Riding in January is FUN 🙃

"It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand"

Kobe Goossens (Intermarche) retires from professional cycling aged 29 after failing to find a team following the Lotto merger. The streets will never forget Mallorca Challenge 2023.

Damn, that's nice 👌🔵

They never miss

Been here 414 days now. It's been pretty awesome. Here's to 2026 🎉🤘 @annamacb.bsky.social 👉👉

"Hey guys, had this jersey laying around, thought I'd take it out for a spin"

Day 3 of the Pauline Porter Populaire. Something like 3,500m of climbing in 200km down from Kings youth hostel, Dolgellau, to Chepstow. @audaxuk.bsky.social

'Cycling is not cricket. It is a far smaller sport, with a much smaller audience. If cricket – with its large and largely affluent fanbase – has suffered from not being on free TV, pushed to the margins, what hope does cycling have?' www.cyclingweekly.com/news/tnt-kil...

You will be visited by three spirits.

Christmas Eve with the Wrights. You’re going to love this one. If only for Fred’s story about the Ronde and his bowels. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Corning on cobbles, maybe.

Time is a flat circle

Pierce missed a golden opportunity to say "he'd be having Christmas in Turkey"

Rowan Atkinson on The Graham Norton Show r.e. Mr Bean's Holiday: "We had this idea in which Mr Bean would overtake a peloton of cyclists. No matter how slowly we got the peloton to go, I was finding it quite tricky". [1/2]

🇫🇷 Marc Madiot steps aside from 🇫🇷 FDJ after 29 years 🗣️ "If I can lend a hand in areas other than the sporting side, that suits me just fine. The team is my second child." 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/the-... 📸 Cor Vos

I assume this is the UCI asking the Mauritius federation to change their national jersey so it looks less like the worlds jersey. Very nice.

Amazingly, the BBC have lost the broadcasting rights for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year. The Games return but the BBC, which jave provided free-to-air coverage since 1954, has been outbid by TNT Sports/Discovery+. The BBC were "unable to match" the sports coverage giants.

Lizzie Deignan on NSF: "I've bought everything in for Christmas. I've just M&S'd it. I mean Lidl! I've Lidl'd it..." 😂

It's not as bad as Jumbo Visma announcing their Tour team a year in advance, but come on, really

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another episode of InTheWheels Today it’s Fiona Mangan In The Wheels of Fiona Mangan youtu.be/SxLhxbFZcbs

I love Mads' attitude, but getting passionate about working your ass off to be within touching distance of Mathieu and Tadej's level has nothing to do the criticism he's addressing. (From a Mads fan)

TotalEnergies and Uno X are maybe the only WorldTour teams with NPC riders I can't name outside of racing context.

I’m convinced that this map is reflecting reality perfectly.

AI slop is a great way to celebrate your race becoming .Pro

Derek Gee is apparently *not* looking for a new team this season, he's making his money advising Ineos riders how to break a contract on ethical grounds.

or DNF / hurrying to the team bus if it rains 😂

“Oh my dear f***ing God, that’s offensively awful” Ineos Grenadiers release bright orange 2026 kit… with white shorts. Is it the worst cycling kit of all time? road.cc/317347

Going to be a lot of Ineos riders going full gas for national champs kit in 2026

OnleyFans will be a bit too literal if Oscar ends up in those shorts 🫣

Oh dear fucking God, it's as bad as leaked. It's offensively awful 🤣

"Designed to maximize visibility, elevate rider safety, and perform in all conditions" Soudal asked ChatGPT to design a cycling kit with built in high-vis for those gloomy Giro stages.

New kit day 🥳🥳🥳 Audax Club Mid-Essex merino jersey from Soigneur Jerseys, New Zealand.

40km ITT in the Giro. Deploy Arensmania!

"Me? Moaning about leadership? I don't think I did..."

Skjelmose, last week: not re-signing. Skjelmose, today: extends to 2028. Got to love a cycling melodrama.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

"aviation-inspired DNA, Dynamic Blue accents, a look built to stand out in the peloton" A strong application by Red Bull Bora in the cycling jerseys designed by ChatGPT promps classification.

Lidl-Trek swooping Ayuso AND Gee-West feels a bit overkill for balancing a squad, but I'm here for it

The picture...dang 😄

I'm selling this for £79 and need it gone in the next few days. It's a bargain and it's in great condition. Brand new rear wheel and cassette too. I'm in Hertfordshire and can meet you in either King's Langley or St Albans with it. Just don't have the space to store it any more. Size large.

Merlier and Magnier are going to be cross-eyed before they even launch their sprints

The latest InTheWheels episode is out and today’s chat is with the very lovely Elynor Bäckstedt - would love you all to watch and to let me know what you think In The Wheels Of Elynor Backstedt youtu.be/092BmqwyVTU

"Fragments of Precision". Oh piss off 😂

inside the beehive Podcast 🐝🍿 youtu.be/-_qQWDB1Bis?...

That blue should have been the jersey, just sayin

A few weeks ago I visited Lizzie Deignan for the final of four feature interviews over 11 years. Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.

I was at NSN's launch in Barcelona on Tuesday. It was... interesting and infuriating. NSN successfully dictated the narrative, achieving the mission of controlling the story, but the media failed in its mission. There remain a lot of unanswered questions. escapecollective.com/the-question...