Sportives and organised rides

Marianne Vos backs UCI’s Women’s Cycling Week

Profile-raising events to culminate with La Course by le Tour de France on Champs-Élysées

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New Forest to consider pushing for laws to control sportives?

Report to National Park Authority suggests legislation one way to control cycling events

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New Forest sportive organisers gallop to change route after pony drift… ambush?*

*Or was it a trap?

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Championship Sportive – ride the Road National Championships course

Mass-participation event in Monmouthshire the day before the pros battle for the national jerseys

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Witness appeal after two riders seriously injured on BHF London to Brighton Bike Ride

Both taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting; man has life-threatening injuries

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Rapha launches 220-mile (in a day) Manchester to London Challenge charity ride

Event in September will raise money for Ambitious about Autism; route includes Peak District and Chilterns

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What’s on in Bike Week 2014: your round-the-UK guide

Find out what’s going on near you as the nation embraces cycling from June 14-22

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Bad news for MAMILs – 1 in 3 think cyclists should ditch Lycra before turning 40, says British Heart Federation survey (+ infographic)

Charity also launches partnership with British Cycling to get more people riding bikes

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Traffic-free Prudential RideLondon FreeCycle returns

Sign up is now open for the event featuring eight miles of closed city streets and bike-related festivities on August 9

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Graeme Obree launches new Flying Scotsman Sportive

Debut edition in August takes place day before Commonwealth Games road races in Glasgow

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“Concours des Alpes” open to entrants

A multi-stage sportive you’ve not done yet

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Toughest UK sportive The Monster set to accept entries

Entry opens on Sunday 1 June for 50 brave riders to tackle 4,200m of climbing over a 190km course

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No Sky Ride for Birmingham this year

Council says it can't find date to close city's streets - but hopes event will return in 2015

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British Cycling calls for regulation of sportives after Yorkshire route clash (+ video)

Governing body responds after video shows two events hitting same stretch of road on Sunday

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Video: What happens when a sportive meets a road race coming the other way?

Heated words in Yorkshire as two events hit same stretch of road at same time

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UCI wants YOU — to tell it what you want from sportives and mass rides

Quick survey will inform new Mass Participation Commission ideas

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Two cyclists airlifted to hospital with serious injuries during 2014 Fred Whitton Challenge

Gruelling 112 mile Lake District sportive claimed two casualties in tough conditions

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Video: Raleigh’s Tommy Godwin Challenge—can you ride 205 miles in one day?

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of an unbreakable record

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Videos: Brussels couriers tackle the Tour of Flanders sportive – on a cargo bike

Riders from PedalBXL takes to the hellingen and cobbles - also, video of riding in Europe's most congested city

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New Forest presents draft charter for cycling events

Latest attempt to placate NIMBYs teaches granny to suck eggs

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Miss out on RideLondon place? A charity has 20 on offer – and wants “hear-os” to fill them (+ video)

Action on Hearing Loss looking for riders to help raise funds in UK's biggest cycling event this August

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Riders banned from New Forest sportives for urinating in public

UK Cycling Events takes action against 18 riders it says broke its rules

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Were you on Wiggle Dragon Ride 2013? Seriously injured rider makes witness appeal

Michael Hopkins suffered spinal injuries following crash on descent in event in Wales

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Video: Pathe News coverage of first National Bike Week in 1923

Black white footage from a different era

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Official Prudential RideLondon kit now on sale at Wiggle

dhb jersey and shorts combo will set you back less than £100

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Join Mark Cavendish and wife Peta to ride for Help for Heroes in June

Hero Rides converge on London in June for 10-mile run to Horse Guards Parade

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Police go door-to-door in hunt for New Forest sportive saboteurs

National Park and councillors condemn locals "taking the law into their own hands"

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Saboteurs attack Wiggle New Forest Sportive (again)

Nails on road cause punctures for over 20 riders in third attack on New Forest sportive

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Forestry Commission pulls down anti-cycling posters ahead of New Forest sportive this weekend

Posters claim to "warn event could put public at risk”

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Watch Joff Summerfield as he rides Tour of Flanders sportive on a penny-farthing

Londoner followed by TV crew from Sporza over bergs & cobbles... & wished "good luck" by a Classics legend

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