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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…)

George Wood winner of the Bob Whitear Memorial Road Race (inc the Eastern Region Road Race Championship) at Saxlingham Nethergate on August 19 (more…)

After a breakaway started by Tobyn Horton and strengthened by Alex Richardson was caught 3k out, Gabz Cullaigh won from teammate Rob Scott in a crash affected finish (more…)

Michal Kwiatkowski is putting on quite a show on the roads of Poland. After yesterday’s victory on the Szczyrk wall, today the Polish champion from Team Sky dominated again at Bielsko-Biala in the 5th stage of the Tour de Pologne – UCI World Tour. (more…)

Despite a very overcast sky, conditions remained dry for the 219 competitors who turned out at the NSC last Tuesday night for round 15 of Team RL360 Isle of Man’s youth league. (more…)

German champion Pascal Ackermann bounced back from a mid-race crash to win the sixth RideLondon-Surrey Classic on a borrowed bike after a thrilling race through pouring rain brought the curtain down on the capital’s two-day celebration of cycling. (more…)

Welshman Geraint Thomas, one of the most grounded pros you can meet, has made history, winning the 2018 Edition of the Tour de France, Alexander Kristoff won the final celebration stage – round up of reactions … (more…)

Conditions near perfect at a sun kissed NSC last Tuesday night for the 227 riders competing in round 14 of Team RL360 Isle of Man’s youth league. (more…)

Whilst Nairo Quintana got his stage win, it was Geraint Thomas extending his lead and Froome loosing time that was the big news of the day (more…)

Geraint Thomas became the first British winner at Alpe d’Huez and he did so wearing the yellow jersey – Nibali and sprinters out of the race,Froome attacked on the climb by spectator (more…)

Geraint Thomas attacked his way to the yellow jersey as the battle for the 2018 Tour de France explodes in the mountains (more…)

Live from Stockton on Tees, VeloUK is at the British Circuit Race Championships for Men and Women – Live action, pictures, video clips and interviews  (more…)

Winner of the 2018 Tour of Sussex is John Hale who was also a three time stage winner; Jack Freeman and Steve Rees-Clark also stage winners in the race July 5 to 8 (more…)

After a long delay, the Bristol GP took the roads of the city on Sunday where a breakaway dominated the race and from it, Matt Gibson beat Jack Pullar of Canyon Eisberg second and British RR Champion Connor Swift (Madison Genesis) third. Alex Paton (Canyon Eisberg) was 4th in the break. (more…)

Rhona Callander, Stephen Paterson, Amelie Wayte, Joe Pidcock and Matt Walls winners at the Otley Grand Prix on Wednesday night (more…)

In the Ilkley GP (Wed, June 27) Tom Moses won a scintillating sprint finish to just edge out Scott Thwaites who made a return to racing after sustaining career-threatening injuries in March (more…)

It’s an early 18th birthday present for Monmouthshire Junior GP winner Mason Hollyman who wins Junior National Series Road Race (more…)

Philip Glaze powered clear from a winning breakaway to clinch his first victory of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Road Race League. (more…)

Coryn Rivera retains race lead in Women’s Tour as Amalie Dideriksen wins stage 4 into Worcester, Best Brit Dani Rowe crashes in finale (more…)

James Ireson sprinted to victory in the sixth round of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Road Race League (more…)

The USA’s Coryn Rivera edged out legend Marianne Vos to win stage 2 of the Women’s Tour; Rivera leads overall from Dani Rowe (more…)

Jolien D’hoore opened up her 2018 Women’s Tour just as she left off in London in 2017 by sprinting to victory at the head of a world-class field in Southwold, Suffolk on Wednesday (more…)

Frederik Scheske, Ejay Harris (Storey Racing) and Zoe Backstedt some of the winners at the Hargroves Cycles sponsored Winchester Criteriums (more…)

Kirk Vickers took his third victory of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Road Race League to regain the overall series lead with another perfectly timed effort in round five. (more…)

Stage 2 of the Critérium du Dauphiné was won by Pascal Ackermann in sprint where 80 of the riders were in the same time. Daryl Impey took the leader’s jersey thanks to a time bonus (more…)

Luke Barfoot continued where he left off three weeks ago by winning the PNECC Summer Road Race after claiming top spot and the Bournemouth Jubilee 2-day race (more…)

Matthew Garthwaite  took back the leader’s yellow jersey he lost last week with a fine victory in round four of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Road Race League. (more…)

Ed Clancy and Nikki Juniper triumph individually in Salisbury Tour Series Grand Final; Canyon Eisberg and Team Breeze win the team classifications (more…)

After a day of rain, the racing at Wembley on a revised circuit was held on a drying circuit with two exciting races won by EJ Harris and Tom Pidcock (more…)

A new star name shone brightly in Stevenage on Monday as Anna Henderson showed how versatile she, sprinting to victory in a bunch kick after her Tour series solo win in Aberystwyth (more…)

A night for winners to double up as Anna Henderson and Harry Tanfield, winners in Aberystwyth, repeated the victory in Stevenage – Canyon Eisberg now lead team classification after two team victories on the night (more…)

It was a night for the double as Canyon Eisberg riders Jack Pullar and Andrew Tennant won the individual races (Hill Climb & Crit) whilst Madison Genesis won the team award in both. In the Womens race, Nikki Juniper won her race … (more…)

Freddie Jagger was an impressive winner of the Ilkley 2 day held in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. (more…)

Winners in Motherwell, Megan Barker and Matt Gibson on the start lists for the racing on Thursday night in Aberdeen (more…)

Wednesday saw Simon Yates claim a second emphatic victory in the pink leader’s jersey on stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia. (more…)

Megan Barker solos to second in series whilst Matt Gibson sprints to victory in the Mens Tour Series at Motherwell (Scotland) (more…)

Kirk Vickers took his opportunity and soloed to a fine victory in the opening round of the Shropshire & South Staffs Road Race League around the lanes of Knighton near Newport. (more…)

Round five of Team RL360 Isle of Man’s Youth League was staged at the NSC last Tuesday night and, for the first time this season, conditions were perfect for the 311 competitors took part in the eleven race programme. (more…)

Report from Gordon Wiseman on Megan Barker’s win in Redditch at round 1 of the 2018 Tour Series (more…)

JLT Condor kicked off their OVO Energy Tour Series title defence with victory at the opening round in Redditch to pull on the leaders’ green jerseys, while British Cycling’s development squad Team Breeze took the honours in the women’s premiere. (more…)

Chris Pook wins the 2/3/4 Phil Ward Memorial Road Race nr Telford on Sunday ahead of Matthew Higgins of RST/Cycle Division Racing Team (more…)

Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) wrapped up the overall victory in the Tour de Yorkshire after Stéphane Rossetto (Cofidis)had secured a sensational lone stage win. (more…)

A wall of sound greeted Maximillian Walscheid as he sprinted to victory on a sizzling third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire on a day the Brits made a break for it …. (more…)

Magnus Cort wins stage 2 but Mike Cumming holds on to KoM jersey, Harry Tanfield the green jersey and Tom Baylis the most agressive one … (more…)

Wins for Seb Herrod and Alice Lethbridge at the CC London Road Races Wendens Ambo nr Saffron Walden, Essex (more…)

On a very tough course for the Chitterne Road Races, there were wins for Jessica Finney and Michael Mottram (more…)

Getting away in a three man move with a lap to go of the 10 mile circuit, Tom Pidcock outsprinted Tom Moses to take the win in the 2018 East Cleveland Klondike GP (more…)

Thomas De Gendt solos to victory on the second stage of Tour de Romandie – British champ Steve Cummings abandons due to illness (more…)

Ed Hopper of Ribble Cycling, Gabrielle Duckworth, and Thomas Stewart winners at week 3 of the Litherland Circuit League in Liverpool (more…)

Quickstep’s Bob Jungels solos to career-defining Liège–Bastogne–Liège victory – round up of reactions including Scott Davies, Dan Martin, Mark Christian and Tom Southam (more…)

At the end of a tough 188km, Gabz Cullaigh won the 2018 Edition of the CiCLE Classic from Karol Domagalski and Koos Kers (more…)

Quick-Step Floors rider Julian Alaphilippe becomes first Frenchman in over two decades to conquer the mythical Mur de Huy – reactions from the movers and shakes in the top 10 (more…)

Will Harper delivered an all-Cornish victory in the South-West’s biggest road race, the Totnes-Vire Two-Day, when he won the third and final stage with perfect timing over a wet and windy 70 miles at South Brent. (more…)

Isaac Pucci, Oscar Palmer and Sarah Walker winners last Tuesday (April 10) at Thruxton Motor Circuit (more…)

Karol Domagalski solos to an emphatic victory whilst Madison Genesis  put two on the podium as Jonny McEvoy is second and Richard Handley third (more…)

Report & round up of rider reactions – The rainbow stripes shone again on Paris-Roubaix as Peter Sagan, 37 years after Hinault, beat rider of the day Silvan Dillier to the finish line (more…)

Astana Team rider and local hero Omar Fraile took a perfect win today at stage 5 of the Itzulia Basque Country in Eibar. Fraile finished in the leading group of 7 riders, beating in sprint the current GC leader Primoz Roglic and the Spaniard Ion Izagirre. (more…)

Alastair McNicol and Freddie Jagger stage winners in the cat 2/3/4 Imann Easter 2 Day in the North East, Eugene Cross wins the overall (more…)

21-year-old Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen is the youngest rider this century to win Flanders’ oldest race – Scheldeprijs – Chris Lawless third – reactions from both riders (more…)

Breaking away with three miles to go, Matt Holmes of Madison Genesis solo’d to victory in the Danum Trophy, chased all the way to the line by second placed Adam Kenway of Vitus Pro Cycling. Third was Ed Hopper who won the sprint from what was left of the leading group (more…)

Twenty two year old Danish rider Madz Pedersen shows true potenial with second in Tour of Flanders 2018 (more…)

Monument number two for Nikki Terpstra (Quickstep) as he solos to victory in the 2018 Edition of the Tour of Flanders (more…)

Jo Tindley, Liam Manser, and Frazer Wallis winners at the Fakenham Crits on April 1st (more…)

Matt Holmes of Madison Genesis solos to victory in the Danum Trophy ahead of Adam Kenway (Vitus Pro Cycling) and Ed Hopper of Ribble Pro Cycling (more…)

Win for Alex Luhrs of Ribble Cycling ahead of Adam Kenway and Joshua Hunt of Vitus Pro Cycling in the Coalville Wheelers Mens Road Race (more…)

Sep Vanmarcke sprinted to third place at Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday. With an acceleration on the Varentstraat cobbles, Vanmarcke created a five-rider selection from which the podium emerged. (more…)

 Yves Lampaert sailed into the history books and a memorable win in a rain-soaked edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen after accelerating with 800 meters to go from a select group (more…)

Niki Terpstra (Quickstep Floors) soloed to victory in the prestigious E3 Harelbeke, adding a new trophy to the team’s cabinet in this season’s one-day races, (more…)

Bauke Mollema sprinted to the uphill victory in stage two at the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali to give Trek-Segafredo its second win of the day (more…)

Jarlinson Pantano (Trek Segafredo) held off the chasing peloton in a nail-biter ending to stage five at the Volta a Catalunya Friday to claim his first win since his Tour de France stage victory in 2016. (more…)