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A flawless lead-out of Maximiliano Richeze helped Quickstep’s 22-year-old  Alvaro Hodeg capture his first win of the season and the leader’s jersey (more…)

After strengthening his Canyon DHB team for 2019, a Spanish team camp and race in Challenge Mallorca as well as a win in the Perfs, Tim Elverson talks about his up coming race programme (more…)

On the back of taking his first win of the season at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Greg Van Avermaet will fine tune his Classics preparation at the Tour of Oman this week from 16 – 21 February. (more…)

Three Sixty Sport are delighted to announce the Men’s Tour of Sussex stage race – now in its seventh year, and the second edition of the Women’s Tour of Sussex. (more…)

The most successful neo-pro of 2018, Fabio Jakobsen, has inked a new deal with the Team World Ranking leaders  Deceuninck – Quick-Step (more…)

EF Education First Pro Cycling took the win in the team time trial by eight seconds over Deceuninck-Quick Step, with Team Sky rounding off the podium at 10 seconds down. Rigoberto Uran leads on GC (more…)

British legend (Tour de France yellow jersey & so much more) Sean Yates is back in the saddle as Ribble Cycles SLe champion (more…)

The Great Britain Cycling team reveals the squad of 22 riders who will line-up to represent the Great Britain Cycling Team at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Pruszków, Poland, taking place from 27th February to 3rd March 2019. (more…)

Project Auster and Visit Eastbourne are excited to announce Eastbourne as the host venue for the inaugural South Coast Classic on 27-28 July 2019 (more…)

SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling announce their final squad for 2019 and outline their early season UCI race programme. (more…)

Britain’s Adam Yates Mitchelton-Scott steals the victory on the Queen stage at the Volta a la Valenciana (more…)

Boardman Bikes have undertaken the most significant update to its award-winning SLR (super light road) range since the lightweight platform’s introduction into the Boardman range back in 2012 – all new Boardman 9 Series SLR road range launched (more…)

The Condor Good Friday (track) Racing will take place on Friday 19th April at Lee Valley VeloPark (more…)

Greg Van Avermaet secures first victory of 2019 on stage 3 of Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana – another top 10 for Ben Swift … and Boasson Hagen leads overall  (more…)

A multi discipline World Championships is coming to Scotland in August of 2023 says the UCI – includes track and road championships (inc paraycling) (more…)

Flamme Rouge announce their cycling team for 2019 targeting Premier Calendar, Junior National Road Series and National B events. The team has grown to 11 riders across 2 squads for 2019 … (more…)

Back in Team Sky, Ben Swift is third on stage 2 of Volta Valenciana won by European champion Matteo Trentin (more…)

The time trial seasons kicks off this weekend with the Kingston Wheelers CC Sporting TT & Ely & District CC (Hardriders) (more…)

In his first time trial (10.2 km in Orihuela) as a WorldTour rider, Harry Tanfield (Katusha Alpecin finishes 12th in the Tour of Valencia Time Trial, 21 seconds behind winner Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data). Harry takes Young Riders jersey … (more…)

ProMasters Racing announces the launch of a brand new National Road Series for Masters in the UK, the #ProMasters Series (more…)

Didcot Phoenix Cycling Club recognises its two most wonderful members at its annual awards dinner. (more…)

Greg Van Avermaet will line up for the first time in CCC Team colors next week when he opens his 2019 season by headlining the team’s Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana roster (more…)

Former WorldTour rider and British Road Race Champion (2005) Russell Downing is back in the game with the help of Phil Griffiths and Yellow Ltd. (more…)

The National B Totnes Vire, a 2 day stage race that dates back to 1974, returns in 2019 on the 6th and 7th April with three stages including a hill climb up Haytor (more…)

Entries are have gone on sale for Gran Fondo Isle of Man scheduled for 21st July 2019, with early bird discounts available until midnight on 1st March 2019 (more…)

Stage 4 of  Vuelta a San Juan saw  Fernando Gaviria winning again after a photo finish with world champion Peter Sagan (more…)

Entries are invited to the opening event of the West Midlands Road Race League, the Aston on Clun road race in Shropshire on March 31, open to second third and fourth category riders over 68 miles. (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) time trials to stage win and leader’s jersey at the Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina (more…)

The newly released Primal Echo Aire Elite Skinsuit had its first taste of success in Britain at the British Track Championships where riders in the suit won Gold and Bronze medals (more…)

The Nelson sisters Emily, Josie and Lucy and Alice Towers (all RST/Cycle Division) go close to a medal in the Team Pursuit at the British Track Championships (more…)

The Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe rides away from rivals in the last two kilometers of Monday’s Vuelta a San Juan stage and takes his first win of the season (more…)

Tom Pidcock, Nikki Brammeier and defending World Junior Champion Ben Tulett lead the Great Britain selection for the World Championships (more…)

Fernando Gaviria opened his UAE Team Emirates chapter in the best way possible by winning the opening stage of the 2019 Vuelta a San Juan. (more…)

Elia Viviani bettered his runner-up spot from twelve months ago and won the fifth edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race – the season’s second World Tour appointment and Elia’s  70th pro victory of his career – Luke Rowe sixth (more…)

New Irish Under 23 development ‘Team Bioracer-DHL-FR Services’ set to challenge the British based teams in the season’s major road race events (more…)

Ian Field, Callum Macleod, Bethany Crumpton, Anna Kay, Josie Nelson, and Jenson Young some of the winners in the 2019 National Trophy CX Series #FinalStandings (more…)

Madison Genesis rider Ian Bibby was the team’s first winner in 2019 with his first ever virtual pro bike race on Zwift (more…)

Chatting to up and coming Max Stedman (Canyon DHB) on starting his season next week in Vuelta Mallorca alongside WorldTour hitters like World Champion Valverde, sprint king Kittel, climbers Landa, Mollema and Wellens and monument winner Dan Martin (more…)

Sunday, 10th of February sees the road season begin in Hampshire with the early season British classic, the 54th Perfs Pedal – we have the startlist (more…)

The Racescene Female Development Academy (RFDA),  founded by Richard Maxwell, is created to help develop young female riders into champions in the sport of cycling (more…)

Cardiff-based Leading Sports and Media announced the 2019 Lead Cycle Tour (LCT) Euro Cup series of road cycling races this week. (more…)

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…)

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…)

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

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…)

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…)

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…)

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

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

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

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for women will be celebrating its 14th edition in 2019 and a total of 45 teams applied from which a selection of 24 teams was made including 20 UCI teams and 4 club teams (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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

The first British UCI International road race of 2019, will be the 15th Edition of the Rutland – Melton International CiCLE Classic, Britain’s longest running international single day cycle road  which sees some major route changes (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…)

Alice and Lucas Towers (both RST/Cycle Division) rode the Paarl Boxing Day track meeting, the longest running and also official UCI track event in the world (more…)

We have so many Q & A’s and the latest to come in is from Noze at Cycling Holiday Spain who has had 20 plus training camps in 2018 in the sunny climate of Southern Spain and is a popular resort for Brits (more…)

The final round of the 2018/19 National Trophy CX Series is at the popular venue at Shrewsbury promoted by the Mid Shropshire Wheelers and we quizzed organiser Dave Mellor on this event and changes to the course (more…)

The biggest race of the Winter Cyclo-Cross Season and here’s the startlist for the event held at Kent’s Cyclopark on January 12/13 (more…)

After a fantastic 2018, the Pro Vision Race team in 2019 will have a new roster including a women’s team (more…)

The dates for the 2019 National Road Race series for men and women and the Crit series (also men and women) have been released (more…)

In the first preview of the British CX Championships, organiser Huw Williams tells us about what is in store for the riders at the Kent Cyclo-Park in January (more…)

Dates for the Elite Circuit series for Men and Women and the Criterium Championship in Rochester 2019 (more…)

After three stage victories and 13 days in the Maglia Rosa this year, Simon Yates will return to the Giro d’Italia in 2019 looking for more. (more…)

Under 16 rider Sophie Lewis who will be part of the of team OnForm team in 2019 – the young GB rider has sent her Q & A back for us to share with you … (more…)

Elite George Wood, a long time rider for Richardsons Trek, will step up to UCI Conti level in 2019 with SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling – here is a Q & A with George (more…)

2019 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the women’s squad, Team Boompods sponsored by among others, Edco and Continental tyres (more…)

From Junior World Champion in 2004 to Tour de France winner in 2018, Geraint Thomas wins BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year (more…)

Matthew Walls and the duo of Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny win Gold as Great Britain finished the Track Cycling World Cup in London with a flourish this afternoon (more…)

GB’s Matthew Walls and Fred Wright claimed Madison silver to add to their team pursuit bronze medal on the second day of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in London (more…)

On the first full day of competition at the London Track Cycling World Cup, there was Gold for Huub Wattbike & GB Women and glory for the Paracyclists too (more…)

Norwood Paragon has teamed up with Reigate based bike shop Maison du Velo to launch 1904 Race Team, recruiting nineteen riders split across men’s and women’s squads. (more…)

Whilst we hear that the Men’s & Women’s National Series events are close to being released; the Junior & Youth events are already public (more…)

A great read about an icon in the sport of cycling, Alf Engers who was not just a great ‘tester’ but one of the sports biggest ever characters – I Like Alf the book (more…)

When George Pym joined Madison Genesis in 2018, he was something of an unknown. But by the end of the season one of the youngest riders of the team had established himself as a regular pick – and he’s hoping for more of the same next year. (more…)

The 2019 route for the 103rd Tour of Flanders, one of the sports most popular Monuments,  is practically the same as last year’s say the race in a press release (more…)

Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women with brits  Lizzie Deignan and Abi Van Twisk  along with Ryan Mullen (more…)

The Holdsworth Zappi collaboration results in an expanded international programme for U23 and Junior team in 2019 (more…)

An invitation to the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire would represent a “huge opportunity” for Vitus Pro Cycling Team, powered by Brother UK, says team owner and manager Cherie Pridham. (more…)

Max Stedman, Cherie Pridham, John Herety, Scott Thwaites, Russell Downing, Chris Lawless , Tim Elverson and Sophie Thackray give their reactions to the launch of the Tour de Yorkshire 2019 (more…)

Nuun-Sigma Sports-London Race Team, the popular London-based amateur cycling team has announced its 2019 lineup of riders and sponsors (more…)

Connor Swift (Madison Genesis) has said racing the Tour de Yorkshire in the British road race champions jersey will be a special experience. (more…)

Short stages and a devilish finale for the route of the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire (mens & women’s routes unveiled) (more…)

Question and Answer with second cat Jordon Reed, one of the riders in the new UCI team, Swift Carbon Pro Cycling – looking back at 2018 and ahead to 2019 (more…)

The Q & A’s are going out and this one is a team based one for the newest British UCI Conti team, Ribble Pro Cyling sponsored by Ribble Cycles (more…)

Derby-based track cycling HUUB Wattbike test team will be travelling to the latest stage of the UCI World Cup Series on Friday December 14 sporting a newly-designed Derbados flag (more…)

Dani Rowe (Nee King) announced on Tuesday her retirement from professional cycle racing, marking both the end of one chapter in her career, and the start of a new one. (more…)

On a revised course at Trinity Park, new world champion Nick Craig and other champions from last weekend at Mol plus road star Graham Briggs and CX stars Ian Field Yorben Van Tichelt Braam Merlier, Beth Crumpton and Anna Kay all on the start sheet for the National trophy this weekend at Ipswich (more…)

Feature length interview of Matt Holmes (Madison Genesis) after a season of injury, missed races and missed opportunities (more…)

Steve Lampier of Saint Piran triumphant in regional cyclo-cross championship in sponsors home town (more…)

SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling has been revealed as the latest British UCI Continental Team for 2019, bringing the current total to six (more…)

After a successful season in 2018, the women’s Bianchi Dama squad grows to 10 riders for 2019 (more…)

2018 has been a huge year for Harry Tanfield. Stage win in Yorkshire, 2nd in Commonwealth Games TT and in a year he felt he was ready for the World Tour, the chance has come his way with a ride at Katusha Alpecin thanks to Canyon – we chat (more…)

Last week on the final day of three trade days for dealers, VeloUK went along to DHW Agencies near Ormskirk to see what new products they have for 2019 and had a chat to former pro and boss, Dave Williams (more…)

Chat with former racer in Prems and so on, Dave Coulson of Cycling Sheffield, about his team which shares a sponsor with VeloUK, Bioracer UK (more…)

Home to the best bikes money can buy in Bournemouth and Poole, Primera Sports held their 7th free bike show (Expo) for the public in November which was a resounding success (more…)

Tim Elverson has unveiled a 19-man squad to do battle in the colours of Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes in 2019 with 11 new riders, two from Belgium and two Lincoln GP winners (more…)

Tim Elverson’s pro team, Canyon Eisberg in 2018, will undergo a name change in 2019 and become Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes (more…)

Safe to say that team boss Cherie Pridham can’t wait for 2019 after strengthening her Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK team for next road season (more…)

Olympic champions Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Jason Kenny, Laura Kenny and Phil Hindes are among the riders representing Great Britain Cycling Team at the forthcoming Track Cycling World Cup,  London, from 14th – 16th December (more…)