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Simon Yates heads to Vuelta a Asturias hungry for victory as part of his final preparation for the Giro d’Italia (more…)

British Cycling have announced the 14 domestic road teams (men & women) that have secured Elite Development Team status for the 2022 season.   (more…)

British UCI cycling team, Saint Piran, started their season in France with a great fifth place for Charles Page in the UCI (category 1.2) Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers one-day race. Manager Steve Lampier looks back at their performance (more…)

Halesowen Athletic and Cycling Club are proud to present their 2022 Academy line up with renewed sponsorship from Mapei UK, subsidiary of one of the most celebrated sponsors in cycling, Mapei (more…)

Britain’s most successful Olympian, Sir Jason Kenny, has today been announced as the new Podium Men’s Sprint Coach for the Great Britain Cycling Team, bringing down the curtain on an illustrious career which has seen him win seven Olympic titles across four Games. (more…)

Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling will be racing on Ribble’s ground-breaking and eye catching, Ribble Ultra SL-R Team Edition across the 2022 season (more…)

No cyclocross World championships, no Strade Bianche and no overall classification aims in Paris-Nice; Wout van Aert has learned to make choices in order to have a greater chance of realising his most important goals (more…)

Elite Scottish cycling team, Alba Development Road Team, helping women along the road to sporting success (more…)

After an impressive 2021 season, TRINITY Racing has gathered in Spain for its first training camp in order to prepare for the 2022 season – here is the rider roster for 2022 (more…)

Four female riders, Morgan Newberry, Lucy Ellmore, Megan Dickerson and Rebecca Richards;  graduate from ŠKODA DSI Cycling Academy and take next steps in their cycling careers (more…)

Toby says of the opportunity, “signing for HB Axeon shows all my hard work over the last few years has paid off to be noticed by one of the top development teams.” (more…)

Two world class riders, Harry and Charlie Tanfield who were both in the key move at the British Circuit Race Championships, have signed for Ribble Weldtite for 2022  (more…)

After their best year ever, Ribble Weldtite are signing a group of talented riders to replace those who will be leaving at the end of 2021. We speak to the team’s Jack Rees about 2021 & the goals for 2022 (more…)

Ben Turner signs for Ineos – “Being a British rider you just want to be in this British team, it’s an honour to be part of it, especially going into my first year in the WorldTour” (more…)

British women’s cycling team, Drops, has completed its signings for 2022 with Brits Anna Christian, Lizzie Holden, April Tacey, Alice Towers, Flora Perkins and Eluned King part of the line up along with riders from abroad, Martins, Merino, Moberg, Van’t Geloof, Van der Dui, Vandenbulcke and Verhulst (more…)

It’s Official! James Shaw joins EF Education-NIPPO — EF Education-NIPPO has announced the signing of James Shaw to their 2022 roster. The British rider is another powerful addition to the team’s Classics lineup. (more…)

Matt Holmes extends contract at Lotto Soudal: 2020 marked Matt’s first season at the Belgian cycling team and the British rider immediately impressed at the Tour Down Under, where he won the queen stage to Willunga Hill.   (more…)

Newly-crowned omnium world champion Katie Archibald, capped off a stellar week at the UCI Track Cycling World Championship in Roubaix with a silver medal in the women’s point’s race. (more…)

Ethan Hayter continued his run of stunning success with a World title in the Men’s Omnium at the Track World Championships in Roubaix whilst Katie Archibald and Neah Evans battled to bronze in the women’s Madison. (more…)

Katie Archibald powered to her second world omnium title in Roubaix on day three of the 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, winning all four events in a perfect all-round display. (more…)

The Great Britain Cycling Team added a further three bronze medals to its tally on day two of the 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Roubaix (more…)

Ben Swift to defend British title with teammate Ethan Hayter and Owain Doull — Ben and Ethan discuss their chances of winning the champion’s jersey in the biggest race of the three in Lincoln this week. (more…)

Ethan Vernon, winner of a stage in the Tour de Avenier, will be joining Quickstep for two seasons from 2022 (more…)

The British Road Race Championships will be held in Lincoln this week and a team to watch are a Lincoln team, Pro-Noctis/Red Chilli Bikes/Heidi Kjeldsen (more…)

Under 23 Sam Watson and junior Finlay Pickering have signed for the UCI Conti team Groupama-FDJ which has helped Lewis Askey and Jake Stewart into the WorldTour ranks (more…)

Owain Doull signs for EF Education-NIPPO for 2022. The Welsh all-arounder joins the team with nearly six years experience in the pro peloton. (more…)

On Thursday September 23, Bioracer and the INEOS Grenadiers confirmed their partnership for the upcoming cycling season  (more…)

Max Poole is signed by Team DSM! Max will ride in the Development program in 2022, before making the step up to the Men’s program the following year and through the 2024 season. (more…)

Mark Cavendish, Tom Pidcock, Ethan Hayter and Lizzie Deignan are amongst the squad of 30 riders who will represent Great Britain in the elite, under-23 and junior categories at the Road Worlds. (more…)

Double world junior cyclo-cross champion and a rider already making his mark in the world tour, has signed for Ineos to Join the likes of Tom Pidcock and Ethan Hayter (more…)

Becky Storrie to race for Cams Basso for the remainder of the 2021 season. Storrie has been riding for CAMS-Basso development team, Cycle Team OnForm sponsored by Brother UK Cycling this year where she has had a fantastic season. (more…)

With a fresh look, new riders, and increased backing for the cyclocross season, the Garden Shed UK – Ribble – Verge Sport CX team is aiming to build on previous successes (more…)

Mr Team Pursuit, Ed Clancy has retired as of today and pulled out of Tokyo Olympics team pursuit due to back injury. It marks the end of a fantastic career spanning 16 years which has seen him become the most successful team pursuit rider in history. (more…)

Paralympics GB has announced the riders who will compete in the Para cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. (more…)

Menen Kemmel Menen will be the first Belgian classic of the 2021 season in July 11 for the AG2R CITROËN U19 team where British Juniors Maximilian Cushway and Benjamin Peatfield  will be racing to win the event (more…)

The British ‘Z Junior Team’ started their delayed European season on 1 July participating in the Junior Tour of the Basque Country with many a good day (more…)

World Champion Julian Alaphilippe, Flanders victor Kasper Asgreen and 30-time stage winner Mark Cavendish headline the Deceuninck – Quick-Step squad for the 2021 Tour de France (more…)

The French  Junior team, AG2R Citroen U19, which has three British riders in it in 2021, is looking for riders for 2022 – riders can apply online (more…)

One of the most experienced riders in the British peloton, Jo Tindley, will join the Pro-Noctis – Redchilli Bikes – Heidi Kjeldsen cycling team to create a seven strong team (more…)

Bad luck strikes the British riders in the Classique des Alpes Juniors racing for Ag2R Citroen Under 19 junior team – Report from Benjamin Peatfield (more…)

Former Under 23 Gent Wevelgem winner Jacob Hennessy  is to join British UCI team Saint Piran from UCI Continental team, Canyon dhb SunGod. (more…)

With the British road race championships being held in Lincoln in October, one of Britain’s newest women’s cycling teams (Pro-Noctis/Red Chilli Bikes/Heidi Kjeldsen) was quick to take on the cobbles, in a gruelling three-day training camp. (more…)

The Great Britain Cycling team has today confirmed the 16 riders who will represent the country at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Cascais, Portugal, from 9th – 13th June. (more…)

Team feature on Cumbria’s James Knox – currently riding his third Giro, James talks about how he got into cycling and what it means for him to sport the jersey of Deceuninck – Quick-Step. (more…)

British Junior riders in the AG2R Citroen U19 team finally get international race in the Classique des Alpes on May 29 which in the past was won by Tim Wellens, a 128km 1.1 ranked road race in France with 5 mountain passes (more…)

The Wheelbase Cabtech Castelli road racing team is back and recently, many of the riders from the senior and U23 / Junior squads got together for a quality training ride in the South Lakes. (more…)

Sad news from Swift Carbon Pro Cycling – “it is with immense sadness that we share the passing of our friend and team member Tim James who died on 14 May aged just 23 years of age. Tim had been taken ill with an extremely rare and unknown cancer last year” (more…)

Three of Trek Segafredo’s top riders for this years Giro d’Italia, Vincenzo Nibali, Bauke Mollema & Giulio Ciccone look ahead to this years first Grand Tour with their reactions to their ambitions for the race (more…)

Aiming to win stages in each of the Grand Tours in 2021, Lotto Soudal’s Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan talks about his hopes in the forthcoming Giro d’Italia, a race Caleb has already managed to win three Giro stages in the past and again aims for stage success. (more…)

Tour de France and Vuelta stage winner Dan Martin to lead the Israel Startup Nation team in the 2021 Giro d’Italia chasing the GC podium, double stage winner Alex Dowsett also selected for the Italian Grand Tour (more…)

Cumbria’s James Knox joins João Almeida and Remco Evenepoel in Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s line up for the 104th Giro d’Italia (more…)

Astana – Premier Tech has announced its squad for the 104th edition of the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro d’Italia, which is set to start in Turin on May 8th with the aim to fight for the overall and stage wins (more…)

Britain’s Hugh Carthy has re-signed with EF Education–NIPPO – “I chose to stay at EF simply because the team feels right,” says Carthy. “ (more…)

Team Jumbo-Visma has announced the final roster for the Giro d’Italia with the most notable name on the roster being the return of Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo Visma). (more…)

The Crimson Orientation Marketing Race Team will be back to the start grid this summer after a long 16 months with no racing with ‘name’ riders such as Circuit Race Champion Joey Walker, CX star Toby Barnes, Hill Climb star Mary Wilkinson and more (more…)

Simon Yates (BikeExchange) solo’s to a sensational victory on stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps, attacking on the penultimate first-category climb and increasing his lead with each pedal stroke (more…)

Team Spectra Wiggle powered by Vitus is a new UK-based, gender balanced, multidisciplinary cycling team with big ambitions and backing (more…)

Tom Pidcock wins his first professional road victory in emphatic fashion at De Brabantse Pijl outsprinting Wout van Aert and Matteo Trentin. (more…)

Mark Cavendish wins his third stage in row in the Tour of Turkey, the first time since 2013 he’s achieved such a result and continues to lead overall (more…)

All change after stage 4 of the Tour of the Basque Country as Ion Izagirre triumphs after a small group escapes and stays away,  Brandon McNulty now leads overall as Roglic slips to second place overall. (more…)

Nuun-Sigma Sports-London Race Team Returns for 10th Year With New Focus and Motivation; Team will focus on a wider variety of disciplines and events in 2021 (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…)

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…)

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…)

The Central Region is delighted to announce that Anthony Anderson has been selected to become the Junior Road Race Team Manager (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…)

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…)

  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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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

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 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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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