Guess a first post should have a link to an easy-to-view calendar…
https://www.cyclingstage.com/uci/cycling-calendar-2025/
More topically, the Giro route has been announced:
Guess a first post should have a link to an easy-to-view calendar…
https://www.cyclingstage.com/uci/cycling-calendar-2025/
More topically, the Giro route has been announced:
This is a bit upsetting (it’s a Brewdog co-promo)
Am I going to watch the tour down under?
I think I might
Good thread. Bikes!
Watched the tour down under
Was shit
Caleb Ewan has signed with Ineos. Really, really don’t understand that team anymore.
They literally didn’t have a sprinter apparently
But surely there’s some 21 year old British track kid they could get for 40k a year wages instead of 4m, who would be just as effective as Ewan? (Ie zero effective)
@rich-t ’s mate’s son >>> Caleb Ewan
I read that as ‘Le Zero Effective’, which is my new nickname for Ewan in the Tour (and all other times).
Guaranteed some wins seeing as they’ve signed him at the peak of his caree… oh.
Fucking hell. Fucking. Hell.
jfc
the pertinent bit:
Whereas Discovery+ currently offers a ‘standard’ package that includes the cycling – but not most of the other major sports – for £6.99 a month, as of 28th February cycling will only be available as part of the premium package at £30.99 a month (£371.88 a year).
(time for cycling fans to get into dodgy boxes!)
actually really quite irked and upset about it, and that’s coming from someone who just cancelled their discovery+ sub cos i just don’t have time to watch cycling any more, and probs won’t for the next however many years
what’s this? yes please.
Absolute ridiculous increase.
I did see in another article it stated ‘Eurosport’s channels and brand will remain unchanged in more than 50 other countries and territories where it’s available today.’ so might need to see which of those have English language coverage and use a VPN. Because as good as IPTV is and finding online streams the best thing Eurosport did was introduce on demand option.
It’s a jailbroken firestick, sign up for a (non-legal) Iptv ‘service’ and you’ll get every tv channel in the world, plus Netflix shows and all the streaming on demand
Thinking about it, it wouldn’t work like the app does currently, with on demand replays and pause and all that. Only really for watching live
Yeah my mum and dad are in France so could quite easily get them a French Eurosport sub and steal their password, but does French Eurosport have Carlton???
There is also Tiz cycling… but I expect that will be cracked down upon pretty soon if Warner bros get their way
Wow. I can see people maybe paying that for a month of the classics but not much else.
I can probably afford 30 a month, and probably just about watch enough races to make it value for money for me personally
But I really really don’t want to
Virtually none of that money is going back into cycling, is it? Just going to fund whatever evil shit Warner and discovery invest into in America
Yeah, balls to this. I’ve already had to do some major budgeting this month, so this is absolutely not happening.
Feels like the entire sport is conspiring to shit on British cycling fans atm. They’d built a big base, then lost a few of the fairweather folk which seems reason enough to wipe out the remainder.
Yeah, it’s just going to go to the next PL/CL bid.
I’m surprised they didn’t go for the easy win of putting some stuff on free to air. Even just some crap that no one cares about like Challenge Mallorca. They’ve just got a part time magazine show.