LIVERPOOL is under starters orders to host the opening stage of the UK's largest professional cycling race. Organisers of the renowned Tour of Britain have today announced Liverpool will be the 'Grand Depart' city for this year's race on Sunday 7 September. This is the first time the city has hosted this prestigious opening stage, although it has been involved with the event before by holding >>

Highlights of the National Champs, concentrating on our track cyclists' lead up to the Commonwealth Games, will screen over the next few days on SKY Sport. Schedule is as follows: Track Cycling Nationals Thursday 20/03/2014 19:00:00 SKY Sport 2 Track Cycling Nationals Friday 21/03/2014 11:30:00 SKY Sport 2 Track Cycling Nationals Saturday  >>

The Avanti Racing Team's season couldn't have got off to a better start with strong results across the early season races. Brenton Jones' break through win at the Bay Criteriums followed by Taylor Gunman's gold medal at the New Zealand Championships and podiums at the Australian Championships certainly set things up. Then having five riders selected to ride for Uni SA at the Tour Down Under where >>

New Zealand cycling is excited about future prospects after a strong performance at the UCI Track Championships that finished today in Colombia (NZ time). The team finished with five medals at Cali which equalled the previous best achieved in Melbourne two years ago in the lead-up to the London Olympics. The combination of Shane Archbold and Tom Scully finishedeighth in the spectacular two-man >>

Simon van Velthooven earned his third straight medal in the 1000m time trial while Southland's Tom Scully rode brilliantly to win the silver medal in the 40km points race. It brought New Zealand's tally to five medals, which equals their best total of five medals at Melbourne in 2012 and more than the four medals won at Copenhagen in 2010 and Apeldoorn in 2011. Van Velthooven tried not to let >>

Pre-race favourites didn't disappoint at the 2014 Scott Karapoti Classic in Wellington yesterday. But in a race full of former champions, they needed race records to take the top spots in New Zealand's premier mountain bike event. Established in 1986, the Scott Karapoti Classic is the longest running mountain bike race in the Southern Hemisphere. Based in Upper Hutt's rugged Akatarawa Ranges >>

New Zealand will ride for the bronze medal on the opening day of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Colombia. The young Kiwi combination clocked a solid 4:02.065 to be fourth fastest in qualifying for the men's 4000m team pursuit in Cali this afternoon (NZ time). World champions Australia take on Denmark for the gold medal after the Danish combination, third at last year's world >>

Drapac Professional Cycling will send a strong 14-man squad to this week's 2014 Zarraffa's Oceania Road Championships to be held in Toowoomba, Queensland from Friday, February 21 to Sunday February 23.Directeur Sportif, Henk Vogels believes that Drapac is set for a big performance, particularly in the Elite Men's Road Race come Sunday."We really want to go up there and win the race… We've got >>

Simon Clarke (Orica GreenEdge) took the honours on Stage 2 of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour from a tough day long breakaway, with a lead group that was being whittled down to three riders on the Cat 1 climb of the day up Mt Alexander. The group comprised of Clarke, Cameron Wurf (Team Cannondale) and Jack Haig (Avanti) all contributed well with Clarke safe in the knowledge that at the finish line in >>

New Zealand's track cyclists will head to Wanganui this weekend for much-needed competitive racing ahead of next month's UCI World Championships. They will compete in the International Night of Stars at Cooks Garden outdoor velodrome on Saturday, with riders competing from Australia, Malaysia and Great Britain in the event which has received UCI sanction as a qualifying event for the 2014-2015 >>