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.
Earlier this week the website ticked past a figure I’d had half an eye on for a while: the number of page views it managed across the whole of 2025, our record year. It got there on 7 September, with almost four months of the year still to go. However it finishes, 2026 is going to be the biggest year The British Continental has had.
I wanted to celebrate it. Not to blow our own trumpet, but because it’s worth being clear about what that number represents. It shows, I think, that there’s life in the domestic road racing scene yet, despite its problems. The audience is there, the interest is there, the passion is there. What we do is provide a platform to promote it all and tell the story.
The number also reflects the enormous work that goes into keeping The British Continental going. There’s no office here and no payroll. Almost everything we do is unpaid. The site is put together in evenings and at weekends, around day jobs and the rest of life, by people who give up a lot of their free time because they think British road racing deserves to be written about properly.
Image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
So the credit isn’t really mine. It belongs to Jack Beavis, who writes and reports for us; to Joe Hudson, who travels the length and breadth of the country to report on nearly all the key domestic races; to Mark James, behind the lens (and much more besides); and to Martyn Jepson, who built the Stats Hub and keeps it running. Not forgetting new contributor Paul Greenhalgh, who brings a unique Anglo-French angle to our coverage.
It belongs to Mattie Dodd, Hope Inglis, George Stephen, Ian Mansel-Thomas, and Tizzie Robinson-Gordon, who’ve written journals for us this season and been more honest in them than they needed to be. And it belongs to a much wider circle who help in their own way, whether that’s sending in a race report, grabbing an interview at a finish line, or simply sharing what we publish.
It belongs to the riders, teams, and organisers who pick up the phone, reply to the emails and Instagram messages, and keep putting races on when the sums barely add up.
It belongs to you, the readers, for coming back week after week for previews of National B races and reports from circuits most of the sport never notices.
And it belongs to the people who pay the bills. Rapha has been our title sponsor once again this year, with HUNT Bike Wheels and 4Endurance alongside. None of this happens without them.
There’s racing still to come this month, and plenty more after that before our attention begins to turn to 2027.
If you’d like to help keep this going, the best way is through our Ko-fi. We’re already indebted to the people who make regular and occasional donations to help grease the wheels here at British Conti HQ.
But whether you donate or not, thank you for reading. We’ll try to keep earning it.
Denny Gray Founder-editor, The British Continental
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
Earlier this week the website ticked past a figure I’d had half an eye on for a while: the number of page views it managed across the whole of 2025, our record year. It got there on 7 September, with almost four months of the year still to go. However it finishes, 2026 is going to be the biggest year The British Continental has had.
I wanted to celebrate it. Not to blow our own trumpet, but because it’s worth being clear about what that number represents. It shows, I think, that there’s life in the domestic road racing scene yet, despite its problems. The audience is there, the interest is there, the passion is there. What we do is provide a platform to promote it all and tell the story.
The number also reflects the enormous work that goes into keeping The British Continental going. There’s no office here and no payroll. Almost everything we do is unpaid. The site is put together in evenings and at weekends, around day jobs and the rest of life, by people who give up a lot of their free time because they think British road racing deserves to be written about properly.
So the credit isn’t really mine. It belongs to Jack Beavis, who writes and reports for us; to Joe Hudson, who travels the length and breadth of the country to report on nearly all the key domestic races; to Mark James, behind the lens (and much more besides); and to Martyn Jepson, who built the Stats Hub and keeps it running. Not forgetting new contributor Paul Greenhalgh, who brings a unique Anglo-French angle to our coverage.
It belongs to Mattie Dodd, Hope Inglis, George Stephen, Ian Mansel-Thomas, and Tizzie Robinson-Gordon, who’ve written journals for us this season and been more honest in them than they needed to be. And it belongs to a much wider circle who help in their own way, whether that’s sending in a race report, grabbing an interview at a finish line, or simply sharing what we publish.
It belongs to the riders, teams, and organisers who pick up the phone, reply to the emails and Instagram messages, and keep putting races on when the sums barely add up.
It belongs to you, the readers, for coming back week after week for previews of National B races and reports from circuits most of the sport never notices.
And it belongs to the people who pay the bills. Rapha has been our title sponsor once again this year, with HUNT Bike Wheels and 4Endurance alongside. None of this happens without them.
There’s racing still to come this month, and plenty more after that before our attention begins to turn to 2027.
If you’d like to help keep this going, the best way is through our Ko-fi. We’re already indebted to the people who make regular and occasional donations to help grease the wheels here at British Conti HQ.
But whether you donate or not, thank you for reading. We’ll try to keep earning it.
Denny Gray
Founder-editor, The British Continental
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
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