How do you watch cycling?

[BlueRoads]

I've been asking myself how many forum members are watching cycling with which commentary, so I came up with this poll. What's your usual choice? Do you have any choice? Obviously in some countries access is easier than in others. The topic has been touched in several threads, but I was interested in a kind of overview. Would love to see and read your answers.

 

[RedheadDane]

With my eyes!

A combination between the Danish TV streaming service TV2 Play, and the Eurosport Player (using the no adds stream, so with English). Of course if there's a player-only stream in some other language than English or Danish, I'll just watch that.

I have also watched a few YouTube livestreams.

 

[Faserr]

Eurosport Player Stream english and german. They are streaming nearly every important race.

 

[tobydawq]

Hovering over every race in my hot-air balloon equipped with binoculars.

 

[tobydawq]

But when it is punctured, I preferably watch on TV2's channels, if they don't show it, Eurosport, if I can't watch on time, GCN Race Pass later in the evening.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

A number of them. If I'm fighting the kids for the TV then it's GCN on laptop (i lose), if in by myself then it's on TV Eurosport in English, if the race isn't on any of those then it's Tiz.

 

[SafeBet]

In my head, by creating live images based on this forum posts.
It's beautiful.

 

[BlueRoads]

Lol at all your answers. I wasn't sure how to put the question in English. How else would you say it? (I can then change the thread title...)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In my head, by creating live images based on this forum posts.
It's beautiful.

Sounds like the best way to do it, actually.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lol at all your answers. I wasn't sure how to put the question in English. How else would you say it? (I can then change the thread title...)

The question is fine as it is.

 

[tobydawq]

Lol at all your answers. I wasn't sure how to put the question in English. How else would you say it? (I can then change the thread title...)

Thread titles should never be changed unless the thread descends into utter chaos and mayhem.

 

[dusty red roads]

No TV and nothing in English here anyway, so I'm always watching internet feeds. If Kirby drives me crazy he gets muted (nearly always at the end of the stage, can't stand the Kirbygasms!)

 

[Netserk]

Multiple ways. On TV, I watch cycling on TV2, different discovery channels, and sometimes foreign channels (like Norwegian TV2). I also stream with the Eurosport Player (GCN Race Pass included), switching between Danish, English (only when it's without Kirby and now also Blythe), and no commentary. Tiz when all else fail.

 

[RedheadDane]

I suppose if you could get the ad-free ES Player streams with Danish commentating then I'd watch that. But, well, you can't.

 

[Anderis]

Relentlessly.

 

[Rackham]

Eurosport Player streamed on the TV (via the app installed on my Xbox).

 

[SHAD0W93]

Through the eyes and experiences of the forum members by reading what they posted during the race until a video is posted on YouTube.

 

[Carols]

Anyway I can! It's tough in the USA. I have NBCSports, GCN racepass and Flobikes. If something falls through those cracks I use Tiz. I stream and cast to the tv most of the time. Unfortunately GCN has Kirby much too much, so there is some muting.

 

[Panda Claws]

Whenever possible I prefer to watch Sporza with the Belgian commentators. When the races are not being broadcasted there I usually have to turn to free streams like taz-cycling where I then prefer to have English commentary. I am gonna be honest in that I think the Eurosport commentators are sometimes bad (unless they get Sean Kelly) but my French is not great and I don't speak Spanish, German or Italian.

And in my experience the NOS rarely has the rights to a race if Sporza does not and in general I don't think the Dutch commentators are particularly good.

 

[Koronin]

First Eurosport is better than US broadcasts for commentary. Most of the time I already know the results before having a chance to watch, so knowing the results will determine if it's worth my time to even bother watching, which most of the time it's not. (For what I do bother to watch it's either whatever NBC puts on TV as I refuse to pay to for their streaming service, GCN or a free stream.)

 

[the delgados]

Tiz is my go-to. The first of three options tends to freeze up within a few minutes, but the last one labelled "be careful of ads" works just fine. Most of the time I close ads stating that a gorgeous woman would like to date me. Sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me and I think that maybe the beautiful stranger really might be my soulmate, but I haven't heard back.

 

[TMJ]

I thought this was a literal question enquiring about our activity while watching.
Really we should all be watching while pedalling stationary bikes shouldn't we?
That seems fairer than sitting on the couch and mouthing off on here.

 

[cen]

Eurosport because it happens to be in the IPTV package we have at home.

 

[Bolder]

ES Player in French on laptop, ipad or beamed to Apple TV. Although I watch the TdF on France 2/3.

My absolute favorite way, which I was able to indulge today because of crappy weather, is to set up my ipad on my trainer in my office/pain cave and do an hour or 2 of Zone 2 endurance training while watching the last 40-50 k of a race. If the finale is a mtf it's really easy to find myself in Zone 3/4...I don't bother anyone else in the family and get to "feel" the race in a very satisfying way.

 

[Bolder]

I thought this was a literal question enquiring about our activity while watching.
Really we should all be watching while pedalling stationary bikes shouldn't we?
That seems fairer than sitting on the couch and mouthing off on here.

See my answer above! I do that.