Sportives
Best sportives near London
London is not an obvious sportive city, but it is a very good sportive base.
The capital itself is too busy, flat and stop-start for most road-cycling events to feel...
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Best sportives in Wales for climbing
Wales has some of the toughest cycling sportives in Britain, combining long mountain passes with steep valley roads, exposed moorland and very little genuinely...
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Best beginner-friendly sportives in the UK
The best beginner-friendly sportives in the UK are not always the shortest rides. A good first sportive should feel achievable, well organised and memorable,...
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Best 100-mile sportives in the UK
Riding 100 miles remains one of British cycling’s clearest endurance milestones.
It is far enough to demand structured training, sensible pacing and reliable nutrition, but...
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Best closed-road sportives in the UK
Closed-road sportives are the closest most amateur riders get to feeling like the pros. The roads are shut to normal traffic, the route is...
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Toughest sportives in the UK
The toughest sportives in the UK are not always the longest. Distance matters, but the hardest events usually combine climbing, steep gradients, rough weather,...
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Étape Loch Ness guide: route, closed roads and Fort Augustus climb
Étape Loch Ness is one of the UK’s most distinctive closed-road sportives, not because it is the longest or the steepest, but because it...
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Dragon Ride guide: route, climbs, difficulty and training tips
Dragon Ride is one of the UK’s defining sportives. Based at Margam Park near Port Talbot, it sends riders into the Bannau Brycheiniog, or...
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Best UK sportives to ride in 2026
The UK sportive calendar has changed shape in 2026. RideLondon is no longer the obvious mass-participation centrepiece, with the event placed on indefinite pause,...
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L’Étape du Tour 2026 complete guide for UK riders: route, registration, travel and training
L’Étape du Tour is one of the closest experiences an amateur cyclist can get to riding the Tour de France. Closed roads, official Tour...
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RideLondon is paused for 2026: the best alternatives now the UK’s biggest sportive is off the calendar
RideLondon has been placed on indefinite pause, leaving thousands of cyclists without the UK’s biggest mass-participation road cycling event. For riders who had built...
