Pro-cycling thread

What's the smart move for subscription packages for watching pro cycling now? Sounds like Discovery Plus or Eurosports? Does either have an app for Apple TV? I used to beam GCN from phone to telly, which worked well 90% of the time and totally fell over 10%.

Discovery+ and Eurosport are two sides of the same coin (and GCN was part of the same company before it's demise). The current subscription package from Discovery+ is £6.99 a month and it's a rolling monthly contract, so you can cancel when it suits you.

I think they have an app for Apple TV, but I'll call on my resident expert on this @Chalfie to confirm.

Discovery plus works well for me - commentators some good some not so good according to personal choice, wide coverage though - a few quid a month for cycling.

Kate Wagner piece on Formula 1 which also contrasts it with professional cycling

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/

I caught a glimpse of the drone shots in todays TTT at Paris Nice, looked pretty epic. Tried to find it, but only found little bits in this vid, at 2:00 and 3:04. Could watch that a little longer given the chance.

https://youtu.be/oFyoBWi1lW0?feature=shared

Nice succinct article that.

Eurosport will beam directly to your serif, possibly Discovery too.

Discovery+ on Apple TV app works really well. If you’re in the U.K. I don’t think you have a Eurosport option. When you click through to subscribe it just takes you to the Disco+ website anyway. Unless I’m missing something.

The Jumbo helmets don't seem to be delivering

Disco app on app tv is hot.
10/10 would bang.
Able to top up al sorts of other sports too

One of the smartest accounts on Twitter does its bit.

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Which was proven again yesterday. I'm trying to like him, but he makes it very hard to with his bouts of frustrated behaviour in almost every other race.

The UCI to carry out an in-depth analysis of the regulations governing the design and use of time trial helmets

UCI doing UCI things. I'm sure they haven't already made their minds up...

https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/the-uci-to-carry-out-an-in-depth-analysis-of-the-regulations-governing-the/4AkyRPvZtsssES1DPdk3db

Just watched the relevant bit of yesterday’s Tirreno-Adriatico and it looks like the cassette did fall off Cav’s replacement wheel. The mechanic just stuck it back and put the wheel on!

Was it not the cassette and freehub? There are lots of hubs where the freehub isn't held on by anything but an o-ring and the axle.

wowza

It was a mechanical last year that led to this whole fiasco, when he looked like he was going to win stage 7. I think he said his chain was skipping out of the 11.

Possibly, I just assumed that someone forgot to tighten the lock ring. Not really up to date with this modern technology. Only just got a disc brake bike, and I haven’t removed either wheel yet.

Yes more likely the whole free hub assembly and end cap slid off, which can be pushed back on. Shouldn’t happen easily or accidentally, though.

If there was no lockring on the cassette then someone should be fired.

If Dura ace and no lockring shirley the cassette would spill out in all its individual cogs.

There has to be a lockring holding the cassette on the free hub, but some hubs have a free hub assembly that is held together by compression from the through axle, which could be knocked when out of the frame. It’s locked in place when between the stays with the through axle tightened.

Yes, that's what I said before. You said if there was no lockring then someone should be fired, that's what I was responding to.

There has to be a lockring holding the cassette on the free hub, but some hubs have a free hub assembly that is held together by compression from the through axle, which could be knocked when out of the frame. It’s locked in place when between the stays with the through axle tightened.

Gotta love this new tech. So, I should expect my cassette to fall off when I take my wheel out to fix a puncture?

No, but it's possible.

And I stand by my statement. I haven’t reviewed the exhibit.

And I stand by my statement. I haven’t reviewed the exhibit.

The cassette didn’t fall apart, so I guess this is what happened, just didn’t know it was possible. There appeared to be another small part that fell off, which the mechanic also picked up.