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Scott Thwaites (Endura Racing) seals victory in the 2012 Premier Calendar Road Race Series at the Stockton Grand Prix on Sunday with one round of the series still to come.  (more…)

After his third place in the National Road Race Championship, Russell Hampton (Raleigh GAC) feels he’s made a step up in his goal towards riding the biggest races in cycling.  (more…)

Second in the Beaumont Trophy on Sunday was UK Youth’s Chris Opie who was happy to have got so close to the win he’s been racing for this year. (more…)

Part of a huge cycling weekend in the North East (June 28-July 1), the Beaumont Trophy is one of the oldest events on the racing calendar and in 2012, was round 5 in the Premier Calendar series. (more…)

Winner of the recent Johnson GP Series for her team, Matrix Fitness/Prendas, Annie Simpson recalls her race in North Yorkshire where she came away with a Bronze medal. (more…)

VeloUK visits the course for the British Road Racing Championships on the eve of the big races. (more…)

So close but yet so far to a Green jersey in a mountainous stage race in France for Llewellyn Kinch (more…)

Sarah Storey writes … As we fast approach the National Road Race Championships, there was time to put the training and racing from the first half of the season to the test with a double header of Time Trials on two local courses in Cheshire. (more…)

After the best ever Halfords Tour Series & Johnson GP Series, we look back with lots of interesting stats (who was the best male rider) and links to the reports for both the men’s and women’s series. In other words, its packed with info! (more…)

Winner of the women’s race at the National 25 Time Trial Championship was Julia Shaw. VeloUK spoke to her. (more…)

Six times the winner of the National 25 Championship, Michael Hutchinson came back from defeat on the course to beat Alex Dowsett in the National 25 Championship on Saturday in Teeside by just seven seconds. (more…)

In his second interview from a night in London, Paul Burgoine talks to the Nocturne winner, Ian Stannard (more…)

Thirteen weeks after a season defining accident in Belgium, Alex Dowsett (Team Sky) returned to racing at last weekend’s Tour of Luxembourg  … (more…)

Three weeks in and two weeks to go of the 2012 Halfords Tour Series and everyone who is travelling to and from each round will be greeting the weekends with open arms. It’s time to sleep and recover and for the riders, get in a few endurance miles. (more…)

Paul Burgoine talks to Cycle Premier-Kovert rider Jon Mozley who like many in the British peloton has to mix work with racing…  (more…)

Larry looks back at the Halfords Tour Series visiting Oxford and two of the highlights plus photo albums from all the action  …. (more…)

As an Aussie, it’s been great to see so many riders from Down Under come to Britain to race the series for British teams. Two such riders are Rico Rogers and Bernie Sulzberger … (more…)

Talking to Kristian House, Dean Downing & Marcel Six as well as an album of images from the evening’s race. (more…)

Last night (Tuesday) saw the first of the Halfords Tour Series for 2012, in Scotland. A month on the road has begun! (more…)

Gordon Wiseman talks to Alex Dowsett who’s road season is only just getting started after a crash in Belgium (more…)

The BIG photo album from the Bedford 2 Day as well as talking to the top three in the race, Ciara Horne, Elinor Barker and Lucy Garner (more…)

VeloUK talks to Chris Walker who won races in Britain and Europe, inspired champions of today and is now helping the champions of tomorrow. (more…)

Talking to the two riders who shared the podium with Alex Blain at the CiCLE Classic last weekend, Jamie Sparling & James McCallum, and hear their stories of this epic epic race…  (more…)

The 2012  CiCLE Classic saw Endura Racing again triumph and one of the squad who has helped the team to a winning 2012 is Russell Downing. His story in words and pictures. (more…)

The UK Youth rider says “That has to go down as the hardest day on a bike I have had – today was an epic epic day” (more…)

It was quite a successful ending for Endura Racing in the Le Tour De Bretagne Cycliste stage race (UCI 2.2) in France with a third place on the stage (Scott Thwaites) and jersey win (Rob Partridge) on the final day of the event as well as a rider in 7th overall (Erick Rowsell). (more…)

Paul Burgoine writes about his time in the team car watching the CiCLE Classic unfold before him with the rain falling and the wind blowing … (more…)

VeloUK pays a visit to a young lady running a shop packed with bikes to make die hard cyclists drool – that would be Ceri Dipple (more…)

An 18 year old, just, Molly Weaver from Herefordshire rode superbly to finish second to a World Class rider in Sarah Storey on Sunday. VeloUK spoke to Molly to find out more about the former Halesowen rider… (more…)

While thousands pounded the streets of London, several hundred more decided to head for the trails on two wheels instead, getting their competitive fix at the final round of the ever popular Saddle Skedaddle Spring Series, run by the friendly Gorrick folk. (more…)

Pete Williams (Node4 Giordana) talks about winning the Drummond Trophy (Scotland) on Sunday (more…)

Almost 200 photos of the popular Cheshire Classic which was not only over subscribed but was also won by a rider who has won World Track Cups, Paralympic Gold Medals and lots more; Sarah Storey. (more…)

A winner in crits and in stage races, Ian ‘Superman’ Wilkinson will be a key part of the Endura Racing line up for the Halfords Tour Series. (more…)

Jim Golden talks to Kiwi Mike Northey (Node 4/Giordana) about his trophy haul from the Tour Loire et Cher where he was sixth overall after having led the race for most of the tour (more…)

Eamonn Deane writes … The lighter evenings of Spring signal the start of club events across the UK but are they proper races you’d include on your own palmeres… (more…)

After the recent dry dusty roads of the Maldon Dengie Tour and a damp two days in Scotland at the Tour DoonHame, IG-Sigma Sport headed across the pond to take on the Tour of the Battenkill. (more…)

Twice the British Circuit race Champion (2002/2008), the important part of Dean Downing’s season will soon be upon him with the Halfords Tour Series on May 15. VeloUK talks to the Rotherham rider about 2012… (more…)

Promoting the Irish Cycling Show (May 19/20) in Dublin, top Irish professional Philip Deignan talks about life as a professional in this indepth interview (more…)

Taking part in the Women’s Team Series race at Virginia Waters this weekend will be a former canoeist, Tracey Dresch, riding for the ShuttVR Squadra Donne team (more…)

Double stage winner Matt Flynn’s report on the Gorey 3 Day in Ireland over Easter saw the Mountivation Junior team winning two stages, the Points jersey, holding the Yellow and 3rd in the KOM …. (more…)

Over 100 images all lovingly edited by the iPad from the first day at DoonHame where we saw two stages held plus the video from BCPremierCalendar Youtube channel. (more…)

Larry Hickmott’s photo album from the final stage of the Tour of DoonHame in Scotland where it rained, the wind blew and it was almost as cold as last year … (more…)

“It really didn’t take long for me to get itchy feet again and get out on the bike after the end of the season” – Ian Field (Hargroves Cycles) (more…)

Two photo albums and some words from the blue ribbon of classics, Paris-Roubaix, won by the record breaking Tom Boonen, king of the cobble! (more…)

Diminutive sprinter Rico Rogers has come halfway round the World to win races for Node4 Giordana Subaru … and do it on a Pinarello which he maintains makes a self confessed non climber able to go up hills better. (more…)

Maldon Dengie Tour post race podium reactions from Ben Grenda who was second and Matt Cronshaw who was third (more…)

VeloUK talks to Alex Blain from Nice about his win in the Maldon Dengie Tour on Sunday (more…)

No pressure for junior Jessie Walker as she prepares for a season with top British women’s team, Matrix-Prendas Ciclismo (more…)

Home town favourite and Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion, Anna Meares (Australia) has declared today that she is ‘very proud’ of the way she races and will bring her trademark style to competition at next week’s 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. (more…)

Last weekend, a young 19 year old, Sam Harrison from South Wales, rocked up to the Rudy Project event in Northamptonshire and came with 14 seconds of beating Matt Bottrill on his ‘Giant fighter jet’. (more…)

Racing at the Eddie Soens recently was the 2000 winner, Julian Ramsbottom who back in ‘the day’ was known by the nickname ‘Rambo’. Still is it would appear.  (more…)

Paul Burgoine talks to a legend in the peloton, George Hincapie who races for the BMC dream team … (more…)

Winner of the 2011 Rudy Project Time Trial Series, Matt Bottrill (Drag2Zero) passed his first big test of 2012 in Northamptonshire with a victory. (more…)

EXCLUSIVE: VeloUK talks to Endura Racing’s Erick Rowsell after he backed up his win two days ago with a second place on stage 7 of the Tour of Normandy (more…)

The 2011 World Junior Women’s Road Race Champion Lucy Garner (Node 4 Giordana-Subaru) had her first big weekend of racing on the road in Holland and came away with a second and third from two races. (more…)

Gordon Wiseman writes … Team Sky’s Ian Stannard has just completed an intense period of racing in Italy and, having notched up eight days of racing in an eleven day period, he has nicely honed his form ahead of what he considers to be the most important three weeks of his racing year. (more…)

Larry Hickmott writes … A few weeks ago in Singapore, a new signing for ‘Node4 Giordana Subaru’, Matt Cronshaw, hit the ground running with sixth place in an international criterium won by no less a rider than GreenEdge’s Robbie McEwen. (more…)

Eamonn Deane talks to Gary Dighton about Winter Training, the Olympics & setting a competition record… (more…)

A new recruit to the Squadra Donne team (sponsored by ShuttVR) is first year junior Saskia Hook. Those who have seen her race say she is destined to do good things in the sport of cycling and VeloUK spoke to her at a recent team launch . (more…)

Hargroves Cycles place two riders in Great Britain Team for Junior Paris Roubaix, Jon Dibben & Sam Lowe (more…)

Node4-Giordana-Subaru rider, Andrew Magnier, a 23 year old University graduate from near Leek, is battling to resurrect his racing career (more…)

Full time cyclist for Terra Footwear – Bicycle Line, this is Llewellyn Kinch’s blog about making it on the Continent (more…)

Claire writes … Broken bike parts don’t make for a restful week, and too much rest is a bad thing… (more…)

Oliver Wright … Ours must be one of the most fragmented sports you could find. For something as simple as jumping on a bike and enjoying a ride, we do seem to have made things complicated (more…)

Matrix Fitness/Prendas Ciclismo talk training camps, proud fathers, Women’s racing & a big year for cycling — 2012! (more…)

Paul Burgoine talks to Belgium cycling superstar Tom Boonen (Omega-Pharma Quickstep), who this week at Paris-Nice, celebrated his 100th victory on stage 2 from Mantes-La-Jolie to Orleans. (more…)

Prolific organiser of Women’s races Jon Miles looks at how women’s racing has changed as the Women’s Team Series enters its 12th year (more…)

Former British Road Race Champion (2009) Kristian House is in Rapha colours again for 2012 and VeloUK spoke to him last weekend about the season ahead. (more…)

  Heather Bamforth interviews Marianne Britten, Team Captain of VC St Raphael Women’s Team and leading British Cycling points scorer for Elite Women in 2010 and 2011. (more…)

You only live once and when young, why not live the dream and go to a place where bike racing is king — Belgium say. That’s what Llewellyn Kinch has done racing full time for Terra Footwear – Bicycle Line in 2012 (more…)

One of Britian’s top Juniors, Jonathan Dibben (Hargroves Cycles) was fifth in the Junior Kuurne-Brussells-Kuurne after winning the bunch kick a mere two seconds behind a break of four riders that just held on. (more…)

33 races done, 500 UCI points scored, one British title won (more…)

Gordon Wiseman writes … Ian Stannard put in arguably his best ever stage race performance in last week’s Tour of Oman – and in doing so will have boosted his morale ahead of the start of the cobbled Classics this weekend – Ian’s favourite part of the season. (more…)

Interview with the four time Olympic Champion Sir Chris Hoy ahead of the London World Cup starting on Friday for Chris. (more…)

Latest reports, results and photos from the biggest World Cup since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (more…)

The performance manager for Team GB Shane Sutton in a very interesting, forthright and revealing interview about the team for the London World Cup and beyond. (more…)

Tenth in the Perfs may not be a result to shout about but being chased down by Magnus Backstedt (UK Youth) is and that is what happened to Doug Dewey when he attacked on the climb to the finish. All or nothing may have been the motto. (more…)

Jon Dibben (Hargroves Cycles) celebrated his 18th birthday by finishing 6th against the top riders in the country at the Perfs Pedal (more…)

Sarah Storey writes about her success and experiences on days one and two at the 2012 Paracycling World Track Championships (more…)

The racing at the London World will be properly serious says Matt Crampton who is ready to rock and roll on the Olympic track in just over a week. (more…)

IG-Sigma Sport rider Tom Murray has a strange relationship with the wooden boards that form an oval shape inside the National Cycling centre (more…)

Junior, Jack Sadler of the Mountivation academy team takes the opportunity to tell you all about his new team’s first boot camp. (more…)

London girl Joanna Rowsell is really looking forward to racing on the Olympic Track for the first time after being selected for the Great Britain Cycling Team to race the World Cup in two weeks. (more…)

Paris Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt  “We just want to get going, I can’t wait to pin the number on for the first time! We have an exciting season coming up”. (more…)

Olympic Champion Ed Clancy — “I’m guessing the Aussies are not going to go any slower than a 55 or56, if not quicker, but I’d like to think we will take the fight to them”. (more…)

Gordon Wisman writes … Ian Stannard, the 24 year old Sky professional, has just completed an arduous winter’s training that will ensure he starts his 2012 racing campaign as fit and as strong as he’s ever been. (more…)

VeloUK’s Q & A with a World Champion who is going to Los Angeles to bring back more rainbow jerseys – Sarah Storey (more…)

Karla Boddy (High Wycombe CC), who started racing last year and has won quite a few races in her first season, writes about her training camp with Train-in-Spain (more…)

The Old ‘skool’ Geoff Platts on the older training methods that continue to work for him (more…)

Winning the British Circuit race championship is always going to bring a rider some extra rewards when it comes to signing a new contract and for Graham Briggs, his reward was a two year contract from Raleigh-GAC to give them some firepower in the Halfords Tour Series and the other top British races. (more…)

One of the best circuit race riders for over a decade, a former British champion no less, Dean Downing at 37 today and is preparing for another season with Rapha Condor Sharp. (more…)

Gordon Wiseman writes … Team Sky’s Essex born pro cyclist Alex Dowsett endured a difficult opening to his 2012 racing campaign – one he hopes will lead him to London’s Summer Olympics – in scorching heat at the Tour Down Under. (more…)

Ben writes … It’s mid January, it’s Britain, so you can be sure of a few things. Most people will have given up on their New Year’s resolutions, the economy is still a mess, and it’s cold, and wet and windy. (more…)

Talking to a rider who wore the mountains jersey for four days in the Giro (2010) as well as winning a stage in the Tour of Catalunya – Paul Voss of Germany.  (more…)

A rider could get a reputation after winning two King of the Mountains competitions in UCI Stage races and that’s fine for Plymouth’s Jon Tiernan-Locke, who says the hillier a race is the better. (more…)

As the Endura clothing brand continues to get stronger globally, the Endura Racing team is strengthened to bring more publicity to the Scottish company. (more…)

When it comes to young riders racing the London Olympics, they don’t come any more special than Laura Trott. At 19, Laura is part of a cycling family and has been racing the track a stone’s throw from London for well over a decade. (more…)

Paul Burgoine looks ahead to the Tour Down Under which starts tomorrow and talks to a rider in the race, Andy Fenn who after a Bronze in the Under 23 Worlds finds himself riding for WorldTour team, Omega Pharma Quickstep (more…)

Paul Burgoine pays a visit to the Bike Show in London without so much as two pennies to rub together … (more…)

The 26th of February sees a British Classic take place with an honours list packed with British legends and greats; the North Road CC’s ‘Hard Riders’ Time Trial (more…)

Welsh rider Sam Harrison, a second year under 23, is in Beijing preparing to rattle the Chinese boards in the Team Pursuit after six weeks in a GB boot camp (more…)

Day 2 at the Cross champs was huge for the Hargroves Cycles duo of Steven James and Ian Field who  both won British titles. VeloUK spoke to both of them… (more…)

Ipswich (Jan 8): The second day of the British Cyclo-Cross Championships sees the titles decided for the Women, Under 23 Men, Juniors and Elite Men categories and VeloUK is there with live updates and photos. (more…)

Madison World Champions Rob Hayles & Mark Cavendish together as a team again ahead of momentous season (more…)

In 2009, Jody Crawforth (Hargroves Cycles) proved to himself he could win Cyclo-Cross’s biggest crown in Britain, the national title. VeloUK talks to him ahead of this weekend (more…)

Diary from Paralympic champion Sarah Storey who heads for warmer weather to kick start her 2012 dream of London Gold (more…)

Everyone has to start somewhere and Oliver Wright tells us about his starting point in cycle sport and the drawbacks to working with children! (more…)

A question and answer interview with a popular figure in British racing, Namibia’s Dan Craven, who returns in 2012 with IG –Sigma Sport (more…)

2011 saw two greats from the British scene retire, Rob Hayles (Endura Racing) and Matt Stephens (Sigma Sport) and in this feature we talk to Matt, the manager of the 2012 IG Markets-Sigma Sport team. (more…)

“It’s a brilliant time to be a bike rider and I wish I had my time again” – so says Chris Walker who is helping British company MotoDirect’s Cycle Division come up with bikes and clothing fit for a professional cyclist (more…)

Fourty eight hours in nine days, that’s a lot of training at this time of the year! Alex Dowsett explains why so much as he now relaxes for Christmas after a mega training camp in Majorca to prepare for the season which starts in a few weeks at the Tour Down Under (more…)

After being let down by team Sky in 2011, Russell Downing is looking to return to the winner’s podium in 2012 with Endura Racing (more…)

Larry Hickmott writes … After the feature with Tom Murray, comes Olympic medallist Steven Burke, road star Simon Richardson, Tom Last, Andrew Griffiths and Jake Hales tell us about their winter training … (more…)

After Silver medals in his favourite distances of 25 and 50 miles, i-ride’s Matt Bottrill is going into 2012 racing for Gold … (more…)

Paul Burgoine has some fun writing about the British group ride, a ‘steady interval’ session or not … (more…)

Australian Dean ‘the ‘Duke’ Windsor explains why he is returning to race in Europe and has signed for Endura Racing, his top five Tourist destinations and what his goals are now he’s won the Halfords Tour Series (more…)

VeloUK speaks to Olympic Cross Country Mountain Biker Liam Killeen about his preparations for London 2012 (more…)

Exclusive:  VeloUK talks to Junior World Road Champion (Women) Lucy Garner (more…)

Olympic champion in great form in Team Pursuiter’s boot camp at Manchester (more…)