A Plea to Bike Radar

daviesee
daviesee Posts: 6,386
edited July 2011 in The bottom bracket
Please, please, please stop putting spoiler headlines on the home page about the Tour.

I realise that some people may use the website to find out what is happening but please use generic headlines that give nothing away.
I am too busy at work to watch it live but I do want to watch the highlights later without already knowing the outcome.

I can't be alone in this. Can I?
None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    It's a cycling website.

    What else will they do?

    Either go straight into the forum bit and avoid the pro-race section (as I do), and take a small risk you'll see the result, or just avoid anything cycling completely (as I sometimes have to).
    _
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Why don't you put this in 'Bikeradar Office' or pm Jeff Jones direct?
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  • alan_sherman
    alan_sherman Posts: 1,157
    To busy at work to watch it but have time to look at this site? Just do what I do and tune in on ITV.com for the last 10km.
  • specialeyes
    specialeyes Posts: 542
    Like Rick says, just bookmark the forum and avoid the homepage!
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    When i am at work ( i am off this week :D ) i avoid sites where i know that results will be published - so just mainly use the BBC - as they are 3 days behind on their coverage.

    cycling is easily avoidable if you want to avoid it - and then i just watch the recorded stage when i get home as live - and then fire up the inter-web when its finished for the news and gossip -

    Its not like football where every minor bit of news, i.e rio ferdinand said something on twitter, or man city made a gazillion pound offer for a 13 year old is seen as headline news on every sport site.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    alan sherman wrote:
    To busy at work to watch it but have time to look at this site? Just do what I do and tune in on ITV.com for the last 10km.

    Lunch time and the odd peek on the QT but nothing prolonged.
    specialeyes wrote:
    Like Rick says, just bookmark the forum and avoid the homepage!

    Thanks guys. That's easiest solution. If only I had thought of it :oops:
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    rubertoe wrote:
    When i am at work ( i am off this week :D ) i avoid sites where i know that results will be published - so just mainly use the BBC - as they are 3 days behind on their coverage.

    cycling is easily avoidable if you want to avoid it - and then i just watch the recorded stage when i get home as live - and then fire up the inter-web when its finished for the news and gossip -

    Its not like football where every minor bit of news, i.e rio ferdinand said something on twitter, or man city made a gazillion pound offer for a 13 year old is seen as headline news on every sport site.

    5live have reports and updates throughout the day and will announce the winner during the sports bulletins, things have moved on a little at the BBC.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    whats getting on my bosoms is that flash ad for the cav comp that explodes on the top right of the home page, you have to wait till it finishes playing before the links will work. grrr.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,329
    edited July 2011
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    whats getting on my bosoms is that flash ad for the cav comp that explodes on the top right of the home page, you have to wait till it finishes playing before the links will work. grrr.
    Use Firefox with a certain extension (the mention of which is replaced on BR), and all your troubles will disappear. It's even awesomer than that: watch the Tour highlights on ITV Player, and it even gets rid of all the advert breaks. Genius.

    PS The extension is something like Abdolck Puls, but I never was very good at speeling.

    EDIT - this is what the Firefox extension gets changed to if I type it correctly: Adblock Plus. Seriously.
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    It's a bike site, nothing can be done. Just bookmark the forum. If you have time to go to the forum, you even have time to check things out online!
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    You have time to visit BR when at work :shock: Perhaps you don't have enough to fill your day and your boss is paying you needlessly. I would fess up and ask for more work to keep you occupied so you aren't tempted to visit cycling sites when you shouldn't :wink: .
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    MountainMonster wrote:
    It's a bike site, nothing can be done. Just bookmark the forum. If you have time to go to the forum, you even have time to check things out online!

    See post 7 in this thread.
    dilemna wrote:
    You have time to visit BR when at work :shock: Perhaps you don't have enough to fill your day and your boss is paying you needlessly. I would fess up and ask for more work to keep you occupied so you aren't tempted to visit cycling sites when you shouldn't :wink: .

    But if I actually worked all the time I would simply show up all the others for being useless, feckless, lazy so & so's. It can be difficult being so awesome :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • squeeler
    squeeler Posts: 144
    Yup, it's got me every day this week so far, I think I'll change my shortcut directly to the forum too.
    It's probably a bit too much to expect a bike website not tto report on TDF news!
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    To be fair I was only asking for the headlines to be thought out. I never considered that the Tour would not be covered.
    Changing the shortcut is the obvious answer. Now it has been pointed out :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Martincan
    Martincan Posts: 188
    rubertoe wrote:
    When i am at work ( i am off this week :D ) i avoid sites where i know that results will be published - so just mainly use the BBC - as they are 3 days behind on their coverage.

    cycling is easily avoidable if you want to avoid it - and then i just watch the recorded stage when i get home as live - and then fire up the inter-web when its finished for the news and gossip -

    Its not like football where every minor bit of news, i.e rio ferdinand said something on twitter, or man city made a gazillion pound offer for a 13 year old is seen as headline news on every sport site.

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    specialeyes wrote:
    Like Rick says, just bookmark the forum and avoid the homepage!

    This, I ve had to stop "liking" most of the teams on facebook cos they give it away when they win!!!
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    whats getting on my bosoms is that flash ad for the cav comp that explodes on the top right of the home page, you have to wait till it finishes playing before the links will work. grrr.
    Use Firefox with a certain extension (the mention of which is replaced on BR), and all your troubles will disappear. It's even awesomer than that: watch the Tour highlights on ITV Player, and it even gets rid of all the advert breaks. Genius.

    PS The extension is something like Abdolck Puls, but I never was very good at speeling.

    EDIT - this is what the Firefox extension gets changed to if I type it correctly: **Nobody likes ads but they pay for the site so please have the class not to whine about them** Plus. Seriously.

    Nice one dude, works a treat. Theres one for chrome too.I'm happy.
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  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    Rio said
    "If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist."
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Cornerblock wrote:
    Rio said
    "If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist...innit"

    FTFY :)
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