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Greater Manchester to host first stage of the 2023 Tour of Britain

The Tour of Britain will return to Greater Manchester in 2023, with the race due to start in the city on Sunday 3rd September. The race will be making...

Host regions announced for 2022 Tour of Britain

The Tour of Britain returns in 2022 and will visit Yorkshire for the first time since 2009. A pair of full stages in Dorset and Gloucestershire for the first...

Cycling World Champions List

The World Championships is the pinnacle one-day race of the cycling calendar. The list of winners contains so many iconic cyclists over the decades.

Greatest Spring Classics Races – E3 Harelbeke

The first E3 BinckBank Classic was first run in 1958 and would head from Harelbeke to Antwerp and back. From the early 1960s it was called the E3-Prijs Vlaanderen. Originally named after a local motorway, the road has since been renamed the E17 but the race has name has stuck.

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Originally named Omloop van Vlaanderen, the race was created by newspaper Het Volk to compete against rival Het Nieuwsblad's Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen).

Roubaix Velodrome – A History

These days there are two velodromes in Roubaix. One is indoors and not even 10 years old yet. The other is the immensely iconic outdoor one that sees the...

Champs Élysées – the most iconic street in cycling

To most people, the Champs Elysees is a premium-priced shopping street. With a very wide road in the middle of it and evenly spaced trees lining the edges. To anyone...

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2017 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is the start of the Spring Classics season. Whilst not a classic in itself, it's the first race that will lead to the likes of Paris...

Giro d’Italia 2015 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

It's Giro d'Italia time again! Some of the world's best riders will fight it out over the next three weeks to see who will win overall and who will...

An even better weekend for the Brits…

It only seems like last weekend when I posted about the impact Brits have had so far this season, but they've done it again during the first week of...

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015

Spring is here! The Spring Classics season begins this Saturday with the Omloop het Nieuwsblad race in Belgium. Omloop is often used a warmup event for the Tour de Flanders...

Muur van Geraardsbergen (aka Kapelmuur) – Iconic Cycling Climbs

Kapelmuur (also known as the Muur van Geraardsbergen) was for many years, the most iconic climb in the Tour of Flanders. Positioned as the penultimate climb, it was often...