When Charlie Crawt says no regional road race ran in the Eastern Region last season, he isn’t complaining. He’s describing a gap. This is the story of Primo RT’s attempt to hold that space open – between a rider’s first start and the leap to National A – at a time when entries are fragile and races can’t be taken for granted.
When Charlie Crawt says no regional road race ran in the Eastern Region last season, he isn’t complaining. He’s describing a gap. This is the story of Primo RT’s attempt to hold that space open – between a rider’s first start and the leap to National A – at a time when entries are fragile and races can’t be taken for granted.
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.
From sofa sulks to sprint finishes, Iona Mitchell’s latest rider journal captures the messy, funny, and unexpectedly joyful side of domestic racing.
Brass bands in Vorarlberg, Swiss switchbacks and a bruising Nationals leave Mattie with solid top-20s and a narrow escape from that Aberystwyth pile-up. Now back in Austria, he braces for the Tour of Austria’s shark-toothed parcours.
