Arkéa-B&B Hotels quietly making posts on Instagram thanking all their staff and riders one by one is a little bit heartbreaking 🥺💔

Digging through some older stuff for an article and damn, you've gotta love a bit of press office spin. Pull quote: "[rider] competes in sprint for 4th place" Me: wow, I didn't realise they did so well at that race! *checks FirstCycling* They finished 34th. So... with the peloton then? 🥰

He's breaking the fourth wall because he can literally feel my sadness from wherever that is.

This is the best thing I have seen in a long, long time. So so wholesome and good and real. The way they all just ride into each other at the end 😭 My heart is already full this week and it's only Monday morning.

The City of London Nocturne will bring UCI-sanctioned night racing to the UK in June 2026, with men’s and women’s Pro Criterium events planned under the lights of the capital. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/11/03/c...

Damn 😬

Actually hard to imagine CX without him 🥺

German supermarket Lidl now the majority owner of Lidl-Trek cycling teams, Trek stays as a shareholder. Team HQ will move from Deinze in Belgium to Lidl's HQ in Bad Wimpfen, via press release (screengrab attached). Small detail: we'll see if the team rides under a German or a US flag next year.

Intermarché will be co-sponsor for the new merger team. Vermarc and Ekoi stay on. Riders with a contract leaving are Thijssen (Alpecin-D), Page (COF), Faure-Prost (Picnic-PostNL), Girmay (Cycling Academy). 29 riders confirmed says HLN www.hln.be/wielrennen/i...

Join Unibet Rose Rockets founder 🇳🇱 Bas Tietema in the Domestique Hotseat Podcast! 🗣️"The goal isn’t the WorldTour, it’s to have the biggest fanbase" Enjoy the conversation 👇 📺 youtu.be/isI04xw5uHg 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0rtY...

The verdict for the #DomestiqueAwards 🏆 is there! 🎆 🗳️ 14,208 votes 🏅 8 winners 👇 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/features/...

Benoit Cosnefroy to UAE Team Emirates is a done deal. I'm going to need some time 😭

Wow, what a night on the track for British guys called Josh 🤩🙌🥇

How's the writing going this week? I'll tell you. I have blisters on my fingers from teaching myself to play the guitar. That's how 🙃

The Road Book Cycling Almanack 2025, commemorating the year in cycling, is officially available for pre-order 🤩 I'm proud to feature again this year, with an essay on Holy Week, and I can't wait to read all the other brilliant contributions. Link to order here! ⤵️ theroadbook.co.uk/products/the...

I've just seen a post referring to Lappartient, in French, use the term 'une disasterclass' 😂🙌 Who'd have known that was a feminine noun? 😅

The irrational urge to start a cycling team to take in all the waifs and strays without contracts 🥺 Anyone on cycling BlueSky feeling flush? 😅

Pro Cycling Chatter feed isn't working for me - is the internet still broken? My main feed is working...

Unibet Tietema Rockets have dropped Bas' name and have partnered with Rose Bikes to become - ROSE ROCKETS 🤩🤩🤩 Sounds more like a roller derby team to me, but I'm into it 🙌

Voting is open for the #DomestiqueAwards! 🏆 We kick off with the first category, hosted by @writebikerepeat.bsky.social: 🚴‍♂️ "Most Entertaining Race - Men" Check out the nominees and how to vote: www.domestiquecycling.com/en/features/...

11 riders saying goodbye to Decathlon, along with AG2R as a sponsor. A very different team will emerge - with Kooij and Seixas coming through, they are going to be a force to be reckoned with over the next few years. Still, sad to see so many move on.

Immense young man 🤩

I'm hosting the first category in this year's inaugural Domestique awards - most entertaining race! Which would you nominate? 🤔

Anyone heading to Rouleur Live in November? This will be my first year, after wishing I was there for the past few! Excited 🤩

Harry Potter teams up with the Dementors. Didn't have that on my bingo card.

Such a good post - so much info!!

This is the end for me. It's over. NOOOOOOO 😭

UAE manager Matxin says they're planning Pogačar's 2026 season and a 5th Tour de France is the (obvious) main goal. Everything else revolves around this and chances of doing the Vuelta are low (read zero), even if one year they'll want to try and win it cyclingpro.net/spaziociclis... (🇮🇹)

OK this is kind of spooky.

🇳🇴 Søren Wærenskjold sacrifices dream holiday to race 🇫🇷 Chrono des Nations with Uno-X Mobility on cusp of WorldTour promotion "I'll take one for the team." 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/waer... 📸 Cor Vos

Was intrigued to see who Picnic were going to bring in following quite a few departures - Mia Griffin from Roland and Dilyxine Miermont are two solid signings, looking forward to watching their progress.

Oh cycling, we were almost there. Almost made it to the end of the season without another situation 🫠

Lotto x Intermarché merger is go, pending UCI approval. Another full team's worth of riders and staff left without jobs. If the merger means two teams don't disappear it's something at least but still.

I have posted an essay every week for 8 weeks on my Substack 🥹 This kind of consistency is unprecedented for me, taking my energy away from social media has undoubtedly helped a lot. If you use Substack, you could subscribe 😊 substack.com/@writebikere...

🇦🇺 Matt Dinham's long road back to racing 🗣️ “I think psychologically it’s pretty big for me,” Dinham told Domestique in 🇨🇳 Chongzuo. “It’s been such a long time already that you start forgetting what it’s like to ride a bike." 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/you-... 📸 Cor Vos

Arkéa are no more. Expected, but nonetheless very sad for all of the riders and staff affected, and for what it means on a broader scale for cycling 😢

I think this is enough to push me over the edge into despair. Of all the riders at that race who desperately want to be there, and to win, and the person who is winning doesn't even like the race. Just plain depressing.

Rogla on Remco arriving and taking the limelight (in a good way!): "I'm hoping that maybe I'll have a little more peace, a little more freedom." Predicting that 2026 Primož is going to be the most zen Primož we've ever witnessed 🧘‍♂️😂

Mavi Garcia continues on for another year - but re-signs with UAE Team ADQ! LOVE to see Mavi continuing on - she is still in top shape but damn, UAE are going to be so strong next year, adding Garcia, Rooijjakkers, and Jastrab already this off-season 😦

Pure greed to the last. The Italian classics season has been completely steamrollered by UAE.

Paris-Tours!! WOW! What the heck happened at the end. That was crazy. I'm sad the lead duo couldn't take it to the line but the tension was so good. And no UAE in sight. Glorious 🤩

OK now I've digested the reactions and rewatched the final I'm not only gutted for Shirin, but raging over how that all unfolded 😭 #justiceforshirin

Do nations not race as teams in gravel worlds? I think I've only seen ones where everyone's been strung out so it's not mattered but this looked... weird? But maybe that's just how it is?

For anyone following the life of Little Léon the Tro Bro piglet, here he is at 5 months 😍 Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺 From instagram

🇬🇧 Bradley Wiggins on doping allegations: ‘Team Sky chucked me under a bus to protect someone else’ 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/wigg... 📸 Cor Vos

RCS confirm 2026 🇧🇬 Bulgaria Grande Partenza at the Giro "In May our start was in Albania, next year we will go to Bulgaria," said Urbano Cairo. Want a full round-up of the 2026 🇮🇹 Giro route rumours? 🤔 Check them out here: domestiquecycling.com/en/news/bulg... 📸 Cor Vos

This is exciting! Looking forward to seeing how it goes, feels like a good fit.

🇫🇷 Thibaut Pinot on the rapid rise of 🇫🇷 Paul Seixas: 🗣️"What Paul is doing is quite exceptional. He's maybe even stronger than Pogačar at his age. I've been watching him for a while now." 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pino... 📸 Cor Vos

I spoke to Arnaud himself just a few short days ago in my Paris-Chauny edition of NSF, and he was every bit as kind as Jacopo told me. Also, we had spoken off the record before at the Étoile. I think his lack of willingness to talk English means that he's never been understood in the wider world.

Normal people: oh, one of your favourite riders is retiring? That is sad. People on Cycling Twitter: oh, one of your favourite riders is retiring? Well, I NEVER LIKED HIM ANYWAY 😑