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Adam Kenway of Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK fastest in Matlock CC’s hilly time trial on Thursday (more…)

Jamie Whitcher fastest in the Bournemouth Arrow CC club time trial on Thursday on July 16; (more…)

Jacob Schnabel fastest in the Portsmouth North End 10 mile time trial on the P813-10 on Thursday, Rebecca Hughes first female (more…)

Last weekend, on 11th July, Scottish cyclist and Director of Scottish cycling Fiona Cockburn set a new Scottish Everesting record, besting both previous male and female records. (more…)

British Cycling has submitted its action plan to Government for a safe return of cycle sport events in England, which it hopes will enable a phased return to racing from August (more…)

In another of the many club time trials this week, Bob Richardson was fastest in the Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers 10 mile time trial on Tuesday, 14 July (more…)

George Clark fastest in the Maidenhead & District 10 mile time trial on Thursday July 16; Anastasia Bowler fastest woman (more…)

Dean Downing was one of the most successful domestic pros in the modern era and is now a sought-after coach. Enjoy part one of our serialisation of an in-depth interview with Dean from Brother UK Cycling. You can read the full article on the Brother UK Cycling Blog. (more…)

Toby of Barnes of Cero Wheels/Cycle Division is fastest (19.51, course record) at the Race Rapid 10 Mallory Park Time Trials whilst Frankie Hall is fastest woman in 8th and breaks course record too! (more…)

With the Isle of man free from Covid 19 for nearly 60 days, racing has returned and 211 braved a damp Tuesday evening in Douglas for round 1 of the RL360 Youth Cycling League (more…)

Ian Greenstreet and Rachael Elliott fastest on the tandem in the Newbury Road Club 10m TT on the H10/3 (Wednesday) July 15; Tim Cartwright fastest solo, Melanie Sneddon fastest female (more…)

Zac Herrod fastest in the Godric CC 10 mile time trial on July 14, Seb Herrod (Rotor Race Team) fastest on a road bike, Jo Fisk first female (more…)

Mat Boulton and Bruce Dalton tie for the win in the Matlock Cycling Club 10m Time trial; Amelie Wayte fastest of the ladies (more…)

Thomas Hutchinson fastest in 18.58 at the Barnesbury CC 10 mile trial in the North East; Miriam Jesset fastest woman (more…)

Ben Healy fastest and breaks the course record in Wolverhampton Wheelers hilly 22 mile time trial on July 14 (more…)

Tom Day fastest (19.11) at week 2 of the Kinetic-One TT Series at Castle Combe, Zoe Backstedt fastest female in 9th overall (more…)

Former British road race champion Connor Swift nicks course record from cousin Ben at week 1 of the Team Sheffield Cuckney TT Series (more…)

 Classics specialist Jasper Stuyven has signed a two-year extension to his contract and will stay with Trek-Segafredo until the end of 2022. (more…)

Sprinter Fabio Jakobsen of Deceuninck – Quick-Step talks of his preparations at the team’s get-together in Italy and the first races of August (more…)

Lucas and Jonny Towers along with Irish rider Devin Shortt (all Cero/Cycle Division) went to Belgium recently to ride on some famous cycling roads (more…)

Adam Kenway (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) spent his birthday a week ago riding 100 miles in the rain in the Peak District on roads he knows very well indeed with an eye on the Hill Climb season (more…)

Soon to be racing again and  a big winner on the road but a legend in time trialling, former postman turned super coach Matt Bottrill lets us in on what his favourite moments have been in a long and successful career (more…)

The Italian World Tour event Strade Bianche will be Julian Alaphilippe’s (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) first race in the second part of the year (more…)

As preparations ramp up for the re-start of the 2020 season, Mitchelton-SCOTT has revealed its long lists and ambitions for the first two Grand Tours of the season, the Tour de France (Adam Yates)  and Giro d’Italia (Simon Yates). (more…)

Great insights from Darren Kenny into how new models are created and developed as we look at the Fangoso range of bikes released by Estrella Bikes and a new one on the way, the Fangoso Adventure.  (more…)

The CCC pro cycling team has confirmed its revised race calendar for the remainder of the 2020 season starting with Vuelta a Burgos and featuring a triple race program in August (more…)

We got in touch with one of our sponsors, Velotech Services in Stratford upon Ave, distributor for Rotor & C-Bear products in the UK for a quick Q&A (more…)

World Masters Track Cycling Championships in Manchester postponed due to the Coronavirus Pandemic (more…)

Continental reveals the Grand Prix 5000 TdF LTD 2020 – the first Special Edition of its industry benchmark-setting Grand Prix 5000 road tyre (more…)

20-year-old Belgian Remco Evenepoel to make Monument debut at Il Lombardia talks about his calendar and goals for next month (more…)

Cooking up a great win in her kitchen last weekend was 19 year old April Tacey (Drops cycling) who made history by being the winner of the first stage of the Virtual Women’s Tour de France (more…)

Team INEOS confirmed Chris Froome will be leaving the team whilst Israel Start-Up Nation confirm the four time Tour de France winner will be joining them (more…)

Ribble Cycles delivered their Endurance SL to Surrey and England’s Cricket World Cup winning batsman Jason Roy. (more…)

Tom Day fastest in first round of the Kinetic One Castle Combe Summer TT Series on Wednesday night witha sub 20 minute 10 mile time, Caitlin Peters fastest female (more…)

When the women’s Virtual Tour de France started last weekend, one of the stars was Joss Lowden who was second on stage 2 – we get some great insights from Joss on eRacing! (more…)

July 6 saw Newbury Velo hold a Cycling Time Trials test event over 10 miles with Henry Latimer the winner of the mens race and Kirsty McSeveney the fastest woman (more…)

Cycling Time Trials has announced that ‘club’ events can be held from and including Monday 13 July and all CTT events, to include ‘open’ events, can be held from and including Saturday 18 July 2020. Lets go racing! (more…)

Sam Bennett and Remco Evenepoel will be in action later this month, at the five-day Spanish race as Deceuninck – Quick-Step to restart UCI season at Vuelta a Burgos (more…)

Team News: Florian Sénéchal soloed to victory on Sunday afternoon in Rotselaar, where the Grote Prijs Vermarc, the team’s first event since Paris-Nice in March, took place on a 15.4km-long circuit (more…)

The Isle of Wight will host the Tour of Britain  for the first time ever in September 2022, following an agreement between race organisers and the Isle of Wight Council signed this morning (Saturday 4 July) that will see the final stage of the race taking place on the island. (more…)

In the latest update from British Cycling on the return of racing …. (more…)

British Road Race Champion in 2018, Connor Swift made a surprise jump in 2019 from the domestic peloton to the pro one in Europe for Arkéa-Samsic – we chatted about how he is finding the racing? (more…)

Welsh Cycling have announced that ROTOR are their official Power Cranks partner which sees the Wales Racing Academy riders using the ALDHU INSPIDER, the 2INpower track cranks, VEGAST and Kapic INSPIDER cranks. (more…)

The Tour de Poland, the first stage race to be held after the lockdown, unveils the 5 stages of the 77th edition. (more…)

A strong eight-man Deceuninck – Quick-Step team will be on the start line in Rotselaar, this Sunday  as they return to action at GP Vermarc Sport (more…)

In this good news series, we also hear from riders at the beginning of their cycling career and one of those is Caitlin Peters (Weston-Homes Torelli Assure) who was Champion of Champions (junior) in time trialling in 2019 – Cailtlin tells us what her best memories are. (more…)

CAMS-Tifosi is delighted to announce Megan Barker has renewed her contract with the team for 2021 becoming the first confirmed signing for the UCI Women’s Continental racing team ahead of next season. (more…)

The British Circuit Race Champion Joey Walker (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) talks about crit racing with VeloUK (more…)

Ahead of Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s stay in Passo San Pellegrino (Val di Fassa training camp), the team’s riders visited the Bakala Academy in Leuven (Belgium) for physical tests (more…)

With racing programs finalised, Team Sunweb (Men, Women and Development) head to a Team Camp in Austria as they enter the final preparation period ahead of the season restart. (more…)

The world’s first Virtual Tour de France will be held on Zwift beginning this weekend for both Men & Women over six stages and riders are competing for charity instead of a prize purse. (more…)

Winner in 2019 of the Tour of Reservoir, and on the podium at the Tour of Yorkshire, winner of the 2020 Women’s V-Tour Leah Dixon gives us an insight into her eRacing (more…)

More lockdown features – this one with Spirit Tifosi BSS Rotor rider Rupert Graham who lives in Woking (West of London) (more…)

The Deceuninck – Quick-Step  team will assemble on Passo San Pellegrino from the 6th to 23rd July, for an altitude training camp at Val di Fassa to train for the resumption of the racing season (more…)

trainSharp coach Connor Murphy writes about a mad ride across the South Downs Way recently which was eleven and a half hours on a mountain bike! (more…)

Yves Lampaert, Dries Devenyns and Iljo Keisse extend their contracts at Deceuninck – Quick-Step Cycling Team as racing beckons in 2020 (more…)

Short lists for Trek Segafredo’s Tour de France and Giro revealed with Mollema, Porte & Stuyven at the Tour and Vincenzo Nibali at the Giro (more…)

The Urban Taraxagum bicycle tyre from Continental wins prestigious Red Dot Design award and also awarded E-Bike Design & Innovation Award by the magazine Focus E-Bike (more…)

Great Team Feature! The 25-year-old Dane Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep) talks about his first classics victory, training during the lockdown, seeing the Wolfpack after three months and his future goals. (more…)

Former Lincoln GP winner Alex Richardson who rides for Alpecin-Fenix will be racing in August and says the summer break from racing has helped him immensely (more…)

After his stage win and 10th overall in the Joe Martin Virtual Stage Race, Zak Herrod, who was 9th in the Eddie Soens in March,  gives us an insight into his eRacing (more…)

Following the retirement of the reigning Paralympic champion Sophie Thornhill last week, tandem pilot Helen Scott has today announced that the Great Britain Cycling Team is on the hunt for a tandem ‘stoker’ (the blind or visually impaired rider at the back of the tandem) to continue their legacy of success. (more…)

Rachael Elliott (4th) and Alice Lethbridge (9th) overall in the Women’s version of the Joe Martin V Tour in the USA (more…)

Report by George Mills-Keeling (Ribble Weldtite on the road) for the final stage in the Joe Martin Stage Race won by Norfolk’s Zac Herrod with Dan Fleeman second overall (more…)

Two riders, Will Scott and Matthew Exley started pedalling at 4:42am on June 20th and finished at 21:26 riding for a total distance of 502kms in aid of charity (more…)

Life in Lockdown for Dries Devenyns (Deceuninck – Quick-Step), winner of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race this year (more…)

Rafal Majka, Pascal Ackermann and Jakob Fuglsang among the star names riding Tour of Poland in August says race organisers (more…)

Chris McGlinchey of Vitus Pro Cycling third on stage 2, Dan Fleeman second on GC in the virtual Joe Martin Stage Race, George Mills-Keeling who is writing reports of the stages, was 7th on the stage (more…)

George Mills-Keeling who races for Ribble Weldtite on the road, is racing the Joe Martin Stage 1 and has written a report on this virtual race (more…)

Whilst racers in Britain have no road racing to look forward to yet, one of the country’s leading pros, Harry Tanfield is heading back to France for a season restart (more…)

The Deceuninck – Quick-Step team concluded their three-day training camp by doing a recon of the Ronde van Vlaanderen race’s last 150 kilometers Thursday afternoon (more…)

Leah Dixon (Team TIBCO Silicon Valley Bank) won the first ever ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour on Friday night as young Dutch rider Cathalijne Hoolwerf (NXTG Racing) took the final stage win at the end of a 35 lap race around Canary Wharf. (more…)

Welsh rider Leah Dixon (Team TIBCO Silicon Valley Bank) took the second stage of the ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour on the hill top finish of Burton Dassett in Warwickshire to round off an exemplary display of tactics from Team TIBCO Silicon Valley Bank. (more…)

British Cycling has announced the next step in its plan to resume all sanctioned cycling activities in England, with coaching and group activity beginning to return from today. (more…)

We ask a double World Junior Champion, Lucy van der Haar (nee Garner) what her Best of Memories are in cycling … (more…)

Dani Christmas (Lotto Soudal Ladies) delivered a home win for British fans in the opening stage of the new ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour virtual cycle race on Wednesday evening. (more…)

The Deceuninck – Quick-Step Wolfpack meet in the Flemish Ardennes to plan the second part of the year and prepare for the classics with a recon of Gent-Wevelgem (more…)

18 teams and more than 50 of the world’s top riders to race a virtual Women’s Tour on the RGT platform starting on Wednesday and shown on BBC as well as online (more…)

When looking back at his many memories in the sport, one Golden memory stands out for sprinter and tandem pilot Barney Storey (more…)

Connor Murphy from trainSharp writes there are lessons highlighted by lockdown and in this article, he looks at how you can use these moving forwards (more…)

“El Tractor” Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-QuickStep) on training in lockdown, preparing to become a parent and honing his Age of Empires ll skills. (more…)

Two new Spanish stages in La Vuelta to replace Portuguese ones as organisers continue to reconfigure the race route for the 2020 version starting October 20 to November 8 (more…)

There will be changes to the monument Tour of Flanders to be held on the 18th of October, one of four ‘Flanders classics’ being held in October (starts the 7th)- Tenbosse and the Muur van Geraardsbergen cut from Tour of Flanders (more…)

Today’s Best of Memories in cycling comes from Welsh rider Gruff Lewis of Ribble Weldtite who recalls his journey through the sport of bike racing (more…)

The Kazakh UCI WorldTour squad Astana Pro Team is preparing to come out from lockdown and to resume the 2020 cycling season according to the revised UCI calendar, which was forced to stop earlier in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)

Brilliant Read! Lockdown is a good time to catch up on your reading, and here writer Owen Rogers interviews William Fotheringham about William’s latest book, The Greatest: The Times and Life of Beryl Burton. (more…)

Double blow for Saint Piran ambassador Steve Lampier (Ribble Weldtite) as his Tour of Britain hopes are dashed and is then knocked down by van whilst training (more…)

A special one for CX fans – Cyclo-cross stars Ian Field, Paul Oldham, Ffion James and Helen Wyman reveal their best of memories in this VeloUK series packed with happy news! (more…)

CTT Statement – June 8: All time Trials are currently suspended until July 5 but the organisation is hoping that club time trials can be held from July 6 and opens from July 17 (2020) (more…)

The road season resumes on Guernsey after they record no new cases of Covid since April, with Seb Tremlett fastest in the 10 mile time trial, Karina Bowie fastest woman whilst Trinity Racing’s Sam Culverwell recorded the third fastest time with 21.39 on a road bike. (more…)

Throughout June, cyclists are being challenged to ride 100 miles to raise awareness of the huge contribution carers make in our families and communities. (more…)

Race organiser (CiCLE Classic) and UCI Commissaire, Colin Clews reveals his best memories in the sport of cycling and surprisingly, it’s the Tour of Rwanda in 2009. Great read! (more…)

Deceuninck – Quick-Step to hold classics training camp in the Flemish Ardennes,  the first gathering of the team since before the start of the Coronavirus outbreak in Europe (more…)

Movistar’s Marc Soler to race Giro d’Italia, Enric Mas to line up at Tour de France & Vuelta a España alongside Alejandro Valverde (more…)

If ever there was a major life moment in cycling, the Tour of Britain One Day Ahead ride by Phil Jones MBE and James Golding in 2018 was one as Phil explains in a recent interview (more…)

Illustrious personalities pitted against each other in Just A Cycling Minute for the NSPCC (more…)

Cycling broadcasters Rebecca Charlton and Laura Winter and Daily Telegraph cycling correspondent Tom Cary are preparing to take part in a mass participation virtual cycling event to raise funds for national blood cancer charity, Cure Leukaemia, to mark ‘Geoff Thomas Day’ on Saturday July 4th (more…)

Q & A with Mike Swart, founder of Power Dropouts, the number 1 ranked eRacing team on Zwift on May 27th (more…)

Whilst the CCC team prepares for 2020 season restart, team boss Jim Ochowicz is looking for a new sponsor for 2021 (more…)

The Road Book is proud to present a special offer to VeloUK readers to provide a little joy in the midst of postponement of the 2020 Tour de France. (more…)

Twice a winner of the CiCLE Classic, Ian Wilkinson came into road racing from mountain biking and was one of the sports winners and now a much missed character (more…)

The next E-Racing feature Q&A is with Alistair Thomas (Crimson Performance) who says the best thing about e-racing is you’re only a few steps from the shower and the fridge when its done! Alistair also reveals there’s a ‘ghost’ button on Zwift ….  (more…)

It was a busy week for the Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK team with two ‘Everesting’ attempts for their chosen charity, CALM. We chat to the team … (more…)

trainSharp’s Connor Murphy looks at the numerous advantages of Strength and Conditioning for cyclists (more…)

A photographer who has covered over 50 editions of the Tour de France, John Pierce writes about one the most memorable, the 1987 win by Ireland’s Stephen Roche (more…)

We asked Nozard at CHS for his top 10 reasons why he thinks (we do to) Cycling Holiday Spain are the number one training retreat in Spain and why it should be on your bucket list for your next cycling holiday! (more…)

Twice second in the Lincoln GP, winner of the Premier Calendar and a rider who rode as a pro in Europe, Gordon McCauley also medalled in the Commonwealth Games, one of his best moments in the sport (more…)

With normal racing still a long way off, e-Racing has replaced racing on the road and we have a feature from trainSharp coach and Sport’s Scientist, Alex Welburn with tips on this new and developing form of cycle racing (more…)

Today’s E-Racing lockdown Q&A is with Oliver Peckover (ActiveEdge Race Team) who was a 2018 Zwift academy finalist in Cape Town with Team Dimension Data (more…)

British success in the Tour of the Gila as Gavin Dempster wins overall and Ireland’s Chris McGlinchey of British team Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK wins the final stage after second on stage 2 (more…)

Hill climber Rebecca Richardson (Brother UK-OnForm) reveals her best of memories – a very ad hoc and low-tech trip around Ireland (more…)

No confirmed dates from British Cycling about the resumption of cycle racing in email to membership but major events suspended until September 1st (to be reviewed fortnightly) (more…)

Two very different 1970’s memories from former British champion Neil Martin – one with Aussie hero Phil Anderson at the AC BB and the other from his teenage racing days on a tandem! (more…)

Today’s lockdown Q&A is with Maura (Maurabellla) Claffey of Brother UK/Onform who is based in Dublin (Ireland)  and has her my own physiotherapy practice – Beyond Baseline Physiotherapy (more…)

This June will see the Women’s Tour back in action as an eRace on a virtual stage thanks to RGT Cycling and Women’s Tour organisers SweetSpot (more…)

The postponed Lincoln Grand Prix and it’s support races have been cancelled due to British Cycling’s extending its suspension of racing until September 1 (more…)

Today’s E-Racing question and answer is with young Rebecca Dawes (RFDA cycling team) who loves the virtual racing (more…)

A detail packed Q&A from Paul Moss, Chairman of Stowmarket & District CC and running an Ipswich and District Cycle Association Zwift TT league (more…)

Today’s lockdown Q & A is from Tom Wright of (Brother UK/Onform) who is based in Spalding, (south Lincolnshire) and who’s highlight in 2019 was the chance to race in Belgium (more…)