In case you had missed the news on Wednesday, the UK's biggest cycling sportive, RideLondon, will not happen in 2025. It will mark the first time that the mass-participation bike ride will skip a year - apart from during the pandemic - since its inception in 2013.
One might think, given that it has seemed highly successful in the years it has run, with thousands of participants this year, that there was something else behind the official reason given - that this was a "pause" in order to reform. After all, why would you stop something from running if everything was going well, even if the RideLondon Classique is not occurring next year, either.
