Vern Pitt

First in an occasional series of Tweet’s I’m calling Cycling for Metalheads. Milan-San Remo: Metallica playing a festival-headlining greatest hits set, but with a five hour-long support slot from your mate’s band who are “heavily influenced by Sunn O)))”. #cycling4metalheads

The weather is so bad riders are being driven from the buses to sign on

⚠️ IMPORTANT - ETAPE 7 ⚠️ Départ en convoi à 12h pour aller à un nouveau lieu de départ à 47km de l'arrivée. Le nouveau départ sera donné à 13h45 à cet endroit pour les 47 derniers km de la course. ⚠️ IMPORTANT - STAGE 7 ⚠️ We will depart in a convoy at 12:00 PM to head to a new starting point 47 km from the finish line. We will start the race again at 1:45 PM from this location for the final 47 km of the race. Finish line at Isola. #ParisNice

Ineos Grenadiers’ new title sponsor is being framed as a budget boost to match the €60m superteams. But the team’s public filings show it already had €50m sponsorship revenue in 2020. So is Netcompany expanding the budget, or filling a gap Jim Ratcliffe no longer wants to cover? My deep dive: veloracycling.com/features/ineos…

"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/here-we-go-t…

An amateur athlete – who is also the father of a current WorldTour pro – was just sanctioned for working with banned former US Postal Service trainer Jose Martí. Read @cmbreports exclusive story on our website: escapecollective.com/a-notorious-do…

Pog may have won on his own kinda terrain but I gotta say the Fish Monger of Jutland looked ominously good today. MVDP was gassed while the Dane still had legs.

Someone having to reverse off the road at Besseges. Wow.

Extremely worrying news: Óscar Freire’s family have reported him missing, according to El Diario Montañés, his local newspaper. He left his home without phone, wallet or keys & has been gone ‘at least since Tuesday’. x.com/relevo/status/…

Warner Bros is getting more people into piracy than they've gotten people into actually watching cycling.

A 31 GBP monthly subscription to watch cycling. Fuck off. 😂 cyclingweekly.com/news/eurosport…

You can put football behind an astronomical paywall because there's so many fans that a lot of people plus bars will pay for it. But put niche sports behind an astronomical paywall and you don't grow but *kill* a sport. Capitalism at its worst right here

This is a big story. Here are the key points ❌ Eurosport is closing down in the UK & Irelan 💸 Move to TNT Sports puts cycling behind a £30.99 a month paywall 🇫🇷 NO free to-air live Tour de France from 2026 cyclingweekly.com/news/eurosport…

@cyclingweekly It's 40k ride. If you've got knees over 30 years old it could well be a 80km ride still.

Which do you think is easier? Couch to 5k run or couch to 40k bike ride?

If you’re in Manchester there is the mother of all cycle jumbles at the velodrome. And me.

@dnlbenson 🤣🤣🤢

@VernPitt Think of the sponsored content...

Conscious uncoupling between Pidcock and Ineos down to a lack of ‘compatibility’💔 The team are looking for a second sponsor to reach super team status once again dnlbenson.substack.com/p/conscious-un…

@BenKoller "Yep. If you don't know us after having set the blueprint for 80% of modern metal, that's on you."

I need a new response for "are you in a band or something?" I'm getting sick of "how could you tell?" "Oh we're that ugly huh?" and "traveling circus" All suggestions welcome. Stoked to try out something new.

Duck! Pidcock is licking off shots: "Joining a team that believes in me and shares my vision of success makes this an incredibly important step in my career." cyclingweekly.com/racing/tom-pid…

Real bombshell. Lots of Q's for British Cycling.