Pro-cycling thread

If he had a mind to it he could be the number one cycling writer out there. Not that there is a huge amount of competition. Or money it in.

[edit]: would love him to have a crack at commentating

No but I will

He is a machine, nothing bothers him.

Landa out now. Reckon I'd go round faster than he is likely to.

He crashed I think.

Someties he's called Lars Ytting Bak, sometimes Lars Bak Ytting.

I wish I had over 66 grand like Mr. Hughes.

Oh god these adverts have been outstanding. Vapour extraction, Mr. Hughes, van rental hymns, the lot.

Is the Eurosport season pass useful? Can I use it to catch up? It says it's VOD, but these things are rarely as simple as that. In a perfect world I'd use it to stream from my phone in HD to my TV - I suppose that is not possible?

I'm currently paying Virgin Media just over £500 a year for the DVR and the lowest package that includes Eurosport.

Who needs the cycling, at Grand Tour lives or dies on its advertising breaks.

C'mon Tim!

In a perfect world I'd use it to stream from my phone in HD to my TV - I suppose that is not possible?

I use it to do this via Android casting. Works really well. Also watch it on computer when in office, on phone when in parks.

Thomas fastest at the first checkpoint.

Team Sky need to practice putting the numbers in their NoPinz pockets.

I've added his time to my spreadsheet.

Eurosport are amazing at spoilers if you are trying to watch on catch up without knowing who won.

Whenever I try the first video is always something like "Cyclist McRiderface wins stage 11!"

The iphone/ipad app are really good although not easily streamed to my Samsung tv, looks like i'll have to get apple tv if I want to do that

You can do it much cheaper with a chromecast/roku box/now tv box (£15?).*

*don't quote me on it working with a now tv box. youtube does, but not tried eurosport player.

The iOS app works pretty well, sometimes it's funny.

But generally it'll stream to the TV in pretty good HD (via apple TV)

Would have thought Landa would have idled around like Rolland is to lose more time but he puts in a decent effort

^ was surprised as well. Guess he's feeling okay. Here's hoping he kills it in the mountains.

Yeah. We have Eurosport and stream it to the TV via Chromecast.

We stream Eurosport to Chromecast, but it only seems to work on iOS devices, not Android (not tried macOS or Windows recently).

The Eurosport highlights are weak, I find, (no wraparound content, late to be uploaded) compared to the ones on Quest.

C'mon G!

here's hoping wee Nairo doesn't repeat his Vuelta TT feats:

Trust it to Giro to mess up time indications :-(

Dumoulin 18s faster than Jungels at 1st checkpoint.

Thomas 51 seconds faster than Luis Leon Sanchez at the finish.

Great ride.

G was so close to coming off just like Kiry