The Mid-Devon Cycling Club will have not one but three riders racing as professionals in 2023. 

Torquay's Harrison Wood had already become the club's first member to sign a WorldTour contract, with French team Cofidis, since Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Team Sky) ten years ago. 

It's now been confirmed that Harry Birchill from Newton Abbot has committed himself to Cornwall's UCI Continental squad Saint Piran, and Exeter teenager Ewan Warren has completed a remarkable comeback from illness to sign for Spanish team Brocar-Ale. 

No club in the UK is believed to have so many riders in the pro ranks. 

Wood, 22, joined Cofidis officially on January 1, attending the team's 2023 kit launch in the south of France, and, after two warm-weather training camps, he's due to fly out to Australia next week to ride in the season-opening Tour Down Under. 

It had been expected that former UK Under-23 Mountainbike champion Birchill, who was 22 on New Year's Day, would stay with Saint Piran, whom he joined as a 'stagiaire' (trainee) after competing for England in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. 

But team manager Steve Lampier confirmed the news this week, saying: "Harry honestly doesn't know how good he can be on the road. 

"Like a lot of MTB racers who turn to the road, they have that naivety but lots of raw power and speed, which Harry has obscene amounts of.  It's super exciting times for the man from Devon." 

Former South Dartmoor College student Birchill 'celebrated' with a five-hour training ride in the pouring rain on New Year's Eve! 

Warren, 19, has recovered from two heart operations which ruined his final two years as a promising junior rider, but he bounced back with a series of impressive performances in 2022. 

Spanish 'Elite' squad Brocar-Ale, who have several other British youngsters, spotted him winning a stage of the Gorey Three-Day race in Eire, and he'll now ride for the Alcoi-based team, near Valencia. 

"I'm very excited, and it'll be great to get the chance in races that will hopefully suit me," he said.