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Rouleur Conversations: The Soul Magazine, featuring Remco Evenepoel, Victoria Pendleton, the soul of bike racing and more
It's new magazine week! Rouleur 119: the Soul Edition, is now out, and editor Edward Pickering and photojournalist James Startt discuss some of the standout features of the magazine.
We talk about James's interview and shoot with Remco Evenepoel and staff writer Rachel Jary's interview with Victoria Pendleton. Guest contributor Maria David talks about her feature - an interview with Selam Amha Gerefiel which broadened out into a wider discussion of Ethiopian cycling. We hear from Dan Craven, whose bike company Onguza is dripping with soul, and from AI Ed, who reads from Real Life Ed's piece on cycling in Japan, the philosophy of wabi-sabi, and the slow passing of time.
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