2012 Tour of California May 18 stage 6: Palmdale - Big Bear 186.3 km

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The possibility to rewind the live coverage in the tracker is just superb. They are really setting standrads which are unheard of in the world of cycling so far.Great
 
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Bavarianrider said:
The possibility to rewind the live coverage in the tracker is just superb. They are really setting standrads which are unheard of in the world of cycling so far.Great
For all the fancy features, I still have crappy picture quality 50% of the time, and I've had to watch the finish of all stages on Eurosport to make sure I could see anything.
 
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Cancellator said:
God this race sucked....

Next year they're going to criterium international format:
1. ITT
2. Mount Baldy
3. LA Crit. Show

Just as exciting, with the same GC result.
 
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Bavarianrider said:
The possibility to rewind the live coverage in the tracker is just superb. They are really setting standrads which are unheard of in the world of cycling so far.Great

I would like a fastforward button to the finish. Zzzzz
 
Aug 5, 2010
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hrotha said:
For all the fancy features, I still have crappy picture quality 50% of the time, and I've had to watch the finish of all stages on Eurosport to make sure I could see anything.

indeed, the quality at this very moment is amazingly crappy. you can see the pixels . . .
 
Feb 20, 2010
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OK, discussion time.

Is Big Bear the worst "mountaintop finish" in the history of the sport? I feel like even Arcalis would have to fight hard to be this dull.
 
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Bavarianrider said:
The possibility to rewind the live coverage in the tracker is just superb. They are really setting standrads which are unheard of in the world of cycling so far.Great

crappyquality.png


indeed setting new standards :rolleyes:
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
OK, discussion time.

Is Big Bear the worst "mountaintop finish" in the history of the sport? I feel like even Arcalis would have to fight hard to be this dull.

No one ever said Big bear Lake was a mountain finish
 
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Just a question that's nagging me for some time now, as I see an Argos rider riding.

What is that Argos Shimano team actually doing to deserve the hype and all the invitations? As far as I know they have a second rate sprinter, a good talent in Degenkolb and the rest of the team is really crap compared to other teams. They've failed to influence a single race this year (like every year really).

I'm really puzzled by the attention they always seem to be getting.
 
Mar 13, 2009
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Arnout said:
Just a question that's nagging me for some time now, as I see an Argos rider riding.

What is that Argos Shimano team actually doing to deserve the hype and all the invitations? As far as I know they have a second rate sprinter, a good talent in Degenkolb and the rest of the team is really crap compared to other teams. They've failed to influence a single race this year (like every year really).

I'm really puzzled by the attention they always seem to be getting.
Tom Dumoulin :)
 
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Bavarianrider said:
No one ever said Big bear Lake was a mountain finish

Actually, in 2010 they gave it a LOT of hype as the race's first ever mountaintop finish, only to then pretend that never happened and confer the same hype on Mount Baldy for 2011 (even though Sierra Road came before that, so by all rights should hold that title).
 
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I'm starting to suspect this is such advanced software it's detecting how much bandwidth it can use at any given moment and automatically adjusting the picture quality accordingly. So it's our fault.