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Felix Lowe

3 years

For the past few years I've been writing the retrospective Re-Cycle series for @Eurosport_UK on the most compelling, controversial and extraordinary riders & races in cycling history. You can hear @GrahamWillgoss narrate all 51 episodes here:

Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast

Eurosport's cycling history podcast

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

11 months

Ineos Grenadiers should do the decent thing (what they should have done this year) & take Cavendish on for one more year. They don’t have any proper GC riders anymore. They could feasibly shape a season around delivering him - the fastest sprinter in this Tour - to one more win.

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5 years

No wonder Valverde lost ground today - he was too busy cheering on Fuglsang for the victory #LaVuelta2019

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I'm fascinated by this 1948 Tour de France postcard collection which, when laid out, marks the entire route of the race that year. Has anyone seen anything like this before? @inrng @davidguenel

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2 years

"Hey guys, how about it - shall we just do a 1-2-3 today at Hautacam?" #TDF2022

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3 years

Taylor Phinney’s current Instagram story is a thing of retro beauty…

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@saddleblaze

4 years

So much colour. Ullrich leads Armstrong and “little punk” Mayo, with his Basque teammate Zubeldia, over the summit of the Tourmalet ahead of the drama on Luz Ardiden in stage 15 of the 2003 Tour de France.

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3 years

@Andywebster I haven’t got time for this - can you just tell us what it is, and bloody hurry up?!

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@saddleblaze

4 years

The many pain-faces of Hugh Carthy #LaVuelta

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

A friend of mine has recently got into cycling and is watching the #Giro105 for the first time… 😂

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

9 months

Unconfirmed reports of Remco Evenepoel saying, "Vous êtes des assassins. Oui, des assassins!", to race organisers as he toiled over the top of the Col d'Aubisque just now... #LaVuelta23

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Who does Vingegaard call after each stage? Poor Pogacar keeps getting snubbed by him because he's on his phone... #TDF2022

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

13 days

Has any other vehicle - entirely unrelated to the sport in question, besides the logos - held such a prominent role in a sporting event before? #Giro107

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

"I'm the king of the world!" Tony Martin's either doing his best Titanic impression or establishing his patron of the peloton credentials by calling a temporary ceasefire ahead of the next treacherous descent... #TDF2020

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

The medical advice when you fracture the radial head of your arm is 2-4 weeks in a sling while it heals. Marc Soler fractured both, got back on his bike & finished today’s stage 💪🏻 #TDF2021 (You probably won’t see much about it on TV until season 4 of The Least Expected Day)

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

Devil's advocate would say that if you choose to send a team featuring three former Movistar riders to the Tour, then there's a good chance that the team will start to perform like, well, Movistar on the Tour… #TDF2020

Where did it all go wrong for Egan Bernal and the Ineos Grenadiers? - Eurosport

Egan Bernal plummeting out of the top 10 in Stage 15's summit finish on the Grand Colombier brings the curtain down on Sky and Ineos' era of Tour domination.

www.eurosport.com

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

It's great that Orlando Bloom is cycling, but... 😳

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11 months

The cycling community bemoaning the lack of sponsorship in the sport and the fragility of its business model. The cycling community also getting a bee in its collective bonnet when a team puts the logo of its new sponsor - shock! horror! - on the front of its #TDF2023 jersey.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Came across an account today of some cyclist who’s already finished the Rapha 500 (2 days after Xmas) & who was complaining about someone drafting him in Richmond Park. What a sorry existence people lead. (I’ve never understood the anger people feel about being drafted.)

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

1 year

Classic of the genre.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

I wonder how long before British Cycling have their "We get it, and we have listened" moment? 🤔

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

1 year

@Rkreb1 @ShamelessOne2 i) There is no minimum speed limit ii) You’re a dick Hope this helps 👍🏻

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Alto de Gamoniteiru 😍 Stage 18 of #LaVuelta21 finishes on this remote climb in the Asturias, which is being used for the first time in the race's history. Rarely dropping below 10% it ramps up to 17% on that final brutish sweep beneath the weather station. Another gem 🇪🇸🚵‍♀️🐂

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

7 months

Having snared the Velo d'Or for winning a Tour where his only rival was injured (as opposed to winning races throughout the season, as the injured guy did) Jonas Vingegaard's transition to Bond villain is now complete... #TDF2024

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Not a great look from Roglic or his team to go public with this stance, which we all know is complete and utter tosh. There was no way Fred Wright was to blame for that crash. This should have been spiked by Jumbo's PR people.

Team Visma | Lease a Bike

@vismaleaseabike

2 years

💬 "After the crash, it took me time to straighten things out. My conclusion is that the way this crash happened is unacceptable. This is not the way I want the sport to continue and I want to make that clear." Read more about @rogla 's comment. ⤵️

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

Check out this crazy road in Japan: Mount Iwaki, with its 69 hairpin bends. Apparently you can cycle up and down it on one day of the year... #theperfecthairpin #hairpinheaven

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 years

Lovely gesture from the former yellow jersey to the current maillot jaune as Alaphilippe seeks out Bernal towards the back of the bunch to offer him his hand. What a refreshing site from a rider who has lit up this race - and another, who will light up many more to come #TDF2019

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Such terribly sad news about Richard Moore. One of the nicest men, a true gent, always kind, compassionate & funny. A huge talent & trailblazer. I will miss his voice & company on the @cycling_podcast immeasurably. All thoughts with Lionel, Daniel, the pod & above all his family.

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Felix Lowe

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4 years

Today the #TDF2020 rolls through La Rochelle, a place any of us who studied French at school in the UK will have a weird affinity with. I wonder if Chantel still goes swimming in la piscine and the Dhome family still run the local boulangerie... 🇫🇷 #Tricolor

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@saddleblaze

5 years

Bloody cyclists...

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

There has never been a more successful pure sprinter in the sport. On his day @MarkCavendish was one of the best cycling has ever seen; but his day happened so often that we can only conclude that he was THE best.

World's best ever sprinter Mark Cavendish deserves a better farewell - Eurosport

If Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem was Mark Cavendish's last professional race, it would be a sad way to wave goodbye to the best sprinter the sport has ever produced.

www.eurosport.com

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

9 months

"Happy birthday, Sepp!" 🎂🥳🎁 #LaVuelta23

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

6 years

Terrible, terrible news. Let’s remember Michael Goolaerts with this happy image, not the sickening ones people were sharing yesterday. Thoughts with his family, teammates and friends.

Michael Goolaerts

@Gooliee94

6 years

That crowd🙌🏼

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Felix Lowe

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5 years

Henao, Quintana, Bernal, Uran: Nice to see the gathering of four Colombians who have all, in their own way, ridden for Team Sky over the years... #TDF2019

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Corks should be popped the world over to celebrate this masterpiece of #TourFieldArt #TDFF 🚜🍾🇫🇷

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

The sight of Landa grimacing while a sprinter sandbags his wheel on the highest climb of the Tour says it all #TDF2020

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

1 year

Somewhere in the middle of that peloton, Mark Cavendish is looking wistfully at that pink locomotive and reminding himself what a train looks like... #Giro2023

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

What an image... Chapeau, Bini! Girmay gets the seal of approval from his fiercest rival... 👍 History made on the #Giro105

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

@Gammons4London I live 50m from here & I don’t want my neighbourhood “restored” as you say. It’s much better now without people using Leighton Road as a rat-run. There’s no longer speeding vehicles & stand-offs between disgruntled drivers. Less noise & more cyclists, too. What’s not to like?

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Cav would have doubled up.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 months

Roger De Vlaeminck takes a restorative bottle of wine from his wife Marleen during the 1971 Tour de France. The Belgian crashed heavily in stage 7 - hence the bandaged left elbow & hand - and threw in the towel in stage 11. 🇫🇷🚴‍♂️🍷

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

No Tao-Geoghegan Hart on the Spoty shortlist. Sums it up, really.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

6 months

@Joey7Barton I think the male players having affairs probably cost them their marriages. Just a hunch.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 years

People go on about Sky/Ineos but the reality is that, collectively and professionally, they are so much better than the rest. The way they responded to Thomas’ crash when Woods took down him and Moscon was phenomenal. #TDF2019

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2 months

The “Au Tour de France” bicycle shop in Aude, a village south of Carcassonne, taken in June 1914. The lives of these amateur cyclists was about to take turn none of them could have ever predicted.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Imagine being the mayor of Cortina and blowing your 2021 budget on this... #Giro2021

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3 years

The vineyards of the Oltrepo Pavese in southern Lombardy 😍🇮🇹🍷 #Giro2021

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@saddleblaze

3 years

@Chrisitv Is this the equivalent of being stuck in traffic, taking a photo of said traffic, and complaining, yet being part of the problem?

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

7 years

Sagan - the only guy who can drop a gear, unclip, clip back in, and still win an uphill sprint. #TDF2017

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

I see Mark Cavendish won in sunny Oman. Question is, can he do it on a wet and windy July afternoon in Sønderborg? #CavToTheTour

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 years

Is there a more iconic polka-dot picture in recent years than this capture of Warren Barguil winning on the Izoard to secure the king of the mountains title in the 2017 Tour de France?

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

1 year

Just finished Tour de France: Unchained #TDFUnchained on Netflix. Personally, I think many people were overly harsh & a bit snobbish about it. I thought, given the constraints, it was very entertaining – although a few things still baffle me. Some thoughts/questions here… 🧵 1/

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

34 Tour de France stage wins between them, but Cav and Kasper still have to share a pair of headphones #TDF2022

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Bloody cyclists! Who do they think they are, riding around in lycra uninsured, not using the cycle path, thinking they're in the Tour de bloody France, not paying any road tax etc etc. #LaVuelta22

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 months

@MartinDaubney Helping feed starving children seems to be an admirable use of funds garnered from climate change deniers and motorists who break the law, Martin.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

@TheMrLoophole @Iromg @cristo_radio @Sueperb2 @JeremyClarkson @theJeremyVine Your job literally entails getting drivers who blast past schools at 60mph off any charges. The state of your attempt at humour is woeful. This tweet is up there with that Republican chap posing with his family all brandishing weapons. Speaking of massive weapons…

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 months

They’ve only gone and built a bridge over the Koppenberg…

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

5 years

Scariest thing about that Thomas crash was the attire of the hulking man who came to his aid - black shorts rolled up and a t-shirt in a knot. Can't get more French than that 😂 #TDF2019

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

6 years

"Avert your eyes from the, er, er, um, rubble (rabble?) on the side of the road." It's not often that @carltonkirby is left speechless... #Giro101

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Filippo Ganna. What a legend. As a “big guy” myself, it’s hard not to idolise someone who has made such better use of his huge frame and, in his case, innate talent. Scary to think how much more he could achieve - and in so many disciplines. Forza Italia! 🇮🇹🥇 🎉

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

10 months

Just finished Mark Cavendish: Never Enough. The raw emotion when he wins at Fougères to draw a line under that terrible, life-consuming barren patch… Wow… Even though we all know the script by heart it still brings a tear to the eye. Best comeback in sporting history?

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Slovenia has now won over a quarter of the stages so far on #TDF2021 and this in a race which Primoz Roglic effectively crashed out from on day three. 🇸🇮🚨🇸🇮

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2 months

I wonder how many times in his current profession Primoz Roglic has thought about his previous profession and has come to the conclusion that, on balance, snow is softer and more forgiving than concrete.

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@saddleblaze

2 years

Now the #TDF2022 is practically over I think it’s time to disclose that in February, I accepted a freelance role as consultant for the French swimming pool industry & the national association of chateaux and outdoor aerially viewed art. Apologies for any conflict of interest 🙏🏻

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

Training for Strade Bianche Juniors… 🚴🏼

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@saddleblaze

5 years

Getty says this is crazed Anquetil after a stage during the 1959 Tour de France. Scary stuff. He's so knackered he looks like an entirely different person.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 months

@Joey7Barton Imagine donating money to a millionaire former footballer because he slandered a media personality while peddling his misogynistic wares in a bid to stoke the culture war coals that have become his sole raison d’être after being snubbed for a commentary gig…

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

Great map in Le Monde breaking down the frequency of visits for each department of France since the Tour's inception in 1903. The darker the region, the more regularly the race comes. Spotted in the comments section of the @inrng 's superb #TDF2020 preview.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

1 year

@AdamBronkhorst The sad thing is that many people will be less offended by this than by you cycling along a shared path…

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

What I don’t get about these e-races from a fan perspective is this: who watches cycling for the physical act of cycling? I only tune in for the views, intrigue & drama, all of which are wholly absent on pixellated computerised cartoons coordinated by a turbo trainer in a garage.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

10 months

Dani Martinez joins Tao Geoghegan Hart, Pavel Sivakov and (probably) Carlos Rodriguez into the great Ineos exodus. Are they freeing up space for Remco Evenepoel while doing their best to make sure the Belgian feels at right home with a distinctive lack of climbing support?!

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

Haven't watched such a tense race since, well, Amstel Gold. Whose Grand Tour or major race performance does the blue marble most match in recent years? At one point I thought he'd done a Simon Yates in the 2018 Giro after some seriously debatable tactical decisions, but then...

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

Why are people complaining about having to pay for Strava? They’ve created a product which you can’t expect to have for free forever. Ditto newspapers, Audible, many podcasts etc.

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Felix Lowe

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1 year

Tour of Flanders training this morning.

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

@jenstridonkai @darrenmoore @WorldBollard @SpacePootler @mariamartak @SchJustina11 @ellielockx @P_DriscollW5W13 @MetCC @EnvAgency @XREaling @RBourchier @standardnews The bollard by the Forester was back in this morning. All was calm. Then someone removed it half an hour ago & it’s been a steady stream of cars/motorbikes ever since. All of the planters nearby have been overturned too. What is it with people? Be angry, fine. But vandalism? #LTN

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5 years

Yeah, despite Uran’s insistence, I don’t think that’s rideable in all fairness #TDF2019

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@saddleblaze

5 years

She said yes! 💍👰🤵💒 All smiles for Spain's Jesús Ezquerra, who proposes to his girlfriend in the Burgos-BH car during the final stage to Madrid - and even takes out a ring from his jersey pocket #LaVuelta19

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

3 years

Bayern Munich again?

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@jamesbenge

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Arsenal are out

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@saddleblaze

3 years

Further proof that the Vuelta is by far the most beautiful of the three Grand Tours 😍🇪🇸 #LaVuelta21

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

2 years

@Connorodonnell9 @the_baseband Alternatively - additionally, even - maybe the driver should try not driving bonnet-first across a pedestrian and cycle crossing without confirming if anyone is on said crossing? Just a hunch.

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@saddleblaze

3 years

Who do they think they are - cyclists in the Tour de France?!?

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Felix Lowe

@saddleblaze

4 years

For no reason beyond sartorial elegance, he's a picture of Jacques Anquetil in the maglia rosa during the 1967 Giro d'Italia, back in the day when cyclists didn't wear helmets & always combed their hair. Note the short shorts.

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Felix Lowe

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7 years

On the unwritten rules thing, all I'll say is that Froome has a tendency to have seemingly tactical mechanicals at key points in races.

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@saddleblaze

5 years

Enric Mas shipped almost three minutes on the Tourmalet - so, all in all, a successful audition for Movistar, who he's expected to join next season #TDF2019

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3 years

"Siri, can you sum up today's stage in one screen-grab?" #LaVuelta21

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@saddleblaze

11 months

@AJ_MUFC25 @AndyNaylorBHAFC As a United fan, you know a lot about overpaying...

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@saddleblaze

6 years

Monumental.

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3 years

Peloton heading towards Mount Doom in the collective big ring #Giro2021

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@saddleblaze

5 years

Can't believe he didn't pull a wheelie while signing it...

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@mrconde

5 years

While everybody else is suffering in the Pyrenees, @PetoSagan still has energy to sign a copy of his book to an eager spectator running alongside him. Basically, just Sagan being Sagan. #TDF2019

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@saddleblaze

4 years

Imagine being a Manchester United supporting Julian Alaphilippe fan with a soft spot for Sagan 😂

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@saddleblaze

4 years

Bored during the lockdown? Then feast your eyes on a 75-minute résumé of the 1951 Tour de France, featuring Louison Bobet combing his hair, the dashing Hugo Koblet in yellow, and Fausto Coppi going over the Izoard in pole position (🇫🇷)

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2 years

Sheffield-Turner-Pidcock is some classics trident going forward. They have been magnificent for Ineos-Grenadiers this spring - and seem to be taking things to the next level in the Ardennes #BrabantsePijl #FlecheBrabanconne

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@saddleblaze

5 years

@INVINCEARSENAL @Arsenal You call yourself a fan? Shame on you.

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5 years

BBC going on about how hard it is specifically for Geraint Thomas today in the rain because he's done a long season. Eh? He rode for three weeks in July... #Yorkshire2019

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