Hamish Johnstone (Team Tor 2000 Kalas) won the opening criterium at the Torbay Velopark and survived Oddicombe Hill to lead the 52nd Totnes–Vire Two-Day overnight on Saturday 4 April. Jed Claxton (Wheal Velocity) took Saturday’s hill climb; seven seconds separate the top two ahead of Sunday’s Dartmoor stage.
After a breakthrough season with Reflex-Nopinz, Josh Horsfield steps into Cycling Sheffield with a clear objective: use one year to learn quickly, race hard, and earn a move to the continent.
In his latest journal entry, Rayner Foundation-supported rider Mattie Dodd charts an Odyssean opening block — a prologue win in Rhodes, a crash into a hedge, and a crosswind education at Olympia’s Tour.
Four months into the season, the interesting stories are already forming. The British Continental is looking for contributors willing to write them down.
In his latest journal entry, Rayner Foundation-supported rider Mattie Dodd charts the leap into the INEOS Grenadiers Racing Academy, where idolisation gives way to routine and twelve strangers begin to feel like a team.
As the road season fades, London Academy rider Iona Mitchell continues her season-long journal, tracing the rivalries, rituals and razor-thin margins that define life on and off the bike.
After a year that began with illness and uncertainty, Mattie Dodd closes out his 2025 campaign with a wry, honest reflection on the road back to form. From the surreal pageantry of Austria’s King of the Lake to the heartbreak of a mistimed puncture in Italy, his latest journal captures the strange poetry of a rider rebuilding — one time trial, one near miss, and one hard-won dose of belief at a time.
Mattie Dodd’s latest journal takes us inside a stint of stage racing that stretched from the Czech Republic to Romania, via Slovenia and Italy. It’s classic Mattie: sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, equal parts grit and gallows humour.
In a weekend of ice-cream mishaps, borrowed kit and back-of-the-van logistics, London Academy’s Iona Mitchell finds herself at the heart of the chaos — and the quiet triumph — of life on the domestic road scene.
Breakaways with WorldTour stars, searing Italian heat and a sprint slip at GP Poggiana mark a month of hard racing and near misses as Mattie gears up for a busy late season.
