Cycling South East

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[Velon CC @VelonCC]

Jonas completes the Grand Tour triple 🏆

Jonas Vingegaard has become the eighth male rider in history to win all three Grand Tours after completing overall victory of the 2026 Giro d’Italia. He previously win the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta a España in 2025.

[Team Visma | Lease a Bike @vismaleaseabike]

🇮🇹 #GirodItalia

Sepp 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 the queen stage! 👑🔥

[RoadRideEvents @roadrideevents]

@Roadman_Podcast Fear not I am sure they will design cycling gloves that go halfway up your arm soon, you know with all the watts saving as the long socks.

[Cyclingnews @Cyclingnewsfeed]

Paris-Roubaix Femmes: Franziska Koch outsprints Marianne Vos from three-rider breakaway to claim biggest win of her career https://t.co/1P5VmX4wpN

[RoadRideEvents @roadrideevents]

Who Will Win Paris Roubaix 2026? | The Big GCN Racing Preview Show https://t.co/FXKqUvUajR via @YouTube

[Cycling on TNT Sports @cyclingontnt]

Seixas cements his supremacy 👑💪

The Frenchman outsprints Florian Lipowitz to take his THIRD stage of Itzulia Basque Country 👏

[The World of Cycling @twocGAME]

Franco Ballerini (Ita) won Paris Roubaix in 1995 & 1998. The Italian had a love affair with the legendary race. R.I.P

[Perdants magnifiques @TousPoulidor]

Greg Lemond, 55e de Paris-Roubaix 1991, à 7'55" du vainqueur, Marc Madiot

[London Clarion Cycle Club @LondonClarion]

📢 London Clarion Cycle Club: The calendar is filling up, and we've got an epic line-up of rides planned for 2026!

* Putney to Hampton Court Palace along the Thames - Sat, 18 April,
* London Marathon Route Ride 26.2 miles - Sat, 25 April,
* Southend Ride - 54 Miles - Sat, 2 May

[The World of Cycling @twocGAME]

The longest winning break in Paris - Roubaix at 222km is held by Dirk Demol of Belgium in 1988.

[RoadRideEvents @roadrideevents]

Do you like cycle racing and are in the #Sussex UK area?
We see that there’s an interesting change to the popular @LewesWanderers #criterium races - finishing in the Half Mile Drive ! It will be a race to the turn into the Drive for sure. #cycling

https://t.co/A3bKpbitTL

[Rupert Rivett @rupephoto]

Phil Liggett (The Voice of the Tour de France)...."Dear Cycling" #cycling https://t.co/r3bd59yi00 via @YouTube

[Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly]

Charlie Burrell rode for 12 brutal hours on the shortest day of the year https://t.co/fBtFslSJgh

[Cycling Legends Media @CyclingLegends1]

Today we take a brief look at the murky world of 1970s pro kermesse racing. Our guide is the late Barry Hoban, an 8-time Tour de France stage winner (the photo is from Bordeaux, 1969) who was based in Ghent during his long pro career, and we’re using a passage from the autobiography we helped him write, and we published, Vas-y Barry.

“When I lived in Belgium there were pro teams that only did the kermesses. Between May and September there was a kermesse somewhere in Belgium nearly every day, and some of them were big. A good living could be made by some, so good there were strong riders who didn’t want to race internationally.

“It was difficult for anyone outside the pro kermesse world to win, because they had mafias who worked together. They were guys who’d raced together since being juniors, and even though they rode for different teams they rode together. They also had bookmakers, and the mafias worked with the bookmakers.

“It was hilarious at times. Kermesses were good training for me, but I’d try to make a bit of money. I knew who’d be aiming to win a particular race. The local guy would really try. A break would go up the road with the local guy in it and his mates backed off, which caused a gap. Then it was up to the local guy to sort out payments to the others. The trick was to get in the break and get paid by the local to help him.

“It was near impossible to beat the mafias because as well as working together the best kermesse racers were good. Over 150 kilometres on a typical kermesse circuit, the kermesse guys were very fast. I claim it as a big feather in my cap that I won a pro kermesse. I only ever won one, and I was really flying when I did it.

“It was at Oostkamp, and I was away with six riders on the last lap, but nobody was talking money. Maybe they thought they could beat me and didn’t need to pay, but they didn’t beat me. I attacked and kept on attacking, eventually leaving them all for dead to finish on my own. I reckon that was probably the only kermesse back then where the winner didn’t pay the guys behind.”

You can read more in Barry Hoban's autobiography, Vas-Y-Barry - https://t.co/zxIuSeuV0J

📸 L’Equipe
🖋 @ChrisSidwells

#cyclinglegends #britishcycling #barryhoban

[Cycling South East @Cycling_SE]

Join the ride this Christmas Eve - cycling west London

[West London Cycling @WestLondonCycl1]

Next up from West London Cycling ... Your Christmas Eve Ride starting from Hillingdon Station (UB10 9NR).

https://t.co/BY20zF8mSn

[UCI Cyclocross @UCI_CX]

Puck Pieterse in 🥈 and trying to close the gap on the leader, Lucinda Brand.

She had the fastest lap on Lap 2️⃣ in 7:24.9 but still has +14s to close on Brand as they head into Lap 3️⃣ / 7️⃣.

van Alphen and van der Heiden close behind in the battle for the podium 🏆 #CXWorldCup

[Miroir du Cyclisme @Miroir2Cyclisme]

Happy Birthday Colin Sturgess (57) 🎂

📸 via @PizzaPokerPsych
#ColinSturgess #BOTD #cycling #cyclisme #ciclismo"

[Cycling Legends Media @CyclingLegends1]

This is Sir Paul Smith. He knows a thing or two about what looks good, and he thinks the Cycling Legends illustrated book series looks very good indeed. Not only that, but he also wrote the foreword to Cycling Legends 03: Jacques Anquetil.

Sir Paul was a talented cyclist before he entered the fashion industry, and Jacques was his teenage hero. He says he used to save his pocket money to buy copies of the French sports newspaper L’Equipe from a newsagent in his native Nottingham. “But only if it had a photo of Jacques Anquetil on the cover.”

Well, there is an unexpected image of Anquetil on the front of Cycling Legends 03: Jacques Anquetil - the man behind the mask. The book reveals Anquetil as the man as well as the cyclist: his complexities and beliefs, as well as his amazing athletic achievements.

The whole series is full of new information revealed by their subjects and by the people who knew them best, as well as incredible pictures, many of which are previously unpublished.

That is our mission at Cycling Legends Media, the untold story and unseen picture. Sir Paul approves; in fact, he’s got all four. Treat yourself or the cyclist in your life to our Christmas offer- all four books plus a free quality musette for £60.

Click here to read more about our books - https://t.co/zU6EjLzDEm

#cyclinglegends #cyclinggift #cyclingbook

[Hayden Groves👨‍🍳🚴 @Hayden1974]

Roast to make Roast Potatoes
https://t.co/6NhUCbExaq