Rouleur #131

Founded in 2006, Rouleur magazine is currently published eight times a year and is the world’s leading cycling magazine, featuring independent, award-winning journalism showcasing the culture of the sport.

We often hear that cycling, these days, is all about the numbers. We measure our rides and our days in kilometres ridden, vertical metres gained, seconds, minutes and hours passed, watts expended, pulses monitored, grammes of carbohydrate ingested and KoM segments knocked off. The sport has been quantified, in tandem with the quantification and measurement of our lives. How many hours of deep sleep did you get last night? How many steps did you take?

Rouleur 131: the Numbers edition is a celebration of the sport’s relationship with numbers and science. They have counted race wins, looked at the software package adopted by one of the sport’s most forward-thinking teams to organise and co-ordinate their logistics, training, performance… everything, and spoken to some of the riders who are most adept at harnessing the power of numbers to improve their cycling performance.