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 Chris Froome, Rigoberto Uran and Taylor Phinney.
1. Where do we sign up for this spin class?
2. Phinney swaps Lycra for lederhosen.
3. Dumoulin is a man of few words it would seem.
Wow. Just wow… pic.twitter.com/jNWJRsnLu0
— Tom Dumoulin (@tom_dumoulin) September 20, 2017
4. Sam Oomen perfects the art of photobombing.
.@blingmatthews 🗣 "It's a bit of a shock 😃" @TeamSunweb 🌈🌈 #Bergen2017 pic.twitter.com/vCu3xq8yXy
— UCI (@UCI_cycling) September 17, 2017
5. Time triallers, take note.
This still looks slick compared to some of the bike changes at the Men’s TimeTrial World Champs today 😂😂 #Bergen17 https://t.co/Zp5QmU2mid
— Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) September 20, 2017
First 'crash' of the day goes to #MM93 😂 #RiderOK#CatalanGP pic.twitter.com/VW5fEyurhY
— MotoGP™🇪🇸🏁 (@MotoGP) June 11, 2017
6. On Tom Dumoulin’s shopping list: one miniature bicycle.
Just imagine the winning margin Tom Dumoulin would have won by if he took notes from us… |#Bergen2017 #BikeChange pic.twitter.com/nk6Zs8JexZ
— G!RO (@GIRO_Cycles) September 20, 2017
7. Tom Skujins asking the important questions.
The real question is where do you put your garmin when doing a bike change?! If it's not on strava it doesn't count #Bergen2017
— Toms Skujiņš (@Tomashuuns) September 20, 2017
8. That’s one way to cross the finish line.
Playing around on the finish line @bergen2017 ….. trying to find the most aero position into a headwind ….. elbows in next time! #Fun pic.twitter.com/wPCVePb69l
— Rochelle Gilmore (@RochelleGilmore) September 22, 2017
9. It’s not all fun and games at the Worlds though.
So only just saw this but Lauren Dolan did incredibly well to finish only 2'24 down today after her crash. These girls are tough! pic.twitter.com/5uoZLrm6MQ
— Jamie Haughey (@JamieHaughey) September 18, 2017
10. Bradley Wiggins carries a long load.
Have boat will travel 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/xPC3fwIPEn
— Brad Wiggins (@SirWiggo) September 20, 2017