Weddings, parties, anything: the road cycling off-season

With most of their life spent travelling, the professional roadie often packs a lot in during the off-season for personal admin like weddings, contract signing, garage sales, surgery and ironman triathlons.

Grace Brown, Annemiek Van Vleuten and Chris Froome have had rather different off seasons

Grace Brown, Annemiek Van Vleuten and Chris Froome have had rather different off seasons Source: Supplied

Gettin' hitched

But a cyclists' job is never done and Kwiatkowski was back out there on the road just six days later

...watching others get hitched

Michael Matthews posted this pic of he, Thomas de Gendt, Louis Vervaeke and Jasper Stuyven at Tim Wellens' wedding.

...charity rides

Chloe Hosking got married but this year between art classes and bikepacking in China with her Dad, she managed to fit in the Tour de Cure.

...garage sales for good causes

...a spot of D.I.Y?

Froomey didn't get this from his local hardware store.

...signing contracts with new teams

...taking your kids to the BMX track

...completing Ironman triathlons

Because Adam 'The Croc' Hansen loves an endurance challenge

...messin' with elderly travellers

...getting new cars

...and 'rap battles'?

Bahamontes is calling this a 'rap battle' but it's more like Astana's 'rapping' and Trek Segafredo's Edward Theuns playing along.
Not long to wait for the 2020 road cycling season here on SBS, kicking off with live coverage of the Cycling Australia Road National Championships in early January 2020. Details TBC. 


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Published 13 November 2019 7:06am
Updated 13 November 2019 1:06pm
By Cycling Central
Source: Cycling Central


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