The Northern Championships are set for Scorton this Sunday (31 May), featuring the North West, Yorkshire, and North East crowns contested in one open race.
A week at the Tour de Bretagne leaves Mattie Dodd feeling the strongest he has all season, if without the result to show for it — before fighter jets, First World War mines and his new team’s first road race win enliven a run through the Ardennes and Flanders.
A new, punchy Knipton circuit hosts the East and West Midlands championships for the first time; a loop built for attrition rather than a single decisive climb, with both the open and women’s titles there to be won.
The Eastern Road Championship returns to the lanes around Barking on Sunday 31 May, where a compact field, a technical circuit and 12 ascents of Willisham Hill should produce a race with little room for concealment.