For every British rider the move to a European team has worked for, camsmajaco co-manager Ian Mansel-Thomas can point to another it hasn’t. In his second journal entry he argues that the problem isn’t Europe but the age at which riders go: 16, with school, exams, and friendships all still at home.
The Rutland International CiCLE Classic will run on the last Sunday of April next year, organisers announced on Monday—a fixed point for a race that has survived a washout and a funding scare in the space of two seasons. Where it will finish is still to be decided.
Ted McDaid took a seven-rider sprint at Astwood to win the final round of the U23 Open National Road Series, and Alexander Foster took the series title.
Hope Inglis returns with the second entry in her 2026 journal for The British Continental. Looking back from the end of a placement in an air-conditioned Birmingham office, the London Academy rider describes keeping a racing season going around a full-time job — the annual leave spent driving to a muddy field in Belgium, the week she commuted to work from a campervan, and the tan lines her work trousers hide.