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2025 Tour of the Reservoir: preview

On Sunday 22 June 2025, the wind-scoured moors above Derwent Reservoir will echo again with clicking freewheels as the Tour of the Reservoir breaks a six-year silence. Last raced in 2019, the North-East classic is back as a single-day showcase based out of Consett, County Durham. With Rapha Super-League and National Road Series on the line, expect fearsome, attritional racing.

Previews Rapha Super League

2025 VIA Criterium: preview and startlists

London’s crit showpiece returns this Saturday, 21 June. The VIA Criterium, Round 3 of the Rapha Super-League, shoe-horns an 850 m circuit into King’s Cross, sending riders down The Drop ramp, across Coal Drops Yard’s cobbles and onto the 200 m “VIA Straight” for a flood-lit drag race. Alec Briggs returns to defend his crown, Super-League points and bragging rights up for grabs before the Nationals. One-minute laps, wall-to-wall fans, equal prize pots. London’s urban amphitheatre is primed and waiting.