Tweets of the Week: Ouija boards, antlers and a Giant wedding
After last week’s celebration of all things Phinney, Tweets of the Week is back to its usual format. We have a few podium presentations, some antler hats, Vuelta predictions, a wedding that had all of...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Tanks v Tractors, Vikings and caged fans
It was a busy week in the cycling calendar last week. We have a look at the Eneco Tour – from Boonen to Quinziato and we get a few Wellens kisses. Then we fly north to check out the little bit of...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week: “Everybody’s doing it!”
Never a dull moment in the Vuelta! First we had a stage 1 TTT that was neutralised before it even started, then we had a stage 2 GC DQ, then we had Sagan breaking that Second Curse! Which was more...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week: Dumoulin rouge and Tigger
This Vuelta just gets spicier and spicier – but sometimes for all the wrong reasons. However, we’ve had a great push-me-pull-you competition for the red jersey with The Chaves-Dumoulin Show – and I’ve...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week: Fog, Froome and Flecha
It was hot, it was cold, it had climbs, you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting a summit finish! It’s the spicy Vuelta that has tired everyone out – including me! So it might be a little stream of...
View ArticleVuelta Tweets of the Week: The Victors and the Vanquished
It’s the final Vuelta Tweets of the Week for 2015 and it’s a doozy. Tears of joy, tears of anguish – from both riders *and* tweeters! We have Aru, Dumoulin, Degs, Greipel, Flecha&House, and much...
View ArticleWorlds Tweets of the Week: Second to none
The name Libby Hill might very well become part of cycling legend – it was a great Worlds in Richmond and Twitter was there! I’ve sifted through the debris after the crowds left and have all the...
View ArticleSpecial Tweets of the Week: When Kittel was golden
As the season winds down, I’ve decided to do a few Special Tweets of the Week. With the news that Marcel Kittel has severed his contract with Giant-Alpecin and signed to Etixx, I’ve decided to...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Bobo, Kittel and Cannondale Scout Camp
With the new season comes the triumphant return of Tweets of the Week! We won’t leave you again until, well, the end of the 2016 season. But let’s not think about that. This week, we have Etixx hijinx,...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Team Grumpy Cat and a whole lotta roos
This week – of course – has the obligatory photos of Tour Down Under riders cuddling roos and handling snakes, but we also have boys with great hair, Team Grumpy Cat and so much more! New jerseys …...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: MightyBridie, double trouble and legends
It’s that time of the week – we have tweets coming out of our ears! We’re seeing double down in Argentina, legends down under, some suspect kit and much more. But first, let us celebrate one...
View ArticleTweets of the week: Motors, mud and Mallorca
It was quite an eventful weekend. We had the CX World Championships, which brought us a lot of mud, Leonardo DiCaprio and an actual motor in a bike – but whose bike? “It ain’t mine!” Plus we have some...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Plastic bags, headbutts, slow shoes and cloning
Oh, but hasn’t it been a week? We had headbutts (in two separate races!), stage-winning plastic bags and boys who can’t change their shoes fast enough. ArgoSunGod rules okay After the trials and...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Millar Mentor and Froome Fashion
One story that dominated cycling timelines last week was the appointment by British Cycling of David Millar as mentor for young riders. Millar has always been a divisive character in cycling, so the...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: #PowerLegs, Cannondale corner and Baby Blackbird
With so many races going on and everyone so tired of Maserati Millar, it’s a bit of a mixed bag this week. But I have to say, it’s a fun mixed bag. We, of course, have the SacredHaunches and...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: A Classics kick-off
We’ve just gone through our first Classics weekend of the season – and oh what a group of races they were! We had the eternal second finally go one better, we had an audacious solo win, and a world...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Spartacus triumph, a WiggiDish bromance and Farewell,...
It was the weekend of Strade Bianche – a race that, though young, feels like it’s been around forever with all the goodness and tradition age brings. It was also the weekend of the Track World...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Corniche cliffhanger, Weebles wobblin’, writs flyin’
It was Tirreno-Nice-Adriatico-Paris week and it was eventful to say the least. We had snowball fights, pee-soaked bibs, irregular sprinting, a Welsh dragon chasing Baby Blackbird into Nice, trident...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Carry on up the Cipressa
Controversy, controversy, and more controversy! Plus, bad hair, giant saddles (may or may not be a euphemism), dogs, eyebrows…. Oh it’s a crazy, dazey, slipstream-riding, Cipressa-climbing,...
View ArticleTweets of the Week: Goodbye Roubaix Tuesday
Crazy pavé, pain faces, gruelling sectors, crushing crashes. Yep, it was Roubaix Sunday. And we’ve got the tweets to prove it. Hayman, Boonen, Cancellara, Sagan, plus #PrayForPhil Gaimon, cute...
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