Tweets of the week: Bradley Wiggins, Team Ineos, the never-ending handshake and more

The best social media posts from across the cycling world this week

(Team Ineos/Coreen Mazzocchi/Twitter)

The Tour de France 2019 is underway and has lit up the switchboards of social media. We've got Sir Bradley Wiggins commentating on the Tour de France from the back of a motorbike, Tony Gallopin (Ag2r La Mondiale) being impeded by a parasol and the awkward handshake to end all awkward handshakes.

1. If you had to guess who was Bradley Wiggins' number one super fan the first name to pop into your head probably wasn't the French rider Maxime Bouet.

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.