'I Found It in a Skip and Threw AliExpress at It' - A Mega Tech Gallery From the UK Hill Climb National Championship

The pain faces and lightweight racers of the National Hill Climb Championships 2025

Cyclist The pain faces and lightweight racers of the National Hill Climb Championships 2025 As the UK bike racing scene struggles on, one discipline is thriving as much as ever: hill climbs. This year’s National Hill Climb Championships descended upon Matlock’s Bank Road this weekend for a few minutes of pain and glory. Photography Andy Smith was there catching some of the best of the action and the left-field bike builds winching riders to the …

'I found it in a skip and threw AliExpress at it' - A mega tech gallery from the UK hill climb national championship

Forget the UCI, all the best bikes come out to play for a few minutes up a very steep hill in the middle of England

Minehead club riders at National Hillclimb Championships

MINEHEAD Cycling Club members were at the National Hillclimb Championships on Sunday. Matlock in Derbyshire hosted this year’s fight against gravity, a brutal course of 880 yards starting at 14% and ramping up to 20%.

All's right with the hill-climbing world as British national championships won on rim brakes (despite Andrew Feather's 5.4kg disc build); British pro runs super speedy 1:12 half marathon + more on the live blog

The clocks have gone back, leaves are falling and the hill climb season's reached its finale — Dan Alexander taking you into a new week on the live blog and promising not to waste too much time daydreaming about summer