Round 11 of the cyclocross World Cup will take place this Sunday, January 25th, in Hoogerheide. This is the final World Cup round in which Mathieu van der Poel and Lucinda Brand will be crowned winners. We take a look at the startlist of the race; favourites; and where to watch it online, on TV, in...

Records can fall quietly. This one did not. In Maasmechelen, Mathieu van der Poel survived his most turbulent race of the winter to reach 50 World Cup victories, drawing level with the benchmark that had defined modern cyclocross for a decade. The context matters. So do the words of the man whose ma...

For a brief spell in Maasmechelen, Tibor del Grosso found himself in a position few riders have occupied this winter, alone at the front with Mathieu van der Poel temporarily out of the picture. It did not last, but it said plenty about the race, and about the rider who ultimately reclaimed control....

The sprinter-focused Classica Comunitat Valenciana will be taking place on the 25th of January, starting at 12:00CET and finishing at 17:00CET. We take a look at the profile of the race that is set to finish in the city of Valencia itself and preview it. The Clssica Comunitat Valenciana is a histo...

Tiesj Benoot (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) has urged other riders not to work with Tadej Pogaar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) or Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) in the classics, or ride on the front when they are around. The Belgian, who has just left Visma-Lease a Bike, said Pogaar and van der Poel were now []

For Thibau Nys, the Maasmechelen World Cup was not about results or records, but about limitations. One week before the world championships in Hulst, the Belgian champion rode consistently at the front yet finished fourth, left searching for rhythm on a day when others, most notably Mathieu van der...

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in Maasmechelen began with a moment of serious concern on Saturday, as Joran Wyseure was carried off the course on a stretcher following a heavy crash just meters after the starting gun.He is skipping Hoogerheide and his participation in next weekends World Championsh...

Seth Dunwoody concedes with a chuckle that last season was perfect, in my opinion, to be honest. But he is not getting carried away, saying last years success brings more resources for him in 2026, but also higher expectations and being more closely marked by his rivals. The Co Armagh teenager, who started with Orchard []

For the first time in two years, Lucinda Brand has finished a cyclo-cross race off the podium.The dominant force of the 2025-2026 season, who had already secured the overall World Cup title, crossed the line in 10th place at the penultimate round in Maasmechelen. The result brings an end to a remar...

Comment & Analysis: With the news that the Department of Transport is looking at lumping other micro mobility users (aka cyclists) into the proposal of making high-vis and helmets mandatory for scooter users, we have been treated to more anti-cycling rhetoric.In particular, a common go-to suggestion for bicycle haters has raised its head that bicycles should be registered like cars. Its often suggested online, even when articles are posted that have nothing to do with law-breakingBut, as has been hinted at on these pages before suggesting registration for bicycles is a sign that a person is deeply unserious or that they are unable to understand the risk to life, limb and property thats caused by motorists, which is why registration is imposed on them.In the scale of risk from different modes of transport, bicycles pose around as much risk of damage as pedestrians do. It would be seen as daft that pedestrians go around with numbers attached to them the same approach should be taken for when its suggested for bicycles.Thered be major issues with the practicalities of registering and of enforcement but the main issue would be that none of it could be worth the cost.No, cyclists dont break the law more than motorists Often, calls for bicycles to be registered also come from the motonormativity idea that cyclists break the law more than other road users.The idea that because motorists are registered, it means they dont break the Road Traffic Acts on a wide scale on a daily basis shows that people are having a laugh, or that their biases (or bitterness) towards cyclists (for whatever reason) is at work.But I see more cyclists running red lights is a typical response, but the fact is, cyclists run red lights diffrently to motorists. Most people are programmed to unthinkingly give way to motorists who have put the foot down when they could have stopped on an amber, while complaining about the cyclist who left on green, but the traffic light times are designed for motorists.None of this is to deny that there isnt wholesale running of red lights by cyclists at some junctions and crossings. Much like so many laws which are broken, more enforcement is needed.Equally, there are other junctions, mainly larger ones, where few cyclists run red lights, but a stream of motorists run lights at every light change. And pedestrians also ignore lights, oftenmost understandably because waiting times can be ridiculous.More importantly up to a few people are killed each year and many more are seriously injured by motorists running red lights, but this is rarely talked about and theres a pretence by some that motorists dont even run red lights.And we dont need cyclists to outline what motorists do wrong. Motorists themselves often complain that other motorists use their phones while driving, tailgate, change lanes without warning, dont indicate at roundabouts, careless overtake, hog the middle lane, or wrongly use lights in ways that can be dangerous.There are also worrying signs about an increase in drunk and drug driving, and fewer people using seat belts.Some motorists expect another group of road users to behave perfectly when nobody does, all members of all groups are humans. If we want everyone to behave perfectly, maybe motorists could get together and lead the way?