Samuel
@samuelgamester.bsky.social
51. AuDHD. Winchester UK. Out riding the bike or home drinking tea and staring into Space 🪐
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i wrote this about esteban chaves in 2023, how his was 'a story of belief and resilience in the face of the seemingly impossible.'
happy retirement.
www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/est...
happy retirement.
www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/est...
Tears of a Colombian champion: The story of Esteban Chaves’ resilience
On the 5th of February, a photo showed a single tear rolling down the cheek of newly crowned Colombian national
www.cyclist.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
i wrote this about esteban chaves in 2023, how his was 'a story of belief and resilience in the face of the seemingly impossible.'
happy retirement.
www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/est...
happy retirement.
www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/est...
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Coming up soon on the Domestique Hotseat, we have 🇧🇪 Victor Campenaerts!
What would you like to ask the former hour record holder?
What would you like to ask the former hour record holder?
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Coming up soon on the Domestique Hotseat, we have 🇧🇪 Victor Campenaerts!
What would you like to ask the former hour record holder?
What would you like to ask the former hour record holder?
Not Sportswashing Nomore?
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Not Sportswashing Nomore?
Nine Second Nails? 🤔
Spin Cycle: Never say never say what? escapecollective.com/spin-cycle-n...
Spin Cycle: Never say never say what?
There's a lump of wax in New Jersey I need.
escapecollective.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Nine Second Nails? 🤔
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Heard about an Irish scheme that pays £70k to anyone willing to set up home on an offshore island – so felt duty-bound to go and scope out a couple...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
Three miles long by two wide: Why touring Ireland's tiny islands makes no sense at all – yet is utterly addictive
Hearing rumours of empty space, tranquillity and generous repopulation grants, we set sail for Ireland's offshore islands, dreaming of freedom
www.cyclingweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heard about an Irish scheme that pays £70k to anyone willing to set up home on an offshore island – so felt duty-bound to go and scope out a couple...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
I've got a bad feeling about this NSN project...
And there is a judiciary procedure for fraud against Iniesta in Peru if I understand correctly...
rmcsport.bfmtv.com/football/and...
rmcsport.bfmtv.com/football/and...
Andrés Iniesta visé par une enquête pour escroquerie au Pérou
L'ancien milieu de terrain du Barça Andrés Iniesta fait l'objet d'une enquête du parquet péruvien pour "escroquerie aggravée". Le champion du monde 2010 avec la Roja serait impliqué dans un réseau de ...
rmcsport.bfmtv.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I've got a bad feeling about this NSN project...
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100 days.
Just 100 more days and the peloton will be back where it truly belongs. Just 100 more days until the Flemish climbs and cobblestones are once again lined with passionate cycling fans.
100 days until the Omloop!
www.instagram.com/p/DRSRHeFDMt...
Just 100 more days and the peloton will be back where it truly belongs. Just 100 more days until the Flemish climbs and cobblestones are once again lined with passionate cycling fans.
100 days until the Omloop!
www.instagram.com/p/DRSRHeFDMt...
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
100 days.
Just 100 more days and the peloton will be back where it truly belongs. Just 100 more days until the Flemish climbs and cobblestones are once again lined with passionate cycling fans.
100 days until the Omloop!
www.instagram.com/p/DRSRHeFDMt...
Just 100 more days and the peloton will be back where it truly belongs. Just 100 more days until the Flemish climbs and cobblestones are once again lined with passionate cycling fans.
100 days until the Omloop!
www.instagram.com/p/DRSRHeFDMt...
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"I don’t believe that cycling is clean now. Absolutely not" - 🇩🇪 Marcel Kittel was very clear on the Domestique Hotseat.
Watch or listen to the rest of the podcast⤵️
📺 youtu.be/iwiinyyI9e0
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6ziL...
Watch or listen to the rest of the podcast⤵️
📺 youtu.be/iwiinyyI9e0
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6ziL...
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"I don’t believe that cycling is clean now. Absolutely not" - 🇩🇪 Marcel Kittel was very clear on the Domestique Hotseat.
Watch or listen to the rest of the podcast⤵️
📺 youtu.be/iwiinyyI9e0
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6ziL...
Watch or listen to the rest of the podcast⤵️
📺 youtu.be/iwiinyyI9e0
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6ziL...
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Alison Jackson's surprise move to St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93 has just made a bit more sense: Premier Tech confirms that it will sponsor the team for the next two years to further support Canadian cycling. Notably, not as a title sponsor, paving the way for naming rights at another team.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alison Jackson's surprise move to St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93 has just made a bit more sense: Premier Tech confirms that it will sponsor the team for the next two years to further support Canadian cycling. Notably, not as a title sponsor, paving the way for naming rights at another team.
If I was to attempt to hit the ground running I would 100% fall on my face
Leaked: Despite shock at Premier Tech's departure team promise riders they will 'hit the ground running' in 2026
Internal message shows team management are still moving forward despite the shock of Premier Tech's departure, and sponsorship talks are ongoing
dnlbenson.substack.com/p/leaked-des...
Internal message shows team management are still moving forward despite the shock of Premier Tech's departure, and sponsorship talks are ongoing
dnlbenson.substack.com/p/leaked-des...
Leaked: Despite shock at Premier Tech's departure team promise riders they will 'hit the ground running' in 2026
Internal message shows team management are still moving forward despite the shock of Premier Tech's departure, and sponsorship talks ongoing
dnlbenson.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If I was to attempt to hit the ground running I would 100% fall on my face
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Everything that @barneyronay.bsky.social says here applies equally to cycling. The Israel team has been the focus of widescale protests that have undermined it while UAE Team Emirates have collected almost every prize worth having with barely a hint of criticism or scrutiny
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Everything that @barneyronay.bsky.social says here applies equally to cycling. The Israel team has been the focus of widescale protests that have undermined it while UAE Team Emirates have collected almost every prize worth having with barely a hint of criticism or scrutiny
Of course it's not just the UAE involved, UK and USA are behind this too, plus probably many other countries funding and supplying the war
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Of course it's not just the UAE involved, UK and USA are behind this too, plus probably many other countries funding and supplying the war
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Could this be because they were hoping Gee would stay onboard with a new Canadian focused project but have received legal advice or info from UCI that he is going to be able to leave anyway, the straw that broke the camel's back perhaps, project is net negative for them now
PremierTech stops as a team sponsor "taking effect immediately"
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Could this be because they were hoping Gee would stay onboard with a new Canadian focused project but have received legal advice or info from UCI that he is going to be able to leave anyway, the straw that broke the camel's back perhaps, project is net negative for them now
Ugggghhhh.....The Giro stages were a snooze fest, but ASO will probably do this at some point, unless French govt says non
🇮🇱 Israel eyes future Tour de France Grand Départ
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Ugggghhhh.....The Giro stages were a snooze fest, but ASO will probably do this at some point, unless French govt says non
Nice skies today over Maastricht which is a real place in real Limburg
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Nice skies today over Maastricht which is a real place in real Limburg
Doing Dutch things in windy and rainy Limburg, which is a real place actually
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Doing Dutch things in windy and rainy Limburg, which is a real place actually
Giro please 🍿
'We’ll now wait for the routes of the other Grand Tours' - Red Bull hold off naming Remco Evenepoel as 2026 Tour de France team leader https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/well-now-wait-for-the-routes-of-the-other-grand-tours-red-bull-hold-off-naming-remco-evenepoel-as-2026-tour-de-france-team-leader/
October 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Giro please 🍿
And his team would still be first even without him 😫
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
And his team would still be first even without him 😫
Does anyone still make puncture repair kits that actually work? 🥲
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Does anyone still make puncture repair kits that actually work? 🥲
I strongly dislike onboard camera segments 🫨😵💫😫
October 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I strongly dislike onboard camera segments 🫨😵💫😫
"Piloshite"🤣
The #TourofHolland gives us the opportunity to introduce the geologically most puzzling mountain of Europe: the Col du VAM!
The Dutch province of Drenthe is world-famous for Pleistocene ice age erratics: blocks of gneiss and granite that were transported from Sweden and Finland by giant glaciers.
The Dutch province of Drenthe is world-famous for Pleistocene ice age erratics: blocks of gneiss and granite that were transported from Sweden and Finland by giant glaciers.
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Piloshite"🤣
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I wrote something about how, from a Belgian perspective, we are astonished by the current situation in the Netherlands regarding the organization of cycling races
open.substack.com/pub/stijnbas...
open.substack.com/pub/stijnbas...
The Red Flag That Makes Everything Possible
Why should bike races be halted because of other traffic? Let’s talk about red flags, signalers, and the right to race.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I wrote something about how, from a Belgian perspective, we are astonished by the current situation in the Netherlands regarding the organization of cycling races
open.substack.com/pub/stijnbas...
open.substack.com/pub/stijnbas...
Ach first time in years I went to watch a race roadside and it was cancelled - rightly so, rider safety always comes first, still, gutted 😩
(Tour of Holland S3)
(Tour of Holland S3)
October 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ach first time in years I went to watch a race roadside and it was cancelled - rightly so, rider safety always comes first, still, gutted 😩
(Tour of Holland S3)
(Tour of Holland S3)
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A little thread.
We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.
We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A little thread.
We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.
We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.
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During the Holland Tour, the peloton will pass the Geulhemerberg! See @melanieduring.com's clip about the treasures hidden along the climb!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...
TDFF 2024 - Stage 4: The spring day on which the dinosaurs died
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
During the Holland Tour, the peloton will pass the Geulhemerberg! See @melanieduring.com's clip about the treasures hidden along the climb!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...