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Purveyor of fine professional cycling #content since 2005. Primarily driven by @cosmocatalano . #HTRWW

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@Cyclocosm
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u may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
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seriously it's like he dropped by to say hi on the Juniors podium or something
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Time to start whipping up some Big Van Aert memes.
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate this? This is what I've been screaming for in post-race coverage for like 20 years.
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So it turns out inflatable 1k-to-go arches do not collapse slowly:
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He is…the Most Interesting Cyclist in the World
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Sagan, asked who his favorite rider was growing up: "Brian Lopes" Interviewer: "Who is he?" Sagan: "Just put it in the Google"
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the shade from the Tour production team
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Now do bottom brackets.
@BBCWorld
BBC News (World)
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Manufacturers will be forced to create universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under new rule proposed by European Commission
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La Guardia taking down the soigneur is a new one for me. Probably Remco's fault.
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lot of people overlooking the advantages a proper US diet has at the Vuelta
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@BenjiNaesen but they told him it was a day for the puncheurs 🥁
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I mean, sure—I love the "Pogacar has COVID" tweets as the only explanation here. Like we all forgot Jumbo putting all resources into kicking him around non-stop for 50 kilometers.
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guys I made a meme
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did Colbrelli just call Vermeersch "that rider [from] Lotto-Soudal"?
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nobody: literally not anybody: bike industry: let's add another cassette cog
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Did I want to put together 2000 words on the poor quality of Team Compton's response to Katie's positive? No. Were their efforts so colossally incoherent that I went and did it anyway? Yes.
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@Cyclocosm
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"Oh no a Groupama rider crashed!" "phew—it's just Gaudu"
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@Cyclocosm
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Just so we're clear—van der Poel knows they moved the ramp on the Koppenberg, right?
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All I'm saying is that the #TDF can be a dangerous place if Hinault doesn't think you belong there.
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@Cyclocosm
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RT if you saw MvdP endos before they were cool
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Yates doing a full wardrobe adjust as he eases off coming into the line, taking a quick check back just to make sure Marianne Vos isn't lurking.
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There would be something a little on the nose about a team sponsored by an oil company winning a Tour massively altered by climate change.
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@Cyclocosm
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The obvious solution here is to just remove the geoblock and sell Eurosport subs to the US.
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EVERYONE LIVES IN ANDORRA BECAUSE IT'S A TAX SHELTER, JUST SAY IT
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@Cyclocosm
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#HTRWW is back for #MSR thanks to @Eurosport_UK ! Enjoy, and let me know if you run into issues/it doesn't work in your country!
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kid just pointed at the screen and said “that’s daddy” and now I have some questions for @daniellloyd1
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Uttrup Ludwig pre-race: yeah, yesterday was kinda of a shit day Uttrup Ludwig post-race: oh my god yesterday was such a fucking shit day
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@Cyclocosm
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Movistar isn’t bike team, it’s a middle school.
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I don’t even particularly dislike Valverde, but him winning the world title in 2018 is like booting up a new computer and seeing the Windows XP desktop background.
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*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, it's a funny story. Our Team Pursuit squad had just set a new World Record, and…"
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"Cobbled stages are bad because some GC contenders are better than others at riding cobbles" is not a take I'm here for.
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amazing how Bjerg kept so aero, even in the hot seat
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pre-race interview with Van der Poel. he does not seem to have gotten arrested last night so we're off to a good start.
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Made some How The Race Was Won® videos with @cyclingtips for #ParisRoubaix2022 this weekend. You should go watch them:
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When eight riders have finished and you already have two teammates to hug, your squad did a good race.
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"Man on couch decides that Dumoulin must attack"
@DeSpeld
De Speld
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Man op bank vindt dat Dumoulin moet aanvallen
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Tired: make Strade Bianche a monument Wired: make Alejandro Valverde a monument
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A new #HTRWW is live for #RVV18 , thanks to the good people of @Eurosport_UK . Enjoy!
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@Cyclocosm
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Some strong performances on Strava this Juneteenth
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@Cyclocosm
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🐼 never forget 🐼
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I feel bad but also cmon
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This thread.
@ClueHeywood
Clue Heywood
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Love putting my Peloton bike in the most striking area of my ultra-modern $3 million house
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Really would have liked to have seen…ANY footage of the GC group closing that last minute on the closing climb.
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“Hey why don’t you put your videos on YouTube anymore?”
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Unfortunately now the UCI is definitely going to ban dropper posts.
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Stage 11 sixteen years ago was the day the world realized they wanted Juan-Antonio Flecha to win every bike race because no one has a better victory salute.
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This is fine.
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same victor, same
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Geraint Thomas mentions a logistical failure leading to a fast-food lunch, but you *know* Pidcock was on the back of the bus like "Innit Mate? No food? Let's just take the piss and go to Subway"
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So for everyone who'd been asking if there was going to be #HTRWW for #MilanoSanremo2021 , the answer is yes:
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Thomas finally kicked his bilharzia. Good for him.
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I think #ParisRoubaix19 featured some of the best tactical work of any major classic this season. #HTRWW :
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Lars van der Haar fucking rules.
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Nobody: Literally not anybody: Belgian architects:
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Some people think the debate over re-subscribing @Strava is whining about five bucks. I think it's about five years of fuck-yous from the company to the very people it wants to win back. Here are 5000 words of receipts:
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Waiting for Uran to call up the Mavic car to put him into the 11.
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@Cyclocosm
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If you've missed the past week's cycling news cycle, this is pretty much the only summary you need:
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Time to reboot Bordeaux-Paris, I guess
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Derailleur hanger adjustment gauge is 100% the most underrated tool. Don’t at me.
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"When I was your age, we'd just send a couple no-name French guys up the road and save energy until the final climb" Ok grandma lets get you to bed.
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his full surname is "'Houle'); DROP TABLE results;"
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Me, 90 seconds into the final climb of every Cat 3 road race, pretending I can hang.
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Every time I hear Wout talk about how he's too heavy for GC, I think about this one linebacker who used to climb ok…
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That was a good bike race.
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solid featured image fail here from @NPR
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Hey @Milano_Sanremo —this is the CFO of a World Tour team title sponsor saying he can't figure out how to watch your race in the US. Think on that for a moment. @RCSsport @giroditalia
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Here is one thing that doesn't suck about #TdF2019 —How The Race Was Won™ exists: #HTRWW #TdF19 #restday #tdf #hashtags
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I think it's a genuinely kind gesture for Trek to try and remind Patrick LeFevere of how a stacked, talented team should race a cobbled classic.
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I mean, I knew @usacycling was going to fuck this up but…wow.
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Nothing encapsulates being a cycling fan like waking up the morning to find that the UCI has banned Caleb Ewan.
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Err…
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Just a casual, run-of-the-mill 600m sprint from Pedersen, as one does.
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<*record scratch*> Yep, thats me, clinging to my domestique's wheel on l'Angliru. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, it's a funny story…
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Fuga de la fuga
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One meme to rule them all
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riders: where are you gonna be with wheels and bottles? staff: right next to the gigantic pile of cow shit
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reminder that Poels is good enough at climbing to yank your stupid glasses off without missing a pedal stroke...on Monte Zoncolan
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Next Up: Jeffery Epstein on podium girls!
@NBCSCycling
NBC Sports Cycling
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. @lancearmstrong is joining us LIVE right now from Aspen. You can hear more from him by checking out his interview with @miketirico #TDF2019
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Here is the #HTRWW video from #StradeBianche , which you should watch:
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Would it even be a #tdf rest day without #htrww ?
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God, I love watching Alaphilippe Ricky Bobby this shit.
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it's a complex, sophisticated sport, rife with nuance and subtlety
@OutOfCycling
Cycling out of context
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FULL SEND
@Vaughters
Jonathan Vaughters
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Welcome to the future bike nerds. #palace #quack #mightyducks #Rapha
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…did that Canadian rider just set a dislocated finger in the middle of the course?
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I call this section of pavement between the Kwaremont and Paterberg the “Regroupenstraat”
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"If you can't handle me at 280k to go, you don't deserve me at 25k to go" -Sanremo's Bumble profile
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Gonna crowdsource a special moto that carries Bernard Hinault around to physically assault spectators who set off road flares.
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good thing the ASO fixed the moto problem earlier this TdF
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They say the best wins are "no one else in the picture" but I'm partial to "everyone else in the picture, two bike lengths behind you"
@faustocoppi60
Mihai Simion
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Beautiful victory for the attacker Burgaudeau in front of the peloton! 😍 #ParisNice
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@BenjiNaesen let me tell you a little something about NBC's US television coverage…
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Getting a lot of messages that Colnago's TT bike is, in fact, that bad.
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Every time I hear Sean Kelly say "struggling to turn the gear over" it's entertaining to remember the lowest gear he ever raced on was 42/25.
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Time to start whipping up some Big Van Aert memes.
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The range of different bikes and riders here is impressive—men, women, jeans, full Rapha, flannel, MTB, panniers, Wal-mart rigs…
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Struggling to sum up my feelings on the end of Pinot's career, but they fall along the lines of French cycling being desperately in need of an intervention.
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tfw Vino's blood bags are about to expire (via )
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this is both inaccurate and also kinda gross
@Cyclingnewsfeed
Cyclingnews
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Simmons took the Tirreno-Adriatico mountains jersey on the same day Brandon McNulty won in Paris-Nice and Matteo Jorgenson was third. "The last time we had Americans riding at this level was with [US] Postal" said the Trek-Segafredo rider...
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but endurance road bikes are bad, and that's the reason they're still in-stock.
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It's not officially the Giro until you get a finish-line photo with someone randomly on the deck in the background.
@IntermarcheW
Intermarché-Wanty
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#Giro 🇮🇹🇭🇺 SECOND PLACE FOR BINII!!!
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