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Vote for the Sharon Laws Road Rider of the summer

Vote for the Sharon Laws Road Rider of the summer

Six star riders up for the Sharon Laws Rider of the Summer award: Annemiek van Vleuten, Dani Rowe, Marianne Vos, Kirsten Wild, Coryn Rivera and...

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 5: Alpe d’Huez and Uncle Roger

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 5: Alpe d’Huez and Uncle Roger

Conor Dunne reaches Alpe d’Huez with Larry Warbasse on their NoGo Tour and reflects on his teenage inspiration – Uncle Roger

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 4: Gone Swimming

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 4: Gone Swimming

Our intrepid heroes reach Lake Annecy – and jump right in. The further adventures of Warbasse and Dunne

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 12

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 12

A sprinters’ day for sure. Or is it? Lumpy, bumpy and tricky towards the end, says Moley, but should still come together

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 3: friends for life – or at least for now

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour day 3: friends for life – or at least for now

Conor Dunne picks up the narration and a new pair of sandals as his and Larry Warbasse’s NoGo Tour gets into the heart of the...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11

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...

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Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 2: Finestre flip-flop farce

Larry and Conor’s NoGo Tour day 2: Finestre flip-flop farce

Back to France for our intrepid Aqua Blue Sport bike packers via weird shops, the power of love and forever-lost footwear

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Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Arguably the finest, most complete racer of the current generation and one that we’re looking forward to seeing back racing at La Vuelta. Here’s the...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10

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...

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Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour blog: our bikes weigh a tonne

Larry & Conor’s NoGo Tour blog: our bikes weigh a tonne

Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne get a different flavour of cycling as they set out on day one of their bike packing expedition in the...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9

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?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8

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...

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Back to Basics: The NoGo Tour with Larry and Conor

Back to Basics: The NoGo Tour with Larry and Conor

Irish champion Conor Dunne and former US champion Larry Warbasse are out of work. What to do? Ride their bikes, of course

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Learning the ropes: a pick of the 2018 season’s stagiaires

Learning the ropes: a pick of the 2018 season’s stagiaires

It’s that time of year where riders jump-ship, are poached and the interns are brought in. Each day the headlines narrate shock moves, the stayers...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7

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...

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Desire: Legor Cicli time trial bike

Desire: Legor Cicli time trial bike

The motto, ‘no pain, no gain’ is no truer than when riding a time-trial. Mattia Paganotti founder of Legor bikes at least wants to bring...

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On the right track: Elia Viviani and his move from Sky to Quick Step

On the right track: Elia Viviani and his move from Sky to Quick Step

Quick-Step’s Elia Viviani is enjoying his best-ever road season and the Rio Olympic Omnium champion sees evidence of an Italian track ‘risorgimento’ too. What’s going...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6

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…

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Nationals Pride: Connor Swift’s custom Genesis Zero SL

Nationals Pride: Connor Swift’s custom Genesis Zero SL

This is the custom painted Genesis Zero SL that British Champion Connor Swift will ride at the Tour of Britain in celebration of his national...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5

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

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Matt Seaton column: Doored in the USA

Matt Seaton column: Doored in the USA

Whether you’re practising or preaching, it’s always worthwhile taking time to slow down and think about how you ride through the city. Matt Seaton comments...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4

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

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Desire: Endura Pinstripe limited edition kit

Desire: Endura Pinstripe limited edition kit

A new type of Pinstripe suit that isn’t just for the office. Endura’s new limited edition kit that has your gel wrapper conundrums sorted

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

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

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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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Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

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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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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