Tweets of the Week 2021 : A monumental Danish twist
It was a Monument weekend with the Tour of Flanders and we have the tweets to prove it! And once … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 169: The Great Dane, vegetable bouquets and missable races
Kathi, Midge, Luke and Euan gather round the table to discuss the past two weeks of racing. Midge is all … Continue reading
Tour of Flanders 2021: Kasper Asgreen delivers Elegant victory
Kasper Asgreen (Elegant QuickStep) played it cool as a cucumber to take victory at the Tour of Flanders in a … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week 2021 : What are they on? Fire!
We had the Tour of Catalunya and the return of Esteban Chaves; E3 Saxo Bank with DQS playing a blinder … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week 2021 : A winning chocolatier and dissing the Ronde
A Monument always brings out the best in Tweeters … last weekend, it was Milan-SanRemo, soon it will be Flanders. … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 168: Pog Rocks, Roglic Rolls and Stuyven Strolls
Kathi, Midge, Chris and Euan sit down round the VeloVoices table to pick over two weeks of incredibly intense racing. Milan-Sanremo … Continue reading
Milan-Sanremo 2021: Jasper Stuyven takes a risk and wins the spoils
Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) gatecrashed the Milan-Sanremo party to take the biggest win of his career as the first Monument of the season was settled over an uber-thrilling last kilometre.
Tweets of the Week 2021 : Sunday’s chaos grenade of heartbreak and pain
There was a lot of racing last week but, actually, if you missed Sunday’s stages in Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice, you missed the most astonishing, heartbreaking, just batshit crazy day of cycling. It was glorious! We have all the reactions …
Tweets of the Week: Dream teams, GPs with ham and racing on the hoods
The Twitterstream is teeming – TEEMING, I say – with controversy, laughs, gifs of distinction, and good-natured teasing. Why? Because the 2021 cycling season is ON! And kickin’ up the dust.
Videos
Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) delivered for the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia with a popular solo win on stage four. Called up only a fortnight before the start, he hadn’t specifically trained for the race, which leaves us wondering whether he might have bettered his overall 31st place if he’d targetted this race. Keeping the pink glow going, he looks back at his first Grand Tour.
Created in 1993 to enable amateur cyclists to personally experience a stage of each year’s Tour de France, L’Etape de Tour is THE cyclosportive. This year’s event takes place on Sunday 19th July over 142km from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire.
All places are taken for this year’s Etape (unless you get a place with a tour operator or through a charity). Places go fast as soon as registration opens so if you want to get a jump on proceedings for next year, take a minute to register with ASO Challenges. Registration details are here. Also, follow l’Etape on Twitter and Facebook for news all year round.
Links: Official website
Images
To many of us, the Grubers’ work really epitomises the Belgian Cobbled Classics. If you haven’t seen their gallery for Cannondale-Garmin, go now!
http://slipstreamsports.com/2015/03/30/gallery-gent-wevelgem-gruber-images/
“We’ve tried to go down roads and go through places that are far more interesting than the number of watts we’re putting out and the speed we’re averaging.” Gus Morton
The Australian cycling site, Cycling Tips, just goes from strength to strength in my book. Up on the site now is Thereabouts, a 45-minute documentary made with Gus and Lachlan Morton about their experience riding from Port Macquarie to Uluru – riding over 2,000km in just 12 days. Why did they do it? To reconnect with the reasons why they started riding in the first place. Click here to read more about their story.
Read about it, watch it, get inspired by it.
Asides
All of the history and excitement of the world’s most famous one-day bicycle race in one coffee-table book. Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell is an essential read for anyone interested in this spectacular race.
Want your own kit or need something special for your cycling club? Contact G4 who provide a custom service!
http://www.calameo.com/read/003111411e32746b42755
Links
It was a stage of action and drama at Tour Down Under. The GC leaders battled for bonus seconds. A first WorldTour victory went to Jasper Philipsen after Caleb Ewan was relegated for head butting. Race leader Patrick Bevin was involved in a crash and had to chase to get back with the peloton.
Quotes
“Riders like me and Cancellara don’t think about the points, just the win.”
Vincenzo Nibali bemoans the lack of fierce joy in the riders of the peloton, many of whom he believes play it safe and ride just for points, not the win.
Read his straight-talking interview on Velonews.
When asked what animal he would like to be, Bernie Eisel answered ‘My cat. She has the best life you can imagine!’
I happen to know that there are a whole lotta ladies out there who would kill to be Bernie’s cat. I’ll leave that there …
The face a million women love (Image: Team Sky)
Here is Team Sky’s 20 Questions to the Ladies Favourite