2026 Curlew Cup & Beaumont Trophy: reports and results
Nicola Quaye soloed from the first lap to take a remarkable maiden Nat A victory at the Curlew Cup, as Tim Shoreman sprinted to victory in the Beaumont Trophy
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Nicola Quaye soloed from the first lap to take a remarkable maiden Nat A victory at the Curlew Cup, as Tim Shoreman sprinted to victory in the Beaumont Trophy
A year ago, Max Sillifant was trying to save a race. Now he is trying to broaden the idea of what a National B can be. Ahead of the second Riders Collective GP on 19 September, he tells us about women’s racing, village diplomacy and why the day should feel like a festival
George Stephen returns with the second entry in his 2026 journal for The British Continental. Writing from Mallorca after burnout forced him out of the National Championships, the BCC Race Team rider and Nottingham student pays tribute to the people who never appear on the results list — but without whom no bike rider gets anywhere.
Fifth in the national time trial on caffeine alone, then two laps of bluff and counter-bluff in Aberystwyth that settled the under-23 title — Mattie Dodd on a Nationals he can barely remember, and a stand-off he could not win.
A first UCI win on stage 4 of the Ronde de l’Isard, a week of donkey work in the Alps and eight summits’ worth of climbing points at the Giro d’Italia Next Gen — Mattie Dodd on the best month of his season, and the prize he has since mislaid.
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.
