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2025 DAP CC Road Race: preview and startlist

Suffolk’s Ringsfield circuit hosts the DAP CC Road Race this Sunday: eight flat, 15 km laps where crosswinds, not climbs, are more likely to decide the outcome. The field includes a former hour-record holder, the winner of the UK’s longest road race and a clutch of the quickest finishers in the domestic peloton itching to sprint for glory.

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2025 Harrogate Nova Road Race: preview and startlist

The Harrogate Nova Road Race returns to Nidderdale this Sunday, 25 May, with six punchy laps of the 12 km Dacre circuit. The women’s start list – small but stacked—pits top class talent against the circuit’s 12 % ramps. Harrogate Nova’s decision to run despite low numbers keeps elite women’s racing alive in Yorkshire – sign-on remains open right up to race day.

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Podcast | From DNF to Lincoln legend: James McKay’s three-year ascent

James McKay’s one-armed salute on the cobbles of Michaelgate looked like an overnight success. In fact, it was the end of a three-season arc that began with him riding back to Sheffield in tears after a 2022 DNF and a phone call to his coach, Dave Coulson, to say he was done with National-level racing. Dave said “nonsense”, and that single word turned the story. In this conversation with host Denny Gray, the 28-year-old Yorkshireman unpacks the moments – and the many people – that lifted him from “head in the bin” to Britain’s most coveted domestic win.

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2025 Rás Tailteann: preview

Here’s our whistle-stop preview of the 70th Rás Tailteann (21-25 May 2025): five stages, 706 km and a whole lot of unpredictability. Expect a sprinter’s scramble out of Drogheda, GC fireworks on Windy Gap and Wolftrap, and a fast-and-fraught Bective finale where the George Plant trophy will finally find its owner. Defending champ Dom Jackson headlines an eight-team British line-up backed by track-powered GB talent, while the lone UCI squad, Team Skyline, and 16 fired-up Irish teams aim to keep the prize on home soil.