A conversation about 2027 became an immediate opportunity for a short-handed National Road Series team and a former elite prospect finding out how far an unexpected comeback can take him. Adam Hartley makes his Wheelbase debut at Sunday’s Lancaster Grand Prix.
The 2026 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women will run for five stages for the first time, with 635.8 kilometres from Cumbria to Warwickshire and a summit finish above Llandudno at the heart of the race.
Nineteen teams will line up at the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women in August, including DAS–Hutchinson, Handsling Alba, O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes, and Smurfit Westrock — the domestic squads whose participation looked in serious doubt when new UCI eligibility rules were published last summer.
British Cycling has confirmed the roads that will shape September’s Lloyds Tour of Britain Men – 910.3 kilometres from Lincoln to the Scottish Borders, beginning over the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix circuit and likely to hinge on a hard Yorkshire Dales stage to Leyburn.