Loughborough Lightning has named its first three riders for 2027: Charlotte Broughton-Kulset joins from O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes, the under-23 Rebecca van Aardt signs, and Peggy Simpkins stays. Maia Howell, the Danish junior road race champion, has signed for Torelli, Team PAU has named five juniors, Harley Widdowson joins RideRevolution Coaching CT, and Daisy Taylor stays with The Hera Project.
Abroad, Callum Macleod stays with the Turkish Continental team Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü, and Reuben Corlett joins EuroCyclingTrips–CCN, where Hugo Lutz Atkinson stays.
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Domestic
Loughborough Lightning named its first three riders for 2027 on 10 November, after losing Lily Martin, who topped our women’s road rankings this year, to CAMS Alba, and Jenny Holl to Solas Race Team. Charlotte Broughton-Kulset (O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes to Loughborough Lightning, confirmed 10 November) says the team is “a great environment for me to rebuild, enjoy racing again and focus on UK races alongside my studies after a season marred by concussion”. A ten-time national champion as a youth, she won the opening round of the National Circuit Series in Otley in 2022 as Charlotte Broughton, riding for AWOL O’Shea, and kept a rider journal for us in 2021. She has since ridden for KDM-Pack Cycling Team and Torelli.
Rebecca van Aardt (unattached to Loughborough Lightning, confirmed 10 November), an under-23, raced without a club this year; her one road result on British Cycling’s records for 2026 is 3rd in the women’s 2/3/4 race at the Hitchin Nomads road races in September. She also has a background in cyclo-cross, which she raced as a youth, and triathlon. “I can’t wait to develop as a rider and race alongside such a great team,” she said. Peggy Simpkins (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 10 November) is the first of this year’s riders to stay. The 21-year-old joined from O’Shea’s development team for 2026, and was 7th at the BUCS road race championship, 9th at the Solihull CC Women’s Road Race, and 12th in the under-23 national time trial. Ten of this year’s riders are yet to be confirmed.
Maia Howell (Shibden Apex RT to Torelli, confirmed 9 November), the Danish junior road race champion, will race for Torelli in 2027, her first year as an under-23. Howell, who came up through Matlock CC in Derbyshire and races internationally for Denmark, won the Danish junior road race title this year, was 2nd in the junior time trial, and rode the junior road race at the world championships. She raced this season for Shibden Apex RT, the Yorkshire junior women’s team that closes at the end of the year. Torelli has also signed riders from Sweden, Ukraine, and Poland for 2027.
Team PAU has named five juniors for 2027, and says more may follow. Thomas Cragg (Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy to Team PAU, confirmed 9 November), 16, will be a first-year junior; this autumn he was 9th in the junior race at the National Trophy round in Pontypool. Tony Kenneally (Dungarvan CC to Team PAU, confirmed 9 November), a 17-year-old from Ireland, will be a second-year junior, and rode this year’s Junior Tour of Wales. Ollie Larner, Joel Thomas, and Soren Davies (all Team PAU, staying, confirmed 9 November) stay for their second junior season. The team is the fully funded racing arm of Project PAU, the free youth academy run by Pau Run and Ride in Stoke-on-Trent.
Harley Widdowson (camsmajaco to RideRevolution Coaching CT, confirmed 8 November) is the third new signing RideRevolution Coaching CT has named for 2027, after Harper Johnson and Edwin Boyle. The 18-year-old will be a first-year under-23 after his junior years with camsmajaco, one of seven of its riders born in 2008 to leave the team. RideRevolution calls him a climber and says he has raced at national and international level. Seven of the ten new signings are still to be named.
Daisy Taylor (The Hera Project, staying, confirmed 8 November) is the sixth rider The Hera Project has confirmed for 2027. In what the team calls her transition from mountain biking to road racing, the 20-year-old was 11th at the CiCLE Classic in March, 5th at the Capernwray Road Race, and 7th at the Curlew Cup, and the team says she won silver in the under-23 cross-country and bronze in the short-track race at the national mountain bike championships. “I’m really happy with the consistency of my results across the 2026 road season,” she said.
Britons abroad
Callum Macleod (Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü, staying, confirmed 9 November) stays with the Turkish Continental team, which he joined in August. The 26-year-old was 2nd on stage 3 of the Tour of Istanbul in September, and 2nd in the race’s mountains classification. He raced for Canyon dhb from 2019 to 2021, and for the Dutch team ABLOC in 2022 and 2023.
Reuben Corlett (UCK Vannes–Bretagne Sud Cyclisme to EuroCyclingTrips–CCN, confirmed 9 November) joins the UCI Continental team, which is registered in Guam and named him in a post on X as one of its riders for 2027. He raced this year for the French amateur club UCK Vannes in Brittany, after two seasons with AC Pays de Baud. Hugo Lutz Atkinson (EuroCyclingTrips–CCN, staying, confirmed 9 November) stays for a fourth full season with the team, which he first rode for as a stagiaire in 2023. His brother Max raced this year for Moonglu Spatzwear RT.
All of the moves above are on the Stats Hub’s transfers page, and the domestic moves are in our 2027 team guides for women’s and men’s teams. If you missed it, the last edition had Prologue Racing Team naming a young senior squad, Wold Top Pactimo RT completing theirs, and Elliot Rowe set to step up to Visma–Lease a Bike’s WorldTeam.
