TdF supplements out yet?

josame
josame Posts: 1,162
edited June 2008 in Pro race
Anyone seen whether the Tour De France supplements (magazine) are in the stores yet?
I hear that one will have a Legends of the Tour DVD
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  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Ah magazines...

    I thought you were talking about something completely different.

    Cheers, Andy
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I got my Cycling Plus in the post on Saturday with what looks like a good supplement, though I noticed Saturday afternoon that the shops are still carrying the previous edition.
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  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    The official one published by Procycling is out on Fri 6, so this Friday. In the advert it said it was going to have a DVD with highlights from 88 - 06 or something, can't quite remember the years.
  • Mark Alexander
    Mark Alexander Posts: 2,277
    My C+ came too. :D I'll be taking a look tonight on the way to Newport track my 1st time :D
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Ah magazines...

    I thought you were talking about something completely different.

    Cheers, Andy

    Heh, me too. I'm sure there are plenty of riders eagerly awaiting their TdF supplements as we speak.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    GroupOfOne MkII wrote:
    The official one published by Procycling is out on Fri 6, so this Friday. In the advert it said it was going to have a DVD with highlights from 88 - 06 or something, can't quite remember the years.

    Really? We get a DVD with it? COOL!
  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    Yup according to the advert in Procycling. Just checked, says: FREE exclusive Procycling DVD. The Tour's Greatest Days. Featuring unforgettable footage from 1986 - 2007, remember that ride by Landis? Re-live Riis dropping Indurian. Watch Rasmussen & Contador go mano-a-mano in the Pyrenees. See Vino convert to mountain climber extraordinaire. And wave goodbye to Festina and see Virenque cry.

    Ok so I possibly made some of that up. :wink: Could be a good DVD anyway, providing the cost of the guide hasn't suddenly jumped to a tenner or something!
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    GroupOfOne MkII wrote:
    Yup according to the advert in Procycling. Just checked, says: FREE exclusive Procycling DVD. The Tour's Greatest Days. Featuring unforgettable footage from 1986 - 2007, remember that ride by Landis? Re-live Riis dropping Indurian. Watch Rasmussen & Contador go mano-a-mano in the Pyrenees. See Vino convert to mountain climber extraordinaire. And wave goodbye to Festina and see Virenque cry.

    Ok so I possibly made some of that up. :wink: Could be a good DVD anyway, providing the cost of the guide hasn't suddenly jumped to a tenner or something!

    Hi there.

    I've gotta say, I'm really warming to ProCycling. Having finally dropped Cycling Weakly I subscribed to PC this year and have been pretty impressed (apart from when they picked Visconti as being missing in action just as he took the maglia rosa...).

    Cheers, Andy

    ps Of course as my current bike sponsor I have to say that ;-)
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  • 2Fast4Love
    2Fast4Love Posts: 123
    The ProCycling guide to the tour (inc free DVD - "more than 2 hours of classic tour action!") is out 6th June, £6.99. Quid off if you have the coupon from this months CyclingPlus.
    Rides a Cannondale Synapse 105.
  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    Pro Cycling is my favourite U.K. mag but Ride is fantastic its an australian quarterly magazine well worth searching for.
    Cycle Sport's tour guide is out this week too
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Tou ... 57793.html
  • allaction
    allaction Posts: 209
    Just got my Cycle Sport magazine. The preview of the Tour is excellent. In depth look at the contenders for all the jersies.

    I subscribe to this through the Tesco clubcard sceme. If you have a clubcard you get points. Most people just knock the money off there shopping but you can exchange them for a whole host of things. Magazine subscriptions is one, it cost me £11 of vouchers for a forty odd quid subscription. In reality it cost nothing as I only cashed in some coupons!
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    I am looking forward to heading out to WH Smith tomorrow to get it then!!!

    Free DVD :) will save that for winter when I am on the turbo!
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  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    Am i the only person who dislikes the Tour editions?? I spend £4 every month (make that 8 with cycle sport and pro cycling) and i want to read in depth interviews with the riders that we watch all year on TV. I bought the new Cycle Sport today and its full of the individual stage details. Great. Yeah i'm interested, but not to the point where i need to read about each stage route in detail. Especially when the odds are that over the years and years we've been watching we probably know it already.

    Then they give you a run down on the contenders for each jersey, which again we know already. I actually see these editions of magazines as a bit of a cop out. We don't have to do much research this month lads, lets just fill all the pages with the tour route.. great! Dreading that Pro Cycling are obviously going to do exactly the same...


    Last year i actually didn't buy the mags for this reason. Today's Cycle Sport has interviews with Cadel and Franck Schleck so that swayed me.

    What do the rest of you think?
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    It'd better be 86 - 07 and not 88 - 07!

    87 is where it was at baby. The Irish better not be screwed again. Damn sassanachs!
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  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Am i the only person who dislikes the Tour editions?? I spend £4 every month (make that 8 with cycle sport and pro cycling) and i want to read in depth interviews with the riders that we watch all year on TV. I bought the new Cycle Sport today and its full of the individual stage details. Great. Yeah i'm interested, but not to the point where i need to read about each stage route in detail. Especially when the odds are that over the years and years we've been watching we probably know it already.

    Then they give you a run down on the contenders for each jersey, which again we know already. I actually see these editions of magazines as a bit of a cop out. We don't have to do much research this month lads, lets just fill all the pages with the tour route.. great! Dreading that Pro Cycling are obviously going to do exactly the same...


    Last year i actually didn't buy the mags for this reason. Today's Cycle Sport has interviews with Cadel and Franck Schleck so that swayed me.

    What do the rest of you think?
    Yes,my thoughts are that it's a bit of a journalistic cop out..............
    having said that,if you,as a reader,are new to the sport,then you are probably eager for all the big tour details you can get
    so many cols,so little time!
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Am i the only person who dislikes the Tour editions?? I spend £4 every month (make that 8 with cycle sport and pro cycling) and i want to read in depth interviews with the riders that we watch all year on TV. I bought the new Cycle Sport today and its full of the individual stage details. Great. Yeah i'm interested, but not to the point where i need to read about each stage route in detail. Especially when the odds are that over the years and years we've been watching we probably know it already.

    Then they give you a run down on the contenders for each jersey, which again we know already. I actually see these editions of magazines as a bit of a cop out. We don't have to do much research this month lads, lets just fill all the pages with the tour route.. great! Dreading that Pro Cycling are obviously going to do exactly the same...


    Last year i actually didn't buy the mags for this reason. Today's Cycle Sport has interviews with Cadel and Franck Schleck so that swayed me.

    What do the rest of you think?

    Hi there.

    I'd take a guess that these editions are the best selling of all the year's publications... but then maybe regular readers like you and me aren't the target audience for all those extra sales.

    Whichever way you look at it, it must be worth their while to bring out the supplements!

    Cheers, Andy
    http://www.andyturnbull.co.uk
    http://www.stirlingtri.co.uk
  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    The C+ that comes in the £9 bundle is particularly poor.....

    Let's hope the DVD is worth it.
  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    The pro cycling free dvd can't be up to much see here


    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Best-Stage-from-T ... dZViewItem

    still looking forward to mine
  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    I skipped through some of the DVD last night. It's not bad. Has the same sort of feel as the Tour DVDs from the early 90s which I bought new a few years ago. Ropey graphics, bad linking etc.

    However, it's worth having.

    It misses out a lot of the past few years and is thinner on Armstrong than I thought it'd be, which ain't a bad thing.

    Guess they couldn't put in Landis' and Vino's storming rides! :roll:

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