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July 2-24
Pre-race 8:30-9am ET
Live 9-11:30am ET
Re-air 12-2pm ET
Re-air 2:30-4:30pm ET
Re-air 5-7pm ET

Pre-Race Show
8-8:30pm ET

Primetime Coverage
8:30-11pm ET
9-11:30pm PT
12-2:30am ET


Sept 18
Vuelta a España


Oct 15
Giro di Lombardia

... makes me weak in the knees as I contemplate how I'm gonna maintain a real life yet glue my arse in front of the set...

It's needless to say that for those 3 weeks friends, family, and loved ones will all be rudely shoved aside by RBR members all across this great nation of ours.

As for me, not going to work until noon at all and then I'll come home and kick everyone out of the way so I can watch the prime time coverage of what I saw in the morning.

Oh how I long for last summer. I was in Spain, I came home from school and watched the Tour/napped/ate awesome food/was educated by my room mate in cycling/found my passion for cycling and carried it home with me. The Tour was on all day every day and I didn't always take full advantage. Oh how I wasted those precious days, now I'm relegated to the highly inferior US broadcast.

It is on every day all day.

Except for maybe the first 50 miles of each stage..

I videotape the morning broadcast and fast forward through the commercials
and boring cycling unless something important happens (crash, someone goes off the
front,etc)

Cuts it down quite a bit, and keeps my sanity.


It's needless to say that for those 3 weeks friends, family, and loved
ones will all be rudely shoved aside by RBR members all across this great nation of ours.

As for me, not going to work until noon at all and then I'll come home and kick everyone out of the way so I can watch the prime time coverage of what I saw in the morning.

Oh how I long for last summer. I was in Spain, I came home from school and watched the Tour/napped/ate awesome food/was educated by my room mate in cycling/found my passion for cycling and carried it home with me. The Tour was on all day every day and I didn't always take full advantage. Oh how I wasted those precious days, now I'm relegated to the highly inferior US broadcast.

... makes me weak in the knees as I contemplate how I'm gonna maintain a real life yet glue my arse in front of the set...
LOL! My wife is already complaining to everyone who'll listen.

LOL! My wife is already complaining to everyone who'll listen.
Mine can't wait to watch it... and she doesn't even ride!

TiVo makes it much easier.... ;)

Mine can't wait to watch it... and she doesn't even ride!

TiVo makes it much easier.... ;)
Count yourself lucky. Mine told me, today, that watching bike racing was like watching.... *gasp*....BOWLING!!!

Bowling: The sport invented so fat, drunken slobs could be competetive in something other than eating and sleeping.

Count yourself lucky. Mine told me, today, that watching bike racing was like watching.... *gasp*....BOWLING!!!

Bowling: The sport invented so fat, drunken slobs could be competetive in something other than eating and sleeping.

Oh man, that's rough. Bowling?? My wife compares cycling to watching cricket... :( well, maybe not that bad, but bad enough. But I must say that one of the joys of living in Europe is all the live coverage of the Tour, La Vuelta, and Giro. Canadian and American tv coverage pales in comparison. You're almost guaranteed that Eurosport will have live coverage from 13-17 every day and then a summary in the evening.

LOL! My wife is already complaining to everyone who'll listen.

LOL! In the latest issue of Bicycling, they talk about Lance's biggest "threats", and my wife was browsing the magazine. I heard her yell "oh my God!" and I'm like, "what? what?" And she says "I KNOW ALL THESE PEOPLE'S NAMES!!!!!!!" :D

She even knows how to pronouce them all, albeit with a British accent...(thanks Phil & Paul)...

She calls July "the month of the Peleton"...

What are all the Bull Riding and Gun fans ("sportsmen") gonna do in July?

I am SO glad I took this new job, working from home. If my boss only knew... I hope I don't have any spontaneous outbursts while watching (on MUTE) during conference calls.

What are all the Bull Riding and Gun fans ("sportsmen") gonna do in July?

Sit at their computers on PBR and gun forums and whine about how bad that coverage is? :D

I love watching bull riding! Those guys are bad a$$.

The rest of OLN pretty much sucks. I love fishing, but there's no reason to ever watch some guy sitting in a boat for an hour. There's no way I'm watching the riveting adventures of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Ranger guys either.

will be watching the tour (when we're not out riding, or at the range).

What are all the Bull Riding and Gun fans ("sportsmen") gonna do in July?

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She even knows how to pronouce them all, albeit with a British accent...(thanks Phil & Paul)...

Priceless!!!!!!!

You know, cricket isn't *that* bad...... I can definitely say that cricket and baseball have many things in common. More of a patient kind of sport. Though of course you have to have alot of patience for those 5 day test matches.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to what Bob Roll, Steve Sherwin and Phil give us. I can definitely give "The Trout" a miss though.

Oh man, that's rough. Bowling?? My wife compares cycling to watching cricket... :( well, maybe not that bad, but bad enough. But I must say that one of the joys of living in Europe is all the live coverage of the Tour, La Vuelta, and Giro. Canadian and American tv coverage pales in comparison. You're almost guaranteed that Eurosport will have live coverage from 13-17 every day and then a summary in the evening.

will be watching the tour (when we're not out riding, or at the range).

Nice! A Renaissance Man (or Woman)!

One of the guys I work with is a competitive shooter and he's already started to complain about missing out on gun shows for the whole month of July!


I just smile, remind him that he gets 11 months out of the year, and then tell him to go out and shoot more instead of watching other people shoot :)

I've been watching WCP videos for two weeks now...can I say, GOD I CAN'T WAIT!!! Why does the Death Ride have to coincide with the tour... :rolleyes: . I want to go spend a week up in Markleeville, but to miss a whole week of the Tour ain't going to happen. I have the first week and a half off...My neighbors think I'm nuts because I'll be as drunk as the Basques...at 10:30am cheering on the Peloton! :D :D :D

I quit my coorporate day-job to paint full time just for stuff like this.


I'll have that shi* cranked outa my home theatre system, actually.


Laterz
Jason

Suddenly realising that wifey had decreed we push off to England for our hols, and sail back on the QM2 - right over most of the Tour, we went out last weekend and got TiVo!

Me - who'd happily sell all the TVs and tell Comcast where they could stick their clutter-laden junk!

I think I've got the hang of it now, after a lot of frantic reading up on TiVo'ing, but we won't know until we return late on the 17th - we're leaving tomorrow, hoping that it appears somewhere logical on UK TV that we can get to. One stop-over is my brother's, so there's always VeloNews off his internet connection!

The Outdoor Selling Network? Talk about pathetic. All those ancient repeats of big, stupid creatures crashing around a rodeo ring.

The bulls aren't all that much brighter either. Maybe next year OLN will find some other drivel to sell more ads around and Discovery will cover their team at the big tours and classics.

Not holding my breath

Dereck

LOL! My wife is already complaining to everyone who'll listen.

Some how my Fiance will get to be there to see the Tour de France in person. I'll be here in Kansas watching it while riding my trainer.

So it goes.

Count yourself lucky. Mine told me, today, that watching bike racing was like watching.... *gasp*....BOWLING!!!

Could be worse, she could've said "golf". Watching golf on television combines the worst aspects of viewing bowling and ice hockey. There's not much going on but, even if there was, you wouldn't be able to see it.

Fortunately, I've got the next 2 1/2 weeks off. My problem is that watching Le Tour conflicts with me riding my own bike.