About Muckers

Right then, Muckers. Kettle on? Pull up a seat in the bunch.

Who we are

Muckers Worldwide is a friendly road cycling community built around a love of riding, racing and having a laugh along the way. We’re a mostly UK-based crew, and we ride and race together online on Rouvy, plus meet up on real roads when we can.

The name started with a word. Back in the early 1990s, Neil Rushby was an apprentice motor mechanic at a Mazda garage in Bolton, where the Service Manager’s constant “Are we having a brew, Mucker?” rubbed off. “Mucker” became the word for mate among Neil and his friends (“allreet mucker?”), then turned up in the names of his Strava segments, to the point that people asked “who the heck is Mucker???”

In 2021 they decided to take online training seriously. Kyle Goodram, who’d been doing it a while longer, recommended Rouvy and set up a WhatsApp group to push everyone to get more active and share events and routes to ride together. Neil started creating races on Rouvy with “Muckers” in the title, the group grew as more regular online racers became friends, and the race team names became “Muckers Worldwide”. It became a community of riders from different parts of the world encouraging each other to keep active and looking out for each other, with banter, but always with the best intentions. A chat group can only do so much, so this website came next. You can read the full story in Neil’s own words in How It Came To Be.

What we do

  • Races and rides: regular Muckers race nights, hill climbs and weekend socials on Rouvy. See This Week’s Races and how to join. Everyone’s welcome, including anyone hanging on at the back.
  • News: cycling news and chat, including our weekly roundup, Muckers Weekly.
  • Muckers Holidays: every fortnight we round up cycling-holiday deals and ideas, from UK breaks to winter sun, in our Getaways section. We check prices and details on the operators’ own pages and say when we checked.
  • Deals: kit and gear deals we’d happily tell a clubmate about, in Deals.
  • Community stories: rider journeys, trips and tours from the Muckers themselves. Meet a few on our racer bios page.
  • The Muckers shop: Muckers-branded merchandise and kit in our Shop.

The Muckers voice

Supportive, grounded and, we hope, occasionally funny. We’d rather tell you the honest bit about a deal or a holiday than make it sound better than it is, and nobody gets judged for their pace, kit or turbo-trainer sulks.

Who’s behind it

  • Kyle Goodram – the Mucker who recommended Rouvy and set up the WhatsApp group to push everyone to get more active and share events and routes to do together.
  • Neil Rushby – the original “Mucker”, who started creating the Muckers races on Rouvy.

Not sure who’s who? Our racer bios will help.

How we pay for it

Some links on the site are affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you buy or book through them, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what we write. The full details are on our Affiliate Disclosure page. We also sell our own merchandise through the Shop.

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