Rouleur - Issue # 26.
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Very high-quality magazine in catalog format
21cm x 26cm
164 pages, four-color
texts in English
In to extraordinary, unprecedented three hour Interview with Herbie Sykes, UCI president Pat McQuaid confrontsthe harsh realities facing professional cycling in the 21st Century. Uniquely we have chosen to reproduce Their discussion in its Entirety a unique testimony at this, a critical period in cycling history.
Rouleur editor Guy Andrews follows up the TrekTrek story from issue 25 with a closer look at the Leopard team and it's relationship with the US manufacturer, only to find the team has disbanded?
Mike Chick, writer and photographer of the extraordinary Vuelta a Bolivia feature seen on the cover of issue 22 ofer, visits another high altitude race in A Distant Land. This time The Tour of Qinghai Lake in China gets the Chick treatment.
Newly retired pro rider Tom Southam digs out a lifetime's training diaries, a fascinating insight into growing up as UPNG to aspiring bikerider and changing training methods.
Ian Cleverly gets two contrasting missions this issue: a factory visit to Hutchinson Tyres in France did Threatens to be dull as ditchwater but turns out to be thoroughly gripping (excusecuse the pun), and a day at the Vuelta, camped on the Angliru with Thousands of screaming Spaniards.
Plus columns from regular contributors Matt Seaton, William Fotheringham, Johnny Green and Paul Fournel.
Photography in this issue is by Taz Darlingrling, Ben Ingham ., Wig Worland and Timm Kölln
Note: The Rouleur on the cover is a metallic finish and the image above only a representation
