Tour Tweets: Mud, sweat, tears and wild abandon
After the magnificent Grand Depart, hard to imagine that by the first rest day, we would have seen the abandonment of Mark Cavendish, Chris Froome and Alberto Contador (among others), Vincenzo Nibali...
View ArticleTour Tweets: Triumph, tears and Taylor
It’s the drama, the passion, the heartbreak, the moments of humour and kindness that makes cycling so wonderful and this Tour has it in spades. This week’s Tour Tweets is all about the emotions of the...
View ArticleTour Tweets: The French, the Germans and Oleg Oleg Oleg!
Another year, another final week of the Tour with its gruelling mountain stages, tense time trial and bling sprint on the Champs. Then comes the tears of the victors and the revelry of demob happy...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Blythe, bluster and Biggles
Ah, the dog days of August – everyone seems to be on holiday or riding in the rain. Those who have been swimming in the Twitterstream over the past two weeks include Adam Blythe, Geraint Thomas, Jens...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Oldies but goodies
The fishing hasn’t been too good this week in the Twitterstream. I blame the seals. So I’ve just collected some lovely pictures that you might not have noticed on your timeline. So let’s go. Sam...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Farewell Jens, Taylor’s scars and missile men
It’s another short Tweets – VeloVoices Towers has practically been deserted over the past week due to annual holidays so the tweets are a bit thin on the ground. But we do have That Boy Phinney, Jens...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Spanish sass, lookie-likies and combative cheese
We have tweets from Spain! We have tweets from, um, other places! We have cycling lookalikes! We have Taylor’s legs! We have a long-winded comparison of Freddie Mercury and Team Sky! We nearly had a...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Vuelta swings and British roundabouts
It might have been slim pickins’ over the past few weeks, but we’ve netted ourselves an abundance of good tweets this week! We have Froome versus Contador, Bruiser Brambilla versus Rumble Rovny, and...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: FlowerPower rules ok
Been a bit hit or miss lately with Tweets of the Week and for that I apologise. Life sometimes leaves little time for swimming the Twitterstream. But I couldn’t let Michal Kwiatkowski‘s win on Sunday...
View ArticleTweets Special: Farewell to Andy Schleck
We’ve all seen Andy Schleck go from the highest of heights – battling it out with Alberto Contador in one of cycling’s great rivalries – to the lowest of lows after his pelvic injury in 2012 that...
View ArticleTour 2015 Tweets Special: Talkin’ all big and bad
Golly but the 2015 Tour de France route certainly has got everyone talking – and tweeting! From the cobbles in the first half of the Tour to the Galibier/Alpe d’Huez penultimate stage, last week’s...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Hansen, Haussler and Haunches (Sacred)
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? It’s the sound of a peloton tweeting up a storm, that’s what it is. It’s a new year, I’m feeling revitalised and so Tweets of the Week is BACK for the 2015 season. Others...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: “Joey! It’s Marcel!”
It’s January, which starts with J, as does the word joey. No, not Tribbiani – those little kangaroo babies that are so prominent in the run-up to the Tour Down Under. Not only do we have a whole...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Jagger on tour, final cuddles, #CALIDIDTHAT
The first WorldTour race of the season is done and dusted and it was a rip-roarer. We say farewell to an Australian cycling legend at the Tour Down Under, we have the reactions to Pops‘s reaction to...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Beardies, Sweat Sweat Dance! and o sole Rigo
Another week of racing, another week of hot tweets dealing with the burning issues of the day. We have Jack Bobridge’s (unsuccessful) hour attempt, Bernie‘s Luca-like beardage, Fabs and the Force and...
View ArticleTweets of the week: The sands of time
Another week, another desert race. Another week, another Hour attempt. Another week, another set of bewildering tweets from Mick Jagger. It’s Tuesday, it’s Tweets, it’s awesome. Saddle up! No more...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Moonwalking Mods and $10million and counting
Oh Lordy, Lordy, do we have a Tweets of the Week for you! Nibali snubs Froome! Contador vows to retire! Greg Lemond pays his own way! Lance owes millions! Wiggins recycles quips! Gratuitous photos of...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Worms, rats, sand, strikes and rivalry
It’s a bumper crop of tweets this week – we have everything from worms (everywhere) and rats (flying out of trees) to sand and heat and meetings under bridges (oh man!) Can you think of another sport...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Clambitchen! 3tixx ain’t better than one
Anyone who saw Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad will almost certainly say that it is one of the best races, well, ever in the history of roads. So it’s an almost exclusive OHN Tweets of the Week: we...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Dust, Formica, Wildcards and a box full of Lotto
Here at Tweets of the Week we try to look on the bright side of life but sometimes, well, it’s difficult. Those who have tried our patience this week are Astana and His Nibs claiming all the wildcards,...
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