Riding a lap of Britain is also a journey of self-discovery. Meg Elliot speaks to three riders who conquered the coast in 2025

DUNSTABLE DOWNS, BEDFORDSHIRE

Your teammate is usually your biggest rival in motorsport. But what’s it like when that person is also your father? “He beat me at Thruxton,” says 22-year-old James Jenkins. “I’ll never hear the end o

t was the best of croissants, it was the worst of croissants. Yesterday I experienced all-butter nirvana at an impromptu patisserie pitstop somewhere outside of Grenoble. Today I’m click-clacking arou

Don’t be fooled by the beautiful baby blue skies in these pictures: the first day of this annual spectacular on the seven-mile beach where JG Parry-Thomas set a new Land Speed Record in Babs in 1926 (

GB’s Will Draper cuts a lonely figure at Challenge Almere on 13 September. In reality, he kept a steady gap of around 50secs for much of the final 10km of the marathon, before catching and then sprint