TotW: The Good, the Bad & the Asinine
It’s a bumper issue of Tweets of the Week – we have all the news and debate from the Ronde van Vlaanderen. The Good Fabian Cancellara came to the race on Sunday ready to Ronde but days before,...
View ArticleTotW: Sep, Spartacus and Samuel L Jackson
Can this season get any better? This week’s tweets has the surprise of Pais Vasco (not least the cannabis fug hanging in the air), the blistering and beautiful Paris-Roubaix and our gruppetto of tweets...
View ArticleTotW: Contador as a boy, a Roman win & Argonaut instagrams!
Well, after a tweetastic few weeks with the cobbled classics, everyone has settled down just a little bit. This week, we have a few final pictures and thoughts from Roubaix, flowers and an apology to a...
View ArticleTweets: Panda races, chameleons on bikes, mullet on a mower!
Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the retirement of the biggest thighs in cycling, mullet on a mower, #KermitArms, Jens’ own kingdom, and a smiling Andy Schleck … just a few of the subjects we...
View ArticleTotW: Sugar, shaving & underpants for the hands
This is the last regular Tweets of the Week as for the next three to four weeks, we will have Giro Tweets of the Week! But before we go all ablush and Italian, let’s see what our little band of...
View ArticleGiro Tweets: PR offensives, f-bombs and Skyfights
Oh it’s been a great opening weekend at the Giro d’Italia! Lots of tweets, handpicked and collated just for YOU! #GiroCrush That Boy Phinney has come into this year’s Giro just as he did last year –...
View ArticleGiro Tweets of the Week: Journos, mares and crocs
Ach, where do we begin? Well, let’s start at the individual time trial on Saturday. There seemed to be two stories running concurrently – both had to do with British cyclists, both had a connection...
View ArticleGiro Tweets: 100+ and double dream dashed
The second week of the Giro has come and gone. And we’ve seen the two most famous British cyclists have two very different experiences – Cav passed the landmark 100 victories and Wiggo didn’t do the...
View ArticleGiro Tweets: Snow, the Acquanettes and Lance
This is the last Giro Tweets for this year, next week we’re back to just plain old Tweets of the Week. We’ve had a good few weeks – and we still have some great stuff coming up. We have Michele...
View ArticleTweets: Wiggo as Dr Who, Lance & Daft Phinney
There were really only two subjects swimming through the Twitterstream last week and those were Bradley Wiggins deciding not to ride the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong‘s charm offensive. Let’s...
View ArticleTweets: Bisons, bubblegum and Tour fever
Strangely, the Twitterstream isn’t as fertile as it usually is. Maybe it’s because there’s no Sky-fighting or Lance is taking a break from his ‘schmoozing the sceptical’ campaign, but there hasn’t been...
View ArticleTweets: Jens Z Coyote, Pirate Panache and Gorilla teeth
It’s only 12 days away from the start of the Tour de France but the boys were still racing last week, tuning up those engines! We had the Tour de Suisse, the Skoda Tour of Luxembourg and Ster ZLM Toer...
View ArticleTweets: Stripes, strops and Stalinist airbrushing
A career that’s going from strength to strength. A career that looks to be buckling under its own success. A confession that was not a surprise and was without regrets. Plus TUEs, TTT camps, Tours and...
View ArticleTour Tweets: Busgate, Sky Beta Kappa, and badass Chava
We have boats, we have buses, we have bikes. We have jerseys: yellow and national. We have Cipo topless, Bernie stripping and Kittel sweating. And much, much more! It’s a bumper crop of Tour de France...
View ArticleTour Tweets: Ryder’s goggles, Vaughters’ panda, Porte’s instant karma
We’ve just had the first week of the Tour and – wow! – has it been the most exciting racing you’ve seen in a good long time? This is the biggest race in the world and the boys have responded by giving...
View ArticleTour Tweets: Manlove, the Mantis and the Magnificent 7
Another bumper crop of Tour de France tweets – from riders, journalists, fans – it’s a patchwork of passion and weirdness. This week we’ve got stages of note, ArgoLove, OPQSLove, a few #WTFs and two...
View ArticleTour Tweets: The Alpe, the Arc and the Argonauts
The 100th edition of the Tour de France ended on Sunday so this is our last Tour Tweets of the year. It’s a mixed bag – we have Alpe d’Huez, the Arc de Triomphe, the aftermath of the race, along with...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Wiggo’s extremes, Zabel’s ‘truth’& Bernie’s vows
We’ve had some bumper crops of tweets over the past four weeks but it kind of dried up last week – put it down to post-Tour blues. There were two main stories on Twitter this week: the return of...
View ArticleTweets: A Phinney roar, a shiny new race and a place called Veloshire
Another week, another set of races. This week, we have the Twitter reactions to the Tour de Pologne and RideLondon, Panache envisions a new society, plus we have Jens at the airport, Cav on TT...
View ArticleTweets: Wiggo mystifies while Jens turns on the charm
We’re looking at the end of the alphabet this week for Tweets of the Week. We have Bradley Wiggins – why is he being nice to Froome? How did he gain so much weight? Who is he really? Then we have Jens...
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