Football on bikes - Meet Britain's only cycle-ball team, dribbling towards the World Championships

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It's a cold November evening on the outskirts of Bath in south west England, and I've been sent to a leisure centre seemingly in the middle of nowhere to witness a cycling revolution.

Behind the doors of the largely empty Culverhay Leisure Centre, on the other side of a sports hall from some teenagers playing badminton, are Britain's latest cycling pioneers, the team which recently represented Great Britain at the Cycle-ball World Championships in Ghent.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.