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Question and answer with 17 year old Martha Lebentz (Team Tofauti Everyone Active) who lives in Suffolk and has been racing since she was 7! (more…)

UCI World Champion Julian Alaphilippe finishes runner-up in his first race of the season in the French stage race, Tour de Provence. (more…)

A look at the podiums and former winner of what is nowadays, the first race of the road race season, the Perfs Pedal Classic, organised by Mick Waite since he was 17(!) (more…)

  Whilst their first scheduled race of the season, Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, has been postponed until May, the British women’s team Drops have plenty  of racing in the Belgian classics on their new Ribble bikes (more…)

The Spanish grand tour’s 76th edition will start in Burgos on the 14th of August and will take place entirely within Spain until the very last stage, that will conclude in Santiago on the 5th of September. (more…)

Davide Ballerini confirmed he is one of the most in-form riders at the start of this season, by surging to victory for the second consecutive day in the Tour de la Provence (France), after a wet stage and a crash-marred finale where Alaphilippe  hit the tarmac (more…)

The Italian Davide Ballerini got his second victory for Deceuninck – Quick-Step at the end of a thrilling stage 1 of the Tour de la Provence and is the race’s first leader. Matt Walls was 5th (more…)

The organisers of the Giro  and many of Italy’s leading cycle races today announced the wildcards for their events and for Eolo Kometa, home to Brits Sean Yates (Performance Director), John Archibald and Mark Christian, their dream of racing the Giro was realised. (more…)

Mark Cavendish is set to race for the first time this season for Deceuninck – Quick-Step at the race he won back in 2015 (more…)

Back in January, we spoke to performance director and former Yellow jersey in the Tour de France, Sean Yates of Eolo Kometa Cycling Team about the challenges of 2021 and a pandemic (more…)

Update: UK Cancelled events now include the Hatherleigh Junior RR (4 April), Pembrey Youth 2-Day (24–25 April) and Isle of Man Youth and Junior Tour (30 April – 2 May). (more…)

In an interview on Sporza, Tom Pidcock’s long time coach and former boss at An Post/Sean Kelly, Kurt Bogaerts says 2021 “will be one big exploration for Tom this year”. (more…)

John Archibald set to start his racing with Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team in the Spanish Mediterranean at the Clásica de Almería on February 14 (more…)

World Champion  Julian Alaphilippe  making his first appearance on home turf since last year’s Tour de France leads his Quickstep team at the sixth edition of the Tour de la Provence ( 11-14 February) (more…)

Stephen Cummings has joined the Ineos team to take on a varied role as a development Sport Director and coach. (more…)

Winner of two stages in the Etoile Besseges including the final stage time trial, World TT Champion Filippo Ganna is pleased with the form and takes it to the UAE Tour where he says Adam Yates will lead the Ineos team (more…)

Jake Stewart surprised himself with 4th overall in a star studded Etoile de Bessèges after finishing 10th in the crucial final stage time trial; Ganna won his second stage and Wellens the overall (more…)

Birmingham 2022 recruits experienced competition manager Martin Bridgwood to help deliver biggest ever Commonwealth sports programme  (more…)

In the next edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the riders will be faced with a new climb, the Côte de Desnié, a climb of more than four kilometres at about 6%. (more…)

Bikestrong-KTM are entering their fourth year since launching in January 2018 and are looking to continue the momentum of their prior success by hitting the National A, National B, as well as The Tour Series and racing abroad if pandemic allows (more…)

Coventry’s Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ) was surrounded by legends of the sport as he raced to 7th on the stage and 6th on overall (leading young rider) (more…)

Timothy Dupont takes the win after a crash effected finale whilst Christophe Laporte adds two seconds to his general classification lead, Jake Stewart leads best young rider comp. (more…)

At a time when teams are folding & sponsors are pulling away, Ribble Cycles have essentially doubled their investment into cycle sport by having a new team in Drops Cycling on their race bikes (more…)

Question and answer with 17 year old Jake Crossley of Tofauti Everyone Active who is based in Colchester, Essex and did his first race towards the end of 2016 and so has been racing for just over four years. (more…)

Ian Stannard will be remaining active in the peloton after his retirement from racing as the 33-year-old will start as a sports director for Trinity Racing (more…)

Ahead of his first full season at WorldTour, Coventry’s Jake Stewart was 9th on stage 1 of Etoile de Bessèges, a performance where he had the confidence and backing of his World Tour team (more…)

Tao Geoghegan Hart will not defend his title in the Giro d’Italia and instead look to find his feet in the Tour de France and then tackle the Olympic Games Road Race (more…)

Heading to France today (Tuesday) is Connor Swift of Arkea Samsic for his first race of the year before he tackles the Spring Classics – we chat about the challenges he has been facing to get racing. (more…)

Due to the ongoing challenges presented by the pandemic, the Tour of the Reservoir and Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix  have been cancelled and Lincoln GP Postponed – this is on top of the Klondike and CiCLE Classic Int already having been cancelled. (more…)

New signing for (Qhubeka ASSOS) Harry Tanfield was one of 25 riders, together with a full complement of staff who spent ten days in Spain for an intensive training camp. (more…)

Calendar Changes for postponed events – WorldTour is the priority says UCI boss David Lappartient (more…)

After his fourth World Cyclo-Cross title, Mathieu van der Poel looks ahead to a season mix of road racing and mountain biking with the Olympics the big goal (more…)

Former King of the Mountains in the Tour of Switzerland (2018), the Isle of Man’s Mark Christian is training hard on the Rock for the 2021 season (more…)

A new month, and a new step forward for Tom Pidcock as from today, the Yorkshire rider is part of the road team at Ineos Grenadiers with the spring classics first up (more…)

Another day of great results for the riders in GB at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium, with Tom Pidcock 4th and Anna Kay 8th (more…)

Great Britain’s Evie Richards and Ben Turner both secured top ten finishes on the opening day of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium (more…)

Tom Pidcock: “When I’m good, people say there are three kings of cyclocross, but then I can do a race where I’m less good and then there are only two kings”.  (more…)

Currently training on the Cote d’Azur, VeloUK caught up with Jake Stewart on January 19 when like a lot of British pros, he was at home in Coventry unable to join his team for the training camp but still putting in the hard yards to be ready for some racing this weekend at GP la […]

Final part in Brother UK Cycling’s look at British domestic racing – Now, more than ever, the sport needs sponsors with vision and integrity. (more…)

In a series of interviews with British pros stuck at home whilst their teams are training in Spain, we chat to Matt Holmes (Lotto Soudal) who a year ago was celebrating his maiden UCI professional victory (more…)

VeloUK chatted last week to John Archibald of pro conti team Eolo-Kometa about being stuck in Scotland whilst his team trained in Spain. (more…)

Dylan Groenewegen received serious threats after the crash in the Tour of Poland, in which Fabio Jakobsen was seriously injured. (more…)

Welcome to Yorkshire, and the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have confirmed that the 2021 Tour de Yorkshire will now be postponed until 2022. (more…)

Three-time winner (2010, 2011, 2014) of the World CX Championships, Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s Zdenek  Stybar, has revealed that he will be at the start of the Worlds held in Oostende, Belgium, on Sunday 31st (more…)

With sincere regret that the organisers of the Rutland-Melton International CiCLE Classic planned for Sunday 25th April have today announced that the 2021 edition of the race has been cancelled for 2021. (more…)

British cyclocross star from the North East, Thomas Mein is dreaming of the Under 23 world title says his trade team Tormans Cyclo Cross (more…)

After a battle with Michael Vanthourenhout, Tom Pidcock took third place in the World Cup in Overijse. (more…)

Someone I raced against many years ago and in recent years has kept his Women’s team Drops in the spotlight, Bob Varney, talks about his time running his team (more…)

Part 3 of a chat with Ian Watson, founder of the Brother UK-LDN teams for men and women. In this final part we talk about the men’s squad for 2021 (more…)

Part 8 of Brother UK Cycling’s big feature on British domestic road racing and the challenges it faces with a shortage of younger organisers (more…)

Tour de France & Giro stage winner as well overall winner of the Giro, Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo Visma) has decided to stop cycling for an indefinite period (more…)

Back in December 2020, the University of Nottingham Track Team won the British Universities & Colleges Sport Team of the Year 2020 (more…)

CAMS-Tifosi, the UK-based UCI Continental women’s cycling team, has revealed that Emma Trott and Jenny Gretton have joined the team to further strengthen team management ahead of the 2021 racing season. (more…)

With his team about to kick off their 2021 racing campaign in Spain at the Classica Communitat Valencia (UCI 1.2), we speak to team boss Tim Elverson about the season ahead (more…)

Wout van Aert and Team Jumbo-Visma have renegotiated his contract that was due to expire at the end of this year and the team has extended it for three years until 2024. (more…)

Britain’s Adam Yates, last years winner, will take on Tadej Pogačar, and Chris Froome in the 2021 UAE Tour (21st to 27th February) (more…)

Alejandro Valverde has once again announced at the Movistar team presentation that he wants to stop after this year. But will he …? (more…)

Ribble Cycles have announced their new alliance as official bike partner for the Drops-Le Col supported by TEMPUR racing team providing the best bike support to the team it’s had with road and time trial race machine (more…)

The Great Britain Cycling Team has revealed the 12 riders who will represent the Great Britain Cycling Team at the forthcoming UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium, (30th – 31st January) (more…)

Brother UK Cycling talks to Olympic Junior Academy rider Imani Pereira-James who will also race for Team Brother UK-OnForm in 2021  (more…)

Tadej Pogačar to work even harder on his time trialling for the 2021 Tour de France and says his team is much stronger and will take on more responsibility to help him win again (more…)

Fernando Gaviria tested positive for corona twice in 2020 and crossed the line first six times but the Colombian still speaks of a disappointing season. (more…)

The World Champion Julian Alaphilippe will make his first outing of the year on home soil in France, at the four-day stage race, Tour de la Provence (11-14 February). (more…)

Coming from a cycling family of legends, and in his 14th season as a professional, Dan Martin admits he is still learning and will do from new teammates Chris Froome and Michael Woods. (more…)

Chris Froome wants to prove that he is not too old to be able to compete for the final victory in a big Tour – “Just look at Valverde,” says the four time Tour winner. (more…)

Feature on the Junior and Under 23 Beeston Race Team coached by former Olympic medallist in the Team Pursuit Bryan Steel (more…)

Starting its 16th season, Astana-Premier Tech in 2021, the Kazakhstan-Canadian team will be focusing on victories at the Grand Tours as well as the classic races.  (more…)

Whilst the UCI list is not complete, here is a list of British riders in UCI teams for 2020 and the British UCI teams as well. (more…)

British junior racing team, Tofauti Everyone Active has confirmed their riders for the upcoming 2021 season, including six current or former national champions. (more…)

In this extract from a major article on the challenges the British domestic road racing scene faces by Brother UK Cycling, they chat to Jonathan Durling, Partnerships Director at The SweetSpot Group, organisers of The Tour of Britain, The Women’s Tour and The Tour Series. (more…)

Tour of Valencia (3-7 February) has unveiled the stages for the coming edition and the star names scheduled to take part in the early season race in Spain. (more…)

Egan Bernal wants to ride the Giro one day but is not making any plans for 2021 given the corona crisis (more…)

Dates and venues for the 2021/22 National Trophy Cyclocross series and the 2022 British Cyclocross Championships have been revealed (more…)

Victim of a huge crash in the Tour of Poland, Fabio Jakobsen of Deceuninck-Quick-Step says “Now I am back on my bike, I cycle with my teammates again.” (more…)

The hillier classics like Leige Bastogne Leige, Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and the Olympic Games are the stated aims for Bauke Mollema’s cycling year (more…)

Tom Pidcock hopes to mix mountain bike racing with the road in 2021 and will look to make his debut in a Grand Tour this year with his preferred option being the Vuelta a España. (more…)

Lotto Soudal’s Tim Wellens says there are many goals in 2021 including the classics, the Tour de France and a home World Championships in the Flanders region of Belgium (more…)

The first UCI WorldTour race of the 2021 season, the UAE Tour, will take place over seven stages from 21st to 27th February with every WorldTeam attending alongside Alpecin-Fenix (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe, Sam Bennett, Mark Cavendish, Remco Evenepoel, Fabio Jakobsen and Yves Lampaert of Deceuninck – Quick-Step talk about their goals for 2021 (more…)

A name that constantly crops up in results is Lauren Creamer who will race for UCI team LVIV in 2021 – we did a Q&A with Lauren on her time in the sport of cycling (more…)

In part 2 of our look at the Brother UK-LDN women’s team, we hear from the riders about what it means to be part of a team with aspirations of success in the National Series events  (more…)

Philippe Gilbert is uncertain about the new cycling season saying “I have come a long way after my crash in the Tour when I had to start from zero again” (more…)

Jakob Fuglsang is at the start of the Ruta del Sol, also known as the Vuelta a Andalucia, in February. The Danish leader of Astana-Premier hopes to take the overall victory there from 17-21 February for the third year in a row. (more…)

Team JRC Shutt Ridley have five strong under twenty-three and senior women ready to tackle whatever 2021 tends to throw at them. (more…)

After eleven successful seasons with Team Sky and INEOS and a huge career threatening crash, 35 year old Chris Froome is very optimistic  about the coming season with Israel Start-Up Nation (more…)

News: Ambitions for Trek-Segafredo leaders; Vincenzo Nibali is eyeing a return to his home race, the Giro d’Italia and Bauke Mollema the Tour de France (more…)

Tom Dumoulin opts for a completely different competition program in the spring this year when the Maastricht resident of Jumbo-Visma will focus on the Flemish classics (more…)

Team Bahrain Victorious share their upcoming season plans  – Landa: My goal is to win a Grand Tour, at the moment the Giro; Grand Tours remain my main goal”. (more…)

Former World Champion and fan favourite, Peter Sagan is waiting to kick off a packed race schedule for 2021. The Slovak rider will first ride the classics, followed by the Giro d’Italia, then the Tour de France and finally the Tokyo Olympics. (more…)

Marc Hirschi who rode for Team Sunweb, has signed a three year deal with UAE, a team with a lot of young talent making waves in the cycling world (more…)

The four Challenge Mallorca races can count on the participation of ten ProTeams.  The first competition will be the Trofeo Ses Salines on January 28th. (more…)

Wout Poels to focus on the Tour de France this season. The rider who was sixth in the last Vuelta a España wants to win a stage for the first time in the French Tour. He may also be the joint leader of his team Bahrain Victorious. (more…)

The Way Ahead from Brother Cycling chats to Peter Harrison, organiser of the Beaumont Trophy and Curlew Cup (more…)

Eight first and second year Junior women in the JRC Shutt Ridley Junior team for 2021 targeting a variety of races (road & track) including races in Europe and Britain (more…)

Eleven Junior Men in the JRC Shutt Ridley Junior team for 2021 targeting a variety of races including the British national series (more…)

The riders in the TBW23 Stuart Hall Cycling p/b Trainsharp revealed with all but two under 23 – the goal is to provide the riders with a stepping stone platform to Europe (more…)

The 27-year-old Tom Mazzone from the Isle of Man joins from Continental team Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK, where he was a team-mate of another new Saint Piran rider, Stephen Bradbury. (more…)

Saint Piran has revealed another new signing, that of first year senior Iwan Evans for the 2021 season. (more…)

Tom Pidcock was third in UCI World Cup cyclocross race in Hulst won by Matheiu van der Poel with Wout van Aert second after a battle with Pidcock   (more…)

A very international line up for the British team Torelli-Assure-Scimitar for 2021 which will have a European based race program as well as one in the UK and Ireland (more…)

Due to the lack of racing and organised events in 2020, Sam Woodfield and Isaac Hudson decided to organise and undertake their own challenge whilst doing it for a great cause, MIND Charity (more…)

British women’s team Liv AWOL Spok’d decides to go UCI with a new name, AWOL O’Shea  (more…)

Cornish team Saint Piran is going UCI (Continental) this year led by the likes of Steve Lampier and Chris Opie (more…)

British sensation Tom Pidcock is based in Belgium, a long way from family in Yorkshire. He spoke to Belgium media agency Sporza. (more…)

14 riders in the 2021 Drops Cycling (UCI) women’s cycling team with new signings including Dani Christmas, Alice Towers and Maike van der Duin (more…)

Hundreds compete on Dec 28 at round 3 of the NWCCA cyclocross league, winners include Oliver Akers, Cat Ferguson, Andrew Peace, Robert Thackray, Jenson Young and Sophie Thackray (more…)

After a difficult 2020, the Vredestein Basso racing team is set to continue in 2021 looking to add to Tom Heal’s big 2020 win at the early season classic, the Jock Wadley Memorial (more…)

The Brother UK/Cycle Team OnForm team is focused on delivering a solid foundation for developing riders and has named the riders in its 2021 men’s squad with Jamie Caldwell stepping up to manage the team (more…)

Ten riders for the Women’s team Storey Racing for 2021 including the icon of paralympic sport, Sarah Storey (more…)

Part 1 of a chat with Ian ‘Watto’ Watson, founder of the Brother UK-LDN teams for men and women. In this part we talk about the women’s squad for 2021 and its aims next season (more…)

22 year old British born rider Simon Carr, a stage winner at the Tour du Beaujolais, has joined EF Education-Nippo for 2021 (more…)

The 2021 British Cyclo-Cross championships have been cancelled says British Cycling due to the continuing uncertainty and travel disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. (more…)

A look at the Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling team for 2021 which has seen four star names come in to strengthen the squad along with a new sporting director in former World Champion, Colin Sturgess who will be looking to guide the team to success during a busy (hopefully) season next year in Britain and […]

Tom Pidcock was third in the World Cup in Namur after leading for most of the race – “I learned a lot from my defeat in Namur” says Tom (more…)

Voted eRacer of the year, April Tacey will be racing on the road next year for Drops and after an injury hit year, is looking to be back to her best in 2021 (more…)

Heading to France in 2021 to race for a DN1 French team with a link to Warren Barguil is Vitus Pro  Cycling p/b Brother UK rider Joe Sutton – We chat … (more…)

To see how the Elite teams fared against the UCI teams in domestic racing, we have taken the top 30 from every National  A (Mens) race in 2019. UCI teams deleted from next to the riders so you can see the names of the Elite teams and where they finished… (more…)

British Elite team Richardsons Trek with Silver medallist from the British Circuit Race Championships Isaac Mundy reveal their squad (more…)

After an interrupted but very successful 2020 season, Trinity Racing can confirm that they will step up to Continental level for the 2021 road season. (more…)