The Women’s and Junior CiCLE Classics will return to Melton Mowbray on Sunday 21 March 2027, organiser Colin Clews has confirmed to The British Continental, and the men’s Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic will start and finish in Oakham for a third successive year on Sunday 25 April. The two March races keep their course and format, carry the CAMS name alone from next year, and take entries from 14 December. British Cycling has yet to publish its 2027 National Series calendar.
March in Melton
The 11th CAMS Women’s CiCLE Classic and the 13th CAMS Junior CiCLE Classic will follow this year’s format. The junior men start at 09.30 and the women at 14.00, and both races cover the same 105-kilometre course, which Clews said is unchanged from 2026. That means the farm-track sectors of Somerberg, Manorberg, Newbold Manor and Stapleberg, the climbs of Burrough Berg, Cold Overton Berg and Cuckooberg, and the finishing circuit through Stapleford Park before the run back into Melton.
Both races are expected to be rounds of their British Cycling National Series again, as they were this year, when the women’s race opened the Women’s National Road Series and the juniors rode the second of eight rounds of the Junior Open National Road Series. Clews said there has been no confirmation yet of the level of support British Cycling will give National Series races in 2027.
Entries will open through British Cycling’s online system on 14 December for the women’s race and on 1 January for the juniors. Clews said the organisers have published the dates widely themselves because the races fall so early in the season, and that British Cycling, which is still finalising its 2027 series listings, appears comfortable with them doing so. British Cycling published its 2026 calendar on 18 November last year, and its 2025 calendar on 5 December 2024.
This year Noémie Thomson (DAS–Hutchinson) won the women’s race with a long solo attack from the finishing circuit, and William Coles (Cannibal B Victorious) took the junior race from a reduced sprint.
CAMS on its own
The March races keep their sponsor, but not its full name. From 2027 the ANEXO half of ANEXO/CAMS is being dropped to give CAMS greater prominence, Clews said. CAMS will also again be a presenting sponsor of the men’s race, below title sponsors Sigma Sports and Schwalbe UK.
Oakham for the men’s race
When the organisers announced the 25 April date in September, they said nothing about where the UCI 1.2 race would finish, and Clews had told the Melton Times in May that a return to Melton, last used as the finish in 2023, was open to negotiation. That is now settled. The Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic will again start and finish in Oakham, as it did in 2025 and 2026.
“By general consensus of sponsors and fans this works better than a split start and finish point,” Clews said. He added that the new partial bypass around Melton, now open, would add to the logistical problems of running a finishing circuit there for the international race.
The 2026 edition, won by Otto Van Zanden (Azerion Villa Valkenburg), had 176 riders from 35 teams, the largest field in the race’s history.
All three races are on our 2027 domestic road calendar, which we are updating as dates are confirmed.
