Cycling on Television (TV)

Tour de Celeb - bunch of fake celebs being shit on bikes - thanks channel 5

Looks like Eurosport are currently offering annual subscription for £20. Offer until 2nd Jan.

Brilliant. Just gut-achingly spot on....the one with the cyclist. You've got to watch the whole episode.

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http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/bike-channel-to-close-say-sources/021803

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/hometown/201710200600/

Takashi Aramoto has been delivering his cakes by bike for 30 years.

Fights camera action on 5Spike now.

Premium Rush on Sony channel or a bit of Berlin 6 Day?

Pedalling Dreams...The Raleigh Story, last night BBC 4. Some really nice footage of the people who built the British bikes.

Might be on Catchup or something?

https://youtu.be/NPa-oie8xYg

Ha, that was easy! Cheers

I may have already seen this but need to have another look to remember.

Splinter Bike, land speed attempt with a 100% wooden bike on 'together' Ch.

Anyone got a link for some coverage of the Tour of Flanders? Not fussed about english commentary, tried itv but they don't have it and my eurosport subscription ran out a couple monts ago.

Got a ten hour shift at work so would be nice to have it on in the background.

http://tiz-cycling.live/

You just made my Sunday a lot better!

Cheers.

Many thanks for that link.

You will probably have to reload a few times as you go along.

It's being livestreamed on the Cycling Belgium Facebook page too, quality stream as well.

Saw this Gerraint Thomas TDF doc listed on iPlayer. Will give it a watch later:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cjbj/geraint-thomas-the-road-will-decide

Secrets of London with Mark Monroe interviewed the Golden Man of Wimbledon.

https://ladywimbledon.com/2017/03/who-is-the-golden-man-of-wimbledon/

I don't remember ever seeing him but good on him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c4ngydm1x55o

Saddling up on the high seas - the cyclists powering 50-mph yachts

Sitting on a bike and pedalling is something Simon van Velthooven has done for countless kilometres and hours during his cycling career. He has done it well, winning Olympic, World and Commonwealth medals on the track.

He still pedals a bike for a living, but the New Zealander's life as a 'cyclor' on a sailing boat in the America's Cup is now very different.

"You're just getting shaken around, holding on while you're turning some cranks that are veering a lot," Van Velthooven tells BBC Sport.

"It's RPM [revolutions per minute], power, watts, cadence, shaking, high turbulence, getting punch-drunk by whacking your head on the walls and trying to look at your numbers on your screen, and listening to all the comms of the sailors and what they're doing and trying to anticipate your energy levels coming up to the next manoeuvre."

Van Velthooven is among the wave of cycling experts that have crossed over to the world of sailing before the 37th edition of the America's Cup - the oldest international sailing competition in the world - this autumn in Barcelona.

Traditionally everything above the waterline on the 75ft-long boats - the sails, mast and winches - was powered by grinders, sailors who used their arms to turn cranks.

Yet technological rule changes for this year's competition have reduced crew sizes from 11 people to eight, but with the proviso that any body part can now be used to create power.

As legs can typically produce more power than arms, cyclors have been brought in and static pedalling systems installed on the boats. Teams estimate they have since seen a 25-30% gain in watts produced per athlete by using the lower part of their body rather than upper.

Cyclors are not entirely new. They were also used during in the 2017 staging of the America's Cup in Bermuda by Emirates Team New Zealand, which is how 35-year-old Van Velthooven was initially recruited to sailing from cycling.

The Kiwis were outliers during that competition as the only crew to try the technology, although it was to great effect as they won the Cup. They retained the title in 2021 when rules required a return to grinders.

This time around the cyclor technology is being used by all six competing teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvkx6oF_Zyk

In case anyone wants to see more. I know the team is called American Magic but it's interesting how many of them are from the USA

500w for 20 mins on a recumbent. fuck that

Cheers will check it out.

There’s a lot of ex-GB rowers in the Ineos crew. Huge units with huge engines who would previously have been limited from moving to top level cycling due to w/kg but who are perfect for the grinder jobs. Having trained in the same building as some guys on the GB squad pathway many years ago and realised they were putting out literally double my watts on the rowing machine I can well see them pushing 500w plus for those durations.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/25/itv-tour-de-france-cycling-broadcast-deal-eurosport#:~:text=Warner%20Brothers%20Discovery%20%5BWBD%5D%20are,the%20UK%20likely%20to%20end.

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