Bostock, Barker and Wood headline new RCC Racing collective
Rapha has launched RCC Racing, unveiling an eight-rider collective led by 2025 Rapha Super-League winner Matt Bostock and track world champions Megan Barker and Ollie Wood.
Rapha has today launched its new RCC Racing collective, bringing together eight riders to compete under the banner of the Rapha Cycling Club (RCC) across the 2026 season.
The RCC Racing collective – not a standalone trade team but the racing arm of the global members’ club – unites a mix of Olympic and domestic talent. The stated aim is to connect more people with UK racing, from elite national-level events to local criteriums, and to place the familiar RCC stripes on start lines across the country.
The full line-up comprises Matt Bostock, Megan Barker, Ollie Wood, Jacob Vaughan, Amy Perryman, Josh Jones, Holly Winstone and Duke Agyapong.
At its head, symbolically at least, is Matt Bostock. The 2025 season proved a significant one for the Manx rider, who won the overall Rapha Super-League title. His success was built on searing summer form in the circuit race season, underlining his status as one of the most reliable performers on the UK scene. This year he will combine track and road ambitions.
The inclusion of Megan Barker adds further weight. Barker, a world champion on the track, has long been one of Britain’s most accomplished riders. Her victory at the National Circuit Race Championships in 2023 underlined the multi-disciplinary nature of her talent.
Ollie Wood, an Olympic medallist and world champion on the track, brings additional international experience. Like Bostock and Barker, Wood previously rode for the Rapha-supported TEKKERZ CC and is widely regarded as one of the country’s most accomplished criterium riders. He was National Circuit Race Champion in 2023.
Jacob Vaughan is a former UCI Continental rider who has increasingly focused on the gravel scene in recent seasons, becoming British Gravel Champion in 2022. He continues to race on the road, however, and won the Jock Wadley Memorial in 2025 for the second consecutive year.
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Meanwhile, Amy Perryman is the archetypal privateer – a rider comfortable across cyclocross, gravel and criteriums – reflecting the collective’s broader multi-disciplinary profile. The remainder of the squad similarly reflects that range, with riders competing across road, gravel and cyclocross rather than confined to a single discipline.
Rapha frames the launch as “a new era for the RCC” – a club united by a love of riding and the sport itself. Membership of the Rapha Cycling Club, priced at £70 per year, offers access to organised rides, partner benefits, clubhouse facilities and exclusive kit. From 24 February, this will include the grey RCC Racing kit worn by the collective, available exclusively to members.
Racing has long been woven into Rapha’s identity, from WorldTour sponsorship to grassroots support. RCC Racing represents a recalibration of that heritage: less about building a standalone commercial team and more about embedding elite visibility within a global members’ club.
Rapha has today launched its new RCC Racing collective, bringing together eight riders to compete under the banner of the Rapha Cycling Club (RCC) across the 2026 season.
The RCC Racing collective – not a standalone trade team but the racing arm of the global members’ club – unites a mix of Olympic and domestic talent. The stated aim is to connect more people with UK racing, from elite national-level events to local criteriums, and to place the familiar RCC stripes on start lines across the country.
The full line-up comprises Matt Bostock, Megan Barker, Ollie Wood, Jacob Vaughan, Amy Perryman, Josh Jones, Holly Winstone and Duke Agyapong.
At its head, symbolically at least, is Matt Bostock. The 2025 season proved a significant one for the Manx rider, who won the overall Rapha Super-League title. His success was built on searing summer form in the circuit race season, underlining his status as one of the most reliable performers on the UK scene. This year he will combine track and road ambitions.
The inclusion of Megan Barker adds further weight. Barker, a world champion on the track, has long been one of Britain’s most accomplished riders. Her victory at the National Circuit Race Championships in 2023 underlined the multi-disciplinary nature of her talent.
Ollie Wood, an Olympic medallist and world champion on the track, brings additional international experience. Like Bostock and Barker, Wood previously rode for the Rapha-supported TEKKERZ CC and is widely regarded as one of the country’s most accomplished criterium riders. He was National Circuit Race Champion in 2023.
Jacob Vaughan is a former UCI Continental rider who has increasingly focused on the gravel scene in recent seasons, becoming British Gravel Champion in 2022. He continues to race on the road, however, and won the Jock Wadley Memorial in 2025 for the second consecutive year.
Meanwhile, Amy Perryman is the archetypal privateer – a rider comfortable across cyclocross, gravel and criteriums – reflecting the collective’s broader multi-disciplinary profile. The remainder of the squad similarly reflects that range, with riders competing across road, gravel and cyclocross rather than confined to a single discipline.
Rapha frames the launch as “a new era for the RCC” – a club united by a love of riding and the sport itself. Membership of the Rapha Cycling Club, priced at £70 per year, offers access to organised rides, partner benefits, clubhouse facilities and exclusive kit. From 24 February, this will include the grey RCC Racing kit worn by the collective, available exclusively to members.
Racing has long been woven into Rapha’s identity, from WorldTour sponsorship to grassroots support. RCC Racing represents a recalibration of that heritage: less about building a standalone commercial team and more about embedding elite visibility within a global members’ club.
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