Giro Tweets of the Week: Box jumps, Biblical rain and a lurking Shark
It was the first full week of the Giro d’Italia and it was a strange ol’ race. Some super sprints, some riding in the rain and a shakeup in the GC before they’ve even gotten to a mountain … All...
View ArticleGiro Tweets of the Week: Unsung heroes and yet more trash talk
We’re looking back at the second week of the 2019 Giro d’Italia and the Twitterstream was bountiful! We have unsung heroes who make good, an Ecuadorian who is guarded by a furious turkey, and a furious...
View ArticleGiro Tweets of the Week : Carapaz champ, Haga honours, Chavito love and...
The 2019 Giro d’Italia has now come to a close, so the Twitterstream has been trawled for some pink tweets for the last time this season. We have the new champion and reactions from and about the final...
View ArticleTweets of the Week : So much Danishness! So much Tourness! So much tweetness!
We had a sneaky week off last week but we’re back! We’ve got some Dauphine action, a little bit of Swissness, playful Bora Hamsters and much much more. It’s the original and it’s the best – it’s TWEETS...
View ArticleTweets of the Week : Tour predictions and then some …
Tour de Suisse is done and dusted and the Great Tour Hope of Ineos has taken the giant trophy, which has fuelled a lot of Tour predictions. They’re coming fast and furious now and we have a few here!...
View ArticleTweets of the Week : Bat Champs! Tour Hopes! Outstanding Hair!
It was a big weekend for racing with national championships (#BatChamps!) taking place hither and yon! Plus it’s the weekend before one of the biggest weekends in the sporting calendar. They shall be...
View ArticleTour Tweets of the Week : This Tour has buckled its swash and it is BUZZING!
There’s nothing like a grand tour to bring the tweeters out in force. And the Tour *really* brings them out. So it’s a bumper crop of tweets from the weekend in Brussels! We have Jumbo Bees, LouLou in...
View ArticleTour Tweets of the Week : Sacre bleu! Cor blimey! Holy cow!
Has this first week of the Tour de France been one of the most exciting in soooo many years, or what? Yellow jerseys won and lost; one day on top of the world, the next in the wrong echelon; the Tour...
View ArticleTour Tweets of the Week : Hot damn! This Tour is roarin’!
The first week of the 2019 Tour de France was exciting – so many different winners, a swashbuckle or two. And the riders upped their game when the road started to rise in earnest. It was ALL HAPPENING...
View ArticleTour Tweets of the Week: We’ll always have Paris
There were laughs, there were tears, there was cheering, there were kisses. It was the last week of the 2019 Tour de France and it had everything you could possibly want. And we’ve got a very poignant,...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week : A salty start
The final grand tour of the season is often the spiciest! Both on the road and in the twitterstream … What’s been goin’ on First red went to Astana’s Miguel Angel Lopez – one of the favourites for the...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week: Mudbaths and Movistar
We’re just into our second week of Vuelta 2019 – so why not have a look at the crazy first week. We had mudbaths and unfeasibly large bikes; new guys winning, conti teams in red; plus our favourite...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week : Flags and fans and fanciful things
We’re looking back on the second week of racing in the Vuelta 2019 with a quick trawl through the Twitterstream. We have Philippe Gilbert‘s Flanders-style win, Jakob Fuglsang‘s first GT victory,...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week : Trash talk, bromance and farewell for another year
The final week of the Vuelta was crazier than a crazy thing from Crazy Town. But that makes for a particularly good Tweets of the Week. We have it all – just like Bogie and Bacall … or should I say...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Rainbows and tears at the Worlds
The Worlds was a ride through hell to the rainbows as the men did in Sunday’s road race – if hell were dictated by rainfall. It was full of controversy, some amazing rides and we’ve got a lot of...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: The final Monument, farewells and seasonal stats
The season is winding down rather quickly now. It was Il Lombardia weekend, the last Monument of the season (and the most scenic). But the tweets were falling like autumn leaves … A fine autumnal Trek...
View ArticleTweets of the Week : That Boy Phinney, Classics legends, and Danish orientation
Coming to the end of the season, the Twitterstream runs a little slower. Until news such as Taylor Phinney retiring comes through. Then it starts moving fast again. We also have a couple of Classics...
View ArticleTweets of the Week 2020: BatChamps, season’s dreaming and bye-bye Bernie
The season is about to start with the Tour Down Under but first there was the Australian #BatChamps as well as some CX action. We also check in with some riders as to how they are preparing for the...
View ArticleTweets of the Week 2020 : And so it begins
The racing has started Down Under, we have full-fan Bernie tweets, we look at no booze rules, we answer the question ‘Who’s Afraid of MvdP?’, we have some racers talkin’ big and bad about the Tour...
View ArticleTweets of the Week 2020: Bedhead snaps, Degs sector, riding with champions
Oh it was a predictable week with some pretty unpredictable aspects. We have cobbley goodness, thanks to the Mighty Degs; Bedhead’s new career; results on Willunga Hill; Lumberjacks! Dead Parrots! What...
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