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Stars of the Future part III: Liane Lippert
Sunweb's Liane Lippert is ready to take on the world's best
Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas: Caring for her community
After closing out the 2019 season with victory in the Chrono des Nations, Leah Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas got off to the perfect start to 2020...
Cover stories: Issue 20.3 by Grace Russell
A message of hope: Grace’s illustrated cover for our globe-trotting interview extravaganza. Rouleur 20.3 is coming soon
Sean Kelly and the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble: the most prized trophy of all
“That’s the one I have great memories of.” Sean Kelly tells Rouleur why the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble is the most cherished item in his vast...
Desire: Katusha – the pro-peloton veteran
As a sponsor to the pro-peloton for over 10 years, Katusha are shaking things up and we like it.
The Home Life: Kasia Niewiadoma’s Zoom Q&A
Live from Girona, Canyon//SRAM’s captain on why baking is a lot like cycling, Adam Sandler films and finding peace in simplicity
Ned Boulting: Ten years since I won the yellow jumper
A decade since he wrote his first book, How I Won The Yellow Jumper: Dispatches From The Tour De France, Rouleur columnist Ned Boulting has...
Desire: Passoni Fidia Milano-Sanremo
Milan-Sanremo may be postponed but Passoni have brought their own spectacle. Better still, they are donating one to support the fight against Covid-19
The column: Let’s use this time to consider the future we want for cycling
Rather than dwelling on what we’re missing, the races that have been cancelled, let’s look forward, and imagine what cycling could one day be, once...
Larry Warbasse: The Other Side
“We are taught to be optimists: if we weren’t our careers would be too stressful and too short. We hope, we believe, we pray for...
He ain’t heavy… Cycling siblings through the ages
Felix Lowe on the benefits of having a brother in the sport and cycling’s stand-out siblings through time
Momma’s got a brand new E-bike
Morten’s mum is behaving strangely – Zwift, e-biking, wearing Pas Normal clothing… At home with the Okbos
Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“We are wild animals, we have to breath outside, to put our noses in the wind.” With no end to the crisis in sight, frustration...
Flattening the curve: How the cycling world is doing its bit
From the Bigla-Katusha rider who’s donned scrubs to the cycling-themed pub quiz keeping you entertained on lockdown, a few of the ways in which our...
The making of Freddy Maertens
“He made my character.” How an authoritarian upbringing that brought psychological suffering also put Freddy Maertens on the path to sporting success
The column: The need for escapism and distractions in the time of Coronavirus
At this uncertain, frightening time, it’s more important than ever to have ways to take your mind off things. Tell us what we can do...
Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“I am starting to get bored. Today, I opened my own small bakery inside my bakery. Then I cut my hair.” The bizarre becomes the...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7
We’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought...
The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist
“Every day I act like I am infected.” Groupama-FDJ’s Jacopo Guarnieri reflects on life under quarantine in Italy
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6
Stage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 5
One day closer to Nice. Will we go the distance? Looking at our predictions for Stage 5, Cycling Mole wonders if there’s something in the...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 4
We know there’s a cycling shortage at the moment, but Paris-Nice stage 4 is still a time trial, so just fax us the results, yeah?...
Desire: Stuart Clapp’s Factor ViSTA
It’s new bike day for Desire Editor, Stuart Clapp. He even claims that the Factor ViSTA is his N-minus-2 – what is the world coming...
Cover stories: Issue 20.2 by Tom Jay
Dubbels, Tripels, Trappists and Saisons. Illustrator Tom Jay gets the beers in for the cover of our Belgian special
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 3
On a blustery Stage 2 in northern France, no one named Nizzolo as a possible victor. No one’s gone for him today, either, with most...
“There is no life in him. The boy is going to die”: Nairo Quitana’s spiritual story
“That is who we are.” We know Nairo Quintana was born in Colombia in 1990 but, as we discover in this extract from Matt Rendell’s...
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 2
Seems to be a strong consensus that Paris-Nice Stage 2 will come down to a sprint, and there’s several to select from. The amateurs like...
The column: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Is it selfish of us to feel sorrow over the cancellation of bikes races at a time of global crisis? Or is it simply human?
Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 1
With the way things are going, we might have to take what we can get in terms of racing for the foreseeable. This week we’ve...
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