Beryl Burton, OBE was an English racing cyclist who dominated women's cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records. She set a women's record for the 12-hour time-trial which exceeded the men's record for two years.
Kristian House is a British former racing cyclist who rode for the JLT–Condor team from 2008 to 2015, and joined ONE Pro Cycling in 2016. He was the 2009 British Road Race Champion. He has raced in Europe and Australia. He rode for Great Britain in UCI World Cup track events. In 2006, he rode for the Recycling.co.uk team and in 2007 he signed for Navigators Insurance.
Tom Southam is a British former competitive cyclist from Penzance, Cornwall who competed professionally between 2003 and 2011. He represented Great Britain in five World Championships and rode in several UCI ProTour events. Southam currently works as a directeur sportif for World Tour team EF Pro Cycling.
Robert Lloyd "Rob" Partridge is a Welsh former professional cyclist from Wrexham, Wales. He represented Wales in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Inspired after watching the Tour de France on television, he joined the Wrexham Roads Club at an early age. Partridge rode for the Endura Racing team from 2010 to 2012 and rode for the Rapha Condor–Recycling.co.uk team in 2008 and Team Halfords Bikehut in 2009. He was living with the Under 23 GB Squad in Quarrata, Tuscany until June 2007.
Samuel Ryan Bewley is an amateur podcast host and former professional racing cyclist from New Zealand who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange–Jayco. He also competed for UCI ProTeam Team RadioShack and BikeNZ PureBlack Racing. He competed in nine Grand Tours, including five starts at the Vuelta a España and three starts at the Giro d'Italia. Bewley made his sole Tour de France appearance in the 2020 edition, before retiring from professional cycling at the end of 2022.
William Fotheringham is a sports writer specialising in cycling and rugby. As a newspaper journalist, he writes for The Guardian. Fotheringham was a features editor for Cycling Weekly, the features editor of Cycle Sport and co-founder of Procycling magazine. He is a current writer for procycling Magazine.
Rapha Performance Roadwear is a cycling lifestyle brand focused on road bicycle racing and mountain biking clothing and accessories. Rapha has their headquarters in London alongside a United States office in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Richard Moore was a Scottish journalist, author, podcaster, and racing cyclist.
Herbie Sykes is a British sports journalist and writer. His first book, The Eagle of the Canavese, was published in 2008. A biography of the Italian cyclist Franco Balmamion, it's framed through the story of his victory at the 1962 Giro d'Italia. It was revised and reprinted by Rapha in 2020.
Simon Richardson is a retired elite racing cyclist from Bristol who last rode for Team IG–Sigma Sport.
The Tour Series is an annual series of cycling criterium races held in the United Kingdom since 2009. It is televised by ITV4 in the UK. The competition emphasises team effort with individual wins deemed less important.
Christopher Ryan Opie is a British cyclist from England, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Saint Piran. Outside of racing, Opie has been a contributor and presenter for the Global Cycling Network.
Yves Lampaert is a Belgian road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.
Frederik Backaert is a Belgian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2021, for the Wanty–Gobert and B&B Hotels p/b KTM teams. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.
Tao Geoghegan Hart is a British cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He rode for Team Sky as a stagiaire in late 2015, and joined the team permanently for the 2017 season.
Team Wiggins Le Col, also known as Team Wiggins in media, was a professional developmental cycling team based in the United Kingdom, which began competing in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling in 2015. The team folded at the end of the 2019 season after completing the Tour of Britain.
Chloé Dygert is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM. She has won seven gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the Olympic Games. She also won the Women's junior road race and Women's junior time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
The Turkish National Road Race Championship is a cycling race organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey just like the national flag, these jerseys can be worn by the rider at other road racing events in the country to show their status as national champion. The champion's stripes can be combined into a sponsored rider's team kit design for this purpose. Mustafa Sayar and Azize Bekar are the current champions.
The Cycling Podcast is an independent sports audio production created by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, and Daniel Friebe. Launched in 2013, weekly, hour-long episodes provide insight, analysis and often irreverent take on professional road cycling. Each episode features interviews with different professional cyclists, team staff and other actors from across the sport. Increased coverage is provided at the Grand Tours where daily episodes are recorded at the end of each stage. It is also published by the UK broadsheet newspaper, The Telegraph.
The Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix is a road bicycle race that starts and finishes in Lincoln. The 2021 version was 166 km long. The race is characterised by its ascent of Michaelgate, an iconic cobbled climb in the centre of Lincoln with a maximum gradient of 20%. The Lincoln GP has ran since the summer of 1956, making it the oldest annual bike in the UK, that still runs today.
