On Sunday April 4 the women’s peloton will gather in Oudenaarde for the start of the Tour of Flanders & in addition to defending champion Van den Broek-Blaak, the provisional start list includes many other big names, such as Van Vleuten, D’hoore, Kopecky and our very own Lizzie Deignan. (more…)
Following a disappointing Milan-Sanremo and abandons at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic and Gent-Wevelgem, the 2017 Tour of Flanders winner Philippe Gilbert (Lotto Soudal) will take a period of necessary rest, both physically and mentally. (more…)
Adam Yates, Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas locked out the podium at the WorldTour event after a thrilling final day in Barcelona where Thomas de Gendt won the stage. (more…)
A group of seven riders battled for the win in the 2021 Edition of Gent Wevelegem with Wout van Aert fastest from Giacomo Nizzolo and Matteo Trentin (more…)
Mikkel Honoré won a pulsating final stage of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, after an audacious day spent on the offensive; Ethan Hayter 4th on stage, Paul Double 9th (more…)
A strong BORA-hansgrohe team puts Peter Sagan on top with sensational sprint victory on Volta a Catalunya stage 6, Adam Yates continues to lead overall (more…)
Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) won an amazing edition of E3 Harelbeke after a solo effort “Winning this makes me super proud and happy” says the Danish champion (more…)
Lennard Kämna solo’s to victory on stage 5 of Volta Catalunya after a big breakaway stays clear of Adam Yates and his team who controlled the gap to the breakaway and Adam continues to lead overall (more…)
Vingegaard wins fourth stage and consolidates leading position in Coppi e Bartali, Ethan Hayter third overall, best Young rider and Points leader (more…)
Grace Brown defied the sprinters in Belgium as she soloed to her first WorldTour victory in emphatic style at Brugge-De Panne. British champion Alice Barnes was 8th (more…)
Yesterday’s second place finisher Esteban Chaves shone on today’s Queen stage at Volta a Catalunya, attacking with seven kilometres to go and holding on for a spectacular solo victory (more…)
With Covid lockdown in place, Lisa West took to the Internet Zwift to the British Team Cup series up and running with wins for Victoria Lovett (individual) and Saint Piran (team) (more…)
Adam Yates solo’s to a climbing victory at Vallter 2000 to move into the race lead at the Volta a Catalunya. Four Brits in the top 8 overall! (more…)
Sam Bennett took his first career victory in a World Tour one-day race in spectacular fashion, winning the 45th Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne by several bike lengths (more…)
Strong line up for first round of the Merlin Cycles Classic Series (time trial) on April 2nd near Whitchurch (more…)
Israel Start-Up Nation with time trial star Alex Dowsett win the Team Time Trial stage of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali – Dowsett 2nd on GC as Cavendish leads (more…)
Cycling Time Trials have revealed that one of the longest running online bike stores in the UK, Merlin Cycles, will be sponsoring the their annual ‘Classic Series’ in 2021. (more…)
Mark Cavendish returned to Italy – a country where he claimed some of his finest triumphs after almost two years and needed just a couple of hours to leave his mark on the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali. (more…)
Rohan Dennis produced a superb ride to claim victory in the stage two time trial at Volta a Catalunya, the Australian’s first victory since taking the TT world title in Yorkshire in 2019 (more…)
Danish rider, Andreas Kron, in his first WorldTour stage race, won the opening stage of the 100th edition of the Volta a Catalunya ahead of Luis Leon Sanchez (more…)
On Wednesday April 7th, the very first Scheldeprijs for women will be on the road and among the teams competing will be Drops Lecol taking on six of the best WorldTour squad riders including sprint star Hannah Barnes (more…)
Britain’s Jess Roberts part of Team BikeExchange who continue their Belgian Classics campaign as they line-up for the one-day Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne on Thursday (more…)
CTT South DC region hold their inaugural e-TimeTrialing Championships on the 21st March with Ant Gritton the first senior rider (more…)
Italian sprinter Matteo Moschetti delivers third win of the weekend for Trek Segafredo with a glorious sprint in Florence at Per Sempre Alfredo (more…)
Elisa Longo Borghini soloed to a brilliant solo win in Trofeo Alfredo Binda – the most-established standalone one-day race for women – matching the Trek-Segafredo men’s team thrilling victory by Jasper Stuyven in Milano-Sanremo a day earlier. (more…)
On what has been described as an insanely hard course, Israel Startup nation have selected Chris Froome and Dan Martin in their squad for the climbers race, Volta a Catalunya (more…)
Starts tomorrow: James Knox heading to Volta a Catalunya with Deceuninck – Quick-Step for a race on an insanely hard course giving almost no moment of respite for the peloton (more…)
Mark Cavendish will make his first Italian outing in almost two years at next week’s Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, where he is lining out after some solid racing on Belgian soil earlier this week (more…)
A familiar face in British races a decade ago (where have those years gone!), New Zealand’s Jack Bauer is heading to Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne on Wedensday with the BikeExchange team (more…)
A brave attack at the bottom of the Poggio by Jasper Stuyven, and some help from DSM’s Søren Kragh Andersen, saw the Belgian Stuyven win the fastest edition of Milan San Remo (more…)
Over the past twenty years, the Poggio was becoming less and less decisive. Since the turn of the century, a sprinter has triumphed on the Via Roma no less than eleven times. But in the last four years the turnaround has come thanks to Kwiatkowski, Nibali, Alaphilippe and Van Aert. (more…)
Praise for Jake Stewart from his boss at Groupama-FDJ, Yvon Madiot “What Jake did today is really good. Once he gets some more strength and experience, I think he’ll be a very good Classics rider” (more…)
2018 Vuelta a España Champion Simon Yates and recent fourth place Paris-Nice finisher Lucas Hamilton, will lead a strong Team BikeExchange outfit at next week’s 100th edition of Volta a Catalunya, hungry for the general classification victory. (more…)
In an interview with Sporza, Mark Cavendish says “ideally, I would rather just ride my bike” and admits talking openly makes him nervous (more…)
Degenkolb, Ewan, Gilbert and Wellens headline strong Milan-Sanremo squad for Lotto Soudal racing the 112th edition of ‘La Classicissima’, Milan Sanremo (more…)
Neo WorldTour pro Tom Pidcock was able to fit in right away between the big boys in Strade Bianche and this weekend he gets the chance to do that again, in Milan-SanRemo, the first monument in his career (more…)
In 2020, Wout Van Aert had a winning year and in The 2020 Roadbook, Wout van Aert talks about the winning of races (more…)
Continental rolls out new category of tyre with the Ruban and eRuban Plus – MTB tyres for offroad and onroad use (more…)
Former Great Britain Cycling Team member Lauren Dolan says the motorist who caused the road crash that ended her career took away her childhood dream of competing in the Olympics. (more…)
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has published an updated version of the men’s and women’s 2021 UCI Road International Calendar (more…)
Third place finisher in 2015, Michael Matthews will lead Team BikeExchange at Milan San Remo this weekend as they hunt for a second victory in the iconic cycling monument on Saturday 20th March. (more…)
Options for Deceuninck – Quick-Step at Milan San Remo as World Champion Julian Alaphilippe and Sam Bennett headline their squad for the first Monument of the season (more…)
WorldTour event, the Women’s Tour, heading for Shakespeare’s county with a ’10’ mile time trial and a stage finish in Banbury in October (more…)
British UCI Continental women’s team CAMS-Tifosi has a confirmed entry into the prestigious classic Amstel Gold race to be held in April in the Netherlands. (more…)
Today (Wednesday) Jake Stewart confirmed his good form and his liking for the races in Flanders. In Nokere Koerse, the finish of which was as usual at the top of a short cobbled climb, the young British rider from Coventry, took sixth place on the day. (more…)
Starting in Cornwall and finishing in Aberdeen, the Tour of Britain organisers have revealed more of the host towns and cities for the 2021 Edition, the first in 722 days (since 2019 edition) (more…)
After having the Covid virus and losing time on the bike, riding stage races to get in the race miles is key for Peter Sagan as he looks ahead to a big year with the aim to get back to winning (more…)
He can sprint, he can climb and he can certainly time trial as Wout van Aert wins the final stage Time Trial ahead of the European and World Time Trial champions (more…)
Winner of the 2020 Tour de France and in 2021, already the UAE Tour winner, Tadej Pogačar clinched the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico with another strong time trial (more…)
After a year of nothing but time trials, Scotland’s John Archibald (Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team) got to finish off a WorldTour stage race with a time trial after a ‘wild’ ride in the tougher than expected Tirreno-Adriatico (more…)
British Team Cup for women series organiser Jon Miles has registered a series of four races to be held on Zwift as a bit of early season competition for his British Cup registered teams (more…)
The Cyclone Festival of Cycling, the North-East’s biggest cycling event, set to host one of the first major road cycling races to be held in the UK for over a year. (more…)
Relatively easy day for former race leader Wout Van Aert and his team Jumbo-Visma on stage 6 in Tirreno Adriatico (more…)
Israel Start-Up Nation’s 26-year-old Dane, Mads Würtz Schmidt, heads up the breakaway at the end of Stage 6 in Tirreno Adriatico whilst Pogacar and Wout van Aert have a ‘rest’ before final stage time trial (more…)
Mark Cavendish is back in action, ten days after picking up his first podium of the season for new team Deceuninck – Quick-Step – racing Nokere Koerse and Bredene Koksijde Classic this week (more…)
British riders feature in the international roster for the Movistar eTeam for 2021, the first esports team created by a WorldTour / WWT-licensed organisation (more…)
Two crashes & dislocated shoulder sees Primoz Roglic lose his stranglehold on the Paris-Nice GC battle as Maximilian Schachmann benefits with a second overall victory and Dane Magnus Cort Nielsen grabs the stage victory (more…)
Just when you think you have seen it all from Mathieu van der Poel, he attacks solo 50km from the finish and wins the stage. Race leader Pogacar chases him and extends lead over third placed on thje stage, Wout van Aert (more…)
Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar, already a big winner in the UAE Tour in 2021, took the lead from Wout van Aert on stage 4 after Pogacar’s summit finish stage win (more…)
Primoz Roglic attacks his way to his third win in four days at La Colmiane, catching out Gino Mader who was the final rider in the day’s breakaway to be caught (more…)
Mathieu van der Poel achieved his goal of a stage win, in this years Tirreno-Adriatico with victory on stage 3. In Gualdo Tadino, the Dutch champion beat race leader Wout van Aert and Davide Ballerini on the uphill finish. (more…)
Despite a crash the day before, Primoz Roglic made it clear who held the reins of Paris-Nice when he outclassed the peloton in an uphill sprint in Biot to snatch stage 6 and increase his lead (more…)
Lonneke Uneken wins the final stage in horrendous conditions, Ellen van Dijk of Trek Segafredo wins the 2021 Healthy Ageing Tour (more…)
The youngest rider in the Drops LeCol s/b Tempur team, Alice Towers, is making her debut this weekend in Belgium – we chat! (more…)
Ellen Van Dijk blows away the competition in the stage 2 time trial at the Healthy Aging Tour; three Brits in the top 10 — Joscelin Lowden 6th, Alice Barnes 7th Anna Henderson 9th (more…)
The rainbow jersey shines in Italy on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico as Julian Alaphilippe outsprints a stellar field in an electric finale to take first victory of the year (more…)
Sam Bennett avenged his disappointment on stage 2 to snatch his second stage win of this years Paris-Nice; Primoz Roglic continues to lead despite a crash and the loss of Tony Martin (more…)
In the final Q&A feature from the team of young riders at Tofauti Everyone Active, we quiz Josh Brown who is a junior and based in Northamptonshire. (more…)
Wout Van Aert sprints to victory on the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico in a big bunch kick as he sees off the challenge of Caleb Ewan and Fernando Gaviria (more…)
Primoz Roglic solos to a stage victory and the leader’s jersey as Tao Geoghegan Hart crashes out of Paris Nice (more…)
Young Swiss rider Stefan Bissegger wins the stage 3 Time Trial and takes the Yellow jersey in the classic French stage race, Paris-Nice – “I train a lot on the TT bike so I can handle it pretty well. It definitely makes me happy” (more…)
A star studded Tirreno-Adriatico starts on Wednesday with Tour winners (Pogar/Geraint Thomas/Bernal) and defending champion in the race, Simon Yates among the riders (more…)
Following a meeting with Sport England and other national governing bodies yesterday, British Cycling has published information related to its plans for a return to sanctioned activities (more…)
Team DSM opened their winning account for the 2021 season, with Cees Bol sprinting to victory on stage 2 of Paris-Nice; Michael Matthews leads overall (more…)
Colchester and Clacton will host the penultimate stage of the Women’s Tour as the world’s top cyclists get set to race from the historic castle town to the English coast on Friday 8 October*. (more…)
Mark Cavendish second to Tim Merlier in the Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré – Lewis Askey wins the Combativity prize after being out front until eight miles from the end (more…)
Victory number three this season for Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s fast man as Sam Bennett takes yellow on Paris-Nice opening stage (more…)
The young Belgian Mauri Vansevenant outsprinted an elite group at the GP Industria & Artigianato to win his first pro race for his team Deceuninck – Quick-Step who had two wins and a two seconds from four pro races on the weekend (more…)
Mathieu van der Poel was the rider of the race in the Men’s Strade Bianche with several attacks decimating the front group before riding away solo for the victory. Tom Pidcock was 5th and Simon Carr 11th (more…)
John Archibald of Eolo-Kometa makes the breakaway in Trofeo Laigueglia “the roads were really very narrow and it was not easy to stick together” (more…)
Bauke Mollema solo’s to the win in Trofeo Laigueglia, John Archibald gets in the days breakaway, James Knox is 7th (more…)
Sprinter Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) is back in France for the first time since winning the prestigious green jersey at last year’s Le Tour (more…)
Wout van Aert has spent the past weeks on Tenerife to prepare for the spring classics. “Wout’s level is better. Much better ”, says Merijn Zeeman, sports director at Jumbo-Visma, in conversation with Het Laatste Nieuws. “But he won’t be top shape for Strade Bianche yet.” (more…)
A race that managed to scrape through the chaos of a pandemic in 2020, Paris-Nice is back in 2021 with Giro winner Tao Geoghegan Hart among the stars revealed along a host of sprinters (more…)
Continuing our Q&A with riders from the Tofauti Everyone Active Team and in this one, 16 year old Domini Radway-Fatuga from South West London answers the questions (more…)
After a super agressive race with the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Jhonnatan Narvaez, the race came down to a bunch sprint and victory for former world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek Segafredo) (more…)
Italian Andrea Bagioli nets Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s sixth victory of the year after a powerful solo attack Drôme Classic (France) (more…)
Hannah Barnes (Canyon SRAM) sprinted to fifth place at today’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in Ninove, Belgium. “I gave it everything so I can’t be too disappointed” (more…)
Italian Davide Ballerini kicks off the Classics campaign by taking the biggest victory of his career in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Coventry’s Jake Stewart was second. (more…)
Lotto Soudal rider Caleb Ewan has won the final stage of the UAE Tour, Pogacar the overall and second for Adam Yates despite a crash with 40km to go (more…)
Irishman Sam Bennett does it again at the UAE Tour benefitted from a flawless lead-out and came out on top for the second time in three days at the World Tour race (more…)
Feature length chat to Ribble Weldtite’s Jack Rees about his team’s goals for 2021, when their season will start and the challenges they face. (more…)
Despite all the problems that Jumbo Visma team have had with injuries and riders taking a break (Dumoulin), the team showed what strength in depth it has as yet another of their riders, Jonas Vingegaard, racing to victory on a stage of the UAE Tour (more…)
British rider Simon Yates confirms his return to the Giro d’Italia in Team BikeExchange colours ready to fight for pink (more…)
Bauke Mollema, Giulio Ciccone and Vincenzo Nibali to look for opportunities for their team Trek Segafredo in the 2021 Giro d’Italia (more…)
CAMS-Tifosi, a UK-based UCI Continental women’s cycling team, reveals their rider line-up for the Healthy Ageing Tour now confirmed for March (more…)
Sam Bennett was the clear winner on Wednesday afternoon, capturing his first victory of the year after showing a clean pair of wheels to his opponents (more…)
Ribble Cycles has appointed Simon Picton, former Red Bull Senior Creative Manager, as its new Head of Creative (more…)
Adam Yates and Tadej Pogačar go man-on-man on the summit finish for stage 3 of the UAE Tour with the TDF winner Pogacar winning from last years UAE winner Yates who is now second overall (more…)
Mark Cavendish is set to make his first appearance in 14 years at the Le Samyn race in Belgium on March 2nd (more…)
Over on the website for the Eolo Kometa Cycling Team is a chat with Scotland’s John Archibald who says about his first race for the team; “my path to Clásica de Almería was a bit unconventional if you compare it to my teammates” (more…)
This weekend: Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s team for the opening of the classics weekend as World Champion Julian Alaphilippe returns on the cobbles at the end of this week (more…)
The course for the mountain warriors on bikes in the 2021 Critérium du Dauphiné 2021, consisting of eight stages (30 May to 6 Jun), has been unveiled (more…)
There was a day of drama and celebration on day 2 of the UAE Tour when Filippo Ganna won yet another time trial in the rainbow stripes whilst race leader Mathieu van der Poel had to leave the race after a positive for Covid in his team (more…)
Trek Segafredo rider Gianluca Brambilla has won the last stage of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var and with it the overall. Tao Geoghegan Hart was second on the stage. (more…)
On a day where the winds blew the race apart, Mathieu van der Poel returned to the road with a victory on stage 1 of the UAE Tour, defending champion Adam Yates the only Brit to make the breakaway that stays away (more…)
The Central Region is delighted to announce that Anthony Anderson has been selected to become the Junior Road Race Team Manager (more…)
Michael Woods wins stage 2 from yesterday’s winner Bauke Mollema and Woods now leads overall from Mollema and David Gaudu. Ben Tulett first of the Brits in 23rd (more…)
The Trek-Segafredo climber Bauke Mollema wins the uphill finish of Stage 1 at the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var (more…)
Bauke Mollema has won the opening stage of the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var and now leads overall. He went very early in the sprint so as not to get boxed in and held on to win from classics legend Greg Van Avermaet and Valentin Madouas. (more…)
Following consultation with teams and riders, and the introduction of new rules from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), British Cycling can today announce an update to its process for the awarding of elite status to riders and team personnel. (more…)
Climber João Almeida and sprinter Sam Bennett will lead the Deceuninck – Quick-Step team at the year’s first World Tour race, the UAE Tour (more…)
With his season about to kick off, a new lighter Alexandar Richardson (Alpecin-Fenix) is excited to see what this season brings him (more…)
Nairo Quintana will return this week to the roads of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes and the Haut-Var. He tells us about this event, his short-term ambitions, and updates us on his operation on both knees in early fall. (more…)
Pogacar wears number 1 in UAE Tour – Provisional Rider List in full – Brits include Adam Yates, Fred Wright, Chris Froome, Alex Dowsett, Mark Donovan, Harry Tanfield, (more…)
World star on the road and in cyclocross, Wout van Aert is currently on Tenerife to prepare for the start of his road campaign (more…)
Deceuninck-Quick-Step is holding a third and final training camp in two different hotels with a view to the Spring after the Tour of Algarve was postponed. (more…)
Spring Classics/Tour de France/Olympic Games targets for World Champion Julian Alaphilippe who has had a great start to the season after second in the Tour de la Provence (more…)
Organisers of the Women’s Tour, the SweetSpot Group, have announced that the upcoming edition of the race scheduled for 7 to 12 June 2021 will be postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)
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