A new, flatter course at Lampeter opens the Lloyds National Road Championships on Thursday. Zoe Backstedt and Ethan Hayter defend on Welsh roads; though, for a second year running, the elite men’s race may be missing the rider who grew up just up the coast. The form, the course and the full provisional startlists.
Tom Stewart owes his decade in the professional peloton to his local cycling club. As Doncaster Wheelers turn 100, the two-time Lincoln Grand Prix winner makes the case for the institution he believes British road racing cannot afford to lose.
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.
George Stephen is the latest contributor to The British Continental’s 2026 journal series. The BCC Race Team rider and Nottingham student writes about a Movember ride that came to mean more than he expected, the crash in France that changed everything, and the diagnosis that arrived just as he had got back to racing.
We are really pleased to introduce Ian Mansel-Thomas as the latest of The British Continental’s 2026 journal contributors. Ian co-manages the junior super-team camsmajaco, and in his opening entry he examines how junior racing has come to resemble the WorldTour — and the rider-agent landgrab that now reaches under-16s.
We are really pleased to introduce Tizzie Robinson-Gordon as the latest of The British Continental’s 2026 journal contributors. In her opening entry, she takes us from a broken ankle in a Calpe villa garden to a return to the Scottish scene six weeks later — via a meditation on a gravel bike she does not need.
We are really pleased to introduce Hope Inglis as the first of The British Continental’s new journal contributors for 2026. In her opening entry, she makes the case for what road cycling might learn from its muddier cousins – and why a trip to Cannock Chase rekindled her love of racing.
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.
