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Three time a stage winner at the Tour de l’Avenir, probably the highest profile race in the Under 23 Nations Cup, Simon Yates feels he’s ready to turn professional (more…)

Riding a lot of the route for the 2013 Tour of Britain last week was Yanto Barker and Team UK Youth and we spoke to Yanto about his experiences of the Tour of Britain which started way back in 2004 (more…)

Talking with IG Sigma Sports Pete Williams, winner of the Sprints jersey in last year’s Tour of Britain  (more…)

After a stellar 2012, VeloUK talks to last year’s Tour of Britain winner, Jon Tiernan-Locke a year on with a WorldTour outfit (more…)

Talking with Evan Oliphant and new signing Tom Stewart who put the Raleigh name at the top of the Premier Calendar in 2013 with a 1-2 in the series (more…)

Joining Mark Cavendish as a British RR champion from the Isle of Man is Anna Christian who was the only Junior to stay with the leaders at the Women’s Ryedale GP on Sunday. (more…)

GB Academy rider George Atkins was the winner of the Elite Circuit Series last night in Sheffield (more…)

VeloUK talks to Dean Downing about his win in the Sheffield GP and also about retirement and how he also did that last year after Sheffield…. (more…)

Last weekend Mike Northey & Steve Lampier showed that Node 4 were a force to be reckoned with after a season so far of near misses (more…)

A member of the MTB Hall of Fame, Oli Beckingsale (Endura) can climb with the best as we saw last Sunday in Wales (more…)

New leader of the competition for the Star Trophy (Premier Calendar) is new Raleigh signing Tom Stewart (more…)

Winner of a British Road Race title for the first time, Mark Cavendish told VeloUK the form is good ahead of the Tour de France as he looks to wear yellow for the first time (more…)

Despite a crash on the first of two laps, Alex Dowsett (Movistar) fights back to win his third British Time Trial title (more…)

Full time postman Matt Bottrill takes the race to the full time pros in the 2013 British Time Trial Championship in Stewarton (Scotland) (more…)

Arguably the rider of the series, Kiwi Tom Scully has flown the Raleigh flag throughout the Tour Series and came out of it with a lot more fans than he had at the start (more…)

Talking to Olympic champion Ed Clancy, IG sprints leader Tom Scully and UK Youth’s Tobyn Horton (more…)

Grand Tour stage & Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt retires from cycle racing to concentrate on Triathlon (more…)

From a Grand Tour Stage win to almost winning the London Nocturne again, Alex Dowsett showed he’d lost little form after a break on Saturday (more…)

Gordon Wiseman talks to Olympic Champion Laura Trott after she wins the London Nocturne on Saturday evening (more…)

After a season in the UK where he’s been close to that big win, it finally came in Redditch on Tuesday night when Tom ‘the Scud’ Scully from Team Raleigh solo’d to victory in the Tour Series (more…)

Talking to double Olympic champion Ed Clancy about his win in Torquay, taking a break to represent GB and the argy bargy in the Tour Series (more…)

Gordon Wiseman talks to Movistar’s Alex Dowsett who finished the three week Tour of Italy and looks forward to some down time (more…)

Gordon Wiseman catches up with the winner of the Stoke round of the Women’s Tour Series event, Natalie Creswick (more…)

Still in the Giro battling his way through the worst weather and the toughest mountains is Britain’s Alex Dowsett from Movistar, winner of the Giro time trial (more…)

Gordon Wiseman talks to Tour of Italy Stage winner Movistar’s Alex Dowsett about a massive day in his career so far and that time trial stage win (more…)

  A Postcard from Ischia – Alex Dowsett in 9th overall after two stages and wearing the best young rider’s jersey! (more…)

The Tour of Reservoir saw some new ‘names’ comes to the fore and one them was the fourth placed rider, Tom Stewart. (more…)

This weekend Movistar Pro Cycling’s Alex Dowsett will start the 96th edition of the Giro d’Italia – the biggest challenge thus far of his professional bike racing career (more…)

Introducing a rider who has had a great start to his season with Team Raleigh, New Zealand’s answer to the Scud missile, Tom Scully. (more…)

Winner of two ‘classics’ last year year, Frenchman Alex Blain is back in Team Raleigh colours to help the team triumph in the first big race of the 2013 British season. (more…)

Talking to Alice Barnes, Natalie Creswick and Corrine Hall at the ShuttVR Women’s Team Series race, the Dave Peck Memorial on Sunday (more…)

He was the rider many expected to beat Cancellera until he hit a spectator. Paul Burgoine spoke to Omega Pharma Quickstep rider  Znedek Stybar (more…)

Talking to Netapp-Endura rider Russell Downing after he finished his first journey to hell and back in Paris-Roubaix (more…)

Young rider from Kortrijk (Belgium) almost snatches victory from Fabulous Fabian in Roubaix velodrome (more…)

Paul Burgoine talks to the man of the moment, Fabian Cancellara about his injuries and how he feels ahead of Paris-Roubaix (more…)

Paul Burgoine talks to British classics rider Ian Stannard about his season and Paris-Roubaix which takes place Sunday (more…)

VeloUK speaks to former Milk Race winner Malcolm Elliott about an event that is one of the most well known sporting events in the history of cycling in Britain. (more…)

“It was a little bumpy” was how Russell Downing (Netapp-Endura) described his day on the cobbles preparing for a dream come true – racing Paris-Roubaix (more…)

Championship winner and one of the best time trial riders in the country, VeloUK talks time trialling to Matt Bottrill (Drag2Zero) (more…)

Post race chat after the Peter Chisman Memorial Road Race with Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt, Matt Cronshaw, Will Bjergfelt and the race winner Peter Williams (more…)

Eamonn Deane feature on a sprinter turned Tandem star in Paralympic events on the track and road – Barney Storey (more…)

After the Maureen Baines Memorial RR, VeloUK spoke to some of the riders, the top three and the ever experienced Dean Downing (more…)

Paul Burgoine is in Belgium for the daddy of the classics, Tour of Flanders and talks to Fabian Cancellera, Tom Boonen & Peter Sagan (more…)

Talking with Jon Sharples, head coach at TrainSharp where they help cyclists of all abilities achieve their goals (more…)

To find out what the route for the 2013 Tour of Britain will be like, who better to talk to than the person mapping each of the stages, Andy Hawes (more…)

London Olympic champion Joanna Rowsell swaps the warmth and smooth boards of the velodrome for the Baltic conditions and cobbles in Belgium (more…)

As Russell Downing prepares to start Three days of De Panne today, we talk to him about his last race in Belgium a week ago, Dwars Door Vlaanderen (more…)

Talking to Jake Martin, Elliott Porter and Dr Alex Higham after the cold and wet Peter Young Memorial last Sunday (more…)

Omega Pharma – Quick-Step’sMark Cavendish and Tom Boonen met with the press on Friday afternoon, two days prior to 298km Milano – Sanremo. (more…)

Netapp-Endura’s Russell Downing selected for cycling Monuments  Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix (more…)

Powering his way over the climbs in Yorkshire, Net-App-Endura rider Russell Downing is training hard to make the team selection for the Spring Classics (more…)

Fifth last year before being crowned the best young rider in the Tour de France American Tejay Van Garderen is back on Paris-Nice with higher ambitions (more…)

Talking with Rapha Condor JLT rider Luke Mellor about spending two months in Australia racing and training whilst Britain got soaked and froze (more…)

VeloUK talks to Sean Yates who after 32 years in the sport at the highest level has stepped back to reality to help others realise their potential with Trainsharp coaching (more…)

Paul Burgoine writes Helen Wyman (Kona) finished second to Sanne Cant (BKCP) in the final Superprestige race of the season in Middelkerke (more…)

After an up and down 2012, Ian ‘superman’ Wilkinson is in new colours and looking to have consistently good form in 2013 for his new team, UK Youth (more…)

Paul Burgoine interviews Former World Road Race Champion Alessandro Ballan of the BMC team who had a bad accident recently (more…)

Gordon Wiseman interviews Movistar rider Alex Dowsett who has moved to new pastures in his professional racing career (more…)

A climbers race for the first Premier in 2013 as the Tour of Reservoir expands to two days on tough roads around Blanchland in Northumberland (more…)

Stagiere for HTC-Highroad in 2011, Australian Lachlan Norris is another winner added to Raleigh’s 2013 Squad (more…)

Winner of the Dengie Marshes and CiCLE Classic off/on road races in 2012, Frenchman Alexandre Blain is excited to be with another British team, Raleigh, after three seasons with Endura Racing. (more…)

A very hilly stage 2 of the Tour de France will be on home roads for Sheffield’s cycling legend Malcolm Elliott (more…)

Paul Burgoine interviews Zdenek Stybar who became National Cyclo-Cross Champion of the Czech Republic for the seventh time last weekend (more…)

Olympic and World Championship Silver medallist Ross Edgar talks about his switch from the track to the road for IG Sigma Sport (more…)

BMC’s 23 year old Adam Blythe had fourteen top tens including two victories and seven podiums in 2012. VeloUK talks to him about 2013. (more…)

After five years with Phil Griffith’s teams, Tour of Britain Sprints winner Pete Williams has changed teams for 2013 to ride for IG SigmaSport (more…)

Moving up to ProConti level a dream come true for Russell Downing as he looks forward to a season riding the big races again. (more…)

Winner of the Tour DoonHame last year for Endura Racing, we talk to one of four Brits in the NetApp-Endura team, Jonathan McEvoy (more…)

“We are the Champions!” – 2013’s first British title winners in cycling are Jon Mould and George Atkins who won the Madison title on Saturday. VeloUK spoke to them both … (more…)

VeloUK chats to National Trophy runner up Paul Oldham and winner of the Under 23 series and third in the Elite series, Steven James (Hargroves Cycles) (more…)

For the second time in the 2012/13 series, the National Trophy was graced with the presence of the British Cyclo-Cross Champion Ian Field. VeloUK Spoke to him after the race in Derby (more…)

VeloUK talks to National Trophy winner Oli Beckingsale of Endura about his victory on Sunday and the Championships next weekend plus a selection of pics of Oli racing at Derby (more…)

VeloUK talks to Silver medallist in the British Time Trial Championships Doug Dewey who will be racing for a French club in 2013 (more…)

In events as brutal to race as the Tour Series, Raleigh’s Graham Briggs is quickly up to speed in Australia for the Bay Crits (more…)

Far away in warmer climates, one of the riders of 2012 in Britain, Graham Briggs (Raleigh) is getting ready to race on January 1st (more…)

One of the country’s best ever professionals, Dean Downing, looks back at six years wearing black for the same sponsors on the even of a new season with a new team (more…)

Back from his team’s first get together ahead of the 2013 season, Endura Racing’s Russell Downing is busy mixing business with pleasure in the British rain (more…)

Despite a ‘pretty horrible’ race in Shrewsbury, a win in the National Trophy Series in Derby is doable says Paul Oldham (more…)

Endura’s Oli Beckingsale found himself in Yellow after a second place at the Shrewsbury National Trophy. (more…)

VeloUK speaks to the twice World Junior Women’s Road Race Champion Lucy Garner ahead of a big year as she steps up a level to the senior ranks (more…)

A legend on and off the track at 27, the Worlds top man 1 in the Team Pursuit, Ed Clancy looks to expand his repertoire for the next Olympics in Rio (more…)

You will wince when you read this … Winner of a Grand Tour stage in 2012 after four serious crashes during the year, VeloUK spoke to Steve Cummings about his season … (more…)

VeloUK talks to a young Welshman who has very quickly made his mark in pro racing with his first win and the Yellow Jersey in the Tour of Britain. Luke Rowe. (more…)

VeloUK talks to British Women’s Road Race Champion Sharon Laws about her season and her goals for 2013 (more…)

VeloUK talks to National Trophy organiser for Shrewsbury, Dave Mellor who gives us an insight into what it takes to put on a major event (more…)

VeloUK talks to one of the World’s top female professional cyclists, Lizzie Armitstead, Silver medallist in the London Olympic Road Race (more…)

Marianne Vos is quite simply a legend in Women’s cycling, winning on Track, Road and Cyclo-Cross and at Manchester on Saturday, the crowd showed the love they have for her… (more…)

After years in the GB Academy playing a supporting role, Erick Rowsell was taken on by Endura Racing and the former British Junior Road Race Champion flourished and will ride for NetApp-Endura in 2013 (more…)

VeloUK talks to Garmin-Sharp rider Dan Martin who’s won a stage in the Vuelta and been second in the Tour of Lombardy about his future goals in cycling (more…)

VeloUK talks to Tour of the Med & Tour of Britain winner Jon Tiernan-Locke (Endura Racing) on his signing for Team Sky (more…)

VeloUK talks to team manager Cherie Pridham about the very international Raleigh-GAC team for 2013 that is certainly packed with riders capable of winning bike races (more…)

Larry Hickmott talks to Graham Briggs who in seven races in the Elite Circuit Series, won four, was second in two and fifth in the other…. (more…)

After two years learning the ropes with Team Sky, Alex Dowsett feels the time has come to move on to further his career as a professional cyclist and he’s signed for Movistar for two years. (more…)

VeloUK.net talks to British Hill Climb Champion Gunnar Grönlund ahead of this weekends big one, the 2012 British Hill Climb Championship on the Rake. (more…)

Talking to Endura Racing’s Jonny McEvoy who has signed a two year contract for NetApp-Endura in 2013. (more…)

Last weekend, VeloUK spoke to the King of the Sprints in the Tour of Britain, Peter Williams of Node4 (more…)

VeloUK talks to Alex Dowsett who successfully defended his title last Sunday in the British Time Trial Championship where he was head and shoulders over his rivals on a tough course. (more…)

Hargroves Cycles rider Jon Dibben is in New Zealand for the Junior World Track Championships in Invercargill (more…)

The next major road cycling event in Britain is the Tour of Britain starting on September 9 and on the start line for the sixth time will be IG Sigma Sport’s Simon Richardson. (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…)

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…)

Paul Burgoine talks to former Milan-San Remo winner Matt Goss who raced the London Nocturne last night about the pressure of leading an Aussie team in the Grand Tours and goals for the Tour de France & Olympics. (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…)

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

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…)

Catching up with a Welsh youngster who has been figuring in a lot of results this year in the UK and abroad (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…)

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…)

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…)