Now in its fifth year, the Rouleur Annual is back to showcase some top-notch writing and photography focused on a whole range of racing from 2011, and it’s a book that once again is bound to feature on many a cyclist’s ‘Dear Santa…’ letter. The gallery above has certainly whetted our appetite.
Publication date is this Friday 2 December and you can buy it in our new Showcase section, in fact you can make an advance purchase now. The latest edition covers everything from the sport’s biggest races including, naturally, the Tour de France and Mark Cavendish’s World Championship victory in Copenhagen, through to the Berlin Six-Day scene and Italy’s Giro di Padania, which evolved into a political cause-celebre, polarising right- and left-wing opinion.
Cavendish’s successful pursuit of the rainbow jersey is covered by Fredrik Clements and Guardian chief sports writer Richard Williams, while one of the most memorable editions of the Tour in years is reflected upon by the likes of Taz Darling, Yazuka Wada, journalist Richard Moore and ITV’s Ned Boulting.
Photographer Gerard Brown and writer Graeme Fife examine efforts to keep the tradition of Six Day racing alive in Germany, while that divisive regional multistage race in Northern Italy forms the subject matter for Maglia Rosa author Herbie Sykes and Turin-based snapper Paolo Ciaberta.
It’s not just pro racing, either; the effect on shattered bodies of sleep deprivation is year’s Paris-Brest-Paris is captured by Wig Worland, with Jack Thurston providing the words. Meanwhile, a series of Polaroid shots by Olaf Unverzart of closed roads is accompanied by an essay on the subject by ex-pro rider Tom Southam.
The former Rapha-Condor-Sharp rider isn’t the only cyclist, past or present, given a chance to showcase their writing talents – BMC Racing’s Taylor Phinney puts pen to paper to write about the Tour of California, with pictures provided by Daniel Sharp.
Geoff Waugh turns his lens on the keen and the crazy who run alongside riders in Tour de France mountain stages, accompanying an article on them by Bill Strickland of Bicycling magazine fame.
Finally, in an endeavour with which we at road.cc can fully empathise, Rouleur editor Guy Andrews runs the rule over some of the less exciting press releases from pro cycling teams, a topic in which he has what is described as “a peculiar fascination.”
Rouleur Photography Annual Volume 5, £37 + £8 P&P in the UK, £12.50 Europe, £26 RoW
The small frame, the aggressive posture, lots of standover height.
As i've said before, the police should be sued for a lot of money when someone they have knowingly ignored has gone on to commit a serious crime....
'Bad parking' blocks firefighters multiple times on same emergency call-out...
Cambridgeshire boy, 13, crashes Audi into garden wall after taking it from home...
Good stuff. Now do it on cycleway C9 through Hammersmith to Chiswick.
It's technically allowed but it's not known as "London's Orbital Car Park" for nothing.
You're defending bombing hospitals and refugee camps and starving children.
Used car salesman is a complete attention-seeking plank....
I don't know if they're any better, but they's certainly become more boring.
At risk of being cynical, and stereotyping the police, it's so they don't have to leave the comfort of their panda cars and pursue on foot when...