This social media roundup was rekindled within the heights of foolish season. Each week Jonas Abrahamsen provided us with goofy Instagram laughs, and our social media feeds had been awash with Christmas jumper-ed groups. Anybody bear in mind Visma-Lease a Bike‘s beehive knits?
As the brand new yr settles in, January workforce camps are ending, and riders are gearing up in the direction of a spring and summer season of racing – in the event that they have not already headed to Australia for the Tour Down Below.
1. The individuals’s princes: Yves Lampaert and Soudal Fast-Step teammates helped one stranded driver get again onto the highway. However who is that this mysterious helmet-wearing driver?
2. WTF is zone two? For time trial world Champion Marlen Reusser, it appears to be like like its a sit down and a frothy espresso.
3. Robyn Clay and her Picnic Submit-NL teammates maintain Eleanora Ciabocco on a Calpe shoreline in an idyllic finish to a January camp stuffed with cats, coastlines and strawberry smoothies. “A pair extra weeks of prep earlier than we go racing,” she writes in her Instagram caption.
4. Lidl-Trek are additionally calling time on their January camp, however not earlier than they quiz their riders on their favorite Christmas present (we’re nonetheless flogging this horse). Felicity Wilson-Haffenden wins palms down, after taking house the Australian Nationwide Particular person Time Trial title, and the primary win for Lidl Trek in 2026. In the meantime, Anna Henderson has been gifted a whole new set of kitchen utensils to make use of on her return to the UK – a peak maturity pressie.
5. Cross via the Swiss city of Schöfflisdorf and also you may catch a glimpse of Swiss Olympian, Noemi Rüegg on a coaching journey turned grocery run, eggs tucked into her EF Training-Oatly jersey – all to the soundtrack of panting breath and tweeting birds.
6. “It’s someplace that is sensible to me,” says Alice Towers of the Cape City roads she rode on together with her brother, Lucas, beneath looming clifftops and unravelling seascapes. That is one other of EF Professional Biking’s ‘Past Your Universe’ collection, obtainable to look at in full on YouTube.
7. Taco van der Hoorn soundtracked this submit with Karma Police by Radiohead – we hope that is not reflective of his temper.
8. Reckon you possibly can cycle underwater? A bicycle owner’s horror story or a feat of unmatched daring? 12 minutes is spectacular regardless.
9. Nothing will disgrace me out of Christmas day thirds. In the event you’re recovering from Christmas indulgence, we now have tips about methods to get again into coaching and a break down on the science of detraining and retraining.
10. Welsh rider, Stevie Williams, opens up concerning the struggles he’s had after injuring his knee in 2019, adopted by one other operation six months in the past. Because the NSN workforce heads out to the Tour Down Below, Williams is hoping for a brighter 2026. Poor Stevie will not be on the Adelaide Oval this yr.
11. Who wants a top-of-the-range bike when milliseconds might be shaved off from an aerodynamic head?