Verulam Megan’s Racing Team have signed four riders from Brother UK–Team OnForm for 2027, among them Sian Botteley, who raced at UCI Continental level in 2024 and 2025. Lotty Dawson, Lucy Neatham, and Amber Junker-Brameld also join the St Albans club team, giving it a women’s squad with National Road Series experience as it goes into its tenth season.
Having teammates that are genuine friends as well really helps you to achieve more
Botteley was 5th at the women’s CiCLE Classic in 2023 with Hutchinson–Brother UK, stayed when the team stepped up to Continental level in 2024, and raced for Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team in 2025. This year she rode three rounds of the series, with a best of 18th at the CiCLE Classic, and in May she won the East and West Midlands women’s championship race, her first road race win in almost seven years.
“After two difficult years dealing with iliac artery endofibrosis I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into 2027 back to full strength with Verulam Megan’s RT,” she said. “The team has really great support and I know my teammates well. I’ve learnt over the past few years that having teammates that are genuine friends as well really helps you to achieve more, so I’m excited to see what we can achieve together on the national scene.”
Dawson, an under-23, was 5th at the Witheridge Grand Prix, a round of the series, in 2025, and 6th overall at the Rás na mBan that September after finishing 2nd in the stage 5 time trial. She raced only four times on the road this year, which the team puts down to illness. Neatham won the opening round of the women’s junior and under-23 National Road Series at Witham Hall in 2023 after riding the last three laps alone, and raced for London Academy until she joined the OnForm team this year. Junker-Brameld, who has raced for the team since 2023, had five top-15 finishes in National B road races this year, the best of them 5th at the London Dynamo Road Race.
The four leave a team that is changing too. OnForm, the development programme behind DAS–Hutchinson, whose Continental team closes at the end of the year, will race as Duckworth Motor Group–On Form in 2027 and has said it will have new management.
At Verulam they join Beth Watson, an under-23 criterium rider who moved from Jadan Vive le Velo p/b Glasdon during this season, and two juniors from Verulam CC’s youth programme, Dale Jetmar and Bella Waite. “We’re delighted to go into 2027, which is our 10th anniversary of racing, having strengthened the team considerably over the last few months, particularly in our Women’s squad who we anticipate will be a real force on the national scene,” team manager Doug Driscoll told The British Continental.
The open squad, which did not ride the series this year, adds Oliver Searle, 6th at the Chas Messenger Trophy, a round of the U23 Open National Road Series, from Ashby Ivanhoe Road Cyclists, and Jamie Maxen, who returns from Cambridge University Cycling Club. Ten riders stay.
The team’s targets include the CiCLE Classic, the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix, the National Circuit Series, and the Ronde van Wymeswold. It is backed by Verulam CC, which turns 100 in 2027, Megan’s Restaurants, and UltimateMover.com, with Trek Store St Albans joining as a sponsor, and says it does not ask riders to pay for their places. The riders named below are its road squad: across all ages and disciplines the team will have 48 riders in 2027, made up of 18 youths, 10 women, and 20 men.
Verulam Megan’s RT in 2027
Women, in: Sian Botteley (Brother UK–Team OnForm), Lotty Dawson (Brother UK–Team OnForm), Amber Junker-Brameld (Brother UK–Team OnForm), Lucy Neatham (Brother UK–Team OnForm)
Women, re-signed: Dale Jetmar (junior), Bella Waite (junior), Beth Watson
Men, in: Jamie Maxen (Cambridge University Cycling Club), Oliver Searle (Ashby Ivanhoe Road Cyclists)
Men, re-signed: Davi Braga, Alarik Knox, Michael Parry, Oliver Parsons, Barnabas Pickford, Lucas Salmon, James Ward, Matt Watson, Matthew Wight, Alan Wylie
Out: none
Read the 2027 men’s and women’s domestic team guides, and follow every rider move on our transfers page.
