UK Cycling Expert

DeadCalm
DeadCalm Posts: 4,242
edited May 2013 in Pro race
Surely deserving of his own thread and a worthy follow up to Tweeter Sagan. My favourite of today:

UK Cycling Expert ‏@ukcyclingexpert 3h
Soon the riders will enter the feed zone where they stop to eat and drink. While most teams use basic plastic cutlery, Team Sky use carbon.
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  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    Pure unoriginal wannabee, hes really not that funny, its been done far better than him plenty of times before.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,242
    Walter White wrote:
    Pure unoriginal wannabee, hes really not that funny, its been done far better than him plenty of times before.
    Fair enough. Each to their own. Personally, I'm really enjoying his tweets but if you can point me to someone better, please do.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    DeadCalm wrote:
    While most teams use basic plastic cutlery, Team Sky use carbon.
    Did they have spaghetti carbonara as well?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It's clearly a UK based cycling journalist
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • chrisday
    chrisday Posts: 300
    I'm loving it, and want to claim a small amount of credit for (I think) being first to suggest on here.

    I know it's not that important, but when you're as much of a lurker as me, you've got to get what you can :)
    @shraap | My Men 2016: G, Yogi, Cav, Boonen, Degenkolb, Martin, J-Rod, Kudus, Chaves
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    chrisday wrote:
    I'm loving it, and want to claim a small amount of credit for (I think) being first to suggest on here.

    I know it's not that important, but when you're as much of a lurker as me, you've got to get what you can :)
    FF will have you for wheel-sucking. :D
    UKCyclingExpert has been on-the-money so far. He's obviously a keen observer of his peers (football correspondents) suddenly becoming experts in cycling. Got a keen eye for one-eyed Olympic coverage too. And funny.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • welshmessenger
    welshmessenger Posts: 298
    Hilarious I reckon.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,242
    iainf72 wrote:
    It's clearly a UK based cycling journalist
    I suspect Ned Boulting or Matt Rendell (or both).
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    iainf72 wrote:
    It's clearly a UK based cycling journalist
    I reckon it might be more than one of them.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Really? I suspect its someone in this forum.
    http://www.twitter.com/InTheGC http://www.InTheGC.com http://www.facebook.com/intheGC
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    I would be beyond amazed if it's not one of our own.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Really? I suspect its someone in this forum.

    Who is your money on?
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Really? I suspect its someone in this forum.
    Turfle wrote:
    I would be beyond amazed if it's not one of our own.

    Don't worry lads. He's not talking about us.

    Is he?
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Won't pin-point anyone and could be way off the mark but think there are a few candidates on here, chapeau whoever it is anyway
    http://www.twitter.com/InTheGC http://www.InTheGC.com http://www.facebook.com/intheGC
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    No naming names, but they know who they are.

    (could be very wrong of course)
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Shooting a lot of bolts very quickly.

    Like it though.
    _
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Loving his work so far
    Road
    MTB
    NEW Cross
    Track/Grass Track/Winter bike
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Enjoying seeing my twitter timeline with INRNG calling the race so well and then the next tweet daft satire from UK Cycling expert.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    It was a retweet from Richard Moore that caught my attention first... pretty sure the 'also followed by' were all journos too.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,174
    Walter White wrote:
    Pure unoriginal wannabee, hes really not that funny, its been done far better than him plenty of times before.

    Excellent, can you point us to some please as I'm enjoying the Tweets. Liked the comparison of Cav to Bolt doing a marathon sat in a palanquin and jumping out to sprint he last 200m
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    I'm absolutely not UK Cyling Expert :shock:

    (no really :( )
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    'ukcyclingexpert is bang on the money.

    Some poor hack at the Graun has been having to provide rolling live updates:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/lliwedd/stat ... 73/photo/1
  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    He/She needs to be a little less prolific I reckon, but I loved this:


    UK Cycling Expert‏@ukcyclingexpert5 May
    Team Sky should keep an eye on Alex Dowsett. Young Brit guy on the US Movie Star squad. Could deffo do a job for Sky in the future #Gir0

    Tom Staniford‏@tomstaniford5 May
    @ukcyclingexpert @richardmoore73 Movistar are Spanish... And Dowsett did 2yrs with Sky. Or is that the joke?
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    Tom Staniford‏@tomstaniford5 May
    @tsekelvinth I have every faith in @richardmoore73 and think he RT'd it to take the piss out of " @ukcyclingexpert "

    UK Cycling Expert‏@ukcyclingexpert5 May
    @tomstaniford @richardmoore73 Sorry, yes, Spanish. Dowsett, though, wow! Amazing Team Sky could let him & the 2011 BBC SPOTY (Cav) leave.

    Tom Staniford‏@tomstaniford5 May
    @ukcyclingexpert @richardmoore73 do you believe 2011 SPOTY is Cav's greatest achievement?
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Richard Moore.
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Ed Balls
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • mrpowly
    mrpowly Posts: 16
    Not as funny as tweeterSagan, some good stuff but I don't think they'll manage to stay original for the whole Giro
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,174
    Can't believe some muppet appears to think it's genuine. Always one I guess!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Never mind @ulcyclingexpert I want to know who Tom Staniford is and how he's allowed to use an internet enabled device unsupervised?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,452
    He's an accomplished para-cyclist.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Staniford
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    andyp wrote:
    He's an accomplished para-cyclist.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Staniford

    His sense of humour bypass was a complete success also.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent

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