Explore the 2026 cycling season through the races covered by Around the Peloton, following the peloton across stage races, one-day classics and championships while discovering the history, landscapes, culture and places found along each route.
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec does not need to travel across a province to find history. Its circuit occupies only a small part of Québec City, yet within each lap the peloton moves between a river that opened the…
The Coppa Sabatini has belonged to Peccioli from the beginning. The race was created in 1952 in memory of Giuseppe Sabatini, a cyclist from the town who raced professionally in the years before the Second World War and died in…
The Giro della Toscana begins and ends in Pontedera, in a part of Tuscany that sits slightly outside the version of the region most familiar to visitors. Florence and Siena are elsewhere, and the great Renaissance monuments that have come…
The 2026 Tour of Britain ends in a landscape where stories have always travelled easily between history and legend. The final stage begins in Earlston, home of a medieval figure remembered as Thomas the Rhymer, who existed in historical records…
The fourth stage of the Tour of Britain begins beneath the ruins of a castle whose medieval lord was one of the barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, then travels across a part of Yorkshire where almost every change in…
Stage 3 begins beside a river that made a city and soon reaches a sea that is slowly destroying a coastline. From Hull, the Tour of Britain travels east across Holderness until the land ends at the North Sea. The…
The second stage of the Tour of Britain begins and ends in two Lincolnshire towns whose histories were transformed by journeys away from them. From Boston, religious dissenters crossed the North Sea and eventually the Atlantic, carrying with them a…
There are few better places in Britain to begin a bicycle race than the square between Lincoln Castle and Lincoln Cathedral. On one side stands a fortress ordered by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion; on the other rises…
Some races belong to cities. Milan-Sanremo begins in one and ends in another, Paris-Roubaix carries the names of two, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège describes its journey before the riders have even started. The Bretagne Classic belongs instead to a small Breton town…
There are stages in which the geography seems to have been designed with little sympathy for cyclists. Stage 9 of the 2026 Vuelta a España is one of them. From the Mediterranean at Villajoyosa, the road turns almost immediately towards…
