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Remember when road bikes were pretty
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most modern derailleurs are vile looking, tbh
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Jul 10, 2020 15:53
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I'm enjoying this everesting record competition between bored cyclists, Bertie just claimed it on a 13% climb.
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Jul 10, 2020 16:17
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cebrail posted:Remember when road bikes were pretty I remembers  
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Jul 10, 2020 16:20
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Someone had a Vitus for sale here and I had to resist because those were considered some of the most noodly frames ever made and I like 2 mash It's one of the best looking bikes ever though smh 
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Jul 10, 2020 17:08
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I'm enjoying this everesting record competition between bored cyclists, Bertie just claimed it on a 13% climb. Phil Gaimon just getting increasingly despondent day by day is v funny. Fuckin Bernal will get it next week just you watch.
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Jul 11, 2020 02:04
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I’m watching the women’s virtual Tour, it’s quite weird but I appreciate the chance to be nosy about riders houses.
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Jul 11, 2020 18:33
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Are there any indications that the new season is going to go ahead as planned? I'm trying to decide if I get the sports tv package back on (first world problems) but cycling is the only thing I really would be getting it for. I just can't tell if Europe is stable enough yet. They're not melting down like USA but the sporadic outbreaks and local lockdowns must be causing some concern with the governing bodies.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:17
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:Are there any indications that the new season is going to go ahead as planned? I'm trying to decide if I get the sports tv package back on (first world problems) but cycling is the only thing I really would be getting it for. Strafe Bianche is still on for August 1. I think we are going to get racing at least for a while. If there is an outbreak within a team or the whole peloton though? Lol.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:22
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Exactly, like we might get the first couple of races and then they find a few riders have it and that's it until next year.
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Jul 19, 2020 09:09
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The Tour will happen no matter what. Outside of that, no idea. Theres a few places going into a 2nd local lockdown all over Europe now so we could have some weird situation where races get re-routed to avoid a locked down town. The calendar being so packed makes it inevitable that theres going to be an outbreak. So many riders crossing all over the place.
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Jul 19, 2020 23:21
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Will American riders be allowed in Europe?
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Jul 19, 2020 23:38
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kimbo305 posted:Will American riders be allowed in Europe? If they're not already over there... Likely not.
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Jul 20, 2020 02:25
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A TV channel called TV2 here in Denmark has been doing a series of what they call 'Tour De Ja-vu" where they look back on all kinds of stuff that happened in the Tour over the years, mostly with a focus on Danes, but also a bit of other subjects. So of course the topic of doping has come up a lot, since doping was as big of a part of the Tour back in the 90s as it was. It's quite interesting to rewatch these things, because they ride in a completely different way compared to today.
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Jul 20, 2020 07:39
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Aside from the UCI plans, every race is also dependent on national, regional and local regulations. The city of Hamburg for example just cancelled all 2020 races including the Cyclassics. That can happen for every race including individual stages of stage races.
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Jul 20, 2020 09:04
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That's what makes it so uncertain, but even if 50% of the races go ahead maybe they'd consider the season a success?
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Jul 20, 2020 09:47
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Depends on which races. If the Tour happens, everything else is secondary.
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Jul 20, 2020 10:57
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Feel sorry for Pedersen really. Imagine winning a shock world championships and not getting to ride in the jersey at all.
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Jul 20, 2020 19:36
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When this year's gets cancelled he can wear it next year
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Jul 20, 2020 19:38
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serious gaylord posted:Feel sorry for Pedersen really. Imagine winning a shock world championships and not getting to ride in the jersey at all. At the same time he (apparently) didn't like the media attention so maybe he dodged a bullet there
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Jul 21, 2020 10:02
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GCN have launched a race pass which is £20 for the year at the moment, has the grand tours and most of the big races. What's their commentary like? https://racetv.globalcyclingnetwork.com/
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Jul 22, 2020 11:03
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Wow, I’d do that just so I don’t have to deal with NBC Sports picking whatever commentary they can find.
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Jul 22, 2020 11:23
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:GCN have launched a race pass which is £20 for the year at the moment, has the grand tours and most of the big races. What's their commentary like? I subscribe - and will continue to subscribe - to Eurosport. £20 a year (with frequent offers), other sports, and also works in-browser. NB: Eurosport own GCN so I imagine the end result will be pretty similar either way if you're only after cycling.
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Jul 22, 2020 11:43
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nwin posted:Wow, I’d do that just so I don’t have to deal with NBC Sports picking whatever commentary they can find. Or joining the race in progress at whatever time they decide because they were airing 300 copper fit commercials instead
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Jul 22, 2020 11:48
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I subscribe - and will continue to subscribe - to Eurosport. £20 a year (with frequent offers), other sports, and also works in-browser. I had no idea Eurosport owned GCN
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Jul 22, 2020 11:51
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I had no idea Eurosport owned GCN Discovery owns both as subsidiaries and took over GCN in early 2019. I’m not sure if GCN & Eurosport have a lot of crossover yet but I imagine they’ll be blended together more to save costs Discovery owns a bunch of stuff - “Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe.”
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Jul 22, 2020 12:01
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Or joining the race in progress at whatever time they decide because they were airing 300 copper fit commercials instead This is every race that isn’t a famous spring classic or grand tour. NBC is simply grabbing the world feed just like everyone else, and that feed often doesn’t start until long after the grand depart. Also NBC Sports does carry commercial-free streams with the Aussie broadcasters, and they’re great.
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Jul 22, 2020 12:57
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Joining for the last few hours (assuming they ride at the expected speed) is pretty standard, yeah. I think itv4 will even do it with tour stages, but they are a weird bunch.
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Jul 22, 2020 13:23
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:GCN have launched a race pass which is £20 for the year at the moment, has the grand tours and most of the big races. What's their commentary like? Need to see how this shakes out for US coverage vs. nbc gold and flobikes, especially for olympics next year. I had been doing the eurosport sub with vpn, but they've locked that poo poo down so hard it's just too much of an annoyance.
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Jul 22, 2020 15:49
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what the gently caress is this bollocks now? https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1285926318102720515?s=20
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Jul 22, 2020 16:37
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He decided he wanted to make a Landrover Defender, called it the Grenadier, and is using his bike team as an advert for it. Pretty simple. He also pledged to make it in Britain but has shelved that because it's cheaper to grab a mothballed Mercedes plant in France. They might be trying to push the French market.
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Jul 22, 2020 16:47
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edh-67QWkAINt3Y?format=jpg&name=large Red and black is probably my favorite color combination so I think these are a step-down, but lots of people hate red and black together.
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Jul 22, 2020 16:48
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bicievino posted:Need to see how this shakes out for US coverage vs. nbc gold and flobikes, especially for olympics next year. As of now GCN doesn't have rights to any of the grand tours for the US market so it isn't really a good option. I'll stick with NBC Gold ad-free streams for what they cover and pick up the rest on Eurosport if I can be bothered to.
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Jul 22, 2020 17:39
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the issue is that cycling has multiple rights-holders and NBC only deals with the ASO/UCI. You need FloSports to get the RCS (Italian), Flanders Classics, and other races. the multiple rights-holders thing is a big issue that needs to get fixed but IDK if anyone in cycling really cares too hard about promoting the non-TDF races. In a sane world you'd bring back the World Cup and sell that as a single UCI-promoted classics package to broadcasters, but nobody's been able to cooperate on that yet.
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Jul 22, 2020 17:55
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I’m not sure if GCN & Eurosport have a lot of crossover yet A fair bit. Dan Lloyd continues to be involved with both, Matt Stephens was doing both for a while but is now concentrating on Eurosport. moctopus posted:Red and black is probably my favorite color combination Red and black can look incredibly sharp (the new Tarmac SL7 for example), but the Ineos kit just looked muddy to me rather than having nice sharp colours.
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Jul 22, 2020 18:05
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colonel tom posted:As of now GCN doesn't have rights to any of the grand tours for the US market so it isn't really a good option. I'll stick with NBC Gold ad-free streams for what they cover and pick up the rest on Eurosport if I can be bothered to. Yeah but grand tours suck balls to watch so I don't care. I don't have time to watch boring men's racing.
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Jul 22, 2020 20:00
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moctopus posted:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edh-67QWkAINt3Y?format=jpg&name=large Looks too much like Alpecin Fenix.
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Jul 22, 2020 20:02
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Black and red as a color combo reminds me of an early 20s male’s first apartment.
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Jul 22, 2020 20:20
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Black and red as a color combo reminds me of an early 20s male’s first apartment. Or at least their bathroom.
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Jul 23, 2020 00:27
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Is anyone else having issues trying to sign up for NBC Cycling Gold? Whenever I try to give them my money, they just throw me to a page that wants me to sign up for a reminder for when cycling is back.
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