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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Fantasy cycling: Team of the Vuelta 2018
If there were no holds barred on putting together a cycling team of riders from this year’s Vuelta, this would be your super team
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 21
And so it ends. One last Vuelta hurrah in Madrid for the sprinters. How did the Rouleur tipsters do? Nae bad, says Moley, but don’t give...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 20
A mere 97km to go in the GC battle. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot… Yates, Valverde, Quintana, or a left field choice?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 19
Into Andorra we go. Majka looks a contender, but Moley goes with Valverde. The taming of the shrewd?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 18
Look at that profile. It’s as flat as they come on the Vuelta. A day for the sprinters say our panel. But could a chancer...
Maintaining a profile: cycling’s most baffling elevation graphics
What information can you garner about a race from it’s elevation profile? That depends on how it’s presented
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 17
A mixed bag of picks from our panel as usual. Mollema looks a good punt for stage 17, but does Moley agree?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 16
A 32km time-trial tomorrow. If it’s not Rohan Dennis, then something is seriously wrong. Who else can we expect to see in the hot seat?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 15
David Hunter, AKA Cycling Mole, is a top tipster who spends far more time studying the odds than we do. In a daily battle of...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 14
“I’m simply amazed that no one has selected Quintana, López or Simon Yates” Cycling Mole puts our pundits in their place
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13
We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11
Breakaway chancers and a clutch of GC men: Rouleur’s team are split on how stage 11 of the Vuelta a España will pan out. But...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10
Stage 10 should finish in a bunch sprint, and that’s what most on our panel are banking on. Could a fiendish climb in the final third...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9
Big day in the mountains on Sunday. Could be one for Yates? Otherwise, we’ve gone with Pinot, Porte, Rolland, Quintana. Holy Moley! Mollema?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8
Each stage, the Rouleur panel of ‘experts’ will give their picks for the following day’s race. Top tipster Cycling Mole, meanwhile, will dismantle our choices...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7
A mixed bag of picks from us: Trentin, Sagan, Benoot, Moreno, Prades. Moley says we are mad – it’s Valverde on his home roads of...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6
Nacer Bouhanni to beat allcomers? Also featuring Van Poppel, Viviani, Nozzolo and Walsheid, but no Sagan. Cycling Mole thinks we need our bumps read…
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5
It’s hotting up down in Spain. A lumpy 188km tomorrow, but can the sprinters’ teams hold it together? Our panel is split down the middle
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4
One for Dan Martin, perhaps? Or Benoot? Maybe Lopez? None of the aforementioned, says Moley – he says Dylan is electric
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3
Sprint or break? Break or sprint? Could go either way with this stage, but Cycling Mole goes for a sprinter
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
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
Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders
For some it’s the season’s last chance saloon, for others it’s perfect ground for a Grand Tour debut. Whatever the motivation to ride La Vuelta...
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