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How do you watch cycling?

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How do you usually watch cycling?

  • On TV - Eurosport with English commentary

    Votes: 11 14.1%

  • On TV - Eurosport with non-English commentary

    Votes: 10 12.8%

  • On TV - Sporza, Danish TV...

    Votes: 9 11.5%

  • GCN

    Votes: 11 14.1%

  • Eurosport player, English

    Votes: 8 10.3%

  • Eurosport player, non-English

    Votes: 7 9.0%

  • Tiz and other free streams

    Votes: 10 12.8%

  • I'm paying for different streams and TV channels

    Votes: 8 10.3%

  • Other means, explained in post

    Votes: 4 5.1%
  • Total voters
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Valv.Piti

Valv.Piti

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I watched my first race of the season today in Jaén. Just really haven't felt like watching any so far, but now the real races start to get closer and there's some decent stage racing coming up in Algarve, Andalucia and to a lesser extent UAE..

Does that make me a lesser fan? Or am I even a cycling fan at this point, I dno.
 
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RedheadDane said:
You certainly have a lot of conditions!
The route must be a certain way, and the race can't include a guy you randomly woke up one morning and decided to dislike.
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Man, everyone apart from you seem to have those conditions though since those two factors are the by far most important conditions.. I feel ike thats very normal. Fans of the Premier League are not usually tuning in for the Segunda Division either. Some races we KNOW we are going to watch regardless, lets say Paris Roubaix, and some other races we know we arent gonna watch. Some races you look at the profile and decide to tune in with 50, 25 or 10k to go, some stages you maybe decide to not even watch, some you want to watch in its entirety, some you are skipping because the race doesn't look that great and you don't really follow any of the riders etc. etc.

Its pretty easy to hop onto PCS and what have you and so some quick research to plan watching the races in a manner thats not just tuning in when the broadcast start in every stage
 
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Libertine Seguros

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RedheadDane said:
You certainly have a lot of conditions!
The route must be a certain way, and the race can't include a guy you randomly woke up one morning and decided to dislike.
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I certainly don't feel my dislike of Sagan was random, but part of a well-defined tendency in terms of personality traits and behaviours I dislike.

But yes, choosing to watch more of the parts of the sport I like and less of the parts I don't like has helped me retain a passion for it after all these years. Back when I started watching the sport, you'd get 60-90 minutes of most stages, and for sprint stages... that's already plenty. Nowadays you're getting that much coverage of the most minor races, and four hours of anything big, and a lot of those stages really don't need four hours' coverage.

The distance that they cover in that time is necessary for the race, in terms of adding fatigue, transferring between the stage hosts, getting from one part of the country to another, and so on... but watching every second of it is not necessary to understand the narrative of the race.
 
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Valv.Piti said:
I watched my first race of the season today in Jaén. Just really haven't felt like watching any so far, but now the real races start to get closer and there's some decent stage racing coming up in Algarve, Andalucia and to a lesser extent UAE..

Does that make me a lesser fan? Or am I even a cycling fan at this point, I dno.
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Of course you’re still a fan. Fans may not always like the “product” on the road/pitch/court/field because it’s not always as good or entertaining as they want it to be. As a long time fan of a perennial-y losing baseball team, I know there will be times when my interest flags, but will still go to games.
 
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Valv.Piti said:
Man, everyone apart from you seem to have those conditions though since those two factors are the by far most important conditions.. I feel ike thats very normal. Fans of the Premier League are not usually tuning in for the Segunda Division either. Some races we KNOW we are going to watch regardless, lets say Paris Roubaix, and some other races we know we arent gonna watch. Some races you look at the profile and decide to tune in with 50, 25 or 10k to go, some stages you maybe decide to not even watch, some you want to watch in its entirety, some you are skipping because the race doesn't look that great and you don't really follow any of the riders etc. etc.

Its pretty easy to hop onto PCS and what have you and so some quick research to plan watching the races in a manner thats not just tuning in when the broadcast start in every stage
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Exactly.
 
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Will be curious to hear people’s viewing strategies for this weekend, when we’ll have 4 different pro races happening each day. Other than nationals weekend, I can’t remember there being more races that the same day?
 
RedheadDane

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Valv.Piti said:
... some you are skipping because the race doesn't look that great and you don't really follow any of the riders etc. etc.
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Why would you need to "follow any of the riders" to enjoy a race?
Never cheered (and why the *** did autocorrect change that to chefredaktør?) for a rider on the attack, then when the race was over, gone to PCS to see who that was?

BTW, I do check startlists. However, even if a race has zero riders I have heard about, doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch it if I can.


Libertine Seguros said:
But yes, choosing to watch more of the parts of the sport I like and less of the parts I don't like has helped me retain a passion for it after all these years.
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I don't need to resort to that kind of tricks to retain my passion.
 
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RedheadDane said:
Why would you need to "follow any of the riders" to enjoy a race?
Never cheered (and why the *** did autocorrect change that to chefredaktør?) for a rider on the attack, then when the race was over, gone to PCS to see who that was?

BTW, I do check startlists. However, even if a race has zero riders I have heard about, doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch it if I can.




I don't need to resort to that kind of tricks to retain my passion.
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Why did you then criticise my posting about the HTV Cup and Clásico RCN in the Lesser Known Races thread? Didn't you just check what time coverage began and watch them?
 
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RedheadDane

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Libertine Seguros said:
Youtube is a shoddy website?

Seems like there are some "conditions" on your cycling viewing experience too, fancy that.
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Okay, maybe there are like: "I need to have some sort of understanding of what's going on" not "Oh noes... the route is not one that suits my sensitivities."

And, also, yes: I generally prefer actual UCI races. Not random national series races.
If the "Tour de Himmelfart" (no... it's not about that!) had coverage, I probably wouldn't watch that either. In fact, I was mildly surprised to learn last year (or maybe it was 2023) that it's still a thing, after what happened in 2019... (pretty sure it was cancelled during the Covid years, though.)
 
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RedheadDane said:
No.... the language of the commentating...

But I suspect I was mostly just annoyed with your habit of having to write entire damn Edward Rutherfurd-esque novels...
If you'd simply written "[Rider X] won [stage Y]" it wouldn't be so annoying.
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Your last post stated that you wouldn't watch national series level racing even in Danish, but now it's the language of the commentary that stopped you watching the HTV Cup?

So would you watch the Tour de Himmelfart or not? Because your last post before that suggested no, because the startlist isn't good enough for you, but this post suggests you would watch it, because it would likely be available to you in a language you'd understand.
 
RedheadDane

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Libertine Seguros said:
Your last post stated that you wouldn't watch national series level racing even in Danish, but now it's the language of the commentary that stopped you watching the HTV Cup?

So would you watch the Tour de Himmelfart or not? Because your last post before that suggested no, because the startlist isn't good enough for you, but this post suggests you would watch it, because it would likely be available to you in a language you'd understand.
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Still not the start list...

A combination of UCI status and language.
 
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Eddy Evenepoel said:
Seems to me you dont really like to watch cycling
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Only if the race is live.
If her stream is a minute or 2 behind and she finds out she is probably raging and declares the race unwatched.
That's probably another reason why she doesn't like dodgy streams - bigger chance to be behind.

Imagine staying 2 hours in front of a screen to watch a cycling race and you figure out that the stream is 2 minutes behind, meaning that you didn't watch the race live and conclude you didn't watch the race at all.
 
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RedheadDane

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YavorD said:
Only if the race is live.
If her stream is a minute or 2 behind and she finds out she is probably raging and declares the race unwatched.
That's probably another reason why she doesn't like dodgy streams - bigger chance to be behind.
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No... but of course, not gonna be an issue; I don't watch on *** (well, let's be honest, if *** is only two minutes behind, it's working remarkably well for their standards. You definitely get what you pay for...)

But you know what? I'm not gonna trust the judgement of someone who thinks that watching re-runs can be not only a last possible option thing, but actually preferable to watching live.
And I'm certainly not gonna trust the judgement of someone who uses the term "as-live" unironically.
 
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