Cycling on TV

grant.smith
grant.smith Posts: 42
edited April 2008 in Pro race
HI,

This is probably a heated topic but I'm gonna ask anyway.

I know Tour de Georgia starts tomorrow and Giro D'Italia starting on May 10th, are these none Tour de France events covered on TV anywhere.

Being a freeview viewer, rather than Sky probably doesn't help. I have found Cycling TV but it doesn't seem to work on Mac, although Joost does seem to have there older coverage. I don't know what the turn around time is for getting events up as I only just discovered the application.

Any known live or highlights coverage would be most welcome if known...

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    cycling.tv is your only option for the Tour de Georgia. It isn't (and never has been afaik) on British TV at all. (TdG started today, by the way).

    For the Giro, Eurosport has the only coverage on TV, but there are usually live online streams provided by RAI TV (in Italian of course).

    This site is a good one if you're interested in watching cycling online:

    http://www.cyclingfans.com/
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    If you want to watch decent cycling broadcasts then try getting them using torrents, see my post here: http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... 0&start=45
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • grant.smith
    grant.smith Posts: 42
    Is anyone successfully running Cycling.tv on a mac, seems very unstable...
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    Demonoid.com (now back online!) has a good rotation of cycling race torrents. The back catalog is mostly gone now, after a server takedown, but you'll find this year's races from Paris-Roubaix onwards. thepiratebay.org tracks a few as well, mostly recorded from dutch TV. All the early-spring classics are there. a search with "cycling" should sort you out. Most races pop up one or two days after the running.

    That's how we do it over here, where cycling on TV is non-existent and web coverage starts at 5 in the morning on Sundays.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    drenkrom wrote:
    Demonoid.com (now back online!) has a good rotation of cycling race torrents. The back catalog is mostly gone now, after a server takedown, but you'll find this year's races from Paris-Roubaix onwards. thepiratebay.org tracks a few as well, mostly recorded from dutch TV. All the early-spring classics are there. a search with "cycling" should sort you out. Most races pop up one or two days after the running.

    That's how we do it over here, where cycling on TV is non-existent and web coverage starts at 5 in the morning on Sundays.
    http://www.demonoid.com/files/?category ... id=0&sort=

    At the time of this post, Demonoid is down.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    yeah, they'll be going off here and there for the next few weeks. The backups are being reintegrated into the tracker.

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