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The London Bike Show will be back in March 2021 after the date in July proves to be no longer an option (more…)

This lockdown Q&A is with Liv Bent of Jadan Cyclespace -Vive le Velo who is a part time rider studying at Loughborough University but currently living at home in Carlisle. (more…)

From a full gas training camp to an empty Spanish resort packed with five star facilities, the Covid 19 crisis has crippled many a business – we quiz family business CHS on how they are coping (more…)

This latest Lockdown Q&A is with Tim Torrie of TBW23 Stuart Hall Cycling P/B trainSharp Cycle Coaching – brought to you by trainSharp (more…)

Lockdown Q & A with Nathan Smith of Cycling Sheffield who is based in North Yorkshire. Brought to you by Bioracer UK (more…)

The 27-year-old Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider Bob Jungels is one of the only three Luxembourgers to have triumphed at the prestigious Monument – here’s an interview in a team feature (more…)

We have another lockdown Q&A from the Rotor Race Team, this time from self employed sports massage therapist Jess Cobbe based in Leicestershire (more…)

Winner on Saturday night in the Zwift Classics Pro-Am series event, the Crit City Slam e-race, was Ireland’s Chris McGlinchey (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) – we chatted afterwards (more…)

Lockdown Q & A with Chrissie Slot of Team Jadan Cyclespace Vive le Velo who has been cycling for two years and works part time. “I graduated last summer, so this year I wanted more of a relaxed year in which I could dedicate a bit more time to cycling” (more…)

Here is another Lockdown Q&A, this one with 16 year old Lance Childs who rides for the trainSharp Junior Development Team, has had a win already in 2020 and is studying sport at Canterbury College (more…)

Cameron Fraser, owner/manager of top-10 ranked UK based elite cycling team Nuun-Sigma Sports-London RT, is pushing himself to the limit for a good cause this month, riding a 262km charity challenge on Zwift for Prostate Cancer UK…. (more…)

This latest lockdown feature is with Gemma Sargent of Jadan Cyclespace -Vive le Velo who is based in the North West of the UK and works full time at Merlin Cycles as a customer service advisor (more…)

In this latest Lockdown Q&A, we chat to new signing for Crimson Orientation Marketing RT who are also sponsored by Brother UK, Leon Mazzone (more…)

Better known as NSJ, Nick Smart-Jones is part of the trainSharp team (family) and a passionate part time ultra cyclist based in Sussex, UK who will be joining 80 others to raise money by cycling round the world on Zwift! (more…)

This lockdown Q & A is with Sally Turner, mother of five, who’s cycling discipline is time trialing and she races for the people that coach her, trainSharp (more…)

Continuing our Lockdown Series, this is from self-employed plumber and carpenter, David Carr (Rotor Race Team) who enjoys some cross country mountain biking (more…)

Over the weekend, members of Kingston Wheelers Cycling Club jumped on their turbo trainers to raise money for staff at Kingston Hospital by tackling a virtual elevation challenge. (more…)

Lock down question and answer with Peter Merritt of TBW23 Stuart Hall Cycling p/b trainSharp who works but is currently on furlough and is based in Britain (more…)

With no road racing, riders like British Circuit Race Champion Joey Walker (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) are turning to Zwift for some action – we chat (more…)

Over in Ireland, Darnell Moore of Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK is having to get used to no racing after a season opener at the GP Samyn UCI 1.1 in Belgium (more…)

At races before lockdown, I have had riders outside of the Ribble Weldtite team say to me how great the Ribble team bike looks so I thought we’d take a look at the race winning Endurance SL R  with help from Jamie Burrows and Jack Rees (more…)

More Q&A’s with those in the racing community, this one with Connie Hayes (AWOL Worx) who is a full time student at Queen Mary university and based in East London (more…)

After a winter of cyclocross in Europe, Ben Turner’s road season has been taken away from him by the Covid 19 crisis – we chat (more…)

Tour de France to take place from August to September, followed by the World Championships, the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España, Monuments rescheduled as well. (more…)

A really interesting Lockdown Q&A with Lexi Brown who is based in the Netherlands working full time as the Senior Media Manger for adidas Europe and also supports The Cyclists Alliance  (more…)

The lockdown quiz series continues (I have more!) with Kieran Savage of Cycling Sheffield who is based in Kippax (pronounced Chipesch) near Leeds, winner of the ‘Magnificent 7’ last month. (more…)

Deceuninck – Quick-Step asked some of their riders, who between them have more than 40 starts in “The Hell of the North” which is the toughest Paris-Roubaix cobblestone sector? (more…)

With the cancellation of cycling events across the UK, competitive cyclists have a decision to make; to continue training and reap the rewards, or stop training all together due to lack of motivation. trainSharp’s Connor Murphy looks at detraining and how much fitness you will lose (more…)

Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s sports directors Davide Bramati, Brian Holm, Wilfried Peeters, Klaas Lodewyck, Tom Steels, Geert Van Bondt and Rik Van Slycke speak about pain and suffering in their days as pro riders. (more…)

In the latest Lockdown! quiz, we question George Mills-Keeling (Ribble Weldtite) who was a full time student at his local sixth form before COVID-19 struck. (more…)

Former Hill climb Champion and a rider who has a habit of getting in the breakaways in races, we quiz Adam Kenway on what he’s doing during Lockdown in Britain (more…)

Neil Martin (Dan’s dad) is a former British RR Champion and winner of the Lincoln GP as well multiple stages in the Milk Race (Tour of Britain). Nowadays, Neil is manager of the Under 23 Irish National Road team and based in Girona on Lockdown! We chat … (more…)

In the latest Lockdown! quiz, the Isle of Man’s Conor Davies (Saint Piran) tells us about life on the Isle of Man at this time (more…)

Chris Opie has officially joined the Saint Piran Elite cyclingteam and even though there’s no racing at the moment, his experience and influence is already being felt in the team. Here’s a Q&A (more…)

Lockdown Q & A with trainSharp’s road and time trial coach Chris McNamara who races for Nuun – Sigma Sports London RT and  is based in East Sussex (more…)

This lockdown feature is with Josh Housley who rides for Team PB Performance. Josh is based on the Nottingham/Derbyshire border so the Peaks are his playground (more…)

Ribble Cycles are delighted to announce the launch of a new Ribble Spring Series on Zwift whereby anyone has the chance to ride, train with and compete against, Pro riders of the Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling team (more…)

More Lockdown stories, this time with Tom Couzens of the under 23 Zappi racing team who has suddenly found himself a full time cyclist as school was cancelled! (more…)

Another of the team’s winners and breakaway specialists, Mikey Mottram of Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK gives us an insight into Lockdown in the South East. (more…)

Our next Lockdown! feature is with Caroline Stewart, the Assistant Manager and Race Mechanic of the Bianchi Dama Women’s Cycling team (more…)

Third in the Eddie Soens Memorial in March, the next Lockdown quiz is with Cycling Sheffield’s Matt Taylor who is based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (more…)

It’s not only riders who missing races, UCI International Commissaire Trevor Reade is another without races to go to… (more…)

When I asked readers for their favourite cycling terms, those below are most of what came in including Nudge, Bollard, Chopper, Echelon, Spat and so many more (more…)

The latest lockdown chat is with Tom Portsmouth of the Urbano Cycling Team who even has a video in his to watch! (more…)

Lockdown with Andy Turner who rides for Swift Carbon Pro Cycling and is based in Herefordshire (more…)

A star in time trials and road races, Alice Lethbridge tells us about how she is coping with Lockdown in Britain (more…)

The former Belgian Champion Yves Lampaert ( Deceuninck – Quick-Step) expressed his thoughts on the importance of the race, its absence and Sunday’s virtual edition of Flanders (more…)

Joe Nally (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) has had to suffer lockdown longer than most of us due to glandular fever and is slowly getting back into training in the hope of some racing in the coming months (more…)

Too many years ago, I would see Louise and Phil Jones when visiting their race the Five Valleys. Now the former sprint champion is in Brisbane, Australia with Phil and family. We find out what’s happening in Lockdown there… (more…)

In these uncertain times a large majority of us will be spending a considerable amount of time on our indoor trainers so here’s trainSharp’s Connor Murphy’s top 10 Indoor Training Tips (more…)

Lockdown Q & A with Madeleine Gammons (Team Boompods) studying sport and exercise science at the University of Birmingham & currently based at home in Lincolnshire (more…)

The real Tour of Flanders has been postponed but the organisers have found an alternative for the Tour of Flanders this Sunday – with the first virtual edition ever, as well a radio play featuring 104 years of Flanders Finest (more…)

Lockdown chat with Adam Lewis who rides for BEAT Cycling Club, a Dutch UCI continental team and Adam is usually based in Belgium until this virus poked its nose in where its not wanted. (more…)

Steve Jolley of Onimpex Bioracer RT, Rob Watkinson and John Moore winners at the Harold “H” Nelson Memorial on March 8 at Darley Moor #resultcatchup (more…)

Ribble Cycles have added a new model to their award-winning road bike line-up with the titanium Ribble Endurance Ti Disc. (more…)

After almost four weeks since Mitchelton-SCOTT team’s initial decision to withdraw from all racing due to concerns around the impact of COVID-19, the team caught up with head sport director Matt White (more…)

We continue our series looking at riders in Lockdown by quizzing Tom Mazzone of Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK who is on the Isle of Man (more…)

Robert Warren and Iain McNaught winners of the CC London 20 mile time trial on March 14 near Hertford (more…)

George Elliott winner of the category 3/4 Team SBHub Development Road Race on March 15 at Clitheroe (more…)

Robert Pears and Elliot Barratt winners at week 2 of the Rowe & King Spring Crit Races on March 14 in Cardiff (more…)

Joseph Turnbull and Taylor Churchill winners at week 2 of the Albion Cycles Youth Series on March 14 (more…)

Yewande Adesida, George Hale, and Ian Robins some of the winners at week 4 of the Sussex Winter Circuit Series on March 15 (more…)

Over in Barton Under Needwood is a popular bikeshop, the Cycle Division, where Simon Harvey is the mechanic – the most experienced bike technician in the Midlands I’m told (more…)

New from Estrella Bikes is the Fangoso Pro, one for the off-road specialists (more…)

Quiz time with the CTT’s British Best All Rounder and Champion of Champions Caitlin Peters of Weston-Homes Torelli Assure who’s under lock down in Portsmouth  (more…)

Quickfire Lockdown! question and answer with Will Tyrer, media manager at the Liv Awol team (more…)

If you think Lockdown! is hard here, how about Spain? We quiz Fergus Robinson (Eiser Hirumet) from Hexham in the North East who is in Spain under strict lock down. It was this rider where the idea came from for this series… thank you! (more…)

Chat with young rider for Cornish team Saint Piran, Matt Ellis based in the small Lincolnshire town of Spalding – maybe one of the best places to be during the outbreak as it’s in the middle of nowhere. (more…)

The 2020 Abergavenny Festival of Cycling, due to take place in June, has been cancelled for the first time in its’ history as organisers look to re-arrange dates for sportif, the Wales Open Criterium and Junior Grand Prix . (more…)

The reigning E3 Harelbeke champion Zdenek Stybar (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) talks of his 2019 victory and coping with the pause that abruptly hit the cycling season. (more…)

The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (Japan) are to be postponed to 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – Trek Factory Racing riders including Lizzie Deignan, Vincenzo Nibali, Mads Pedersen, and Richie Porte give their reactions to the news of Games postponement (more…)

It is with great sadness that the organisers have had to announce the postponement of the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix 2020, following the announcement from British Cycling that all events are suspended until June 30th. (more…)

Third in the Jock Wadley and winner of the Roy Thame Cup in 2020, Ollie Maxwell of Saint Piran was in great form before the racing was taken away from him and everyone else – we chat (more…)

Thomas Grigson, Niamh Murphy and Joshua Tarling some of the winners at the Torbay velopark Circuit races on March 14 (more…)

Jack Woolley and Griff Lewis two of the winners at the Holt Cycle Racing Early season crits 3 on March 8 (more…)

David Norman winner of the NCRA Handicap road race on March 14 at Southwick in Northamptonshire (more…)

One of the revelations of 2019 who thrilled the crowds around the country in the circuit races was Freddie Scheske (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) who is based in Exeter. We check in with Freddie to see what he’s doing … (more…)

A long way from his native South Africa where he has been national champion four times and represented his country at two World Road Championships, Devin Shortt in 2020 is being looked after by the Cero Wheels/Cycle Division racing Team in the UK … (more…)

Ribble Cycles to host the world’s first interactive bike show on Friday (more…)

Noah Hobbs and Amy Harvey winners at round 5 of the Hillingdon Slipstreamers Youth Series in West London on Sunday, March 15 (more…)

113 riders from as far as London took to the start of the 2020 Magnificent 7 which forms part of a month long festival of the outdoors in Sheffield. (more…)

Brother UK will honour the contracts of its four sponsored cycling teams throughout 2020, despite the decimation of the racing calendar by the coronavirus pandemic. (more…)

Round up of what the governing bodies responses are to the Coronavirus and the cancellation of cycle races (more…)

Amber Junker-Brameld, Noah Hobbs, Carys Lloyd and Edward Charles winners at week 2 of the VC Londres March Crits at Kent Cyclopark (more…)

David Creeggan and Marek Siwicki winners at Brighton Mitre’s Surrey League Road Race on March 15 at Alford (more…)

Paul Jones fastest in the Tornado road clubs 10 mile time trial on March 15, Faye Faber fastest woman. Stephen Swindley fastest on a road bike, Katie West first woman (more…)

Jacob Tipper, Victoria Smith, Adam Robertson, and Jonathan Holton winners at round 2 of the Mark Evans Memorial Series at Middlesbrough on March 15 (more…)

Samantha Stuart, Ben Norbury, Josh Whitehead and Simon Wilson of Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling winners at week 3 of the Lancaster Uni CC Spring Series on March 14 (more…)

It is with massive disappointment that the decision has been taken with primary sponsors and key partners that the 16th edition of the Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, set to take place on Sunday 26th April, is cancelled. (more…)

Isaac Lawrence and Emma Jeffers of JRC-Shutt-Ridley two of the winners at the Dolan Youth Circuit Races on March 14 at Southport (more…)

Ross Phelps fastest in the University Of Bristol CC 10 mile time trial on March 14; Megan Dickerson fastest woman in 6th overall (more…)

Ashley Cox fastest in the Lea Valley CC 25 mile time trial on March 15; Sophie Lewis fastest woman; Oliver Smee & Harry Thompson winners of the two up (more…)

Finn Mansfield of Cero Wheels/Cycle Division, Matthew Kingston and Ryan Fellows winners at Darley Moor 2 on Saturday, March 14 (more…)

Lance Childs of trainSharp Dev team, Thomas Day, and Ian Hope winners at the March Hare Classic at London’s VeloPark on Saturday, March 14 (more…)

Joe Hepworth and Alistair Slater winners at round 7 of the Yorkshire Winter Series on March 14 at Doncaster (more…)

Toby Barnes of Cero Wheels/Cycle Division and Gareth Highley winners ar week 2 of the Milton Keynes Spring Series at the MK Bowl on Saturday (more…)

Ross Phelps fastest in the Swindon Road Club & Swindon Wheelers 31 mile hardriders time trial on March 15; Joanne Jago fastest woman (more…)

Pete Morris fastest in the East Sussex CA Hard Riders 15 mile time trial on March 15; Olivia Webb fastest woman (more…)

Matilda McKibben, Sam Hollis, Lily Brindle and Patrick Casey winners at week 2 of the Mossley Early Bird Youth Races at Tameside on March 15 (more…)

Kinga Ingram, Jacob Tipper, and Brendan Roberts winners at the Birmingham University Stage Races on Saturday (March 14) (more…)

Spencer Hedaway, Lauren Higham and Sam Hodges winners at week 1 of the West Drayton Spring Crits on Saturday, March 14 at Hillingdon in West London (more…)

Christopher Gibbard and Peter Kibble winners at the Betty Pharoah Memorial Legstretcher Road Races on Sunday (more…)

Eddie Allen fastest in the Southern Counties CU 21 mile time trial on March 15 near Redhill in South East England (more…)

Hayden Allen fastest in the Yorkshire Cycling Fed 10 mile time trial on March 15; Josie Knight fastest woman in 7th (more…)

Chris Smart fastest in the Cleveland Whs Sporting Time Trial over 21.7 miles on March 15; Anna Turvey fastest woman (more…)

Jack Brown fastest in the West Suffolk Wheelers 21 mile time trial on March 14; Jennifer Smart first woman; Matt Jacobs first on a road bike, Kirstin Hamilton first female (road bike) (more…)

James O’Connell of Team LDN – Brother UK winner of the Ike Saul Memorial Race for category 2/3/4 riders at Toft, Cambridgeshire on Sunday, March 15 (more…)

Chris Quinn and Roy Chamberlain winners at La Fleche Waltonne RRs, BMCR’s 1st counting even in the Percy Stallard series organised by Phil Rayner of Welland Valley CC (more…)

Thomas Hutchinson fastest in the Team Sportslab 10 mile Time Trial on March 14 near Market Weighton; Fiona Sharp fastest woman (more…)

David Griffiths fastest in the Sportzmad 10 mile time trial on March 15 near Abergavenny (Wales); Jo Buckland fastest woman (more…)

Alexander Royle fastest in the Manchester & District TTA 10 mile time trial on March 14 near Middlewich; British women’s pursuit champion Josie Knight fastest woman (more…)

Dean Robson is fastest in the Solihull CC 16 mile Time Trial on March 15; Millie Couzens was fastest woman (more…)

Richard Bickley fastest in the Lancaster CC Hilly 21.6 mile time trial on March 15; Claire Rushton fastest woman (more…)

Alan Murchison fastest in the Farnborough & Camberley CC 10 mile time trial on March 14; Angela Carpenter fastest woman (more…)

Dylan Starkey and Alice Suingell winners at round 2 of the HUP Youth Spring Circuit Series at the Milton Keynes Bowl on Saturday, March 14 (more…)

Hayden Allen fastest in the Pendle Forest CC(Hilly) time trial on Saturday near Settle, Christina Wiejak fastest woman (more…)

Zeb Kyffin (Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling) winner of the ERC Gifford Road Race (National B) near Edinburgh in Scotland on Saturday (more…)

Joshua Crow-Stewart solo’d to victory in the 3/4 (Spring Chicken) and Ollie Maxwell outsprinted Jack Freeman to win the National B (Roy Thame Cup) at Hemel Hempstead’s road races on Saturday (more…)

First round of the British Team Cup will be at the Milton Keynes Bowl this Saturday – here is the startlist (more…)