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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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

The Dutch outfit Jumbo-Visma followed up their win on stage 1 with victory won stage 2 as well keeping Mike Teunisse in Yellow – Thomas and Bernal fare best among the GC favourites (more…)

Elizabeth Bennett (Campinense – Velo Performance) and Rory Townsend (Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes) claimed victories as the National Road Series continued with the Curlew Cup and Beaumont Trophy (more…)

Tom Couzens was in a bit of a hurry to win the Monmouthshire Junior Grand Prix, going solo and winning by over a minute and half – Junior national road series (more…)

Leah Dixon (Brother UK – Tifosi p/b OnForm) and James Shaw (SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling) both won the second stage to complete overall victories at the Tour of the Reservoir today. (more…)

Rebecca Durrell of Brother UK/Tifosi and Ollie Wood of Canyon DHB were the stage winners of the two stages held on Day 1 of the Tour of Reservoir (June 22) (more…)

Rory Townsend (Canyon DHB) win his second ‘prem’ in 2019 after victory in the Tour of the Mendips ahead of Scott Thwaites (Vitus pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) and Ian Bibby of Madison Genesis) (more…)

Sophie Lankford (Team Jadan Weldtite – Vive le Velo) topped the podium at the first round of the women’s National Circuit Series – the Bristol Crit. (more…)

Wout Poels won stage 7 after he overhauled Jakob Fuglsang and Emanuel Buchmann who had attacked in the last two kilometres; Fuglsang now leads on GC from Adam Yates  (more…)

Great Britain’s Lizzie Deignan became the first rider to win two Women’s Tour titles as she sealed the 2019 crown at Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday. Elizabeth Banks was 7th overall. (more…)

Britain’s Lizzie Deignan victorous on stage 5 of the Women’s Tour in Wales and now leads overall; Elizabeth Banks in sixth on the GC after 8th on the stage (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 6 of the Critérium du Dauphiné and leads KoM classification, Adam Yates still leads overall (more…)

Kasia Niewiadoma wins first-ever Women’s Tour hill-top finish, Liane Lippert leads overall, Lizzie Deignan third on stage and GC (more…)

19-year-old Deceuninck – Quick-Step neo-pro Remco Evenepoel assumed the GC lead in the Tour of Belgium after an audacious attack on a tough Belgium Tour stage 2 (more…)

24hrs after winning the time trial, former World cyclo-cross champion Wout van Aert outsprinted hot favourite Sam Bennett to win stage 5; Adam Yates continues to lead overall (more…)

Jolien D’hoore wins Oxfordshire stage of Women’s Tour whilst stage 2 winner Marianne Vos crashed out – Lisa Brennauer leads overall (more…)

Britain’s Adam Yates 6th in Dauphine time trial moves into the overall race lead after four-days of racing at Critérium du Dauphiné. Chris Froome crashes in warmup and is out of race and Tour de France (more…)

A legend in the sport of cycling, Marianne Vos sprinted to victory on the second stage of the Women’s Tour at the Kent Cyclopark & now leads overall. Lizzie Deignan was second. (more…)

Jolien D’hoore wins Suffolk opener for OVO Energy Women’s Tour as peloton denies Abby-Mae Parkinson a solo victory (more…)

Belgium’s Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida) won stage 2 of the Critérium du Dauphiné and now leads overall. Adam Yates 10th and Chris Froome 11th on the stage (more…)

James Ireson sprinted to a clear victory in round four of the Shropshire and South Staffordshire Road Race League ahead of Ribble Pro Cycling’s Ed Hopper. (more…)

Another day in the mountains  and another GC day in the Giro d’Italia as stage 15 sees Italian rider Dario Cataldo win the stage with Simon Yates third and Hugh Carthy fourth – Richard Carapaz leads whilst Primoz Roglic loses time after his team car goes awol and the former race leader crashes (more…)

Canyon dhb and Brother UK – Tifosi took the men’s and women’s Tour Series titles as the 2019 Series reached its climax at the historic Brooklands venue; Local boy Rory Townsend and Anna Henderson were the individual winners (more…)

Richard Carapaz (Movistar Team) escaped up the colle San Carlo to take his second stage victory in the 102nd Giro d’Italia, ahead of Simon Yates (Mitchelton – Scott) and Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain – Merida).   (more…)

Stephen Swindley wins the overall at the Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers 2-day Stage Race (May 18/19); James Bevan, Kevin Chant & Swindley are stage winners (more…)

Italy’s Cesare Benedetti claimed his first pro victory on stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia, Irishman Eddie Dunbar was third and Hugh Carthy did enough to take the Young rider’s jersey – we have a roundup of what the riders are saying post race (more…)

Great night for Brother UK as Freddie Scheske (Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) and Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK – Tifosi) both win their Tour Series races in Salisbury (more…)

Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) took his second stage win in this years Giro d’Italia at Novi Ligure in the home of the super champion (campionissimi) Fausto Coppi – Valerio Conti retained the Maglia Rosa (leaders jersey). (more…)

Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), the winner of the 2016 Milan-Sanremo, claimed his first ever stage victory at the Giro d’Italia in a crash-marred finale (more…)

Matt Bostock leads a 1-2-3 for Canyon DHB to retake the team lead whilst Rebecca Durrell wins for Brother UK Tifosi in tight sprint with Jo Tindley (more…)

Primoz Roglic gaps his GC rivals with victory in time trial, Simon Yates looses time whilst Conti from UAE continues to hold onto the Pink jersey – Hugh Carthy 8th on stage (more…)

Joey Walker of Madison Genesis and Anna Henderson of Brother UK/Tifosi were the big winners at the 10th anniversary of the Tour Series in Durham (more…)

Charles Walker sprinted to victory in the second round of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Road Race League. (more…)

Jessica Roberts won her second round of the Tour Series whilst Jacob Hennessy won the mens battle royal in a race that saw Tobyn Horton break his collarbone (more…)

Robert Attreed and George Fowler winners at the 35th Thames Velo Spring road races on Sunday (May 12) (more…)

Both Tom Stewart and Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK/Tifosi) win the Lincoln GP for the second time on Sunday (May 12) (more…)

Chris Lawless became the first British winner of the Tour de Yorkshire after defending champion Greg Van Avermaet won an enthralling final stage in Leeds and Lawless stayed glued to his wheel for his biggest victory (more…)

Marianne Vos produced a brave performance on an enthralling final stage to win the 2019 Asda Tour de Yorkshire Women’s Race. (more…)

Alexander Kamp denies Chris Lawless in a photo finish in a sprint by the seaside at Scarborough on the third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire – British Conti teams rise to the occassion with great performances in lead group (more…)

Lorena Wiebes produced a stunning sprint to win the opening stage of the Asda Tour de Yorkshire Women’s Race in Bedale. Anna Henderson (Brother UK/Tifosi,) 8th in bunch kick (more…)

After the likes of Tom Stewart, Rob Scott, Jacob Scott, James Fouche and Chris McGlinchey (all part of British teams) had been out front all stage, it was the son of Erick Zabel, – Rick – who bossed the sprint in Bedale with a dominant victory (more…)

Lightning Strikes Twice – The breakaway yet again holds off the peloton and provides the winner of the stage as  Jesper Asselman – Hennessy and Bigham make the podium – stage 1 of the Tour de Yorkshire (more…)

 Julian Alaphilippe became the first Frenchman to take consecutive wins atop Mur de Huy, after finishing off the team’s brilliant work and adding to wins at Milan San Remo and Strade Bianche (more…)

Colin Ward and Andy Lyons race winners at the Masters Grand Prix on Easter Monday at the Redbridge Cycle Centre (more…)

Vincent Christan and Polly Mason winners in the Essex Roads CC road races at East Hanningfield, nr Chelmsford – report & photos from Fergus Muir (more…)

The 36-year-old Belgian Philippe Gilbert  became the ninth rider to have won at least four different Monuments as Quickstep finish with four riders in the top 10 (more…)

It was day when the course and the strongest riders came together to boss their rivals in the Klondike GP as Anna Henderson beat Jos Lowden to the line and Rory Townsend did the same to Scott Thwaites and Connor Swift (more…)

Cornwall’s Steve Lampier wins Totnes Vire for the second time by the smallest winning margin in the 45-year history of the race from Peter Kibble – three-tenths of a second. Stephen Bradbury and Joseph Sutton stage winners along with Lampier (more…)

Matt Holmes gets the better of pro legend Bob Downs to win the A/B/C/D/E category at the Victoria CC Circuit Races on March 24, Andrew Donaldson wins the F/G/H/I event (more…)

 Kieran Savage, Hannah Larbalestier, and James Allen winners at Sheffield’s Magnificent 7 in its fourth year – 24 miles with 7 competitive closed road hill climbs (more…)

After Round 1 of the British Cycling West Midlands Youth Circuit Series was abandoned due to poor weather it was a relief to organising club Hafren CC that Round 2 was held in glorious spring sunshine at Shrewsbury Sports Village! Winners included David Griffiths, David Allen, Benjamin Harris  and Rebecca Woodvine (more…)

Mitchelton-SCOTT powered their way to victory in the opening team time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico, Michael Hepburn leads overall, Adam Yates 4th on GC (more…)

Magnus Cort Nielsen (Astana)  outwitted his breakaway companions to clinch the longest stage of this Paris-Nice; Michal Kwiatkowski now leads overall (more…)

Ireland’s Sam Bennett surged forward with 200m to go to snatch his second stage win in Paris-Nice after the first one two years ago in Chalons-sur-Saone. Dylan Groenewegen leads as the race heads into the hills on Wednesday (more…)

Dylan Groenewegen beat the wind, echelons, crashes and his rivals to snatch his second stage win in succession in Paris-Nice, Cavendish out and Simon Yates loses time (more…)

A windy day sees the race split into echelons only for a group of 60 to sprint it for the stage with Dylan Groenewegen getting the verdict in a photo finish (more…)

First win for Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK as Mikey Mottram outsprints Lincoln GP winner Alex Richardson at the end of the Primavera Road Race – Freddie Scheske was third for Vitus giving them two on the podium (more…)

Oliver Rees, one of four juniors who clipped off the front of their group on lap 3, is the second junior ever to win the Clayton Velo Spring classic (more…)

Jacob Vaughan, second in the race as a junior, stepped up to the top of the podium with victory in an attacking 2019 Edition of the Perfs Pedal (more…)

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

Show of strength by team Sky with three stage wins, the Jayco Herald SunTour yellow jersey for Dylan van Baale, the KOM Jersey, the young rider category, the overall Teams classification and the cheery on top, the final stage victory (more…)

24-year-old Nick Schultz has won the Queen stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour for the first victory of his professional career, Dylan van Baarle leads overall (more…)

Team Sky Welsh duo Owain Doull and Luke Rowe put on a WorldTour master class on day three of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour. (more…)

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

Dan McLay opens season account with a victory on stage 1 of the Sun Tour in Australia – leads the race overall (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…)

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…)

Belgian Jasper Philipsen wins stage 5 of the Tour Down Under after Caleb Ewan relegated – Bevin continues to lead overall despite crash (more…)

Victory for South African champion Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) on stage 4 of the Tour Down Under, Race Leader Bevin is second (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…)

Kiwi Patrick Bevin (CCC) continued his strong start to the season by sprinting to his first WorldTour stage win on stage two of the Tour Down Under, which saw the New Zealander move into the race lead. (more…)

Elia Viviani starts the season with a bang in Tour Down Under – The Italian Champion came out of nowhere in the chaotic stage 1 finale to take the win and the leader’s jersey (more…)

Jack Brown winner of the Finsbury Park Road Race for category 2/3/4 riders at Ugley (Essex) on October 14 (more…)

After two silvers and four bronze medals in the UCI Road World Championships, at 38 Spanish veteran Alejandro Valverde has finally netted gold in the Elite Men’s Road Race, ahead of France’s Romain Bardet and Canada’s Michael Woods. (more…)

Matthew Osborn winner of the category 3/4 Portmore Classic Road Race on Sunday; September 30 at Wimborne, Dorset (more…)

26-year-old Simon Yates rolled across the line in Madrid to claim his maiden Grand Tour at the La Vuelta a Espana, creating history in the process as the first Grand Tour victory for an Australian-owned team, Mitchelton-SCOTT. (more…)

Simon Yates safely through sprint stage won by Jelle Wallays as breakaway denies the sprinters the victory on stage 18 of the Vuelta a Espana (more…)

Race leader Simon Yates fights through dangerous stage 17 at La Vuelta for another day in red with help of secret weapon in brother Adam (more…)

Britain’s Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) has extended his lead at the Vuelta a Espana with a strong time trial performance on stage 16 – winner was Rohan Dennis – reactions from Yates, Dennis, Valverde and Quintana (more…)

Aussie Caleb Ewan wins the final stage of the 2018 Tour of Britain whilst Julian Alaphilippe captured the overall – Brits Paton, Davies and Holmes on the podium (more…)

Ian Stannard produced yet another brilliant individual performance to solo to victory in Mansfield during the Tour of Britain’s penultimate stage in Nottinghamshire on Saturday (more…)

Wout Poels wins the Queen stage in Cumbria as Julian Alaphilippe moves into the leader’s jersey as Roglic is dropped in final GC battle of stage 6 of the Tour of Britain (more…)

Britain’s Nicola Juniper, guesting with Irish squad TC Racing, powered up the finishing climb to take her first stage win in Rás na mBan and, with it, take over the overall lead of the 2018 edition. (more…)

Nina Kessler wins stage 1 of the Women’s RAS, the Rás na mBan 2018 on Wednesday; Nikki Juniper and Anna Henderson both in the top 10 in a race with plenty of Brits racing (more…)

BMC’s Alessandro De Marchi secured his third individual stage victory at the Vuelta a España after an impressive solo attack in the closing kilometers of stage 11 (more…)

Stage win again for Andre Greipel into Royal Leamington Spa with Dan McLay 8th and Andy Tennant 9th. Overall leader is Patrick Bevin. Matt Holmes the star of the stage… (more…)

Quick-Step Floors’ Julian Alaphilippe wins an explosive stage 3 of the Tour of Britain whilst Kiwi Patrick Bevin now leads overall (more…)

Aussie Cameron Meyer won stage 2 of the Tour of Britain whilst Alessandro Tonelli leads overall (more…)

After leading the Giro d’Italia for 13 days earlier in the season, Simon Yates now adds Vuelta’s red leader’s jersey to his palmares following the first ‘real’ GC day on stage nine of the Vuelta a Espana (more…)

Elia Viviani of Quickstep Floors wins 1500th stage in Vuelta a España history; Michał Kwiatkowski continues to lead overall (more…)

Liam Walsh (VC St. Raphael – Waites Contracts) triumphed at the finish of a super hard 108 miles, outsprinting the other three survivors of the near race long break in the Victor Berlemont Trophy (more…)

A sensational final kilometre effort by the ‘Marvel from Murcia’ – Alejandro Valverde, sees him knotch up his 120th pro victory and his tenth stage in the Vuelta (more…)

Alex Dalton, Hannah Larbalestier and Glen Turnbull Paton and  Jim Brown winners at the 2018 Yorkshire Regional Road Race Championships on Sunday, August 19 (more…)