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2026 Nick Clayton Memorial: report and results

by British Conti September 13, 2026

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A new career in an old town: Josh Whitehead’s move from rider to sports director

Five years after winning the Lancaster Grand Prix, and with his riding career over sooner than expected, Josh Whitehead is back in the North West as sports director of 360cycling’s under-23 men’s team. In a Ramsbottom coffee shop, he explains how data is shaping his new career, and why it only takes you so far.

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by British Conti September 13, 2026

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A new career in an old town: Josh Whitehead’s move from rider to sports director

by British Conti September 12, 2026

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Darlington to bid for National Circuit Series round in 2027

Graham Stobbs has until Sunday evening to lodge an expression of interest to host a Darlington Grand Prix in 2027, on the town centre circuit used for the 2024 national championships. He expects to hear in November.

by British Conti September 10, 2026

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2026 Nick Clayton Memorial: preview and startlist

The sixth Nick Clayton Memorial brings the West Midlands Road Race League to a close on Sunday 13 September: 124 kilometres between the Severn and the Wrekin.

by British Conti September 9, 2026

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A small milestone, and a thank you

Earlier this week the website matched its page views for the whole of 2025, our record year, with almost four months of 2026 still to go. A note of thanks from Denny Gray.

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A new career in an old town: Josh Whitehead’s move from rider to sports director

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First through the door: Alex Foster and Cycling Sheffield’s new generation

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‘You’ve got to be pragmatic’ – how a cancelled French stage race sent Cycling Sheffield to Belgium

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‘It’s about building it for the future’: inside Max Sillifant’s expanding Riders Collective GP

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Everything in its Right Place: James Hartley and his recipe for success

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Ian Mansel-Thomas journal: why 16 is too young to sign for a European team

For every British rider the move to a European team has worked for, camsmajaco co-manager Ian Mansel-Thomas can point to another it hasn’t. In his second journal entry he argues that the problem isn’t Europe but the age at which riders go: 16, with school, exams, and friendships all still at home.

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Hope Inglis journal: between days at the office

Hope Inglis returns with the second entry in her 2026 journal for The British Continental. Looking back from the end of a placement in an air-conditioned Birmingham office, the London Academy rider describes keeping a racing season going around a full-time job — the annual leave spent driving to a muddy field in Belgium, the week she commuted to work from a campervan, and the tan lines her work trousers hide.

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George Stephen journal: the names that aren’t in the results

George Stephen returns with the second entry in his 2026 journal for The British Continental. Writing from Mallorca after burnout forced him out of the National Championships, the BCC Race Team rider and Nottingham student pays tribute to the people who never appear on the results list — but without whom no bike rider gets anywhere.

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Mattie Dodd journal: playing chicken at the Nationals

Fifth in the national time trial on caffeine alone, then two laps of bluff and counter-bluff in Aberystwyth that settled the under-23 title — Mattie Dodd on a Nationals he can barely remember, and a stand-off he could not win.

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Mattie Dodd journal: a first UCI win, and five kilos of pasta

A first UCI win on stage 4 of the Ronde de l’Isard, a week of donkey work in the Alps and eight summits’ worth of climbing points at the Giro d’Italia Next Gen — Mattie Dodd on the best month of his season, and the prize he has since mislaid.

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Mattie Dodd journal: near misses in Brittany, a breakthrough in Flanders

A week at the Tour de Bretagne leaves Mattie Dodd feeling the strongest he has all season, if without the result to show for it — before fighter jets, First World War mines and his new team’s first road race win enliven a run through the Ardennes and Flanders.

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George Stephen journal: the highs, the lows, and rock bottom

George Stephen is the latest contributor to The British Continental’s 2026 journal series. The BCC Race Team rider and Nottingham student writes about a Movember ride that came to mean more than he expected, the crash in France that changed everything, and the diagnosis that arrived just as he had got back to racing.

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Ian Mansel-Thomas journal: the agent landgrab

We are really pleased to introduce Ian Mansel-Thomas as the latest of The British Continental’s 2026 journal contributors. Ian co-manages the junior super-team camsmajaco, and in his opening entry he examines how junior racing has come to resemble the WorldTour — and the rider-agent landgrab that now reaches under-16s.