Tweets of the Week: Peloton portraits, missing minibars and Henderson’s hard line

Funny, cruel, odd, personal … you get it all on Twitter. Each week, we’ll have a rundown of some of our favourite tweets. Here are the tweets for the week ending 18th March 2012.

Portraits of the peloton

I featured Kristof Ramon‘s twitpics a few weeks ago and anyone on our Facebook page knows that I often share his pics there as well. And why not? Kristof takes some of the most expressive portraits of peloton people with his use of black-and-white and Instagrams just deepening the beauty. Here are few of my favourites from this week.

I love this picture of Katusha‘s Oscar Freire on the eve of Milan-San Remo. He looks so joyous and relaxed.


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Settimana Ciclistica internazionale Coppi e Bartali preview

Settimana Ciclistica internazionale Coppi e Bartali tends to be viewed as the ideal warm-up race for those taking part in May’s Giro d’Italia and, as might be expected, features many of the Italian ProContinental and Continental squads. It’s obviously not as prestigious a race as this week’s Volta a Catalunya but it still provides a varied terrain plus a safe haven for those that come out in hives at the mere mention of cobbles.
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