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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Nope, nothing up yet on my EPG either.

    On another note Cycling with Filipa is like Eurotrash without the nakedness.
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Proud dad: #2 Daughter has her first race on Belgian cobbles in 11 days, Le Samyn de Dames. Wish her luck!
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Chapeau!

    Can't wait for the classics now.

    Andalucia is relatively exciting, but ... well you know.
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  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Bike would appear to have no UK rights for anything from the 2016 season? TDU was supposed to be on it - Sky showed it. They have a documentary on this saturday instead of the Omloop etc...

    For better or worse, Eurosport still very much the home of cycling!

    cycling.tv allowed UK subscribers to watch Omloop last season - though nothing showing for saturday yet.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    argyllflyer wrote:
    Bike would appear to have no UK rights for anything from the 2016 season? TDU was supposed to be on it - Sky showed it. They have a documentary on this saturday instead of the Omloop etc...

    For better or worse, Eurosport still very much the home of cycling!

    cycling.tv allowed UK subscribers to watch Omloop last season - though nothing showing for saturday yet.

    Mmmm, while I bow to your superior knowledge of all things cycling and UKTV related, I'm not so sure the above is correct.
    Virgin media seem to say different and have a list of live and highlights races.
    The channel’s line-up includes live coverage and highlights from professional road cycling including classics like Gent-Wevelgem to stage races including the Giro d'Italia
    Look what has appeared on there since yesterday...........

    http://about.virginmedia.com/press-rele ... rgin-media

    Not that I'm that bothered. As long as we aren't suffering from yet another gale, I'll be watching Sporza.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    If it was on Bike that would be quite handy as I won't have to watch some illegal stream which crashes every 5 minutes.

    Not showing on the planner on my sky box though.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    If it was on Bike that would be quite handy as I won't have to watch some illegal stream which crashes every 5 minutes.

    Not showing on the planner on my sky box though.

    The situation remains blurry.
    Italian Bike channel programme guide now showing 90 minutes highlights in the evening, but no live.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    argyllflyer wrote:
    Bike would appear to have no UK rights for anything from the 2016 season? TDU was supposed to be on it - Sky showed it. They have a documentary on this saturday instead of the Omloop etc...

    For better or worse, Eurosport still very much the home of cycling!

    cycling.tv allowed UK subscribers to watch Omloop last season - though nothing showing for saturday yet.

    Mmmm, while I bow to your superior knowledge of all things cycling and UKTV related, I'm not so sure the above is correct.
    Virgin media seem to say different and have a list of live and highlights races.
    The channel’s line-up includes live coverage and highlights from professional road cycling including classics like Gent-Wevelgem to stage races including the Giro d'Italia
    Look what has appeared on there since yesterday...........

    http://about.virginmedia.com/press-rele ... rgin-media

    Not that I'm that bothered. As long as we aren't suffering from yet another gale, I'll be watching Sporza.

    Wouldn't call it superior knowledge, more that an Italian channel has a load of rights that in most cases have been held by Eurosport in the UK in recent seasons and the things that were claimed to be shown in UK have one by one not been. Dubai Tour was the first that was on Eurosport, Omloop not on EPG for saturday etc (though Eurosport don't have all six Flanders Classics rights anyway). And it was claimed that TDU was to be on it (though not on the list there) but that ended up on Sky. They are currently showing the 2014 Tour of Oman while Eurosport has the 2016 edition.

    All I am saying is that nothing they claim to have the rights to has been shown yet as far as I have seen, yet they have been shown in Italy. That would lead me to the conclusion that the channel has Italian rights for these races but not UK rights (yet).

    I'm biased as I like the HD option so hopefully Eurosport keep what they have had.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Promising to see that it is Oman from 2016 they're showing. With an Aussie commentator, Matt Keenan?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    If it was on Bike that would be quite handy as I won't have to watch some illegal stream which crashes every 5 minutes.

    Not showing on the planner on my sky box though.

    The situation remains blurry.
    Italian Bike channel programme guide now showing 90 minutes highlights in the evening, but no live.....

    I have it on decent authority Omloop will be shown on bike, taking the generic Flanders cycle classic feed.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    https://twitter.com/bikechanneluk

    In massive text at the top "Live on Bike - Saturday 27th February"

    and
    BIKE ‏@BIKEchannelUK · 9 hrs9 hours ago

    @OmloopHNB this week! On Saturday 27th at 1.15 #staytuned
    Only on #BIKE SKY 464 and Virgin 552 #wearecycling
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    19 year old Franklin Six won the Brussel-Opwijk U23 race yesterday. In case you're wondering "who?" or "why do I care?", he's Frank Vandenbroucke's nephew.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • blim
    blim Posts: 333
    I was born the same year as Vandenbroucke. That makes me feel so old...
    kop van de wedstrijd
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    19 year old Franklin Six won the Brussel-Opwijk U23 race yesterday. In case you're wondering "who?" or "why do I care?", he's Frank Vandenbroucke's nephew.

    Poor kid.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Lampre announce they'll be using disc brakes in the cobbled classics, because the time it takes to change a wheel is of zero concern when you're already in the 3rd group or planning to climb off at the feed.

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lampre-merida-to-switch-to-disc-brakes-for-cobbled-classics/
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    :lol::lol::lol:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Lampre announce they'll be using disc brakes in the cobbled classics, because the time it takes to change a wheel is of zero concern when you're already in the 3rd group or planning to climb off at the feed.

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lampre-merida-to-switch-to-disc-brakes-for-cobbled-classics/



    Mega pink and purple lolz
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    This disc brake thing is quickly becoming self defeating for the bike industry.

    Soon they'll become associated with 2nd rates with no chance of publicity other than riding with novelty brakes.

    I of course would never judge a disc brakes rider as a n00b on the commute, worthy of swift dispatch.

    No. Never.


    :twisted:
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    oof... harsh...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    In fairness dish, you're probably the only disc rider I've seen who has dropped me with consumate ease. Even then, I saw it as them being a hindrance, somewhere lower on the road bike foodchain.


    Note: not a comment on how fast I am, more a comment on the anecdotal evidence I have accumulated.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    My experience, FWIW, of riding with them in a group is that I have much better braking control coming down narrow, windy, muddy, potholed lanes... esp when a car suddenly appears ahead. On wide long descents I'm less convinced...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pfft. Whatevs. You've gone full mtb with tubeless too.

    I still stopped faster (didn't ride faster but small victories)...
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    not long now !!!!!!!!!!
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    My blog and pod...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Italians at the forefront of technology???
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I'm 100% a disc brake fan. For a commute they are superb. Not sure I'll ever buy a bike without them again.

    Then again I also like 35 puncture-resistant tyres too.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Must admit my only experience of road discs - semi hydros - left me wondering what all the fuss was about and feeling rather taken in by the endless bike radar advertorials. Each to their own but I am not as convinced discs are going to become omnipresent on road bikes as I was say a year ago. A lot of posts on his forum from people who have tried them and not been convinced.
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    https://youtu.be/vB5aFy12tGY
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... ium=Social
    “Apparently the Classics are ‘real’ bike racing,” Bernard complained on a recent ride. “And all the stuff I know about, all the stuff I used to watch like the Tour de France and, um, well stuff like that, is ‘commercialised’.”

    .......

    “Used to be that all you needed to know to be a proper cycling fan was that Alpe d’Huez has 21 hairpins, who had won the jerseys in the previous Tour, and who the best British finisher had been, if there even was one. Now you need to know how to spell that bloody thing that Ian Stannard won a couple of years back.”

    ...

    Because the Classics happen so close to southern England, there are a lot of people we both know who go to see them every year, and are in danger of being Classic bores."

    Ha
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    /\ very good :D
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    During my dream last night I was watching E3 Harelbeke and Cancellara crashed. The commentator had just got to the end of the sentence "his final cobbled classics season is over..." when I woke up in a cold sweat.

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