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Team News: New kit, new kit sponsor and a whole new look for Madison Genesis in 2019 (more…)

For over a decade (14 years), the Grand Prix 4000 has been, say Continental, a market leader and their goal was to make it better with the GP 5000 (more…)

Bryn Davies winner of the first round in the West Wales Winter Warmer Series at Llanelli on Sunday (January 20) (more…)

Jonny Bodey, Joselin Lowden and Thomas Arkell winners at week 3 of the East London Velo Winter Series at Redbridge on Jan 19 (more…)

After many a year with John Herety’s teams, Ed Clancy will be in new team colours in 2019 after signing for Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK (more…)

Q & A with Team Onform’s young under 23 rider Gabriella Homer who has represented her country in World and European championships with a 4th in the Madison at the Euros her best result … (more…)

Vuelta a San Juan Petr Vakoc’s first outing in nearly 16 months – Tour de France King of the Mountains winner and multiple stage winner Julian Alaphilippe heads Deceuninck – Quick-Step line up (more…)

British Cycling is pleased to confirm that Shrewsbury Sports Village will host the 2020 British Cyclo-cross Championships. (more…)

Jacob Schnabel and Matthew Gilmour two of the winners at the Hillingdon Youth Races in West London on Saturday, January 19 (more…)

Rose McGovern, Caitlin Bower, Nick Livermore and Iwan Evans winners at round 4 of the Odd Down Winter Series at Bath on Jan 19 (more…)

One of the oldest races on the racing calendar, the Beaumont Trophy returns to the premier calendar in 2019 (July 7th) after some exciting racing at the British Road Race Championships in 2018 – we talk to organiser Peter Harrison (more…)

Simon Petttifer dominates B League at the January 20 Calshot Winter Indoor Track League meeting at Southampton (more…)

Over three days this weekend is the British Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome (Fri 2th to Sun 27th (more…)

Helen Pattinson, Adrian Lansley, Barney Clacy, Alex Forrester and Kevin Holloway winners at round 14 of the Wessex CX League on January 20 (more…)

Sam Lindsay, Simon Snowden, Nick Baldwin, and Miriam Whitehurst winners at round 14 of the Western CX League at Hartham Park on January 20 (more…)

Glenn Kinning, Gordon Dickson, Kerry MacPhee, and Maddy Pope winners at round 5 of the RGCX V Super Quaich CX series in Scotland in mild but mucky conditions… (more…)

Gemma Melton, James Madgwick, Matthew Webber, Jimmy Piper and Charlie Johnson winners at round 15 of the Eastern Region CX League on January 20 at Norfolk (more…)

Xan Crees, Philip Roach, Austin Smith, Edward Woodward, and David Earth winners at round 14 of the central CX League at Misterton Hall, Lutterworth on January 20 (more…)

George Thompson, Xan Crees, James Moore, Pete Middleton and Ben Chilton winners at the Notts & Derby CX League on January 19 (more…)

Declan Egan and Jamie Scott winners at the January 19 round of the Full Gas Winter Series at London’s Velopark (more…)

South African Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) has created history, becoming the first male to win back-to-back Tour Down Under titles with a third-place finish on the final stage. (more…)

Two very special bikes rolled out of the Primera Sports shop on Friday, a Specialized S-Works ‘Peter Sagan’ Venge & Specialized Vias, Venge (more…)

Mclelland/Burnett dominate the madison events at the Full Gas Track League on January 17 at London’s Indoor Olympic Velodrome (more…)

Belgian Jasper Philipsen wins stage 5 of the Tour Down Under after Caleb Ewan relegated – Bevin continues to lead overall despite crash (more…)

Scott Thwaites has joined Vitus Pro Cycling Team, powered by Brother UK, completing a significantly strengthened line-up for Cherie Pridham’s team as the start of the 2019 season draws closer. We talk to Scott about the move back to Britain (more…)

Victory for South African champion Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) on stage 4 of the Tour Down Under, Race Leader Bevin is second (more…)

Sunday, January 27 is an open day at the Boardman Performance Centre where you can take a tour of the facility led by the man its named after, Chris Boardman – the day also has much more including talks designed to help any cyclists identify areas of opportunity for personal improvement (more…)

The quizes continue with a Q&A with first category rider Sian Botteley of Team Onform who is looking forward to the new race at Bourne in 2019 (more…)

Another insight into the riders for Madison Genesis in 2019 – in this weeks episode the team talks to long time team member Erick Rowsell (more…)

Theo Modell, Oliver Stockwell and Michael Mottram of Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK winners at the Full Gas Winter Track league on Tuesday 15th January at London’s indoor Olympic velodrome (more…)

Four races, four different winners at at the Premier Division of the Manchester Regional Track League on Tuesday night (more…)

In a carbon copy of stage 4 of the 2018 race, the Slovak National Champion, Peter Sagan, used his local knowledge to take the win on a punishing stage 3 of the Tour Down Under (more…)

Kiwi Patrick Bevin (CCC) continued his strong start to the season by sprinting to his first WorldTour stage win on stage two of the Tour Down Under, which saw the New Zealander move into the race lead. (more…)

One of only three riders from the 2018 team to keep their place on the Vitus Pro Cycling team p/b Brother UK for 2019 is Liam Davies, a feisty racer who’s fight on the bike impressed his team manager. We chatted … (more…)

Question time with Tom Grigson of Bikestrong-KTM who enjoyed being on the big stage at the Tour Series in 2018 and is looking forward to his home race, the Bristol GP in 2019 (more…)

Quiz time with new signing at Team Boompods, Becky Longthorpe, a second category rider who is hoping to do all of the Tour Series (more…)

Natalie Bloomer, Jamie Whitcher, Bobbie O’Brien and William Gilbank winners at round 2 of the Hillingdon Slipstreamers Youth Winter Series on Saturday, 12 January (more…)

William Murtagh and Tom Portsmouth winners at week 2 of the East London Velo Winter Series at Redbridge Cycle Centre on January 12 (more…)

Elia Viviani starts the season with a bang in Tour Down Under – The Italian Champion came out of nowhere in the chaotic stage 1 finale to take the win and the leader’s jersey (more…)

Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), second-year professional, will start his campaign in Portugal, at the 45th edition of Volta ao Algarve (more…)

Results from the Calshot Winter Track League on Sunday (Jan 13) in Southampton where the winners included Joshua Gollicker, George Moore, Elliot Moreve, and Simon Pettifer (more…)

Becky Evans, Lucy Gadd, Oliver Beresford and Robert Pears winners round 3 of Odd Down Winter Series in Bath on January 12 (more…)

The North West road season gets underway with the 53rd Clayton Spring Classic on the 24th of February. Who will join the former winners including Tom Pidcock, Dean Downing, Ian Stannard, Mark Lovatt, Kevin Dawson, Dan Craven and Rob Hayles on the honours list? (more…)

Entry for the early season classic the Perfs Pedal on February 10 closes on January 20 after which a full field will be selected – Former winners go far back as Tony Mills in 1964 and over the years Ian Hallam, Dave Legrys, Glenn Longland, Chris Newton, Alex Dowsett, Julian Winn and Tour de France […]

Gary Macdonald, Roslynn Newman, Jaime Nicholson, Euan Hamilton-Rigg winners at the 4th Round of the Super Quaich, held in the magnificent grounds of Winton Castle, near Tranent, Scotland. (more…)

Ed Hopper (Ribble Pro Cycling), Miriam Jessett and Steven Parsonage winners of round 1 of the Velo29 Winter Series in the North East on January 12 (more…)

Dave Mitchinson, Judit Szarka and Seb Baucutt winners at the January 12 round of the Full Gas Winter series at London’s Velopark (more…)

Mark Donovan, Rob Scott and Tom Pidcock lead Team Wiggins (UCI Continental) for the 2019 road season (more…)

Ben McKie and Ryan Seed winners at the January 12 round of the Hillingdon Winter Series in West London (more…)

ActiveEdge Race team enters its second season of racing after a great first season both on the national and international scene (more…)

The second day of the British Cyclo-Cross Championships at Kent Cyclopark saw Tom Pidcock, Anna Kay, Nikki Brameier, Harriet Harnden and Ben Tulett winning their categories (more…)

One start for both the men’s and women’s championships (elite/under-23’s). In accordance with UCI regulations for the discipline, a national champion’s jersey cannot be presented to the winner of the under-23 category. (more…)

Pete Middleton, Helen Pattinson (Hargroves-Montezuma’s), Paul Oldham, Chris Wreghitt, Pete Middleton, Libby Bell, Zoe Backstedt, Corran Carrick-Anderson and  Max Greensill  (more…)

Letizia Paternoster began Trek-Segafredo’s first race of their opening season in the best way possible, sprinting to victory in stage one at the Santos Tour Down Under Thursday. (more…)

Oscar Nilsson-Julien, Ryan Savage and Christopher Richmond some of the winners at the January 8 Full Gas Track League at London’s Indoor Olympic Velodrome (more…)

Welshman Luke Rowe (Team Sky) insists there is more to come at the Classics as he takes aim at a fresh cobbles campaign in 2019 – “Essentially I’m a racer. I enjoy racing”. (more…)

Sam Watson and Jake Ragan both double winners at the opening round of the 2019 Premier Division of the Manchester Regional Track League on Tuesday night (more…)

Sam Llewellyn-Jones and Alex Blomeley winners at round 1 of the East London Velo Winter Series on January 5 at Redbridge Cycle Circuit (more…)

The 2019 British Cyclo-Cross Championships are being held this weekend at Kent’s Cyclopark – here is the preview from British Cycling’s media team (more…)

Two wins and a near victory for former elite Jonny Towers, daughter Alice and son Lucas in South Africa (more…)

One of the key 2019 signings for Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK is Ali Slater who has been Mr Reliable at JLT Condor for many years and in 2018 won his first UCI race in France as well as coming close in the Tour of Yorkshire with second place on stage 1. (more…)

Richard Long, Catriona Ross, Robin Delve (V50) and Oliver Yates (V40) winners at round 8 of the South West Cyclo-Cross league on January 6 (more…)

Andy Davies winner of the Cardiff 100 Miles RCC 9.9 mile Time Trial on New years Day; Carol Bridge fastest woman (more…)

Stuart Fairweather under 20 minutes in the CC Breckland New Years 10 mile time trial; Jo Fisk first woman (more…)

Neil Lauder fastest (20.11) on the New Years day Southborough & Dist Whs 10 mile time trial, Hannah Graveney fastest woman (more…)

In another great feature from Madison Genesis, they talk to their star rider, British Road Race Champion Connor Swift about 2019 (more…)

George Moore, Joshua Golliker, Simon Pettifer and Jim Robertson some of the winners at the January 6 round of the Calshot Winter Track League at Southampton on Sunday (more…)

Italian Champion Elia Viviani will lead the Deceuninck – Quick-Step Tour Down Under squad at the first race of the year (Australia, 15-20 January) – Britain’s James Knox rides too (more…)

Defending champion Daryl Impey will lead Mitchelton-SCOTT at the Tour Down Under next week, hoping to become the first male to win back-to-back titles in the race’s 20-year history. (more…)

Michal Kwiatkowski, Gianni Moscon and Wout Poels discuss their season goals for Team Sky in 2019 (more…)

A host of Paralympic and world champions will represent the Great Britain Cycling Team at this weekend’s Manchester Para-cycling International (more…)

Nichola Jackson, Matthew Lawton, Rob Hope and Paul Mashiter winners at 12 of the North West Cyclo-cross League at Waddow Hall on Sunday (more…)

Lindy Brazier-Larkin, Sam Allen, Paul Lloyd, and Kevin Holloway winners at the Didcot round of the Wessex CX League on Sunday (Jan 6) (more…)

Gary Macdonald, Craig Robertson, Alicia Lawson and Laura Fidao winners at the Battle of the Bing 2 (Super Quaich Round 3) on January 6 (more…)

Fran Whyte, Richard Jones, Aran Martin, Darren Atkins @ZannataUK, and Philip Roach winners at round 13 of the Central CX League at Corby on January 6 (more…)

Andrew Taylor, Jonathan Dennis, Kevin Burton and Adeline Moreau winners at round 11 of the London CycloCross League at Hog Hill in NE London on Jan 6 (more…)

Kieran Jarvis, Matthew Webber, Elspeth Grace, Jimmy Piper and Nathan Hardy winners at round 14 of the Eastern Region CX League at Stow (more…)

On day 2 of the final round of the National Trophy Cyclocross at Shrewsbury, the winners were Ffion James, Zoe Backstedt, Gasse Van Der Meer , Lewis Askey , Corran Carrick-Anderson, Libby Bell,  and Oliver Ackers (more…)

Jon Hemming and James Bonham winners at the January 5th round of the Full Gas Winter Series at London’s Velopark (more…)

The final round of the National Trophy CycloCross is in Shrewsbury; day 1 winners were Helen Pattinson, Pete Middleton, Roy Hunt and Paul Oldham … (more…)

Alan Newman, Greta Cowen and Paul Burton winners at week 9 of the Full Gas Winter Series at London’s velopark on December 29 (more…)

Question time with a young rider racing internationally in cyclo-cross who will then swap to the road for the Brother UK/Tifosi p/b Onform women’s racing team (more…)

Question time again, this time with under 23 rider Ellen Barker who’s best result in 2018 was 7th in the National Road Championships (junior Women) (more…)

Results from the December 30 Calshot Winter Track League in Southampton where winners included Harry Johnson and Joshua Golliker (more…)

British champion Grant Ferguson heads up the line up for the final round of the National Trophy CycloCross in Shrewsbury on the weekend where the course will be quite a change to previous years (more…)

The weekend saw the 2019 roster of riders on the Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK team get together in Derbyshire for a meal and team ride (more…)

Isle of Man Cyclefest Ltd pleased to announce news of a major Gran Fondo event scheduled for 21st of July 2019 on the Isle of Man (more…)

Team Sky confirm Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome will focus their 2019 seasons around the Tour de France, with Egan Bernal set to lead his first Grand Tour at the Giro d’Italia. (more…)

In a memorable year for teams being lost to the sport, there was many a winner including those in these major events of the road racing year (more…)

Josie Nelson of RST/Cycle Division, Nick Craig, Pete Middleton, and Toby Barnes winners at the Macclesfield Supacross on December 30 (more…)

Philip Roach, Katy Simcock, George Thompson, Darren Atkins (ZannataUK) winners at round 6 of the Leicestershire CX League nr Ashby de la Zouch (more…)

Ian Knights, Lucy Siddle, Alan Nixon and Stephen Lee winners at round 13 of the CXNE League at Gypsies Green on December 30 (more…)

Poppy Cooke, Andy Peace, Matt Taylor, and Oliver Akers winners at round 10 of the Yorkshire Points CX at Todmorden (more…)

Emyr Trveldve, Lee Williams, Robin Delve, Ffion James and Paul Lloyd winners at round 13 of the Western CX League at Odda’s Chapel in Gloucestershire (more…)

Sam Burman, Graham Briggs, Martin Kennedy and Samuel Howes winners at the Scunthorpe RC round of the Lincolnshire CX League on December 30 (more…)

Imogen Chastell, Max Bolton, Benjamin Lewis, and Kevin Holloway winners at the MG Writtle CX event in Essex on December 30 (more…)

In Australia for the famous Bay Crits starting on January 1 is Madison Genesis rider Tobyn Horton – here’s a very insightful interview with him from his team… (more…)

British champion Grant Ferguson, Helen Dussek, Daniel Alexander, Robert Dexter, Jacob Steed and Ben Chilton winners at round 8 of the Notts & Derby CX League (Dec 29) (more…)

With just two weeks to go until the National CX Championships at Cyclopark in Kent, we caught up with Huw Williams for an update on how things are going. (more…)

Steve Wood winner of the LVRC Cyclo-Cross Championships for riders 40 to 80plus; Sally Reid first woman (more…)

Alex Platt of Saintt Piran won the Penzance Wheelers Boxing Day 10 mile time trial on the s45 course at Leedstown (more…)

Jessica Finney who rides for the new Brother UK/Tifosi women’s team in 2019, takes the VeloUK end of season quiz (more…)

CHS are hosting a special training camp/holiday during August when stage 2 of the Vuelta kicks off in Benidorm and finishes in Calpe (more…)

A new Irish team (Bioracer Devo Ireland) with the country’s top Under 23 riders will be sponsored by Bioracer UK and is said to be targetting Britain’s National Series men’s events (Prems) in 2019 (more…)

Ken Buckley broke the course record as he stormed to victory in the New Forest CC Boxing Day 10 at Ringwood whilst Julia Shaw stopped the clock on 24.21 to win the womens race (more…)

Question time with young first cat Team Onform rider Kate Wootton who’s second overall, as well as second on stages two and three of the Junior Women’s National Series race, the Women’s Giro in Essex was her best result of this road season (more…)

Question time with second cat Jenny Hudson who rides for the Brother UK sponsored Fusion RT in 2019 – we quiz Jenny on her 2018 season (more…)

Ewan Grivell-Mellor of the Mid Shropshire Wheelers (sponsored by DaveM) wins the 65th Coventry RC Boxing Day Cyclo-Cross (more…)

Former British champion Dave Williams has swapped his aluminium winter bike for a Kuota K-Allroad carbon one in camo urban colours and disc brakes … we quiz him about it. (more…)

Another festive Q & A, this time with proud Welland Valley CC rider Michael Burke who’s season highlight was getting his Elite licence … (more…)

Festive question time with Leah Dixon of the new Women’s team in 2019, Brother UK – Tifosi p/b OnForm (more…)

Another of VeloUK’s sponsors helping us serve the sport is Primal Europe who supply custom clothing to the Welsh Cycling and Rowe & King to name but two of their customers – we quiz James Smith about the clothing … (more…)

Here are the questions for the Q & A – are you up to come out of the closet and tell the cycling world a little about yourself and make some noise about your club/team/sponsors? (more…)

First cat rider Christopher Durham who rode for Lincsquad this year joins Saint Piran for 2019 – he takes his seat in the question time chair…. (more…)

Who better to quiz on Cero wheels than former professional with An Post, Kieran Frend at Cycle Division’s shop in Barton under Needwood (more…)

Sam Smith, Phillip Roach, Olivia Campbell and Paul Lloyd winners at round 12 of the Western CX League on December 23rd (more…)

Ben Hardy who rode for the Zappi Racing Team in 2018, rides for Swift Pro Carbon in 2019 and takes the VeloUK Q & A quiz (more…)

Dean Robson covers the 10 miles in 23.38, well short of the course record in wintery conditions on December 23 on the S3/10a course near Ermington in Devon (more…)

Category 2 rider Illi Gardner who rode for YRDP in 2018 and had a best result of 5th on GC in the Tour de Feminin – O cenu Českého Švýcarska (2.2)  will be in new colours in 2019 when she joins Brother UK/Tifosi p/b Onform team – Illi takes the VeloUK Q & A (more…)