Tour shaped hole

rick_chasey

So guys, what are you filling your life with now you don't have the distraction of the Tour?

Post-Giro is bad but the build up to the Tour starts then so it's a little mitigated.

Psyched for the Tour of Poland?

What I like about the Tour over any other race, with perhaps the exception of Sporza coverage of the flat classics, is that you get to see everything else around the racing - the individual stories of losers, the team busses, etc etc etc. It's unrivalled access.

*sigh*

Secteur

Will any more cycles races be shown on ITV4 - if so, do you know which and when?

I feel your pain - currently filled with some TdF historical DVDs, and I might buy the Giro DVD as I missed it on TV due to holiday (anyone got a 2nd hand copy to sell?!)

rick_chasey

Secteur wrote:

I feel your pain - currently filled with some TdF historical DVDs, and I might buy the Giro DVD as I missed it on TV due to holiday (anyone got a 2nd hand copy to sell?!)

Cyclingtorrents.nl

Bronzie

Work

ellieb

riding a bike

Secteur

Rick Chasey wrote:

Secteur wrote:

I feel your pain - currently filled with some TdF historical DVDs, and I might buy the Giro DVD as I missed it on TV due to holiday (anyone got a 2nd hand copy to sell?!)

Cyclingtorrents.nl

Slow broadband and a fear of "torrents" (still dont fully understand them) rules that one out!

Secteur

Just realised 2011 Giro DVD not out yet!

Moomaloid

Means i have to fully concentrate on work again...

blazing_saddles

Two days in, but live from today:
http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/

skylla

I'm looking fwd to another week's work, holiday in zeeland , followed by the edinburgh festival.

It's not even a year until the next TdF, it's only 49 weeks!

Cressers

I thought that ITV4 would cover the Tour of Britain.

LeicesterLad

P*ss Poor Hate the silence after the Tour, always gets me down, Plan now to start some proper training for a late september sportive, but without the Cycling on TV i tend to lose a bit of motivation, theres only so much cycling weekly magasine can do for me...its just dull. But............the Vuelta! When will we start to find out who's riding?

rick_chasey

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

Cleat Eastwood

san sebastian classics coming up. not sure if its on tele tho.

bearfraser

Gardening and cycling , the garden is like a bomb site.

LeicesterLad

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

MTFU and put your foot down.

RichN95.

LeicesterLad wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

MTFU and put your foot down.

+1. To paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers "If you tolerate this, then the Giro will be next"

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

MTFU and put your foot down.

+1. To paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers "If you tolerate this, then the Giro will be next"

Yeah, but you guys have no idea how intolerable I am to live with.

Pross

Poland starts next week - just as the wife and kids go away and leave me with the TV for a week Looks like an interesting race from the ads, like a cycling version of free running and apparently the best riders in the world will be there

Pross

Rick Chasey wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

MTFU and put your foot down.

+1. To paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers "If you tolerate this, then the Giro will be next"

Yeah, but you guys have no idea how intolerable I am to live with.

Oh, I think we can guess I think all those Boonen posters on the wall would drive me away

LeicesterLad

Pross wrote:

Poland starts next week - just as the wife and kids go away and leave me with the TV for a week Looks like an interesting race from the ads, like a cycling version of free running and apparently the best riders in the world will be there

Eurosport?

LeicesterLad

Rick Chasey wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah the Vuelta.

By the time the Vuelta comes along I've used up all my cycling allowance, so watching it is a distant dream, and has been for some years.

*sighs*

All I get to watch post-Tour are the World's and Lombardy.

MTFU and put your foot down.

+1. To paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers "If you tolerate this, then the Giro will be next"

Yeah, but you guys have no idea how intolerable I am to live with.

An hour a day of highlights for 3 weeks, its only the same as the missus watching eastenders, or you could cook the dinner every night for 3 weeks, just in time to settle down for the highlights, she gets fed without having to do the work, you get to watch the Vuelta

inkyfingers

One good thing i've found since the Mrs has been home looking after out daughter is that she doesn't mind Sky+ing the soaps in the evening as she can watch them during the next day...alowing me to catch the hightlights in the evening. It helps that she has at least a passing interest in cycling, albeit she wouldn't watch the Tour of Poland or Eneco by choice.

So there, the secret Rick is to get her pregnant then you can watch more cycling...

LeicesterLad

inkyfingers wrote:

One good thing i've found since the Mrs has been home looking after out daughter is that she doesn't mind Sky+ing the soaps in the evening as she can watch them during the next day...alowing me to catch the hightlights in the evening. It helps that she has at least a passing interest in cycling, albeit she wouldn't watch the Tour of Poland or Eneco by choice.

So there, the secret Rick is to get her pregnant then you can watch more cycling...

or dispose of her...... :twisted:

blazing_saddles

Tour de Wallonie live from RTBF, so we still get nice, french cycling commentary.
http://www.rtbf.be/livecenter/live_trw- ... z?id=19433
85 kms to go, with BMC on the front again......

Pross

LeicesterLad wrote:

Pross wrote:

Poland starts next week - just as the wife and kids go away and leave me with the TV for a week Looks like an interesting race from the ads, like a cycling version of free running and apparently the best riders in the world will be there

Eurosport?

Yep, from the 31st I believe.

milton50

There's always something round the corner when it comes to the road cycling calendar. Tour of Poland, the Vuelta, then the world championships. Looking forward to Cav becoming world champion and Wiggins and Millar doing well in the time trial.

Eyon

I was a little lost what to do at 7pm tonight. I even missed that crappy ITV4 music...

When's the next televised cycling event?

LeicesterLad

Tour of Poland starts this sunday, unsure of the complete rider list, as the official website is a bit naff, but ill be watching mainly for Peter Kennaugh.

carl_p

Must make the effort to the enjoy the Vuelta more this year, but not my favourite by any means. 7 day stage races aint the same and Tour of Poland coming so soon after TDF always feels naff. If the top riders aren't in it, it's just all very 2nd rate.

The scenery and the massive crowds help make the Tour what it is.

I did record 'Chasing Dreams' - might be due for a re-run.