Tweets of the week: Timothée Chalamet's Lime bike scandal, Wout van Aert rides on water, and Lachlan Morton confesses

Our social media round-up turns to Hollywood

Timothée Chalamet on a lime bike
(Image credit: Getty Images)

I’ll be honest, when I took a job at Cycling Weekly, I didn’t expect to be writing articles about Timothée Chalamet. And yet, such is the universal appeal of the bicycle, that here we are.

This week, the actor made headlines when he turned up to the premiere of his new film, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, on a Lime bike. He pedalled it through security, onto the red carpet, and hoofed out the kickstand in front of the photographers, parking up and carrying on with his evening.

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Tom Davidson
Senior News and Features Writer

Tom joined Cycling Weekly as a news and features writer in the summer of 2022, having previously contributed as a freelancer. He is fluent in French and Spanish, and holds a master's degree in International Journalism, which he passed with distinction. Since 2020, he has been the host of The TT Podcast, offering race analysis and rider interviews.

An enthusiastic cyclist himself, Tom likes it most when the road goes uphill, and actively seeks out double-figure gradients on his rides. His best result is 28th in a hill-climb competition, albeit out of 40 entrants.

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