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[AI_Trek]

I've been watching most of the classics on Spoza with a VPN set to Belgium

 

[Sciatic]

I've been watching most of the classics on Spoza with a VPN set to Belgium

I do the same except with RTBF, the Belgian French language broadcast. Great coverage, almost no commercials, replays available. They don’t cover most of the Spanish races, however, so I use VPN to watch on RTVE.es

 

[Potomac]

FW and LBL will be on Peacock, Amstel on Flo

Good catch

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I'm new to using a VPN, but apparently the Australian SBS will be streaming Amstel Gold live. I'm not particular about the commentary or even the language just as long as I get to see the race, and just as long as I've figured out how to use the VPN correctly.

Btw., it's awesome you guys using VPNs are posting which European sites you watch races on, I wouldn't even know how to find them. So, thank you, especially Sciatic!

 

[Sciatic]

I'm new to using a VPN, but apparently the Australian SBS will be streaming Amstel Gold live. I'm not particular about the commentary or even the language just as long as I get to see the race, and just as long as I've figured out how to use the VPN correctly.

Btw., it's awesome you guys using VPNs are posting which European sites you watch races on, I wouldn't even know how to find them. So, thank you, especially Sciatic!

Thanks. I started learning many of them when Steephill.tv used to do road race previews, in which they’d list all the streams (some pirated) they found for that race. But they stopped years ago. You can probably determine the most likely national broadcaster by the ones that show Le Tour:

Broadcasters

Tour de France - Official website

www.letour.fr

 

[Potomac]

When scanning the upcoming cycling on Max, they don't list stage 1 of the Giro.
It lists the opening presentation and then stage 2, stage 3 etc

 

[zlev11]

When scanning the upcoming cycling on Max, they don't list stage 1 of the Giro.
It lists the opening presentation and then stage 2, stage 3 etc

the other day stage 2 wasn't listed either, they probably just haven't put too much effort into updating the listings

 

[Carols]

When scanning the upcoming cycling on Max, they don't list stage 1 of the Giro.
It lists the opening presentation and then stage 2, stage 3 etc

At least they have a couple of weeks to fix it

 

[Potomac]

Who is showing Romandie?

 

[Carols]

Who is showing Romandie?

Must be Flo as it's not on MAX or Peacock. So it's do it the best you can

 

[zlev11]

yes it's on Flobikes

 

[Sciatic]

McNulty’s ITT is 4th WT win by U.S. riders this season.

 

[Sandisfan]

Must be Flo as it's not on MAX or Peacock. So it's do it the best you can

yes it's on Flobikes

One thing I like about Flobikes is that you can pick resolution if you are getting slower internet AND lately when I have only been able to watch replays late is you can click on the playing Video and choose from a drop down up to 2x with 1.25x, 1.5 and 1.75x available.
P.S. When going down from 2x I choose .5x for just a second because 1x can sound slow when clicking down from the higher speeds LOL

 

[zlev11]

stupid Flobikes missed the first 2 hours of the stage today for some reason. the replay only starts at 14k to go, I guess they thought it started at 9:30 like the previous stages did, nobody told them that the stage was scheduled to end earlier than normal today.

 

[zlev11]

(to their credit Flobikes have now uploaded the full stage replay)

 

[Sandisfan]

stupid Flobikes missed the first 2 hours of the stage today for some reason. the replay only starts at 14k to go, I guess they thought it started at 9:30 like the previous stages did, nobody told them that the stage was scheduled to end earlier than normal today.

(to their credit Flobikes have now uploaded the full stage replay)

Here in California I only watch the replay BUT Stupid Flo for the 1st time this year when I searched for replay and race name I got the replay, BUT...they had a Side Panel with other Video that said in the title WHO WAS LEADER of the GC. Everyone keeps telling them not to put Spoilers on the page for Replays but they don't get it. Sometimes they do it right but it's so Dumb of them pissing off their subscribers. I am sure they have had people not watch their coverage at times when the Winner(stage/GC) is revealed and left their customer(s) unhappy.

 

[Potomac]

Max have updated the upcoming cycling coverage and the Giro coverage and it looks like every stage shown from start to finish.

 

[Potomac]

Since it is Max doing the Giro, not Peacock, we won't have American announcers talking endlessly about Americans in the race.

So here is a reminder of Yanks in this years Giro

1	LAMPERTI Luke	Soudal Quick-Step	21y + 125d
2	SHEFFIELD Magnus	INEOS Grenadiers	22y + 16d
3	VERMAERKE Kevin	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	23y + 200d
4	BARTA Will	Movistar Team	28y + 121d
5	WARBASSE Larry	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	33y + 311

I think we have some Canadians in this thread too

1	PICKRELL Riley	Israel - Premier Tech	22y + 262d
2	WOODS Michael	Israel - Premier Tech	37y + 205d

(I had no idea Woods was 37 years old !)

 

[Potomac]

Rnk	Prev	▼▲	Rider	Team	UCI		Time
38	39	▲1	VERMAERKE Kevin	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL			7:13
49	52	▲3	BARTA Will	Movistar Team			11:39
52	47	▼5	SHEFFIELD Magnus	INEOS Grenadiers			12:49
59	62	▲3	WARBASSE Larry	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team			15:23
135	142	▲7	LAMPERTI Luke	Soudal Quick-Step			39:38

After four stages of the Giro, here's the state of the union.

If Peacock were broadcasting the race, how would Bob Roll and CVV sum things up?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Express VPN, set to Belgium, go to sporza, enjoy. That's my routine.
Watched so much cycling on Sporza that I might get Belgian citizenship soon.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Express VPN, set to Belgium, go to sporza, enjoy. That's my routine.
Watched so much cycling on Sporza that I might get Belgian citizenship soon.

Lots of stuff isn't on Sporza anymore unfortunately. Belgian spring classics still are mostly, not all monuments (MSR is at VTM now, and until last year, so was Lombardia), TDF, some big 1 week races (depending on which Belgians participate). Giro isn't (also on VTM now).

The good thing is, you can watch VTM for free through VPN as well. Possibly you'll need to make a free account though.
You can also make a free account for the French speaking Belgian TV, RTBF. Their app and streaming website is called Auvio.

 

[Sciatic]

Lots of stuff isn't on Sporza anymore unfortunately. Belgian spring classics still are mostly, not all monuments (MSR is at VTM now, and until last year, so was Lombardia), TDF, some big 1 week races (depending on which Belgians participate). Giro isn't (also on VTM now).

The good thing is, you can watch VTM for free through VPN as well. Possibly you'll need to make a free account though.
You can also make a free account for the French speaking Belgian TV, RTBF. Their app and streaming website is called Auvio.

I regularly use RTBF and enjoy the replays available as well. No Giro though, so RAI time.