Olivia Bates, a former GB lightweight rower in only her second road race, rode away from the field to win the inaugural KLM Taxis Women’s GP at Walton, and Adam Lewis defended his Riders Collective GP title, alone again, after a race that came back together with five laps to go.
Cycling has spent a decade opening the front door to new women, and almost none of it rethinking what happens once they are inside. In her second journal entry, Tizzie Robinson-Gordon writes from the interior: the chaingang, the feed zone, and the surprise that never stops.
The national road season ends on Saturday 19 September in Walton, south Leicestershire, where Max Sillifant’s second Riders Collective GP gains a women’s race, a new 4.6-kilometre circuit and the last word on both of The British Continental’s team rankings.
Ashley Hutchison came back at Thomas Doig on the drag to the line at Eaton Constantine, winning from an eight-rider move that went clear on the final lap of an attacking race.