The best tweets from around the world of cycling this week
As we all know, cyclists and Twitter is often a fantastic combination, allowing the fans a behind the scenes look at what goes on in and around the professional peloton.
Here are some of the tweets that caught our eye this week, including ones from Peter Sagan, Andy Tennant and Ian Stannard.
1. We’ve all got that one friend…
2. Always a win.
Locked up a front wheel briefly today and held it. I'm counting this as a win today. Well done me. Patting my own back. 😂
— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) April 4, 2017
3. You can’t buy this kind of insight.
Paris-Roubaix up next with Team Sky
— Ian Stannard (@IStannard) April 3, 2017
4. Hard to believe Eddy’s still talking about that.
This is Eddy just reminding me how many TDF's & Giros he Won ! As if anyone didn't know already! @MummuCycling pic.twitter.com/y9bdNSgkxx
— Stuart O'Grady (@StueyOG) April 5, 2017
5. This amazing chain of tweets in reply to Cav.
Just fixed my Land Rover Defender on my own. Pretty proud of that.
— Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) April 4, 2017
@MarkCavendish Filing the Windscreen washer fluid doesn't count as being "fixed" 😝
— Adam Blythe (@AdamBlythe89) April 4, 2017
@AdamBlythe89 @MarkCavendish finally opened his Land Rover Defender model kit he got for Christmas
— Ben Swift (@swiftybswift) April 4, 2017
@swiftybswift @AdamBlythe89 @MarkCavendish Good skills lad, nice hat too 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/MjabW44sHX
— Luke Rowe (@LukeRowe1990) April 4, 2017
6. That feeling when you watch someone ride over your brand new sunnies.
— Cronoescalada (@cronoescalada) April 3, 2017
7. Some riders were just happy to make it out of De Ronde intact.
And there went De Ronde. 😔 Thank you @pocsports, my brain lives to fight another day. #RVV pic.twitter.com/tWD7TyjIGG
— Taylor Phinney (@taylorphinney) April 2, 2017
8. You’ve got to be an absolute baller to turn up your first Monument like that.
Good luck to @JonDibben1 in his first Flanders start today #RVV pic.twitter.com/JVl1Uj648i
— Team Sky 🚲 (@TeamSky) April 2, 2017
9. Sags tries to set the record straight.
Video that shows my crash at the @RondeVlaanderen was caused by a jacket that caught my left arm. These things happen in races (@Seal_jobs) pic.twitter.com/ZcTorQaG6X
— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) April 3, 2017
10. Not a care bear in sight.
Well I have changed my mind I retract my statement I could do with a #CareBear right now pic.twitter.com/gdbEVQii7S
— Andy Tennant (@tennanto) April 5, 2017