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Audiobook Giveaway- Ned Boulting’s Vélosaurus
Missing Le Tour? Sign up to The Road Book Society Below to receive your free audiobook! The language of cycling is vibrant, sophisticated, often impenetrable and extremely French. Find yourself confused,...
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‘Just a Cycling Minute’ in aid of NSPCC
Donate Just £1 for ‘Just a Cycling Minute’ CLICK THE VIRGIN MONEY LINK BELOW NOW 4 donations of £1 can help a trained volunteer counsellor to answer a child’s...
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Dr Marlon Moncrieffe: British Cycling’s Deep Breath
#BlackBritishLivesMatterinCycling BY DR MARLON MONCRIEFFE George Floyd’s cry of “I can’t breathe” in the midst of his suffocation and subsequent murder by a white policeman is symbolic of rupture...
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Ned Boulting: 7 Reasons your dad will love to receive The Road Book for Father’s Day
Photographs: Offside/L’Equipe (Rouleur) Fathers Day was never a thing in my house, when I was a kid, which is a good job, because it would have been just another...
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Remembering Monseré- Ned Boulting
If you are a regular reader of Cycling Plus, you may have noticed that last month I wrote a dismissive column about e-Racing. This month I accepted a job...
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‘In Winner’s Words’- Chris Froome
(Extract from The Road Book 2018) Chris Froome won the Giro d’Italia for the first time in his career. With that victory he completed a remarkable hattrick of Grand Tour...
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THE ROAD BOOK #21: David and Ned come of age and talk bookshelves
A thorough examination of Chris Froome’s latest transfer gossip, plus Daniel Mangeas and enough literature to last a lockdown or two, as David and Ned delve into their bookshelves.
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So Long, Marianne? Vos Roars Back- Marianne Vos
Extract from The Road Book 2018. It was the re-emergence of the great Marianne Vos as a winning machine that characterised the late summer, with wins at the BeNe Ladies Tour...
Read moreNever Strays Far: The Quiz with Ned Boulting and David Millar
Never Strays Far brings you a special recording simply “because the internet needs more like this’. Among the usual tangents such as why was Ivan Basso spotted on Strava...
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The Armchair Series #4- ‘I promise to learn those historical lists by heart before ever setting foot in a comms box again’
Described by the Telegraph as the ultimate love letter to road cycling, The Road Book is proud to present The Armchair Series, showcasing in their own words what our...
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Hello, world- Ned Boulting
Four weeks ago, on the morning of the lockdown, I decided to step away from Twitter. No one likes a flounce, and I hope that’s not how it was interpreted....
Read moreThe Armchair Series #3- “The Season that never was, but emerged from the past”
Described by the Telegraph as the ultimate love letter to road cycling, The Road Book is proud to present The Armchair Series, showcasing in their own words what our...
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