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After a race when Tom Pidcock took the race to World Champion Van der Poel and Van Aert with an attacking effort, it was the rainbow stripes of Van der Poel who triumphed ahead of Van Aert and Pidcock (more…)

The final stage of a Grand Tour, the Vuelta, being raced in November, saw Pascal Ackermann edge out Sam Bennett whilst Primoz Roglic got his Grand Tour win with Hugh Carthy’s epic ride netting him third place overall and Dan Martin 4th (more…)

Double podium for GB at European Cyclocross Championships as Thomas Mein wins silver at the U23 European championship and Cameron Mason wins Bronze  (more…)

Tim Wellens won a second stage on the roads of Vuelta 2020 after the day’s breakaway stuck and he beat Michael Woods and Zdenek Stybar to the finish line (more…)

Hugh Carthy triumphed on the slopes of the Alto de L’Angliru to win his first Grand Tour stage on Sunday whilst Richard Carapaz took back the overall leader’s jersey from Primoz Roglic (more…)

Roglic regains overall lead in Vuelta a España with an impressive third stage victory that sees him equal on time with Carapaz – Dan Martin 3rd overall, Carthy 4th (more…)

Primoz Roglic triumphs in Vuelta and gains time at Alto de Moncalvillo as he attacks his rivals to win stage 8 and take time back to move to second overall (more…)

Primoz Roglic loses red leader’s jersey on sixth stage of the Vuelta a España, Hugh Carthy 8th and now second overall, Dan Martin 3rd overall; Ion Izagirre  wins the stage and Richard Carapaz leads  (more…)

Tao Geoghegan Hart rode the a perfect final stage to take overall victory at the Giro d’Italia. “Please don’t wake me up. So much love to you all GRAZIE tutti x” (more…)

On a very memorable day in the 2020 Giro d’Italia, Tao Geoghegan Hart won his second stage in the race and now is now equal on time with Aussie Jai Hindley with one stage to go. (more…)

Tao Geoghegan Hart, with help from Rohan Dennis, powered his way into contention for overall victory at the Giro d’Italia with a rousing ride to second place on the queen stage. (more…)

Lewis Askey and Ffion James headline the big winners at the Heart of England Cyclocross organised by Solihull CC on Sunday, October 18 (more…)

Cyclo-cross legends Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert sprint it out for victory in a road cycling Monument with Dutchman Van der Poel getting the verdict in a photo finish to win the Tour of Flanders (more…)

Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos) put in one of the finest performances of his young career to claim victory on stage 15 at the Giro d’Italia, his first Grand Tour stage victory (more…)

Peter Sagan creates his Italian masterpiece on stage 10, grabbing first Giro d’Italia win in style with stunning solo victory, Ben Swift 4th – Race leader João Almeida third and extends lead (more…)

It was one of Mads Pedersen’s greatest wins as the former world champion nailed another sprint to take a massive victory in Gent-Wevelgem, the cobbled classics’ opening race – Luke Rowe 12th (more…)

The Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe scored his first victory (Brabantse Pijl) since triumphing in Imola at the World Championships ten days ago (more…)

In a drama filled finished, Primoz Roglic nicked the win from world champion Julian Alaphilippe who celebrated early and then was later relegated from second plac (more…)

Lizzie Deignan won the classic race, Liege-Bastogne-Liege after attacking from a nine-rider breakaway on the infamous La Redoute climb, Hannah Barnes 6th (more…)

Double Tour de France stage winner Søren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb) continues to win with victory in the time trial stage of the Binckbank Tour (more…)

Mads Pedersen (Trek Segefrado) wins Stage 3 of BinckBank Tour and takes over the race lead with two stages remaining, praises Charlie Quarterman – Mark Cavendish 8th overall! (more…)

Tour de France stage winner, Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) the best of the goats up the Mur de Huy as he wins Belgium classic (more…)

A powerful all-out attack on the final climb of the race in Imola propelled the Frenchman to a career-defining victory (more…)

Connor Swift finishes his Tour in a breakaway, Sam Bennett wins final stage in Paris, Tadej Pogacar gets to celebrate winning the 2020 Tour de France (more…)

Tadej Pogacar smashed the time trial stage of the Tour de France to almost take two minutes out of Roglic and take the yellow jersey from his fellow countryman (more…)

After nine years of trying, Elisa Longo Borghini finally got that place on the top podium step in the women’s Giro d’Italia after she outgunned Anna van der Breggen (Boels-Dolmans) in a two-up sprint on Stage 8 of the Giro Rosa.  (more…)

Soren Kragh Andersen became the fourth rider with two stage wins at the 107th Tour de France after Wout van Aert, Caleb Ewan and Tadej Pogacar. No changes in the Overall (more…)

Former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski and Giro winner Richard Carapaz (both Ineos) combine to ride away on final big mountain stage with Kwiatkowski given the stage win – Roglic continues to lead overall (more…)

Trek-Segafredo scored yet another podium placing at the Giro Rosa with UCI Women’s World Tour leader Lizzie Deignan sprinting from a select group to finish runner-up to Lotte Kopecky in Maddaloni. Crash for Vos and World Champion Annemiek van Vleuten (more…)

After a star studded breakaway dominated the stage, it was the turn of the GC riders to fight for the stage win and time gains with Miguel Angel “Superman” Lopez take time from Roglic who took time off the rest of his GC rivals (more…)

Yet another stage win for Marianne Vos as she continues to dominate the Women’s Giro stages beating Hannah Barnes into second on stage 6; Annemiek van Vleuten continues to lead the GC, Lizzy Banks in 11th (more…)

Win number 2 for Marianne Vos in the Women’s Giro ahead of Lizzie Deignan in third; race leader Annemiek Van Vleuten safely through stage five of the Giro Rosa (more…)

Lennard Kämna claimed his first Tour de France stage win on stage 16 at Villard-de-Lans after attacking of the days breakaway – the GC battle saw some little skirmishes but nothing came of them ahead of the queen stage on Wednesday (more…)

Former Vuelta a Espana winner Simon Yates has been crowned the 2020 Tirreno-Adriatico champion following the final stage time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto. (more…)

Britain’s Lizzy Banks (Équipe Paule Ka) victorious after outstanding performance on Stage four of the Giro Rosa in Italy while Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-SCOTT) extends her lead overall (more…)

Tadej Pogacar wins key mountain stage ahead of countryman and race leader Primoz Roglic, last years Tour winner Bernal loses big time, Adam Yates in the GC mix attacking (more…)

Marianne Vos attacked her way to victory on stage 3 of the Women’s Giro; World champion Annemiek van Vleuten extended her race lead on the summit finish in Assisi. (more…)

On a key day for the GC riders ahead of the Time Trial, Mathieu van der Poel wins the stage from the breakaway but Simon Yates finishes 6th and keeps the leaders jersey in Tirreno Adriatico (more…)

Soren Kragh Andersen solos to victory ahead of the GC peloton of 50 riders on Stage 14 of the Tour de France; Primoz Roglic holds on to his yellow jersey, Bora-Hansgrohe hammer the stage for Sagan’s Green Jersey challenge (more…)

Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) retains the race lead after a stage six sprint won by Tim Merlier at Tirreno Adriatico (more…)

Vuelta a España champion Simon Yates showed the first signs of top form today, attacking with four kilometers to go to take a spectacular solo victory on today’s Queen stage at Tirreno Adriatico. (more…)

Columbia’s Dani Martinez won stage 13 of the 2020 Tour de France as he beat the Bora-Hansgrohe duo Maximilian Schachmann and Lennard Kämna on top of the col d’Puy Mary. (more…)

After finishing second and third already on stages in his first Tour de France, Marc Hirschi, soloed to victory 30km on stage 12 defying the strongest riders in the race also wanting that win (more…)

Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) took his second Tour de France victory this year, the fifth in his career, after he managed to fend off his rival Sam Bennett. Peter Sagan relegated whilst Primoz Roglic leads overall (more…)

Sam Bennett adds a Tour de France stage win to the ones from the Giro and Vuelta and is now in Green again after a crash affected stage; Primoz Roglic leads overall (more…)

Tadej Pogacar won his first Tour de France stage after his GC select group caught lone attacker Marc Hirschi, who soloed 90km, with just 2km to go (more…)

The first day in the Pyrenees saw a big break stick and from that, Nans Peters won the stage solo; in the GC battle, Pogacar took time back after his loss in the crosswinds yesterday; Adam Yates leads (more…)

After a crazy stage where GC riders were dropped on a sprint stage due to the cross winds, a lead group of 40 formed with race leader Adam Yates and Wout van Aert who won his second stage of the race (more…)

Victory for Alexey Lutsenko out of the day’s breakaway as the GC battle takes a day off in the mountains; Adam Yates continues to lead (more…)

Twenty-four hours after the triumph of his leader Primoz Roglic at Orcières-Merlette, Wout Van Aert thrillingly broke free of his domestique role to grab a second consecutive victory for Jumbo-Visma – Adam Yates in yellow (more…)

James Knox sits in second place overall after his Deceuninck – Quick-Step team win the opening TTT in Coppi e Bartali TTT; Ethan Hayter second on stage 1 (more…)

Primoz Roglic showed that he is definitely in top shape as the Slovenian champion took his third Tour de France stage win in Orcières-Merlette – Julian Alaphilippe, fifth on the line, retained the yellow jersey (more…)

Caleb Ewan brings some joy back to his team as he wins stage 3 ahead of Sam Bennett, Julian Alaphilippe leads overall from Adam Yates (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) took his fifth Tour de France stage victory in Nice after outsprinting Marc Hirschi and Adam Yates. Alaphilippe now leads overall. (more…)

After a stage of many crashes, Alexander Kristoff won the first bunch sprint of the 2020 Tour de France beating world champion Mads Pedersen and Cees Bol. It’s Kristoff’s fourth stage win in the Tour de France & the second Norwegian to take the yellow jersey after Thor Hushovd (more…)

In the finale of La Course by le Tour de France, Trek-Segafredo teammates Elisa Longo Borghini and Lizzie Deignan put on a show that saw Deignan win the sprint against Vos (more…)

After a podium at Milan San Remo, Aussie Michael Matthews (Sunweb) made the top step in Bretagne Classic with Britain’s Dan McLay in 8th (more…)

After recent setbacks due to illness and crashes, Lizzie Deignan fought back through the rain to claim her first victory of the year at the Women’s World Tour classic and her third in the event. British rider Lizzie Banks (Équipe Paule KA) was second. (more…)

Astana’s Luis Leon Sanchez took his first road race title at the Spanish National Championships after a powerful attack inside the final kilometre of the race (more…)

Jasper Philipsen took his first win of the season for UAE Team Emirates on stage 3 of the Tour du Limousin with Britain’s Jake Stewart second. (more…)

Fernando Gaviria wins stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin Stage on a day when the race was well split at the finish, Joel Sutter leads overall with Jake Stewart in 6th (more…)

A new record entry for the Brooks Cycles Track League at Newcastle (Staffs) on 13th August but unfortunately rain stopped play after a great start to the evening (more…)

Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) won his teams third stage in this years Critérium du Dauphiné, Daniel Martinez wins the overall taking time from Pinot (more…)

In a drama filled race, Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) wins the Tour of Lombardy from George Bennett – heavy crash for Remco Evenepoel sees him out for rest of season (more…)

Lennard Kämna soloed to his first professional victory at the end of a stage that saw three of his Bora-Hansgrohe teammates abandon the race, including his leader Emanuel Buchmann (3rd overall before his abandon). (more…)

Davide Formolo holds on from early breakaway to win stage 3 solo; race leader Primoz Roglic second on the stage ahead of GC rival Thibaut Pinot (more…)

Primoz Roglic solo’s to victory in the mountains to continue Jumbo Visma’s domination of races on stage 2 of the Critérium Dauphiné – post race reactions from the riders (more…)

Wout Van Aert continues to stun the cycling world with his third win in four races on stage 1 of the Critérium Dauphiné (more…)

New Zealand’s George Bennett (Jumbo Visma) solo’s to a magnificent victory in Gran Piemonte (more…)

Remco Evenepoel’s stunning year continued this week, as the Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider claimed his first triumph in a World Tour stage race, Davide Ballerini claims his first World Tour victory on final stageand Simon Yates is third on GC (more…)

Primoz Roglic gives his rivals plenty to think about with two stage wins and the overall in the three stage mountain race, Tour de l’Ain (more…)

Monument win for Wout Van Aert at longest ever Milan San Remo to go with Strade Bianche victory as he beats Julian Alaphilippe to the line in a two up sprint  (more…)

The Belgian Remco Evenepoel took an emotional victory, which he dedicated to Fabio Jakobsen, after attacking with 51 kilometers to go – Simon Yates 3rd (more…)

CX star and grand tour stage winner Wout van Aert won the fourteenth edition of the Strade Bianche in brutal temperatures, showing his skill on the loose gravel and his strength by making the key selection before going to solo and holding on to win his biggest classic yet. (more…)

Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) becomes the youngest ever winner in the history of the Tour of Burgos (more…)

World champion Annemiek van Vleuten made it five wins from five starts in 2020, as she defended her Strade Bianche title in stunning style in Siena. (more…)

A bold explosive attack launched seconds after he avoided a late crash in a tight hairpin, catapulted Sam Bennett to his third victory (more…)

The race hits the mountains and young star Remco Evenepoel moved into the driving seat at the Vuelta a Burgos, after a dominant display on the race’s first summit finish  (more…)

World champion Annemiek van Vleuten was too good for her rivals once again claiming her third-consecutive victory in four days, with a solo win at Durango-Durango  (more…)

World champion Annemiek van Vleuten demolished the field once again today, claiming victory at Clasica Navarra to make it three-from-three solo race wins this season (more…)

CCC Team returns to the peloton next week with Matteo Trentin headlining the team’s Vuelta a Burgos rider roster when racing gets underway at the Spanish five-day stage race on Tuesday (28 July). (more…)

Lizzie Deignan 9th in Spanish race Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasiko, Hannah Barnes 33rd. Only 35 finishers as World champion Annemiek van Vleuten wins in style (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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

113 riders from as far as London took to the start of the 2020 Magnificent 7 which forms part of a month long festival of the outdoors in Sheffield. (more…)

Joshua Crow-Stewart solo’d to victory in the 3/4 (Spring Chicken) and Ollie Maxwell outsprinted Jack Freeman to win the National B (Roy Thame Cup) at Hemel Hempstead’s road races on Saturday (more…)

Ivan Cortina outsprints Peter Sagan to win the 212.5-km third stage of Paris-Nice after a long, rainy and windy day between Chalette-sur-Loing and La Chatre on Tuesday. (more…)

Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo stole the show from race leader Maximilian Schachmann’s when he took the second stage of Paris-Nice over 166.5-km after outsprinting his rivals to the line (more…)

Thomas Heal sprints to victory over Isaac Mundy and Ollie Maxwell to win the 2020 Edition of the Jock Wadley Memorial road race at Colchester (more…)

The 59th Edition of the Eddie Soens Memorial at Aintree on Saturday was won by Jacob Tipper of Ribble Weldtitle from Joe Holt and Matt Taylor. (more…)

Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) attacks with more than 30 kilometers to go, catches and drops the members of the breakaway and hold off an entire peloton to solo to victory in Kuurne Brussel Kuurne. (more…)

Matt Walls claimed his first ever elite world championship medal this evening in the Velodrom Berlin, taking the bronze medal in the omnium after a thrilling points race secured his spot on the podium. (more…)

Jasper Stuyven of Trek Segafredo wins Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in two up sprint with Yves Lampaert with Soren Kragh Andersen third. (more…)

A formidable display of aggressivity and panache of the Frenchman Rémi Cavagna netted the Deceuninck – Quick-Step team their 13th success of the year (more…)

World champion Annemiek van Vleuten solo’d to a emphatic victory in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, her first race in the rainbow jersey whilst Lizzy Banks was sixth – reactions from both. (more…)

Race leader Adam Yates of Mitchelton Scott  consolidated his position at the top of the general classification with a battling third place on stage five of the UAE Tour. (more…)

Dylan Groenewegen gets his win as he sprints to victory on stage 4 of the UAE Tour; Adam Yates continues to lead overall (more…)

Adam Yates climbed to his first race win of the season in a dominant display up the Jebel Hafeet climb on stage three of the UAE Tour. Now leads overall. (more…)

Max Stedman of  Canyon DHB had his biggest win today in the Tour of Antalya on Sunday after telling VeloUK last week his goal in 2020 was to win a  UCI race or stage race – it didn’t take long for Max to win the latter. (more…)

The Road Race season in Britain is underway! Tom Nancarrow won Mid Devon CC’s Primavera Road Race, Maximillian Ashwanden won the 3/4. (more…)

After climbing with the mountain goats on the previous stages, Remco Evenepoel out time trialed the world champion and his GC rivals to win the final stage and the overall in the Volta Algarve (more…)

Saturday’s stage winner Jack Haig put in a strong time trial performance on the final day of Ruta del Sol to move himself up to finish in second place overall, his second podium finish of the season.  (more…)

Two stages wins, two second places and a sixth for Astana’s Jakob Fuglsang who repeated his overall victory in the Ruta Del Sol in 2019 to win for the second year in  a row (more…)

Attacking with 500 meters to go on a steep part of the final climb Alto do Malhão, Miguel Angel Lopez has scored his first success of the year, winning the fourth stage of the Volta ao Algarve, Evenpoel holds on to GC on mountain finish (more…)

Bouncing back after yesterday’s disappointment, Australian climber Jack Haig, riding a tactically astute race, claimed his first stage victory of the season on a hard penultimate stage in Ruta del Sol. (more…)

Jakob Fuglsang sprinted to his second stage win on a punchy uphill finish in Ubeda on stage 3 of the Ruta De Sol (more…)

Remco Evenepoel continued his exceptional start to the season and stunned his rivals on Alto da Foía, where he surged to victory in spectacular fashion and took not just the stage but also the yellow jersey (more…)

Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) stormed to victory on the opening day of the Volta ao Algarve just as he did in 2019 (more…)

Phil Bauhaus hit back and retook the top spot in the SaudiTour Overall by winning stage 5 from Bouhanni – Richard Jones of Ribble Weldtitle got himself into the days main little breakaway (more…)

Nacer Bouhanni won the sprint at the end of stage 4 to take the overall lead in the race; Jacob Tipper (Ribble Weldtite) gets in the days breakaway (more…)

Phil Bauhaus wins stage 3 and now leads overall, Charles Page (Ribble Weldtite) is best young rider on the stage in 11th (more…)

Stage 2 of the SaudiTour saw Niccolo Bonifazio win the stage while Rui Costa hangs on to the overall; Charles Page of Ribble Weldtite was 14th (more…)

Rui Costa wins stage 1 of the SaudiTour; Olly Moors (Ribble/Weldtite) gets in the days big breakaway – reactions from Olly and Rui Costa (more…)

20 year old Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) crowned Vuelta a San Juan champion as Fernando Gaviria wins final stage in Argentina (more…)

Great Britain Cycling Team’s Tom Pidcock has ridden his way into the history books by becoming the first British male to ever reach the elite men’s podium at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships whilst Anna Kay also made the podium with third in the Under 23 Women (more…)