Tweets of the week: Off-season hits hard, Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich hang out, and Lotte Kopecky shows she's a daredevil

We have entered that funny bit of the cycling season, where some riders have jetted off on their off-seasons, while others are still ploughing on the track or in China. It is very, very close to all being over for 2025, and so there are many who are just out there, having fun.

That said, I'm not really sure you can afford to have a proper time off, what with the bar set so high these days. So while many of you will be having a couple of pints on a Friday, pour one out for those pro riders who are either still riding, or those who are not even having that much fun on their off-seasons.

Anyway, off-season or those close to it is a bit of a theme of this week's social media round-up, with all sorts of going on. There are also appearances from Jeremy Vine and Lance Armstrong, possibly in the same article for the first time ever. Do enjoy.

1. What an outfit this is, congratulations to Victor Campenaerts. He once told me he liked my hair, so here I am paying him back with another compliment. You look great, Victor. Enjoy your off-season

2. It's the reunion we didn't know we wanted? Who would have thought that Jan Ullrich and Lance Armstrong could be buddies, 20 years after they were considered the best cyclists in the world. It feels weird

3. Well, at least we know someone who definitely is riding for Ineos Grenadiers next season: Michał Kwiatowski

4. Oscar Onley here, showing the world how British schoolchildren dress. That's right, a horrible polyester jumper (my primary school one was also blue, fun) over a polo shirt, grey trousers/shorts and the most pointless shoes in the world. What a world.

5. I always really like these videos of the peloton paying tribute to retiring riders, but I always worry for the riders walking through them will accidentally get a spinning wheel to the head

6. Congratulations to Puck Pieterse, one of the best riders in the world, and now a graduate. I love it when cyclists have hinterlands, and it appears Puck's is " Human Movement Sciences" which feels like physio? I don't know

7. Grace Brown has had one of the all-time years and is walking out on a high, what a way to do it. Cycling will miss the Aussie!

8. Absolutely no idea what this is about, maybe it's a meme that I'm unfamiliar with, but Mathilde Gros now has an enormous head, for some reason

9. I've attempted to cycle up the Koppenberg in the rain, and it wasn't fun, but these are professional cyclists struggling in the dry. Come on now.

10. I'm sure the Tour of Guangxi is taken very seriously by the riders in it, but I'm not sure you'd see this at the Tour de France...

11. Free champagne for everyone! what's the problem?

12. Lotte Kopecky said in an interview this week that she wanted to try bungee jumping sometime... Sure, maybe post-cycling, though. In the meantime, she has to content herself with milder peril. Although, considering this is on a bridge, I'm not sure her coaches would be delighted with this either

13. Work is over, it's time for play!

14. And finally, imagine you're just minding your own business as a tourist in London, accidentally in a cycle lane, and then you end up on Jeremy Vine's Twitter. What a day. Really, though, this is infuriating, and I'm glad in a way that I no longer have to cycle around London. What a mess.