Welcome to Tweets of the Week, our none-too-serious seven-day delve into the arena of biking on social media.
A lot of this week’s social media roundup turns out to inhabit a type of inverse universe, wherein the whole thing has been became on its head. Peter Sagan turning into a star dancer we’re all near to coming to phrases with – and there is a new and reasonably left-field construction on that entrance this week, after all.
However Magnus Sheffield on the wheel of the Ineos Grenadiers crew bus? Mark Cavendish operating? And canine doing cyclo-cross? And a Race to the Solar this is the rest however? If truth be told, hold hearth, Paris-Great is grotty extra continuously than now not.
Fortunately there is a variety of sense-making social media goodness in right here too. With Lotte Kopecky finessing her coaching below blue Spanish skies, and Sir Chris Hoy returning to Buckingham Palace to pick out up the Commonwealth Video games baton from the King.
#WTF 🚲 / 🇸🇰 Peter Sagan en mode Ken & Barbie lors du dernier “Danse avec les stars” dans son can pay. 😅 percent.twitter.com/71R7FxIMnPMarch 17, 2025
2. Magnus Sheffield swaps two wheels for one. Given he seems to be resting his eyelids, we are going to think it is not shifting.
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3. Possibly now not a global first, however what number of pooches can profess to having a CX race of their palmarés?
4. Les Amis de Roubaix re-set one of the well-known pavé in preparation for the massive day. No longer too easy now!
5. Paris-Great: Fred Wright demonstrates the talents he spent years studying on his house observe at Herne Hill as a teen.
6. Some last-minute prep in Spain for Lotte Kopecky earlier than she heads throughout to a ancient Milan-San Remo.
7. Sir Chris Hoy choices is given the 2026 Commonwealth Video games baton by means of King Charles at Buckingham Palace. It marked 500 days to move till the Video games, held in Hamilton, Canada in July and August subsequent yr.
8. Regardless of the climate became out to be, they will have to more than likely simply had been satisfied they were not driving Paris-Great.
🇮🇹 #TirrenoAdriatico Excellent temper whilst ready to look what the elements might be like: shine or rain? percent.twitter.com/On8glMparnMarch 13, 2025
9. Here is a well timed instance, courtesy of Daniel Friebe, of what riders in Paris-Great – aka the Race to the Solar – needed to undergo.
10. Oof. Sorry about this one, United enthusiasts.
10th position for our crew in nowadays’s #ParisNice TTT.Nonetheless higher than Manchester United within the Premier League.Photograph: A.S.O./Billy Ceusters percent.twitter.com/MEJZDpuxlJMarch 11, 2025
11. And after all, Mark Cavendish operating? In Paris? He is meant to be doing the whole marathon later this yr, so call to mind this as a warm-up…
