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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…)

Dame Sarah Storey added three world titles to her collection, while tandem sprint duos Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott and Neil Fachie and Matt Rotherham were also victorious on day three of the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Milton, Canada, (Saturday). (more…)

Jaco van Gass won his first ever world title on the second day of competition at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Milton, Canada, (Friday). (more…)

Racing for the Under 23 Memil Pro Cycling team, British rider Ollie Morgan is looking to find his feet in the pro peloton – here’s his report of the race on Thursday (Jan 30) (more…)

The Irishman Sam Bennett confirmed his good form, making it two victories in January after winning the inaugural Race Torquay in Victoria, Australia (more…)

Lauren Bell, Huub Wattbike, Joe Truman, Rhys Britton and Anna Shackley British champions on day 3 of the British Track Cycling Championships at Manchester on Sunday, January 26 (more…)

Jonny Wale was triumphant in the kilo while Ella Barnwell was a double champion on day two of the British Track Championships in Manchester on Saturday (more…)

Matt Holmes, in his first race for Lotto Soudal, showed why he should be in the WorldTour, with victory on the final stage of Tour Down Under whilst home favourite Ritchie Porte gave the home fans what they wanted on Australia day with overall victory (more…)

John Archibald, Josie Knight, Lauren Bate and Jason Kenny were among those crowned national champions on the opening day of competition at the HSBC UK | National Track Championships in Manchester. (more…)

Caleb Ewan wins his second stage in this years Tour Down Under on stage 4 whilst Daryl Impey takes time out of Race Leader Ritchie Porte (more…)

1-2 for Australia on stage 3 as Richie Porte moves into the lead after stage victory; Simon Yates third on the stage after knee injury improves during stage (more…)

Caleb Ewan wins stage of the Tour Down Under and now leads overall on countback from Sam Bennett – crash sees Simon Yates and Elia Viviani go down – Yates may not start stage 3 says team (more…)

Jake Crossley and Connor Backhouse winners at week 1 of the East London Velo Winter series at Redbridge on Saturday, January 18 (more…)

Sam Bennett got off to the perfect start to his time with Deceuninck – Quick-Step, taking his first ever victory in the Tour Down Under after a hectic and messy sprint in Tanunda (more…)

Winners from day 1 of the British Cyclocross championships 2020 were Nick Craig, Dave McMullen, Lewis Craven, Kate Eedy, Zoe Backstedt, Max Greensill, Florence Greenhalgh and Sebastian Grindley (more…)

James Swadling won the Boxing Day CycloCross race at Kenilworth in Warwickshire. Karen Summers won the women’s race whilst local Darren Atkins was the best of the Vets (more…)

Another of the new signings for Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK is Stephen Bradbury from Reading who is relishing another UCI season (more…)

Dame Sarah Storey was among the winners while Jaco van Gass won his third and fourth gold medals of the weekend on the final day of competition at the Manchester Para-cycling International. (more…)

Tandem pairings Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby and Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall both recorded their fastest pursuit times since the Rio Paralympics on day 2 of the Manchester Para-cycling International. (more…)

James Ball and Matt Rotherham recorded one of the fastest tandem kilos in history as they won the men’s title on day 1 of the Manchester Para-cycling International. (more…)

Team Dimension Data rebrands to NTT Pro Cycling – 2020 line up revealed – no Brits in squad (more…)

Scotland’s Mark Stewart and the Madison pairing of Katie Archibald (also from Scotland) and Elinor Barker claimed silver medals on the final day of competition at the Track Cycling World Cup in Scotland (more…)

Anna Kay won silver in the women’s under-23 race as Tom Pidcock secured an impressive top-ten finish in the elite men’s race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Silvelle, Italy. (more…)

GB’s Katy Marchant won Keirin gold on Saturday at the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Glasgow. (more…)

Great Britain’s women’s team pursuit quartet won gold on the opening day of the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow this evening. (more…)

The final day of competition at the UCI World Masters Track Championships at Manchester saw thirteen rainbow jerseys awarded during a day of Women’s sprinting, Men’s pursuiting and a Points race. (more…)

Day 7 of the UCI World Masters Track Cycling championships at the Manchester Velodrome saw seven World Titles awarded with three going to the host nation, Britain, and one each for Australia, Argentina, USA and New Zealand. (more…)

Day 6 of the 2019 UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome saw a mix of sprinting, Team Sprint and Team Pursuit plus some super exciting Points races with the home riders winning five Gold medals. (more…)

Day 5 of the UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome was packed with some exciting racing and a lot of rainbow jerseys to be given to the new champions. (more…)

Day 4 was the busiest day so far at the Championship with sixteen titles presented to riders on the podium after a mix of Pursuiting, Time Trials, Match Sprinting and Bunch races (Points & Scratch). (more…)

It was a busy day for titles being decided at the Manchester Velodrome on Monday, with no less than thirteen champions being crowned with the Brits winning four, three for the USA, Australia and Poland two and one each for Latvia and Denmark. (more…)

Rob Walker of Cambridge University won the Finsbury Park CC road race on Sunday with an attack on the last lap. (more…)

Winners at round 2 of the National Trophy CycloCross at Westmorland Showground in the North West were Ian Field, Harriet Harnden, Rory McGuire, Oliver Akers, Sebastian Grindley, Zoe Backstedt, Carys Lloyd, Kate Eedy, Adrian Lansley, Nick Craig and Roy Hunt (more…)

It was four Gold medals apiece for British riders and those from Australia on Day 2 of the UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome on Sunday. There was also Gold for Poland and the USA. (more…)

Bauke Mollema of Trek Segafredo won Italy’s final classic of the 2019 season with a solo victory at the end of the Monument, the Tour of Lombardy, Race of the Falling Leaves (more…)

Twelve World titles were decided for both men and women on day 1 of the UCI World Masters Track Championships at the Manchester Velodrome with the USA leading the way with four Gold medals (more…)

Alvaro Hodeg wins rain-soaked Münsterland Giro for Deceuninck – Quick-Step, Connor Swift 15th and Chris Lawless 11th (more…)

On a mad(s) day in Yorkshire for the Elite Men’s Road Race Championship, after a controlled race in the countryside, the finale saw many of the favourites fail and the underdog Mads Pedersen win the biggest bike race of his career (more…)

Double Giro Rosa champion Annemiek van Vleuten stormed to her debut UCI Road Race World Championship following a staggering solo attack with more than 100-kilometres to go in Yorkshire. (more…)

After the DQ of Under 23 World championship winner Dutchman Nils Eekhoff, fourth placed Tom Pidcock was awarded the bronze medal on the podium for Yorkshire2019 (more…)

Australia’s Rohan Dennis defended his World Time Trial championship with an emphatic victory in Yorkshire; Alex Dowsett had his best Worlds ride yet in 5th and John Archibald showed he has the legs to ride with the best (more…)

Mikkel Bjerg and Chloé Dygert Owen emerge triumphant in the Under-23 Men’s and Elite Women’s Individual Time Trials on a very very wet day in Yorkshire. (more…)

Elynor Backstedt added to Great Britain’s medal tally by picking up her second junior women’s time trial bronze in successive years on day 2 of the UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire. Leo Hayter 8th & Oscar Nilsson-Julien 9th in Mens Junior TT (more…)

Alicia Frank won the Women’s; Thomas Mein won the Men’s and Rory McGuire won the Junior mens races on day 2 of the National Trophy in Derby (more…)

Peter Harris, Max Greensill, Darren Atkins, Adrian Lansley, Kate Eedy, Alfie Amey, Carys Lloyd and Zoe Backstedt winners on a very busy day 1 of the National Trophy Cyclo-Cross in Derby (more…)

Yorkshire 2019 got off to a flying start on Saturday with the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International taking place in glorious conditions (more…)

 Greg Van Avermaet returned to the top step of a WorldTour podium with victory at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal for the second time in his career. (more…)

More wins for Quickstep as Fabio Jakobsen wins the final stage of the Veulta in Madrid whilst after a brilliantly exciting race, Primoz Roglic wins his first Grand Tour (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel wins again and confirms his overall victory on the final stage of the 2019 Edition of the Tour of Britain (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel edges closer to Tour of Britain title with Warwickshire stage win and extends overall lead (more…)

Stage 17 of the Vuelta and crosswinds and a sensational Deceuninck – Quick-Step team effort carries James Knox into the top 10 overall, with just four stages remaining and a stage win for Philippe Gilbert (more…)

In what is turning out to be a sprinters feast, Dylan Groenewegen beat Britain’s Matt Walls to the line to win his third stage whilst Matteo Trentin took back the overall lead ahead of the time trial (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel wins in Kendal to take the leader’s jersey in the Tour of Britain – James Shaw comes close after late move with Sherman and Gallopin (more…)

Patrick Biel was the winner of the regional A Orwell Velo Road Race near Ipswich on September 8 after going solo with 10 miles to go (more…)

Britain’s Claire Steels of Brother UK/Fusion RT took overall victory in Rás na mBan following the final stage in Kilkenny this afternoon (more…)

After a late attack by Alex Dowsett was caught metres from the line, Matteo Trentin took the stage win, his third in the race, and now leads overall. (more…)

The final night of this years Brooks Cycles Track League which took place Thursday 5th September turned out to be the best night of the year attendance wise with 56 riders taking part. (more…)

Norway’s Amalie Lutro won the 5th stage of the Ras na mBan women’s stage race whilst British race leader, Claire Steels of Brother UK Fusion RT held on to her race leader’s jersey after winning the time trial earlier in the day. Junior Elynor Backstedt was Best British rider on Stage 5 (more…)

Stage 1 of the Tour of Britain finished with a bunch finish won by Dylan Groenewegen; the days break saw Rory Townsend net the Sprinters jersey and Jacob Scott the Mountains one (more…)

Josie Knight won her second stage in two days after victory on stage 2 of the Irish Women’s Stage race, Rás na mBan just ahead of talented Junior Elynor Backstedt who now leads the queen of the mountains competition. Josie Knight leads overall. (more…)

James Jenkins added a win in the 76 mile Jef Schils Memorial race to his criterium victory at Saffron Walden the previous week beating last years winner James Boyman. (more…)

On one of the hottest days of summer, Rupert Graham proved to be the strongest of the five heat resistant resistant supermen remaining in the near race long break to win the 2019 Victor Berlemont Trophy RR (more…)

Jo Smith (Thanet RC Race Team) retained her British National 800m Grass-Track title at the weekend, winning a thrilling final at the Mildenhall Cycling Mini-Fest. (more…)

Stage 3 an historic day for the Irish as Sam Bennett wins the stage whilst Nicholas Roche wears the leader’s jersey – the first time in the race’s history an Irish rider wins the stage while another one leads the general classification (more…)

There was another good attendance at the Brooks Cycles Track League on August 22nd despite the school holidays  (more…)

Miguel Angel Lopez will wear the leader’s red jersey on Sunday after his team Astana dominated the opening team time trial whilst a crash for Jumbo Visma dented their GC challenge (more…)

Chris Boddy fastest in the Didcot Phoenix 10 mile time trial on August 17 near Oxford; Lydia Watts fastest woman; Richard Gildea fastest on a road bike, Kristen Lovelock fastest women (Road bike) (more…)

There was a great turnout for the latest round of the Brooks Cycles Track League, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs took place on the 15th August. (more…)

The Italian Elia Viviani  won the European Road Race championship in Alkmaar (Netherlands)  ahead of his Deceuninck – Quick-Step teammate Yves Lampaert (more…)

Leah Thomas wins the final stage and overall in the Women’s Tour of Scotland (Edinburgh) (more…)

Alison Jackson (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) is the first rider to wear the Baillie Gifford Yellow Jersey as she won the second stage of the Women’s Tour of Scotland in Perth (more…)

After the riders had completed 63km of the first stage of the Women’s Tour of Scotland; including two sprints and one climb, race organisers stopped the race due to large sections of standing water on the roads (more…)

Jordan Peacock won the 2019 Hoops Kermesse national B race on Sunday August 4th – first junior was Farley Barber (more…)

Elia Viviani sprinted to glory on The Mall in London, edging out a host of the world’s fastest cyclists in a thrilling climax to win the RideLondon-Surrey Classic road race on Sunday. (more…)

Day 3 of the Manx International and ona grim day for racing with fog and rain on the mountain, Matt Holmes of Madison Genesis won his second stage and the overall as well for a career highlight (more…)

Clasica San Sebastian: Remco Evenepoel rides into the history books as the 19 year old became the youngest ever rider to triumph in a World Tour race (more…)

Stage 21 of the Tour de France saw the changing of the guard in the pro peloton as the new generation of Egan Bernal and Caleb Ewan celebrated great victories on the Champs-Elysées (more…)

Eluned King and Oliver Stockwell of Team Ribble win their British Junior Road Race Championships at Bassingham in Lincolnshire on July 28 (more…)

Vincenzo Nibali solo’d to a memorable stage victory whilst behind the battle for the GC didn’t explode as expected with Alaphilippe cracking and dropping to 5th overall and the rest marking each other all the way to the line (more…)

It was the warmest race night in many years at the Brooks Cycles Track League, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs took place on the 25th July. (more…)

Snow storm and mudslide cause stage to be stopped; times taken at top of col d’Iseran where Egan Bernal went over the top first and now leads overall (more…)

Lee Desborough winner of round 7 of the Ford CC Dunton Series (LVRC) on July 25 (more…)

Quintana throws his cap into the GC ring with stage win, Bernal attacks into second place, Thomas has a little nudge, Alaphilippe still in yellow, Bardet chasing polka dots (more…)

Ollie Wood (Canyon DHB) sprint clear to win the Sheffield Grand Prix from a four up break, whilst Youth rider Lucas Towers won the Bioracer 2/3/4 support race (more…)

2018 Vuelta España champion Simon Yates attacked his way on stage 15 to take a solo victory at the Tour de France today on another hard summit finish in the Pyrenees, his second stage in this years race. (more…)

It was another warm evening both off and off the track at the latest round of the Brooks Cycles Track League at the Lyme Valley Velodrome , Newcastle Under Lyme on July 18 (more…)

Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK/Tifosi) and Joey Walker (Madison Genesis) are the 2019 Circuit Race Champions! Congrats to both riders and all the others who raced – great racing … (more…)

Thibaut Pinot wins the stage on the Tourmalet, Alaphilippe extends his lead as Thomas gets gapped, Yates, Quintana, Porte, Martin & Aru drop out of GC contention (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe beats Geraint Thomas to the stage win and the Frenchman extends his lead overall as some of the GC hopefuls lose even more time than Thomas (more…)

Vuelta a España champion Simon Yates sprinted to his debut Tour de France victory on stage 12 to give Mitchelton-SCOTT their second win of the race. (more…)

A sprint stage turned into a GC battle royal as crosswinds combined with attacking riding from Ineos & Quickstep to split the GC favourites; winner of the stage was Wout van Aert who opened his TDF account beating the likes of Sagan, Ewan and Viviani to the line (more…)

South African champion Daryl Impey stormed to his debut Tour de France victory in style on stage nine into Brioude. (more…)

Epic win for John Archibald (Ribble Pro Cycling) after a 100km solo effort in the men’s Stockton GP; Sprint victory for Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK/Tifosi) in the women’s (more…)

A blistering finish to the stage saw Thomas De Gendt win after an epic effort off the front all day whilst Julian Alaphilippe attacked to get back and yellow and Geraint Thomas recovered from late crash (more…)

Whilst the forecast wasn’t good, the latest round of the Brooks Cycles Track League, New-castle Under Lyme, Staffs took place on the 11th July with only the last race of the night having to be abandoned (more…)

On the longest stage of the 2019 Tour de France, Dylan Groenewegen avenged his recent woes in the Tour de France when he outsprinted Caleb Ewan to win stage 7 (more…)

Shake up at the Tour de France as Dylan Tuens wins the first GC stage, Ciccone takes yellow and Thomas is the best of the GC hopefuls (more…)

Stage 5 of the 2019 Tour de France was won by Peter Sagan who mimicked The Incredible Hulk just like he did in his first victory in 2012. It was Peter’s 12th stage victory … Julian Alaphilippe leads overall before the first big GC day on stage 6 (more…)

Thomas Mein was riding like ten men at home in Newcastle, dragging series leader Matt Bostock round the streets of his home city before Bostock made it three from three in the series – Jacob Scott solo’d his way to third (more…)

Alaphilippe leads the Tour de France after magnificent solo win – An all-out attack with 16 kilometers to go paved the way for a memorable victory in the land of champagne (more…)

A British Cycling report from the Para-cycling British Road Championships in Carmarthenshire on July 6/7 (Wales) (more…)