Tweets of the Week: Special Valentine’s edition – love ya, bro!
This is the week of that great holiday for lovers, St Valentine’s Day. And what better way to celebrate than with a little velo love? Has Bernie been replaced in Cav‘s bromantic heart by That Boy...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Bernie, beach boys and more bromance
I’m starting to think that in the Veloshire, Groundhog Day comes around in mid-February, not Feb 2nd like in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Why? Well, because last week we had some bromances, we had some...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Stybar presses on, Fluff arrives and Pippo sparks
This week, we have laundry hijinks, gourmet peanut butter sandwiches, Hour rumours and the thrill of a desert race. From Sagan to Froome, Mick Jagger to Luca Paolini, Spartacus to Stybar and Bertie to...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Fabs gets waxed, Greg’s gloves and a naked rider!
The classics started last weekend and weren’t we excited? So we have some Boonen and the Pharmers! Cows in socks! A begowned Cancellara! And this week’s ‘naked rider‘ in the form of …? Om-pa-loop-a As...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: #KwiatKrush, Sagan shrugged & betached chaps
Oh, with the season really shaping up and everyone on the road, it means the twitterstream is full of great tweets. We have a bumper edition this week – we have Strade Bianche in all its dusty glory,...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Tridents, fines and well-mannered young men
The wall. The green machine. A happy oligarch. €1,000 jersey. International Day of Fabs. Men behaving like gentlemen. All in this week’s TWEEEEEETS … Russian effervescence Alberto Contador (Baby...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Monuments Man, rainy SanRemo and helmet hell
Where do I begin? To tell the story of how great a race can be? There were so many stories within stories at Milan-SanRemo – from the weather (one rider peed on his own hands in an attempt to get them...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Hugs and hazards and Harelbeke
Pink shoes, rival affections, one tiny bike and a great sofa, the Lion King, naked bandages, shutterbugs, a Quintana quip, camp tattoos, bad goggles and much, much more! It’s Tweets of the Week!!! E3...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: The FABulous Ronde
Spartacus, Fabs, Fabu, the Swiss Express, Monuments Man, Legend, three-times RVV champion. I’m sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that this week’s Tweets is dominated by the Big Swiss. And I do...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Roubaix!!!
Was Sunday just about the most emotionally draining race ever? No? Just me? Oh, okay then. But you have to admit it was a hell of a race for all kinds of reasons – but mainly because it was...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Gold! Beer! Thrones!
Oh, from the cobbles to the climbs – we’re in Ardennes Week now. This week’s tweets include velvet thrones, saucy portraits, peloton faces and #CostaCrush! Plus, we have a few yummy leftovers from...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Bono, bunnies and Liege-Bastogne-Liege
The spring classics are over. But the tweets go on. This week, we swim the Ardennes Twitterstream, visit a Berlin rabbit hutch, await an amphibious transformation and proceed with all other manner of...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: The Giro edition, Part I
It’s the start of the Grand Tour season so there’s only one thing to do: have ourselves a pink edition of Tweets. You will find: badly dressed cyclists, pink animals of all descriptions, ArgoGod love,...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Taylor’s charms, Brad’s Tour and Marcel’s manflu
It was a rainy, crash-strewn Giro; a sunny, Brit-dominated Tour of California and another busy week swimming the Twitterstream. We have pink Bling, That Boy Phinney, jet lag, flu, instagrams a go-go...
View ArticleGiro tweets of the week: Jagger in pink, boys in pants, and crocs a go-go
Another bumper week for Tweets. We have rogue massages, haircuts uncovered, Jagger in pink, Jensie on the lake, and much, much more. But first we get off to a sombre note. From triumph to tears This...
View ArticleGiro Tweets of the Week: Snowy Stelvio, zany Zoncolan and pink go-go boots
The final week of the Giro certainly made up for the more meh previous weeks. And for every great stage, the Twitterstream delivered as well. Snow on the Stelvio, crazed fans on the Zoncolan (and not...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Wiggins’ bombshell, Fabs’ road rash and The Taylor Report
He wants to ride! He doesn’t want to ride! He’s gutted! He doesn’t give a monkey’s! He wants to be a super-domestique! He can’t be a super-domestique! Oh, the words swirling around Bradley Wiggins this...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Chaos, cheese and buried stitches
Chaos, attacks left, right and centre, winning, losing, crying – it might have been an exciting week at the Dauphine but that has nothing on what was going on in the Twitterstream! So let’s go down to...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: CostaCrush, SuperSmile and dreamy Mr Phinney
Well, the boys have finished the Tour de Suisse, Route du Sud, and Ster ZLM Toer (among others) and are now resting and recovering in anticipation of the Tour de France. It’s feeling a bit light on the...
View ArticleTour Tweets: Selfies, royals and dry stone walls
Isn’t it great when something turns out to be waaaaaaay better than you thought it would? Like the Yorkshire Grand Depart and London sprint stage! All those naysayers predicting the whole thing ruined...
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