Team Ohten and WattShop’s race team are merging to race as WattShop Ohten from 2027, and have named three riders for National Road Series rounds and the national championships: Lucy Glover, from Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team, Callum Twelves, and Toby Tombs. Loughborough Lightning has kept three more of this year’s squad, among them Morgan Newberry, who set a C5 world record at the Commonwealth Games in July, and RideRevolution Coaching CT has signed James Canham, a double medallist at the junior track world championships, and kept Clay Davies as a rider and mentor.
We also round up the 13-rider squad JAKROO Handsling Racing has built for its UCI Continental application, and Jacques Goetz stays with 54/11 Coaching.
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WattShop Ohten brings together two teams from 2027. In their announcement, the teams say Team Ohten was founded in 2019 as a masters track team, adding a youth and junior development squad in the past year, and that WattShop, the performance brand whose race team is the other half of the merger, grew out of Dan Bigham’s HUUB Wattbike. The merged team told us it is track-weighted, with the elite and masters national track championships and the masters world championships among its targets, and that it will also focus on the CTT’s national time trial championships. On the road, it says, it will ride a number of National Road Series rounds and the national championships, and it has named three riders for them.
Lucy Glover (Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team to WattShop Ohten, confirmed 12 November) leaves the UCI Continental team after a season and a half. The 20-year-old joined from Shibden Apex RT in the middle of 2025, and this year was 8th in the under-23 national time trial and 12th at the Colne Grand Prix.
Callum Twelves (Torres–Sobato to WattShop Ohten, confirmed 12 November) goes back to the team he raced for in Belgium, as Team Ohten Aveas, before his move to Spain. The 22-year-old Scot left the Huesca team in September after four seasons, and this year was 5th in the time trial at the Cinturón de la Mancha.
Toby Tombs (Crabbé–Dstny to WattShop Ohten, confirmed 12 November) will be a first-year under-23 after his final junior season with Crabbé–Dstny, the Belgian junior team that feeds Alpecin–Deceuninck. The 18-year-old won two national junior track titles in August, then at the junior track world championships won bronze in the team pursuit and was 4th in the madison with Dan Thompson. On the road he was 5th in the junior national time trial.
Loughborough Lightning has confirmed three more of this year’s squad for 2027, after Peggy Simpkins on 10 November. Morgan Newberry (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 11 November) will start her fifth season with the team. A C5 para-cyclist, the 27-year-old set a C5 world record of 5:05.764 in the 4km individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July, in a final she lost to Australia’s Tara Neyland, a C4 rider, on factored time. On 1 November she won silver in the C5 scratch race at the para-cycling track world championships in Apeldoorn, her first world track medal, to go with three from the road world championships since 2024. “Excited to race with Lightning for my 5th season,” she said.
Georgina Oakley (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 11 November) starts her fourth season with Lightning. The 26-year-old was 7th at the South Cerney Kermesse and 13th at the Duncan Murray Wines Road Race this year. “Last season was a big step up for me,” she said. Libby Bell (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 11 November) stays after her first season with the team, in which she was 11th at the Capernwray Road Race. “The support is great and it’s nice to be a part of such a lovely group of people,” she said. Seven of this year’s riders are yet to be confirmed.
JAKROO Handsling Racing has applied for UCI Continental registration for 2027 and would race as Pronto Bikes Racing by Promethean, with the Frome bike shop Pronto Bikes as title partner, we revealed on 11 November. All 13 of its riders were confirmed that day. Dylan Belton Owen, Sam Chaplin, Harrison Dainty, Oliver Dawson, and Oscar Nisbett stay. Dylan Hicks (UN Cycling Team x Pyörävarikko), who won the 2025 Beaumont Trophy in the team’s colours, returns after a season away, and Ben Askey (Team COPPI–BO.Buro), formerly of Groupama–FDJ’s Continental team and the national under-23 cyclo-cross champion, Alex Murphy (Stolen Goat 4Endurance), who won the Portsdown Classic in February, and Matt Fletcher (Harrogate Nova Race Team), a stage winner at two UCI junior stage races this year, all join.
Four riders move across from Pronto Bikes Race Team: Angus Collard, Nathan Hallett, Charlie Hoy, and George Smith. Rowan Baker, Alex Franks, Thomas Heal, William Truelove, and Conor White leave.
James Canham (Shibden Apex RT to RideRevolution Coaching CT, confirmed 10 November) is the fourth of 10 new signings RideRevolution Coaching CT is naming one at a time for 2027, after Harper Johnson, Edwin Boyle, and Harley Widdowson. He will be a first-year under-23 after two junior seasons with Shibden Apex RT, and on his debut at the junior track world championships in Heusden-Zolder in August won Great Britain’s first medal of the week, bronze in the scratch race, before taking silver in the elimination race. On the road he was 8th in the junior national time trial.
Clay Davies (RideRevolution Coaching CT, staying, confirmed 12 November) stays for a fifth season with the team he has ridden for since its first, and will combine racing with a role as a rider mentor, “helping guide our younger riders as they transition into senior racing”, in the team’s words. He was 4th in our open road rankings this year, with 2nd overall at Totnes Vire, 2nd at the GA Bennett Road Race, 5th at the Eastern Road Race Championships, and 7th at the East Cleveland Classic. We interviewed him in 2021. RideRevolution has six signings still to name.
Jacques Goetz (54/11 Coaching, staying, announced by the rider 10 November) stays with the club team for 2027. The under-23, who rode for Otley CC in 2023 and 2024, says his 2026 season brought 10 top-10 finishes from 15 races as a second-category rider.
All of the moves above are on the Stats Hub’s transfers page, and our 2027 team guides for women’s and men’s teams track how each squad is shaping up. If you missed it, the last edition had Loughborough Lightning naming its first three riders for 2027 and the Danish junior champion Maia Howell joining Torelli.
