London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

hehehe, Thor got me some good points today

Are you guys watching it live. Is it on a sky channel as I am having to rely on ITV4s highlights at 7

i'm watching on ITV4, they've been playing it live over the weekend

CycleSport magazine has all the times and tv listings for each day of the tour in it

there was talk of red button for live coverage in the week..

it hasn't been available over the weekend like that on freeview, bit of an arse, I want to watch it live!

maybe just for sky and pay-per view

Oh yeah, I see they were showing it. Too much sport on today. Watched the highlights from yesterday, then the Grand Prix and now Wimbledon. Will watch the highlights later. Its a hard weekend!

i might see if i can upgrade sky for the next 3 weeks to get eurosport

where i am there are about 6 channels showing the tour live, pity non are in english :(

To hear the commentators say that Bretons are tough and hardy and other silly stuff, you didn't miss much.

Could have been worse, they could have said they were potato-headed.

they keep saying "you must not ride at the back of the peloton!, that's where all the accidents are"

well some people have to ride there, don't they! otherwise it would be a long single file line, or a horizontal line of riders stretching across fields.

how's the mountains dale? take pics please. and well done on your 8th place at hillingdon. chapeau!

looking forward to tomorrow's stage.

they're riding through Dinan, which should be nice

hahaha that was funny too and they really kept on saying that...
Silly fuckers at the back, what do you expect!?

cav tomorrow.

We passed through St Brieuc last year on holiday, found a beautiful new track whilst searching for the old town velodrome where, when I was a lad I saw Bernard Hinault racing in a post tour event...Franceso Moser was there too and a sole Briton, Phil Edwards.....Hinault comes from Iffiniac, a suburb of St Brieuc, he'd also just won the tour...needless to say the atmosphere was amazing and he won every event....have I bragged about this before?

I love the tour.

I am too. Man am I doing shit. Have Chavanel in my team and I got a lil too excited that he was leading towards the end. At least I think he was anyway... Anyway, that pint of spilt beer on the carpet's gonna take a while to dry. Balls.

About the Eurosport fantasy tour team.

Yffiniac is indeed where Bernard Hinault (a true tough hardy potato-headed breton) comes from, they sell onions and shallots on the side of the road (they used to anyway).

I spoke to my Mum in Saint-Brieuc this morning and she was upset with the weather "once more they're going to say that the weather is always shit in Brittany" etc.. I love the last hill they went up (where Chris Boardman fell on yet another rainy day..). There's a valley down below where we used to go with school to run. We used to run fast, there were always one or two flashers down there!

first time watching the tour with any real interest, are there any particular stages this year i ought to be putting in the diary...

yeah, i've seen them a few times, every time i do i pull my trousers down in the hope of gaining a minute or two of internet celebrity.

ITV4 and British Eurosport had it live this weekend. Both have highlights. ITV4 nightly at 7pm
British Eurosport have live coverage daily from 2pm or so.
I get it on Sky+ box, no idea about freeview, etc.

If you have Sky or cable I think that you can now watch the race live every day on ITV4 via the red button-type functionality. At least the dude presenting (Gary Imlach?) said so yesterday.

yeah, Sky or Virgin media.

us poor freeview surfs will have to wait till 7pm

All of 'em. This ain't Formula 1, something happens every day, be it a surprise escape, a bunch sprint. If you have to prioritise then make sure you don't miss Alpe d'Huez - there can easily be a fight for the stage, a fight for KoM and a fight for GC all going on at the same time at different points on the mountain.

+1

I watched most of last years tour live (in Australia its on overnight on SBS).

Yeah.. you can tell keen cyclists in Oz just by how fucking tired we look during July! Bags o' death under the eyes, gibbering about sprint points :)

Anyone know if this is being streamed online anywhere??
thanks

This place usually lists available streams;

http://www.cyclingfans.com/

Ok found one if anyone wants to watch at work:
http://pop-up-tv.t35.com/?video=2&mute=true&audio=1
from this site:
http://www.steephill.tv/2008/tour-de-france/

hello tour de france, good bye work

first days nice, last few shitty. first day did a ride (gotta love a 40 min 7k ride back up the mountain at the end of ride), but got altitude headache for the next couple days.

pics front and rear of chalet :p

hah. nice response from mark cavendish.. he wasn't impressed!

everyone watching the armstrong documentary now?

Was it on BBC?

Itv4

Yep.


Media man
"What have you learnt over the last three days?"
Cavendish
"Nothing. Don't need to learn anything."

He sounded like a sulking teenager.

Don't ask him stupid questions.
What do you expect, his flat stage chance for a Tour win was fucked by a breakaway.

cavendish was not a happy camper. lots of aggro in these sprinter types.