An overview of what we know so far about how the men’s domestic road race teams are shaping up for 2024. A similar overview for women’s domestic teams will can be found here.
This is a ‘live’ post, so expect frequent updates, especially as we get the post up and running. Check back in regularly to see all the latest.
Featured photo: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
UCI Continental teams
After the unfortunate mid-season demise of Tim Elverson’s AT85 Pro Cycling team last year, the UK now has just two UCI Continental men’s teams. There haven’t been so few men’s teams at that level in Britain since 2007, when the Plowman Craven – Evans Cycles Racing Team and Recycling.co.uk were the UK’s UCI-level squads.
Saint Piran
It’s all change at Ricci Pascoe’s Cornish Saint Piran outfit in 2024. Longstanding team manager Steve Lampier moves to France to run the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Newgen development team, with Julian Winn stepping in as the new Sports Director.
Nine riders leave the team in total. Jack Rootkin Gray and Zeb Kyffin both step up to the pro ranks after superb 2023 seasons, while under-23 national TT champion Josh Charlton, Adam Lewis and Finn Crockett all move sideways to other UCI Continental squads.
In come two ProTeam level riders, Harry Tanfield and Matt Gibson, national circuit race champion Ollie Wood, TRINITY Racing rider Max Walker, domestic breakthrough rider Rowan Baker, Island Games champion Sam Culverwell and promising youngster Dylan Hicks. Harry Birchill, Alex Richardson, Charlie Tanfield and James McKay are amoing the talents that remain with the men in black.
Furthermore, Pascoe has also created a new development team, the Uskis Saint Piran Development Team, which will house a swathe of young domestic talent (see ‘Elite teams’, below).
Expect more domestic race domination, such is the team’s strength, especially if British Cycling allows both Saint Piran UCI squad and its development team to compete in the National Road Series (we understand the British Cycling is currently reviewing its rules about this).
Jack Rootkin-Gray and Harry Birchill in action at the 2023 Perfs Pedal road race. Image: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
Out: Rhys Britton (USKIS Saint Piran), Josh Charlton (TRINITY Racing), Finn Crockett (VolkerWessels), Adam Lewis (Team Skyline), Zeb Kyffin (TDT-Unibet), Leon Mazzone (trainSharp Orro Elite), Tom Mazzone (trainSharp Orro Elite), Jack Rootkin-Gray (EF Education-EasyPost), Cooper Sayers (Unknown)
*Max Walker departed Saint Piran on 6 February to join Astana Qazaqstan Development Team.
TRINITY Racing
TRINITY Racing continues with its unique blend of road, mountain bike and off-road specialists in 2024. On the road, the team focuses on the UCI calendar, often eschewing the National Road Series to provide its riders with international race experience.
After a successful 2023 season, four of its riders step up to the WorldTour this year: Lukas Nerurkar, Paul Magnier, Luke Lamperti and Finlay Pickering. Long-term squad members Ollie Rees and Max Walker move on, as does cyclocross specialist Cameron Mason.
2023 stagiares Luke Tuckwell and Ralf Holden join the team on a formal basis, Brit Alex Beldon and Frenchman Ugo Fabries join from the junior ranks, while under-23 national time trial Josh Charlton adds firepower to the squad.
Retained riders include the newly crowned Australian road race champion Fergus Browning, Orlens Grand Prix stage winner Bob Donaldson, and Irish strong man Dean Harvey. Pete Kennaugh and Jon Mould continue as sports directors.
Luke Lamperti and Ollie Rees celebrate Lamberti’s win at the 2023 Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic. Image: Joe Cotterill/The British Continental
In: Alex Beldon (Fensham Howes-MAS Design), Josh Charlton (TRINITY Racing), Ugo Fabries (Team 31 Jolly Cycles), Ralf Holden, Luke Tuckwell (Bathurst CC), Luca Unwin (Le Col RT)
Re-signed: Adrien Bochis, Fergus Browning, Bob Donaldson, Camilo Andres Gomez, Dean Harvey, Alex Malacarne, Tobias Nakken, Joe Pidcock, Hugo Rodriguez, William Smith, Callum Thornley
Out: Liam Johnston (Unknown), Luke Lamperti (Soudal – Quick Step), Paul Magnier (Soudal – Quick Step), Cameron Mason, Kevin McCambridge, Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost), Finlay Pickering (Bahrain-Victorious), Ollie Rees (Sabgal – Anicolor), Martin Vidaurre (Unknown), Max Walker (Saint Piran)
Elite Development Teams
British Cycling’s Elite Development Team status is designed to ‘bridge the gap from club teams to those operating at UCI Continental level’. Only teams which meet a set minimum criterion are selected based on the quality of support which they offer to their riders.
Dave Coulson’s Sheffield-based development team continues with eight riders. The team’s star rider last year, James McKay, had already sealed a late season move to Saint Piran, while another of the team’s top performers, George Wood, joins the Italian-based Zappi squad.
Three of the class of 2023 continue including James Hartley winner of the Yorkshire Grit Pan Flat Road Race last season. The team’s new signings are an exciting mix. David Hird joins from ROKiT-SRCT (now Thriva-SRCT). He won the Stars of the South West Road Race last year, among other top results. Matthew Warhurst, another former ROKiT-SRCT rider, also impressed 2023; his win at the Oakenclough Road Race was a standout result. Other new signings include James Hartley’s brother Jack, and two riders fresh out of the junior ranks: Alexander Foster and Sam Chaplin.
2023 Rutland-Melton International CiCLE Classic, 23 April. Image: Joe Cotterill/The British Continental
New for 2024, the team is a partnership between the successful junior squad, BCC RT (see Junior teams, below) and East Midlands based sponsors Huub and WeBuyCycle. Combining experienced riders such as Adam Kenway with a number of first year under-23 riders graduating from the junior team and beyond, the team aims to create a sustainable pathway for riders to excel across both road and track.
2023 Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix presented by Wattbike – Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England – Jack Hartley of BCC Race Team climbing Michaelgate. Image: Oliver Brookwell/SWpix.com
A new team for 2024, PROJECT1 has put together a young team of promising riders that will race in Europe and across the UK. The six rider squad includes 2023 Junior CiCLE Classic winner Ben Mark, as well as former AG2R Citroën rider Logan Maclean.
2023 ANEXO/CAMS Junior Men’s CiCLE Classic. Ben Marsh (BCC Race Team) wins. Image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Andy Lyons’ Richardsons Trek DAS squad continues in 2024, easy to pick out thanks to its distinctive orange kit. Backed by the Leigh-on-Sea bike shop Richardsons Cycles and furniture brand DAS, the team typically has one of the best-run – and strongest – squads in the domestic peloton.
This season the team plans to complement a calendar of UCI road races with a return to the Rás Tailteann and some UCI racing in Belgium and France. Four eye-catching new signings join the squad, including Cai Davies, winner of the Simon Hook Memorial Road Race and an excellent performer in the National Circuit Series in 2023, and time trial and track specialist Michael Gill.
The team retains key riders Conor McGoldrick and Alex Peters too. Two of Richardsons Trek’s best performers in recent years leave the squad, however, with Jack Crook heading to France and James Jenkins deciding to put his focus more on time trialling than road racing.
Jack Crook at the 2023 Perfs Pedal. Image: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
Russell Rowles was uncertain over the winter whether he would continue his long-running Spirit team in 2024. Continue it does, however, with Josh Parkin once again taking up the team manager mantle. The team will begin with season with compact squad of just five riders, all re-signings from 2023. We understand that the team is working to secure more signings as the season progresses. The team plans to combine National Road Series racing with trips to Ireland and mainland Europe.
Portsdown Classic, 11 Feb 2024. Credit: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
Run by Paul and Louise Bennett, Team PB Performance was created as an opportunity to promote their coaching business and create a vehicle to support rider development. They are determined to do things in ‘the right way for their riders’. “We focused on supporting the riders as individuals, getting to know them and ensuring the fundamentals were taken care of,” Louise told us back in 2020.
The outfit has two squads. An Elite Development Team (EDT) squad, which focuses primarily on national racing, and a ‘pathway to EDT’ squad which has a focus more on regional racing, providing a progression pathway for riders.
The team is keen to actively support the racing scene, putting on a round of the Under-23 Open National Road Series each year. This season’s PB Performance Espoirs Road Race is on 21 April.
Harry Paveley at the 2023 Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic. Image: Joe Cotterill/The British Continental
EDT squad
In: Adam Charleston (High Wycombe Cycling Club), Jamie Gostick (promoted from the Pathway to EDT squad), Sam Woodward (CLWB Beicio)
The Scott Reading Cycling Team, known as ROKiT-SRCT in 2023, were close to collapse last season when we spoke to team manager Adam Ellis, despite being one of the most successful domestic team of the season. Thankfully, the team’s fortunes have turned around since, with a new title sponsor coming on board, Thriva. The team now plans to combine a calendar of road and gravel racing with a slightly slimmer, but nonetheless talented, squad.
With the team facing an uncertain future for a time, it is perhaps unsurprising that three of the team’s outstanding performers in 2023, David Hird, Matt Warhurst and Jenson Young move on to pastures new. But PB Performance Espoirs Road Race winner Will Truelove is retained, as is Galway Classic winner Joe Beckingsale. The squad is also bolstered by the arrival of talented young Welshman Ben Bright, who achieved a number of National B top tens last season in just his first year as an under-23.
Scott Redding at the 2023 Guildford Town Centre Races. Image: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
New to the domestic peloton in 2024 is the USKIS Saint Piran development team. The team’s press release described the squad as an ‘Under-23 Elite Team’ that “has been established to provide riders who may not be ready to step up into the UCI Continental level to learn their sport, facing higher-level competitors and honing their racecraft participating in elite races in the UK and Europe.”
Former GB Senior Academy rider Rhys Britton, stepping down from the Saint Piran UCI Continental squad, will be the road captain, with 2023 junior national road race champion Finn Mason, and promising British talents Huw Buck Jones and Dylan Westley all part of a multinational squad.
We understand that British Cycling is currently reviewing its rules about whether Saint Piran’s Uskis team and its UCI Continental will be able to compete in the same races this season.
Rhys Robotham in action at the 2024 Australian national road championships. Image: Rich Scriven
In: Rhys Britton (Saint Piran), Huw Buck Jones (Wales Racing Academy), Joshua Ludman (St George Continental Cycling Team), Finn Mason (The Cycling Academy), Alexandre Mayer (Team MCB), Rhys Robotham (Team BridgeLane), Dylan Westley (Equipo Finisher)
Wheelbase CabTech Castelli
Stalwarts of the domestic peloton, the Wheelbase CabTech Castelli team were a revelation in 2023, enjoying their most successful season after almost two decades at the elite end of domestic cycling.
The team continues with much of its successful squad from last year. Matt Fox, the Ilkey Grand Prix winner last year, is the squad’s biggest departure, moving to France with CC Étupes. Scottish road race champion Tim Shoreman stays however, as does talented young climber Jacob Smith. Former national junior cyclocross champion Joseph Smith is a canny new signing.
2023 Men’s National Circuit Series – Fort Vale Colne Grand Prix, Colne, England – Tim Shoreman of Wheelbase CabTech Castelli wins. Image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Foran Cycling Team (previously Foran CCC) was set up in 2019 by Tom Quaid and Paul Lavelle (Directors of Foran Construction) and has very much been a rider run team since its inception. In essence the team is a group of working professionals who strive to race at the highest level alongside careers, whether that is National Road Series events or overseas stage races.
The team plans to return to the Rás Mumhan and the Rás Tailteann in Ireland this season, and will also be present in local races such as the Portsdown Classic and RCR Fat Creations road race at Goodwood, alongside key national events.
Going into its tenth year in 2024 Halesowen Academy has put together arguably its strongest line-up yet, increasing rider numbers to 17 with a 6-rider junior squad and a five-man under-23 team thanks to the support from local companies including Mapei UK.
The Academyhad an excellent 2023, spearheaded by Joe Brookes, whose breakthrough rides earned him a move to France. New signings for 2024 include first-year juniors Ryan Oldfield and Hudson Hendry. Oldfield, a regular at the Halesowen track since his formative years, had a stellar season last year, including medals at the national track championships, while Hendry took silver in the national pursuit championship. Wales Academy rider Ryu Roberts-Hayamizu also joins the junior squad.
The team had an expanded race programme in 2023, which including with the Rás Mumhan, Rás Tailteann and Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic. A similar programme is on the cards for 2024.
The long-running elite team run by Lee Williams closed at the end of 2023 after over a decade of domestic road racing. A trio of the team’s riders heads to TAAP Kalas, Cai Davies, who excelled in the National Circuit Series last year, joins Richardsons Trek DAS, while Olveston GP Road Race winner Marinus Peterson heads to France.
Established in 2022, Moonglu RT was initially formed to assist younger Moonglu Cycling Club members who had already started to race. Last season the small Yorkshire-based team punched above its weight, with Daniel McDermott and Ben Pease in particular regularly featuring at the pointy end of national road races. The team retains Pease but loses McDermott for 2024, with Jonny Britton the squad’s one addition.
Mud Dock Racing is a multi-discipline, multi-gender team based in Bristol.
There are three elements to the team: a more relaxed regional team, an elite/u23 development team and a women’s gravel team.
The riders listed below are for the elite squad only, which is aiming for National Road and Circuit Series races in 2024, together with some international races.
Image: Mud Dock Racing
In: Thomas Adby (Velo Club Venta), Joshua Horsfield (Ribble rechrg RT), William Jewitt (Kalas Motip RT), Charlie Parry (unknown), Felix Skelton (Ribble rechrg RT), George Whitlock (1st Chard Whls)
Run by Jason Gault and sponsored by Primera Sport bike shop and the TeamJobs recruitment agency, the Poole-based team will operate two squads in 2024. An elite squad – made of up new signings William Abbott, Guido Blee, Thomas Doig, Matthew Gilmour and Vaughn Pretorius, as well as existing riders Luke Barfoot, Ashley Newman, Ben Miller – will target a blend of National A and National B races, while other riders on the team will form a development squad focused on the lower road racing tiers.
2022 National Road Series, Ryedale GP – Primera TeamJobs. Image: Craig Zadoroznyj/SWpix.com
Reflex Racing supports aspiring riders in regional and national races, with teams based in the south west of England as well as France. The team is targeting races in the Under-23 National Road Series in particular, looking to build on Leo White’s podium at the Stars of the South West road race. White himself is moving to the Spanish Fundacion Ciclismo Benicadell squad, but new recruits such as Archie Peet and Sam Nisbet bolster the squad’s National B road racing experience.
Image: Reflex Racing
In: Samuel Nisbet (Big Maggys), Lui Pollastrone (Bristol Road Club), Zackary Hamon (Big Maggys), Archie Peet (Welwyn Wheelers CC), Edward Ayres (Alltrax CC), Charles Palmer (WyndyMilla)
RIBBLE REBELLION is an all-new racing team founded by Ribble Cycles which says its focus is “disrupting the global crit circuit”. Quite what that means in practice – apart from using all caps for the team name – remains to be seen, but what we do know is that the team contains nine riders and will have a big focus on the US crit scene.
The race programme is crit-heavy and will see the team spending a large proportion of its race days – and air miles – racing Stateside, beginning in April with the Redlands amateur stage race and the Speedweek crit series. There will also be opportunities to see them in the UK too, with appearances at the Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, the Lincoln Grand Prix and the National Circuit Series planned.
In: Ruben Apers (Team Flanders – Baloise), Matt Bostock (Bolton Equities Black Spoke), Jim Brown (Cross Team Legendre), Tom Couzens (Ribble Collective), Cole Davis (Laboral Kutxa), Cam Fitzmaurice (Unattached), Joe Laverick (Ribble Collective), Al Murison (Unattached), Max Rushby (VP Consulting Cycling Team)
The Schils – Doltcini Racing Team from Marks Tey in Colchester had its most successful year to date last season. With an extensive international calendar, the team won the overall classifications at both the Tour of Albania (UCI 2.2) and the Tour of Mauritius (UCI 2.2), along with multiple stage victories. Racing across Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the team also managed to wear the yellow and green jerseys in Tour de Guyane and achieved multiple top tens in Tour de Martinique and events in China. The squad has been expanded for 2024 as the team seeks to progress further, with another wide-ranging programme on the cards.
Established last year by Charlie Lacaille, the Sn Vitae outfit quickly turned heads for its striking kit and appearances in UCI road races featuring notable guest riders like Joe Laverick and Ewan Mackie.
This season the team welcomes on board a new sponsor in HUUB. With an increased budget, the team is planning an expanded race calendar, with invites to races in Rhodes already confirmed for February, and UCI races in Belgium, Lithuania and Norway also on the cards. The National Road Series is also a target for the squad.
Four new riders join in 2024, including former Eiser Hirumet rider Max Williamson and talented young Devonian Felix Whetter.
The TAAP Endura team evolves into TAAP Kalas for 2024. The team describes itself as “a family where we look to develop riders both on and off the bike. We always try to support our riders with the best opportunities available, and every year this evolves and improves.”
TAAP Kalas has three new signings in 2024, with Ollie Hucks, Harvey Lawson and Cameron McLaren all moving over from the now-folded Kalas Motip outfit. The team is looking to improve its presence at National Road Series races this season, and expand its programme to provide more European racing for its riders.
The trainSharp Orro Elite team enters its third season with a new sponsor and heightened ambitions. With Orro bikes coming on board as title sponsor, the team has strengthened its squad with the additions of the Mazzone brother from Saint Piran. Ollie Peckover, one of the former riders of the first half of the domestic season last year, continues with the team, while Sam Clark leaves for Portuguese outfit Óbidos Cycling Team. The team will have an expanded programme in 2024, one that mixes domestic event with racing in Belgium and France.
Ollie Peckover wins the 2023 Capernway road race. Image: Ellen Isherwood
In: Leon Mazzone (Saint Piran), Tom Mazzone (Saint Piran)
The status of the under-23 Wales Racing Academy is uncertain, and a number of riders and ex-riders have told us that the team is unlikely to continue in its current form in 2024.
More to follow.
Peres Pedal road race, 12 February 2023. Image: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
A Yorkshire-based amateur road racing team that last season supported of the breakthrough domestic riders, Dexter Leeming-Sykes. Leeming-Sykes, 7th at the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix in 2023, moves to France this year, but the squad welcome the experienced Dean Watson, as well as Jacob Locke, as new additions. The team plans to rider a mix of local and national-level events in 2024.
2023 Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix presented by Wattbike. Dexter Leeming Sykes of Wold Top The Edge Pactimo climbing Michaelgate. Image: Oliver Brookwell/SWpix.com
2024 will be Giles Pidcock’s Fensham Howes – MAS Design team’s fifth season. Created to help some of the UK’s most promising male cycling talent make the progression from youth racing to the professional ranks, the team has been a veritable talent factory in recent years. Of the fifteen full time riders the team has had since 2019 three are now WorldTour professionals and eight remain on development pathways likely to lead them to stepping up to the pro ranks.
2023 saw the team take 5 victories and many podium finishes across varying terrain. Expect more outstanding performances at home and abroad from the Yorkshire-based team.
In: Luca Bednarek (Kirklees Cycling Academy), Joseph Cosgrove (Anexo Group Race Team), Harrison Dainty (Cystic Fibrosis Race), Elliot Rowe (Anexo Group Race Team), Max Hinds (Evolution Racing Academy)
Out: Alex Beldon (TRINITY Racing), Matthew Brennan (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Jacob Bush (Development Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Jed Smithson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Ben Wiggins (Hagens Berman Axeon – Jayco)
With new title sponsors Huub on board for 2024, Beeston Cycling Club’s Junior Race Team propelled themselves to the forefront of junior teams in the UK in 2023, with Ben Marsh sealing overall victory in the National Junior Series.
Despite the Junior CiCLE Classic winner moving on, the team is formed of a number of talented second year juniors, with Lewis Tinsley, who signs from the feeder team Beeston Cycling Club, already impressing in the National Circuit Series last year. The team is set to race in both the UK and Europe, developing riders for their new senior team and beyond.
2023 MAS Design Yorkshire Classic. George Stephen of BCC Race Team. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
In: Spencer Corder (ROTOR RT), Ahron Dick (The Cycling Academy), Callum Jones (Beeston Cycling Club), William Salter (Anexo Group Race Team), Matt Thompson (Cystic Fibrosis Race), Re-signed: Lewis Tinsley (Beeston Cycling Club)
A junior team with strong women’s and men’s squads that competes across Europe and the UK in its distinctive green kit. In a landmark move for British junior cycling, the team has announced a pioneering partnership with the prestigious Team dsm-firmenich for 2024, encompassing their men’s and women’s WorldTour teams and development team. The team saw three of its riders graduate to WorldTour development teams at the end of 2023.
Image: Man Down Media
In: Oliver Gill (Poole Wheelers CC), Joshua Jackson (BCC Race Team), Matthew Kent (Beeston Cycling Club), Matthew Peace (Otley CC), Struan Shaw (Edinburgh RC), Jamie Stuart (Shibden Cycling Club)
Out: Denholm Edwards (Harrogate Nova CC), Mark Lightfoot (AVC Aix-en-Provence), Liam O’Brien (Lidl-Trek Development Team), Tomos Pattison (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Oliver Peace (Development Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Raphael Tabiner (unknown)
Zappi Junior Race Team
Zappi Junior Race Team has been running since 2016. Run by Flavio Zappi, Paul Quarterman and Patrick Kavanagh, the team selects from the best British (and Irish) junior talent with the aim of creating the foundations for successful professional racing careers.
The team is connected to the Italy-based Zappi U23 Academy (see above), and several of its riders have graduated to race with the senior team. It has an excellent European race programme and has played a major part in launching the professional careers of several riders including Ben Healy, Mark Donovan, Mason Hollyman, James Knox, Charlie Quarterman, Archie Ryan, Jack Rootkin-Gray, and Josh Giddings.
2023 MAS Design Yorkshire Classic. Matthew Cole of Zappi Junior Race Team. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
In: Finn O’Brian (Flanders Color Defever Team), Joseph Mullen, Mackenzie Riley (Shibden Cycling Club), Joe Watkins-Wilson (North Cheshire Clarion)
An overview of what we know so far about how the men’s domestic road race teams are shaping up for 2024. A similar overview for women’s domestic teams will can be found here.
This is a ‘live’ post, so expect frequent updates, especially as we get the post up and running. Check back in regularly to see all the latest.
Latest update: 14.00, 7 March 2024
Featured photo: Ian Wrightson/The British Continental
UCI Continental teams
After the unfortunate mid-season demise of Tim Elverson’s AT85 Pro Cycling team last year, the UK now has just two UCI Continental men’s teams. There haven’t been so few men’s teams at that level in Britain since 2007, when the Plowman Craven – Evans Cycles Racing Team and Recycling.co.uk were the UK’s UCI-level squads.
Saint Piran
It’s all change at Ricci Pascoe’s Cornish Saint Piran outfit in 2024. Longstanding team manager Steve Lampier moves to France to run the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Newgen development team, with Julian Winn stepping in as the new Sports Director.
Nine riders leave the team in total. Jack Rootkin Gray and Zeb Kyffin both step up to the pro ranks after superb 2023 seasons, while under-23 national TT champion Josh Charlton, Adam Lewis and Finn Crockett all move sideways to other UCI Continental squads.
In come two ProTeam level riders, Harry Tanfield and Matt Gibson, national circuit race champion Ollie Wood, TRINITY Racing rider Max Walker, domestic breakthrough rider Rowan Baker, Island Games champion Sam Culverwell and promising youngster Dylan Hicks. Harry Birchill, Alex Richardson, Charlie Tanfield and James McKay are amoing the talents that remain with the men in black.
Furthermore, Pascoe has also created a new development team, the Uskis Saint Piran Development Team, which will house a swathe of young domestic talent (see ‘Elite teams’, below).
Expect more domestic race domination, such is the team’s strength, especially if British Cycling allows both Saint Piran UCI squad and its development team to compete in the National Road Series (we understand the British Cycling is currently reviewing its rules about this).
In: Rowan Baker (London Dynamo), Sam Culverwell (Dolan Ellesse RT), Matt Gibson (Human Powered Health), Dylan Hicks (Development Team DSM), Harry Tanfield (TDT-Unibet), Max Walker (TRINITY Racing)*, Oliver Wood (Unattached)
Re-signed: Harry Birchill, Tyler Hannay, James McKay, Alexandar Richardson, William Roberts, Bradley Symonds, Charlie Tanfield, William Tidball
Out: Rhys Britton (USKIS Saint Piran), Josh Charlton (TRINITY Racing), Finn Crockett (VolkerWessels), Adam Lewis (Team Skyline), Zeb Kyffin (TDT-Unibet), Leon Mazzone (trainSharp Orro Elite), Tom Mazzone (trainSharp Orro Elite), Jack Rootkin-Gray (EF Education-EasyPost), Cooper Sayers (Unknown)
*Max Walker departed Saint Piran on 6 February to join Astana Qazaqstan Development Team.
TRINITY Racing
TRINITY Racing continues with its unique blend of road, mountain bike and off-road specialists in 2024. On the road, the team focuses on the UCI calendar, often eschewing the National Road Series to provide its riders with international race experience.
After a successful 2023 season, four of its riders step up to the WorldTour this year: Lukas Nerurkar, Paul Magnier, Luke Lamperti and Finlay Pickering. Long-term squad members Ollie Rees and Max Walker move on, as does cyclocross specialist Cameron Mason.
2023 stagiares Luke Tuckwell and Ralf Holden join the team on a formal basis, Brit Alex Beldon and Frenchman Ugo Fabries join from the junior ranks, while under-23 national time trial Josh Charlton adds firepower to the squad.
Retained riders include the newly crowned Australian road race champion Fergus Browning, Orlens Grand Prix stage winner Bob Donaldson, and Irish strong man Dean Harvey. Pete Kennaugh and Jon Mould continue as sports directors.
In: Alex Beldon (Fensham Howes-MAS Design), Josh Charlton (TRINITY Racing), Ugo Fabries (Team 31 Jolly Cycles), Ralf Holden, Luke Tuckwell (Bathurst CC), Luca Unwin (Le Col RT)
Re-signed: Adrien Bochis, Fergus Browning, Bob Donaldson, Camilo Andres Gomez, Dean Harvey, Alex Malacarne, Tobias Nakken, Joe Pidcock, Hugo Rodriguez, William Smith, Callum Thornley
Out: Liam Johnston (Unknown), Luke Lamperti (Soudal – Quick Step), Paul Magnier (Soudal – Quick Step), Cameron Mason, Kevin McCambridge, Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost), Finlay Pickering (Bahrain-Victorious), Ollie Rees (Sabgal – Anicolor), Martin Vidaurre (Unknown), Max Walker (Saint Piran)
Elite Development Teams
British Cycling’s Elite Development Team status is designed to ‘bridge the gap from club teams to those operating at UCI Continental level’. Only teams which meet a set minimum criterion are selected based on the quality of support which they offer to their riders.
Cycling Sheffield
Dave Coulson’s Sheffield-based development team continues with eight riders. The team’s star rider last year, James McKay, had already sealed a late season move to Saint Piran, while another of the team’s top performers, George Wood, joins the Italian-based Zappi squad.
Three of the class of 2023 continue including James Hartley winner of the Yorkshire Grit Pan Flat Road Race last season. The team’s new signings are an exciting mix. David Hird joins from ROKiT-SRCT (now Thriva-SRCT). He won the Stars of the South West Road Race last year, among other top results. Matthew Warhurst, another former ROKiT-SRCT rider, also impressed 2023; his win at the Oakenclough Road Race was a standout result. Other new signings include James Hartley’s brother Jack, and two riders fresh out of the junior ranks: Alexander Foster and Sam Chaplin.
In: Sam Chaplin (Zappi Junior Race Team), Alexander Foster (Innovation Racing), Jack Hartley (BCC Race Team), David Hird (ROKiT-SRCT), Matthew Warhurst (ROKiT-SRCT)
Re-signed: James Hartley, Max Krasinski, James Wordsworth
Out: Joe Coukham (unknown), James Hawkins (retired), Taylor Hill (unknown), George Wood (Zappi RT)
HUUB BCC RT
New for 2024, the team is a partnership between the successful junior squad, BCC RT (see Junior teams, below) and East Midlands based sponsors Huub and WeBuyCycle. Combining experienced riders such as Adam Kenway with a number of first year under-23 riders graduating from the junior team and beyond, the team aims to create a sustainable pathway for riders to excel across both road and track.
In: Tobias Bartlett (Doddington Cycling Club), Luke Brennan (HUUB Junior BCC RT), Matthew Brown (Elitecycling Development Team), Benjamin Flatau (Elitecycling Development Team), Sebastian Garry (Kalas Motip RT), Josh Housley (Derby CC Webuycycle Huub RT), Adam Kenway (Derby CC Webuycycle Huub RT), Zak Machin (HUUB Junior BCC RT), George Stephen (HUUB Junior BCC RT), Rhys Thomas (Backstedt Bike Performance JRT)
Re-signed: Dan Galpin, Ryan Williams
Out: Ben Etherington (unknown), Alex Galpin (Beeston Cycling Club), Jacob Gilkes, Jack Hartley (Cycling Sheffield), Jonathan Oxley (unknown)
PROJECT1
A new team for 2024, PROJECT1 has put together a young team of promising riders that will race in Europe and across the UK. The six rider squad includes 2023 Junior CiCLE Classic winner Ben Mark, as well as former AG2R Citroën rider Logan Maclean.
In: Hamish Armitt (unattached), Alexander Ball, Jenson Brown (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli), Logan Maclean (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli), Ben Marsh (BCC Race Team)
Richardsons Trek DAS
Andy Lyons’ Richardsons Trek DAS squad continues in 2024, easy to pick out thanks to its distinctive orange kit. Backed by the Leigh-on-Sea bike shop Richardsons Cycles and furniture brand DAS, the team typically has one of the best-run – and strongest – squads in the domestic peloton.
This season the team plans to complement a calendar of UCI road races with a return to the Rás Tailteann and some UCI racing in Belgium and France. Four eye-catching new signings join the squad, including Cai Davies, winner of the Simon Hook Memorial Road Race and an excellent performer in the National Circuit Series in 2023, and time trial and track specialist Michael Gill.
The team retains key riders Conor McGoldrick and Alex Peters too. Two of Richardsons Trek’s best performers in recent years leave the squad, however, with Jack Crook heading to France and James Jenkins deciding to put his focus more on time trialling than road racing.
In: Cai Davies (Kalas Motip Race Team), Jordan Giles (Primera-TeamJobs), Michael Gill (HUUB WattShop), Olivier Mangham (TEKKERZ CC), Alexander Pritchard (HUUB Wattshop)
Re-signed: Simon Alexander, Samuel Asker, Peter Cocker, Rhys Howells, Matthew Lord, Conor McGoldrick, Steven Parsonage, Alex Peters, Callum Riley, Luke Ryan, William Scott
Out: Jack Crook (UV Aube), Aaron Freeman (unknown), James Jenkins (unattached), Sean Mullen (retired)
Spirit TBW Stuart Hall Cycling
Russell Rowles was uncertain over the winter whether he would continue his long-running Spirit team in 2024. Continue it does, however, with Josh Parkin once again taking up the team manager mantle. The team will begin with season with compact squad of just five riders, all re-signings from 2023. We understand that the team is working to secure more signings as the season progresses. The team plans to combine National Road Series racing with trips to Ireland and mainland Europe.
In: None
Re-signed: Finn Dunton, Matthew Houlberg, Sam Kettlewell, George Kimber, William Perrett
Out: Jamieson Blain (Halesowen A & CC), Michael Chadwick (Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy), Jude Chamberlain (DE Dijlespurters VV Mechelen), Damien Clayton (Le Col RT), Iwan Evans (The Bulls), Dan Gardner (unknown), Joe Hill (unknown), Samuel Painter (unknown), Dean Watson (Wold Top The Edge Pactimo), Joe Wilson (unknown), Irfan Zaman (University of Nottingham CC)
Team PB Performance
Run by Paul and Louise Bennett, Team PB Performance was created as an opportunity to promote their coaching business and create a vehicle to support rider development. They are determined to do things in ‘the right way for their riders’. “We focused on supporting the riders as individuals, getting to know them and ensuring the fundamentals were taken care of,” Louise told us back in 2020.
The outfit has two squads. An Elite Development Team (EDT) squad, which focuses primarily on national racing, and a ‘pathway to EDT’ squad which has a focus more on regional racing, providing a progression pathway for riders.
The team is keen to actively support the racing scene, putting on a round of the Under-23 Open National Road Series each year. This season’s PB Performance Espoirs Road Race is on 21 April.
EDT squad
In: Adam Charleston (High Wycombe Cycling Club), Jamie Gostick (promoted from the Pathway to EDT squad), Sam Woodward (CLWB Beicio)
Re-signed: Thomas Charles, Jacques Coates, Nathan Hardy, Harry Paveley, George Peden, Max Sillifant, Jude Taylor
Out: John Buller (unknown), Hefin Evans (retired), Gareth O’Neill (unknown), Tom Palfrey (Caffi Gruf), Kieran Riley (Spellman – Dublin Port Cycling Team)
‘Pathway to EDT’ squad
In: Liam Flannery (from EDT squad)
Re-signed: James Chapman, Andrew Dalzell, James Dent, Cian Leveridge, Tobi Ng, Isaac Russell
Thriva SRCT
The Scott Reading Cycling Team, known as ROKiT-SRCT in 2023, were close to collapse last season when we spoke to team manager Adam Ellis, despite being one of the most successful domestic team of the season. Thankfully, the team’s fortunes have turned around since, with a new title sponsor coming on board, Thriva. The team now plans to combine a calendar of road and gravel racing with a slightly slimmer, but nonetheless talented, squad.
With the team facing an uncertain future for a time, it is perhaps unsurprising that three of the team’s outstanding performers in 2023, David Hird, Matt Warhurst and Jenson Young move on to pastures new. But PB Performance Espoirs Road Race winner Will Truelove is retained, as is Galway Classic winner Joe Beckingsale. The squad is also bolstered by the arrival of talented young Welshman Ben Bright, who achieved a number of National B top tens last season in just his first year as an under-23.
In: Benjamin Bright (Wales Racing Academy), Jake Jackson (Rose Race Team)
Re-signed: Joseph Beckingsale, Matthew Ellis, Joshua Price, Scott Redding, William Truelove, Tom Williams
Out: David Hird (Cycling Sheffield), Brad Jones (unknown), Matthew Teggart (retired), Matthew Warhurst (Cycling Sheffield), Jenson Young (unknown)
USKIS Saint Piran
New to the domestic peloton in 2024 is the USKIS Saint Piran development team. The team’s press release described the squad as an ‘Under-23 Elite Team’ that “has been established to provide riders who may not be ready to step up into the UCI Continental level to learn their sport, facing higher-level competitors and honing their racecraft participating in elite races in the UK and Europe.”
Former GB Senior Academy rider Rhys Britton, stepping down from the Saint Piran UCI Continental squad, will be the road captain, with 2023 junior national road race champion Finn Mason, and promising British talents Huw Buck Jones and Dylan Westley all part of a multinational squad.
We understand that British Cycling is currently reviewing its rules about whether Saint Piran’s Uskis team and its UCI Continental will be able to compete in the same races this season.
In: Rhys Britton (Saint Piran), Huw Buck Jones (Wales Racing Academy), Joshua Ludman (St George Continental Cycling Team), Finn Mason (The Cycling Academy), Alexandre Mayer (Team MCB), Rhys Robotham (Team BridgeLane), Dylan Westley (Equipo Finisher)
Wheelbase CabTech Castelli
Stalwarts of the domestic peloton, the Wheelbase CabTech Castelli team were a revelation in 2023, enjoying their most successful season after almost two decades at the elite end of domestic cycling.
The team continues with much of its successful squad from last year. Matt Fox, the Ilkey Grand Prix winner last year, is the squad’s biggest departure, moving to France with CC Étupes. Scottish road race champion Tim Shoreman stays however, as does talented young climber Jacob Smith. Former national junior cyclocross champion Joseph Smith is a canny new signing.
In: Joseph Smith (unattached)
Re-signed: Thomas Armstrong, David Duggan, Flynn Gregory, Aaron King ,Callum Laborde, David Lines, Tom Martin, Lee Rosie, Tim Shoreman, Jacob Smith
Out: Jenson Brown (PROJECT1), Matthew Fox (CC Étupes), Logan Maclean (PROJECT1), Tom Merry (unknown), Louis Moore (unknown)
Other elite teams
Foran CT
Foran Cycling Team (previously Foran CCC) was set up in 2019 by Tom Quaid and Paul Lavelle (Directors of Foran Construction) and has very much been a rider run team since its inception. In essence the team is a group of working professionals who strive to race at the highest level alongside careers, whether that is National Road Series events or overseas stage races.
The team plans to return to the Rás Mumhan and the Rás Tailteann in Ireland this season, and will also be present in local races such as the Portsdown Classic and RCR Fat Creations road race at Goodwood, alongside key national events.
In: James Nicholson (TAAP Endura), Nicholas Tyrie (Primera-TeamJobs)
Re-signed (main squad): Tobias Dahlhaus, Dom Jackson, Ian Middleton, George Mitchell, Robin Mould, Thomas Springbett
Resigned (registered but not actively riding in national races): Charles Bailey, Joseph Murray, Thomas Quaid, Andrew Rigg
Halesowen Academy
Going into its tenth year in 2024 Halesowen Academy has put together arguably its strongest line-up yet, increasing rider numbers to 17 with a 6-rider junior squad and a five-man under-23 team thanks to the support from local companies including Mapei UK.
The Academy had an excellent 2023, spearheaded by Joe Brookes, whose breakthrough rides earned him a move to France. New signings for 2024 include first-year juniors Ryan Oldfield and Hudson Hendry. Oldfield, a regular at the Halesowen track since his formative years, had a stellar season last year, including medals at the national track championships, while Hendry took silver in the national pursuit championship. Wales Academy rider Ryu Roberts-Hayamizu also joins the junior squad.
The team had an expanded race programme in 2023, which including with the Rás Mumhan, Rás Tailteann and Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic. A similar programme is on the cards for 2024.
In: Hudson Hendry (Junior), Piers Mahn (Mid Devon CC), Ryan Oldfield (Cystic Fibrosis Race, Junior), Ryu Roberts-Hayamizu (Junior)
Re-signed: Ryan Brookes, Joseph Egan, Patrick Fotheringham, Charlie Genner, Luke Harris, Kaleb Herbert (Junior), Isaak Herbert (Junior), Joe Homer, Rose Lewis, Luke Mannings (Junior), Aaron Mansell, Rowan Schaak, William Simons
Out: Joe Brookes (AVC Aix-en-Provence)
Kalas Motip Race Team
The long-running elite team run by Lee Williams closed at the end of 2023 after over a decade of domestic road racing. A trio of the team’s riders heads to TAAP Kalas, Cai Davies, who excelled in the National Circuit Series last year, joins Richardsons Trek DAS, while Olveston GP Road Race winner Marinus Peterson heads to France.
Out: Lucas Byam (Primera-TeamJobs), Cai Davies (Richardsons Trek DAS), Sebastian Garry (HUUB BCC Webuycycle RT), Harry Green (unknown), Oliver Hucks (TAAP Kalas), William Jewitt (Mud Dock Racing), Harvey Lawson (TAAP Kalas), Cameron McLaren (TAAP Kalas), Marinus Petersen (UC Briochine–Bleu Mercure), Vaughn Pretorius (Primera TeamJobs, Joseph Rees (unknown), David Roper (Rule 28 x ATP Performance), Daniel Shoobridge (unknown), Matt Witts (Rule 28 x ATP Performance)
Moonglu RT
Established in 2022, Moonglu RT was initially formed to assist younger Moonglu Cycling Club members who had already started to race. Last season the small Yorkshire-based team punched above its weight, with Daniel McDermott and Ben Pease in particular regularly featuring at the pointy end of national road races. The team retains Pease but loses McDermott for 2024, with Jonny Britton the squad’s one addition.
In: Jonny Britton (Prologue Racing Team), Jack Rees (HUUB WattShop)
Re-signed: Ben Mewes, Ben Pease, Carl Stubbs, William Taylor
Out: Daniel McDermott (unknown)
Mud Dock Racing
Mud Dock Racing is a multi-discipline, multi-gender team based in Bristol.
There are three elements to the team: a more relaxed regional team, an elite/u23 development team and a women’s gravel team.
The riders listed below are for the elite squad only, which is aiming for National Road and Circuit Series races in 2024, together with some international races.
In: Thomas Adby (Velo Club Venta), Joshua Horsfield (Ribble rechrg RT), William Jewitt (Kalas Motip RT), Charlie Parry (unknown), Felix Skelton (Ribble rechrg RT), George Whitlock (1st Chard Whls)
Primera-TeamJobs
Run by Jason Gault and sponsored by Primera Sport bike shop and the TeamJobs recruitment agency, the Poole-based team will operate two squads in 2024. An elite squad – made of up new signings William Abbott, Guido Blee, Thomas Doig, Matthew Gilmour and Vaughn Pretorius, as well as existing riders Luke Barfoot, Ashley Newman, Ben Miller – will target a blend of National A and National B races, while other riders on the team will form a development squad focused on the lower road racing tiers.
In: William Abbott (unattached), Sean Adams (SRCT Development Team), Guido Blee (Paceline RT), Lucas Byam (Kalas Motip RT), George Cottrell (Poole Wheelers CC), Thomas Doig (INFLITE), Max Fleming (LAKA Pedal Mafia RT), Matthew Gilmour (Backstedt Bike Performance JRT), Vaughn Pretorius (Kalas Motip RT)
Re-signed: Luke Barfoot, Lee Curtis, Jason Gault, Paul Jones, Julian Lockwood, Ashley Newman, Ben Millar, Will Page, Joe Staunton, Sebastian Tyrie
Out: Jordan Giles (Richardsons Trek DAS), George Skinner (unknown), George Smith (Saddleback Racing), Nicholas Tyrie (Foran CT), Samuel Wadsley (unattached), Oliver Winwood Bratchell (unknown)
Reflex Racing
Reflex Racing supports aspiring riders in regional and national races, with teams based in the south west of England as well as France. The team is targeting races in the Under-23 National Road Series in particular, looking to build on Leo White’s podium at the Stars of the South West road race. White himself is moving to the Spanish Fundacion Ciclismo Benicadell squad, but new recruits such as Archie Peet and Sam Nisbet bolster the squad’s National B road racing experience.
In: Samuel Nisbet (Big Maggys), Lui Pollastrone (Bristol Road Club), Zackary Hamon (Big Maggys), Archie Peet (Welwyn Wheelers CC), Edward Ayres (Alltrax CC), Charles Palmer (WyndyMilla)
Re-signed: James Williams, Samuel Tillett, Thomas Price, Tom Bowden, Caleb Moon, Tom Hurst
Out: Leo White (Fundacion Ciclismo Benicadell)
RIBBLE REBELLION
RIBBLE REBELLION is an all-new racing team founded by Ribble Cycles which says its focus is “disrupting the global crit circuit”. Quite what that means in practice – apart from using all caps for the team name – remains to be seen, but what we do know is that the team contains nine riders and will have a big focus on the US crit scene.
Former national circuit race champion Matt Bostock and UCI road race winner Jim Brown are the marquée signings. Both riders have fast finishes and are talented enough to fit right in to a UCI Continental or ProTeam. Alongside Bostock and Brown are former GB Academy rider Max Rushby, team captain Joe Laverick and crit and cyclocross specialist Tom Couzens. They are joined by former Pro Team Belgian rider Ruben Aspers and three North Americans: Al Morison, former Hagens Berman Axeon rider Cole Davis and Cam Fitzmaurice.
The race programme is crit-heavy and will see the team spending a large proportion of its race days – and air miles – racing Stateside, beginning in April with the Redlands amateur stage race and the Speedweek crit series. There will also be opportunities to see them in the UK too, with appearances at the Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, the Lincoln Grand Prix and the National Circuit Series planned.
In: Ruben Apers (Team Flanders – Baloise), Matt Bostock (Bolton Equities Black Spoke), Jim Brown (Cross Team Legendre), Tom Couzens (Ribble Collective), Cole Davis (Laboral Kutxa), Cam Fitzmaurice (Unattached), Joe Laverick (Ribble Collective), Al Murison (Unattached), Max Rushby (VP Consulting Cycling Team)
Schils – Doltcini RT
The Schils – Doltcini Racing Team from Marks Tey in Colchester had its most successful year to date last season. With an extensive international calendar, the team won the overall classifications at both the Tour of Albania (UCI 2.2) and the Tour of Mauritius (UCI 2.2), along with multiple stage victories. Racing across Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the team also managed to wear the yellow and green jerseys in Tour de Guyane and achieved multiple top tens in Tour de Martinique and events in China. The squad has been expanded for 2024 as the team seeks to progress further, with another wide-ranging programme on the cards.
In: George Bowman, Liam Fenner (unattached), Oscar Hutchings (Team Tor 2000 Kalas), Carl Jolly (WestSide Coaching. 73 Degrees), Bob Longstaff (unattached), Frank Longstaff (unattached), James Pittard (WestSide Coaching. 73 Degrees), Tom Vandormael
Re-signed: Patrick Biel, Alexander Cross, Archie Cross, Eugene Cross, Peter Fuller, Fabian Horrocks, Cameron Hurst, Ryan Klein, Charlie Lacaille, Ian Perry, Dominic Schils, Oliver Wood
Sn Vitae Huub p/b Bim Bam Coaching
Established last year by Charlie Lacaille, the Sn Vitae outfit quickly turned heads for its striking kit and appearances in UCI road races featuring notable guest riders like Joe Laverick and Ewan Mackie.
This season the team welcomes on board a new sponsor in HUUB. With an increased budget, the team is planning an expanded race calendar, with invites to races in Rhodes already confirmed for February, and UCI races in Belgium, Lithuania and Norway also on the cards. The National Road Series is also a target for the squad.
Four new riders join in 2024, including former Eiser Hirumet rider Max Williamson and talented young Devonian Felix Whetter.
In: Will Duffy (Bath Cycling Club), Inigo Hawkings (Zappi RT), Oliver Snodden, (Derby CC Webuycycle Huub RT), Felix Whetter (Mid Devon CC), Max Williamson (Scunthorpe RC)
Re-signed: James Brown, Freddie Grover, Fraser Parnham, Oliver Snodden, Joseph Surmon
Out: Finn Mansfield (Grity Race Team), Junda Niu (University of Bristol CC), Alex Raynard (unknown)
Stolen Goat RT
More to follow.
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TAAP Kalas
The TAAP Endura team evolves into TAAP Kalas for 2024. The team describes itself as “a family where we look to develop riders both on and off the bike. We always try to support our riders with the best opportunities available, and every year this evolves and improves.”
TAAP Kalas has three new signings in 2024, with Ollie Hucks, Harvey Lawson and Cameron McLaren all moving over from the now-folded Kalas Motip outfit. The team is looking to improve its presence at National Road Series races this season, and expand its programme to provide more European racing for its riders.
In: Oliver Hucks (Kalas Motip RT), Harvey Lawson (Kalas Motip RT), Cameron McLaren (Kalas Motip RT)
Re-signed: James Ambrose-Parish, Lance Childs, Matthew Downie, Benjamin Fish, Frank Kilsby, Llewellyn Kinch, Joshua Knowles, Henry Latimer, Matthew Lock, Harry Macfarlane, Marco Overbeeke, Jamie Pullen, Alexander Speirs, Harvey Stroh, Zach Walters (Junior)
Out: Joseph Bearman (unknown), Thomas Bowering (unknown), Harvey Macgartre (unknown), James Nicholson (Foran CT), Jack Wyllie (unknown)
Out: None
The Cycling Academy
More to follow.
In:
Re-signed:
Out: Ahron Dick (Junior, HUUB Junior BCC RT), Finn Mason (Uskis Saint Piran Development Team)
Unknown: Noah Bleteau (Junior), Sam Chisholm, Archie Ellen, Gregor McArthur, Finn McHenry, Milo McIntosh (Junior), Elijah Kwon, Ciaran McSherry, Callum Reid, Jake Speed (Junior), Olly Walker (Junior)
trainSharp Orro Elite
The trainSharp Orro Elite team enters its third season with a new sponsor and heightened ambitions. With Orro bikes coming on board as title sponsor, the team has strengthened its squad with the additions of the Mazzone brother from Saint Piran. Ollie Peckover, one of the former riders of the first half of the domestic season last year, continues with the team, while Sam Clark leaves for Portuguese outfit Óbidos Cycling Team. The team will have an expanded programme in 2024, one that mixes domestic event with racing in Belgium and France.
In: Leon Mazzone (Saint Piran), Tom Mazzone (Saint Piran)
Re-signed: Ollie Peckover, Danylo Riwnyj, Sam Shepherd, Timothy Torrie, Matthew Webster
Out: James Bevan (Army Cycling Union), Samuel Clark (Óbidos Cycling Team), Jack Rebours (Caesarean CC Jersey),
Wales Racing Academy
The status of the under-23 Wales Racing Academy is uncertain, and a number of riders and ex-riders have told us that the team is unlikely to continue in its current form in 2024.
More to follow.
Out: Benjamin Bright (Thriva SRCT), Huw Buck Jones (Uskis Saint Piran Development Team), Harry Codd (University of Bath Cycling Club), Edward Morgan (unannounced)
Unknown: Spencer Davies, William Harding, Griff Lewis, Fred Meredith, Owain Roberts
Wold Top the Edge-Pactimo
A Yorkshire-based amateur road racing team that last season supported of the breakthrough domestic riders, Dexter Leeming-Sykes. Leeming-Sykes, 7th at the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix in 2023, moves to France this year, but the squad welcome the experienced Dean Watson, as well as Jacob Locke, as new additions. The team plans to rider a mix of local and national-level events in 2024.
In: Jacob Locke, Dean Watson (Embark Spirit BSS)
Re-signed: Calum Brown, Philip Large, Freddy Pett, Joshua Ravn, Mark Walker
Out: Dexter Leeming-Sykes (Team U Charente Maritime), Cavan Walker (unknown)
Zappi RT
More to follow.
In: George Wood (Zappi RT)
Re-signed:
Out:
Unknown:
Junior teams
Fensham Howes – MAS Design
2024 will be Giles Pidcock’s Fensham Howes – MAS Design team’s fifth season. Created to help some of the UK’s most promising male cycling talent make the progression from youth racing to the professional ranks, the team has been a veritable talent factory in recent years. Of the fifteen full time riders the team has had since 2019 three are now WorldTour professionals and eight remain on development pathways likely to lead them to stepping up to the pro ranks.
2023 saw the team take 5 victories and many podium finishes across varying terrain. Expect more outstanding performances at home and abroad from the Yorkshire-based team.
In: Luca Bednarek (Kirklees Cycling Academy), Joseph Cosgrove (Anexo Group Race Team), Harrison Dainty (Cystic Fibrosis Race), Elliot Rowe (Anexo Group Race Team), Max Hinds (Evolution Racing Academy)
Re-signed: Toby Bush, Oliver Dawson, Sebastian Grindley
Out: Alex Beldon (TRINITY Racing), Matthew Brennan (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Jacob Bush (Development Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Jed Smithson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Ben Wiggins (Hagens Berman Axeon – Jayco)
HUUB Junior BCC RT
With new title sponsors Huub on board for 2024, Beeston Cycling Club’s Junior Race Team propelled themselves to the forefront of junior teams in the UK in 2023, with Ben Marsh sealing overall victory in the National Junior Series.
Despite the Junior CiCLE Classic winner moving on, the team is formed of a number of talented second year juniors, with Lewis Tinsley, who signs from the feeder team Beeston Cycling Club, already impressing in the National Circuit Series last year. The team is set to race in both the UK and Europe, developing riders for their new senior team and beyond.
In: Spencer Corder (ROTOR RT), Ahron Dick (The Cycling Academy), Callum Jones (Beeston Cycling Club), William Salter (Anexo Group Race Team), Matt Thompson (Cystic Fibrosis Race), Re-signed: Lewis Tinsley (Beeston Cycling Club)
Out: Luke Brennan (HUUB BCC RT), Zak Machin (HUUB BCC RT), Ben Marsh (PROJECT 1 Cycling Team), George Stephen (HUUB BCC RT)
Tofauti Everyone Active
A junior team with strong women’s and men’s squads that competes across Europe and the UK in its distinctive green kit. In a landmark move for British junior cycling, the team has announced a pioneering partnership with the prestigious Team dsm-firmenich for 2024, encompassing their men’s and women’s WorldTour teams and development team. The team saw three of its riders graduate to WorldTour development teams at the end of 2023.
In: Oliver Gill (Poole Wheelers CC), Joshua Jackson (BCC Race Team), Matthew Kent (Beeston Cycling Club), Matthew Peace (Otley CC), Struan Shaw (Edinburgh RC), Jamie Stuart (Shibden Cycling Club)
Re-signed: Ollie Boarer, Max Bufton
Out: Denholm Edwards (Harrogate Nova CC), Mark Lightfoot (AVC Aix-en-Provence), Liam O’Brien (Lidl-Trek Development Team), Tomos Pattison (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Oliver Peace (Development Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Raphael Tabiner (unknown)
Zappi Junior Race Team
Zappi Junior Race Team has been running since 2016. Run by Flavio Zappi, Paul Quarterman and Patrick Kavanagh, the team selects from the best British (and Irish) junior talent with the aim of creating the foundations for successful professional racing careers.
The team is connected to the Italy-based Zappi U23 Academy (see above), and several of its riders have graduated to race with the senior team. It has an excellent European race programme and has played a major part in launching the professional careers of several riders including Ben Healy, Mark Donovan, Mason Hollyman, James Knox, Charlie Quarterman, Archie Ryan, Jack Rootkin-Gray, and Josh Giddings.
In: Finn O’Brian (Flanders Color Defever Team), Joseph Mullen, Mackenzie Riley (Shibden Cycling Club), Joe Watkins-Wilson (North Cheshire Clarion)
Re-signed: Finlay Hawker
Out: Matthew Cole (Hagens Berman Jayco CT), Calum Moir (Brocar-Rali-Alé), Cormac Nisbet (Soudal-Quickstep Devo Team), Joseph O’Brien (Lee Valley Youth Cycling Club)
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