Best of Twitter: 18 October

One of the good things about the end of the season is that riders suddenly find themselves with a lot more time on their hands. Some merely use this time to Instagram some artsy beach shots, but some others delve into their minds and produce some gems of tweets. Here's some of this week's best:

As a bit of background to the above image, Katusha made efficient use of their time off by having a Riders vs Staff football match. As Joaquim Rodriguez is injured, he was roped in to referee and... well. The power might have got to his head a tad.

Now, if you'll excuse me, STATBLAST!

Congratulations to Kristian Sbaragli for his ironman season. On to ironwomen, it's been hard to go on Twitter this week without seeing Laura Trott winning something at the European track championships. The Matrix Pro Cycling rider picked up three titles this week, taking her overall career total to 10.


Have you ever heard of cycleball? Neither had we until the UCI tweeted about it this week. A quick search of YouTube reveals it's two teams of two riders, using their bikes to smack a ball into a goal. Think indoor football on bikes.
If there aren't impromptu games breaking out in parks worldwide within a few weeks, I'll be very disappointed. Speaking of disappointing, we're a bit late here, but hopefully this will mark the last time these godawful team pictures from Lotto-Soudal ever see the light of a screen. We draw your attention to Louis Vervaeke's pose in particular.

And finally, sometimes captions can't do a tweet justice. So we'll just translate for those of you who don't speak Spanish, and leave you with The Unbeaten Green Bullet.

Don't forget to follow us if you don't already, @Laughing_Group. We'll see you for another amble through the Twitter peloton soon.
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