-Works Roubaix – Parra x Romance

Desire: Specialized S-Works Roubaix – Parra x Romance

Do you remember that stunning, uber glamorous Specialized Allez Sprint from the 2018 Rouleur Classic? Romance are at it again and this time they’ve brought...

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The column: What next for Julian Alaphilippe?

The column: What next for Julian Alaphilippe?

Julian Alaphilippe demonstrated at the Tour de France that he is capable of more than anyone had previously thought possible. It may, however, have left...

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Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Few riders at the 2019 Tour de France were put through the ringer like Jumbo Visma’s George Bennett, and none was more deserving of our...

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The Tour de France is over. Now what?

The Tour de France is over. Now what?

Does the finish of the Tour de France really mark the end of the cycling season? Of course it doesn’t. Who, in fact, would even...

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Desire: Cannondale SuperSix Evo 3

Desire: Cannondale SuperSix Evo 3

The long awaited update to one of the most popular bikes of all time is here. Spoiler. It’s rather different

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Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

No other rider had more Tour ups and downs than the charismatic New Zealander, who worked his socks off for Kruijswijk after midrace misfortune

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