Jacob Steed, the junior national cyclo-cross champion, is heading to France for 2027. The 18-year-old joins CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain alongside Henry Hunter, 21st in our road rankings this year, two moves we missed when they were first reported last month. At home, Loughborough Lightning has named five more riders in the space of two days, taking its squad to 11: Jihanna Bonilla-Allard and Lili-Keau Juntakereket arrive from Paralloy RT, which closes at the end of the year, Abby Johnston steps up from 360cycling, and Miriam Jessett and Aimee Dickson stay.
We also have Kirstie Drakeford’s move to The Hera Project, a fifth new signing for RideRevolution Coaching CT, Theodor Storm’s departure from the Netcompany INEOS Racing Academy, and Max Bufton staying in Spain.
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Domestic
Loughborough Lightning, second in our women’s team rankings this year, began naming its 2027 squad on 10 November and has now confirmed 11 riders, five of them since our last edition.
Jihanna Bonilla-Allard (Paralloy RT to Loughborough Lightning, confirmed 12 November) is the team’s third new signing. The 29-year-old won the inaugural Horseshoe Pass Road Race in May, the event that brought senior women’s road racing back to North Wales, and was 8th at the Torvelo Women’s Road Race and 9th at the Capernwray Road Race. “The support provided by the team is incredible and I can’t wait to have fun racing bikes together!” she said.
Lili-Keau Juntakereket (Paralloy RT to Loughborough Lightning, confirmed 13 November), announced by the team as Lili Keau, follows her from Paralloy RT, which closes at the end of 2026. The 25-year-old was 57th in our women’s road rankings in her one season with the team, finishing 3rd at the Fenwick’s Women’s Tour of Mendip and 10th at the Witham Hall Grand Prix. In 2025, racing as a private member, she was 3rd at the Beicio Cymru Road Race Championships and 5th at the Maria Thompson Memorial Road Race. “Looking forward to developing as a rider and making the most of the amazing support and facilities,” she said. Five of Paralloy RT’s 12 riders now have a team for 2027.
Abby Johnston (360cycling to Loughborough Lightning, confirmed 13 November) joins after her final junior season, in which she was 20th at the Capernwray Road Race. She moved to 360cycling from Shibden Cycling Club for 2026 and will be a first-year under-23 in 2027. “It’s an amazing opportunity and I can’t wait to see how the season goes!” she said.
Miriam Jessett (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 12 November) starts her fourth season with the team. The 27-year-old was 6th at the Gifford Road Race in March and 18th in the elite national time trial championship. “The support and facilities available to riders is invaluable,” she said. Aimee Dickson (Loughborough Lightning, staying, confirmed 12 November) is an Irish track sprinter who, in Lightning colours, won the keirin at the Irish national track championships in Dublin in August. “They’ve been so supportive of my track racing,” the under-23 said of her first season with the team. Five of this year’s riders are yet to be confirmed.
Kirstie Drakeford (Jadan Vive le Velo p/b Glasdon to The Hera Project, confirmed 12 November) leaves the team she had raced for since April 2022. The 24-year-old was 8th at the Sheffield Grand Prix in both 2025 and 2026, and the team says she first came across The Hera Project at the Horseshoe Pass Road Race, where she took the first two queen of the mountains primes and finished 5th, two places behind her new team-mate Eleanor Dixon. “As always I’m super excited for the crits, they’ll always be a favourite for me, but I’m genuinely just looking forward to everything 2027 has to offer!” she said. Team principal Christine White called her “a real powerhouse of a rider”, adding: “She’s shown great consistency, but I genuinely believe there’s a lot more to come from her.” The Hera Project now has seven riders confirmed for 2027.
Seth Davey (Guernsey Velo Club to RideRevolution Coaching CT, confirmed 14 November) is the fifth of the 10 new signings RideRevolution Coaching CT is naming one at a time for its International Development Programme, after Harper Johnson, Edwin Boyle, Harley Widdowson, and James Canham. The 18-year-old from Guernsey, a first-year under-23 in 2027, was part of the island’s silver medal-winning team in the mountain bike criterium at the 2025 Island Games in Orkney, and on the road this year was 50th at the Portsdown Classic. The team describes him as an all-rounder. RideRevolution has five signings still to name.
Theodor Storm (Netcompany INEOS Racing Academy to Team ColoQuick, confirmed 13 November) leaves the British-registered Netcompany INEOS Racing Academy for the Danish Continental team he had been due to join in 2024, before INEOS signed him on a three-year deal. Feltet.dk reports that a nerve illness delayed the 21-year-old Dane’s senior debut until March 2025, and that a crash and further illness cost him the whole of 2026. “I would never be able to forgive myself if I gave up without giving it a proper shot,” he told the Danish site.
Verulam Megan’s RT has signed four riders from Brother UK–Team OnForm for 2027, among them Sian Botteley, who raced at UCI Continental level in 2024 and 2025, as we reported on 13 November. Lotty Dawson, Lucy Neatham, and Amber Junker-Brameld also join.
Britons abroad
CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain, the French N3 club, will have three British riders in 2027. DirectVelo named them among four recruits on 20 October: we covered Cai Curtis-Roberts at the time but missed the other two. The club is losing Edward Morgan and Tom Williams to E. Leclerc Ruffec Top 16, and DirectVelo lists an 11-rider squad for next season, eight of them new.
Henry Hunter (360cycling to CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain, confirmed 20 October) was 360cycling’s leading rider this year and 21st in our road rankings, with 5th places at the PB Performance Espoirs Road Race and the Capernwray Road Race, 8th at the Lancaster Grand Prix, and 6th overall at the Ronde van Wymeswold. The 22-year-old, who rode for Kendal Cycle Club and Muc-Off–SRCT–Storck in 2025, has already raced in France: DirectVelo lists 4th at the Grand Prix de Saint-Maximin among his results there.
Jacob Steed (BCC Race Team to CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain, confirmed 20 October) is better known for cyclo-cross. The 18-year-old won the junior national title in South Shields in January, was 10th at the Tábor round of the junior World Cup last winter, and rode the junior world championships in Hulst for Great Britain, finishing 29th. He has moved up to the under-23 ranks this winter and was 5th in the elite race at the opening National Trophy round in Derby. On the road this year he was 9th at the Harrogate Nova Yorkshire Road Race and 18th in the junior national road race championship.
Max Bufton (Surne Bilbao Cycling Team, staying, confirmed 13 November) gets a second season with the Basque elite and under-23 team. The 20-year-old moved to Spain after a first under-23 season with Wheelbase CabTech Castelli in which he was 3rd at the Yorkshire Under-23 Classic, 5th at the PB Performance Espoirs Road Race, and 14th at the Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic, and this year rode the Vuelta a Navarra, Vuelta a Madrid, and Vuelta a Castilla-La Mancha.
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 Lucy Glover joining the new WattShop Ohten team and Lightning keeping Morgan Newberry.
