At 22, Sheffield’s James Hartley is learning fast in France with Team Bricquebec Cotentin – a Rayner Foundation-backed stage winner at the Tour de la Manche, now turning early-season momentum into a simple, uncompromising mission: win, and progress.
On Sunday 23 February, junior Mark Ketteringham (Prologue Racing Team) judged wind, handicap and timing to perfection to win the 58th Clayton Spring Classic, sprinting from a select front group to hold off the pursuing elite riders on the windswept Bashall Eaves circuit.
Rapha has launched RCC Racing, unveiling an eight-rider collective led by 2025 Rapha Super-League winner Matt Bostock and track world champions Megan Barker and Ollie Wood.
After Cold Dark North’s January appeal for financial backing was published on The British Continental, Topp Cycling have stepped in to support the Proper Northern Road Race at Capernwray this April — securing the race’s prize fund and reinforcing its place as one of the North’s defining National B contests. Entries are now open.