road.cc live blog: Giant inhaler chases Froome up a mountain
Plus Ford’s ‘Share the Road’ campaign leaves cyclists unimpressed, lots of Giro updates and more
Fri, May 25, 2018 13:13
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Keith57 7 minutes ago
@VIPcyclist Yes, the live coverage on S4C was a few stages at the beginning and a few at the end. Shame it wasn’t the whole lot. Stage 19 was particularly good live. Setting the record for the fastest time up the Alpe. He went a bit faster than I did a few years ago 😮. Amazing watching Pogačar hit the bottom of the hill with the breakaway over 3min ahead of him. S4C is available to watch again on the BBC iPlayer if you want to rewatch. The adverts seem to be stripped out too 👍🏻. S4C are looking forward to next year when some stages are here at home in Cymru 🙂. Non-welsh speakers can just watch the video I guess. I like it in my own language, but the iOS app ‘Tour Tracker’ is very very good too, especially for time trials. It’s also more ‘live’ than the live video. So, if it announces some sort of incident you can focus on the live feed to wait for it! (Cymraeg is one of the British Isles oldest living languages BTW.)
ktache 7 minutes ago
I paid for my month, first week off work so I wanted proper full day coverage. Enjoyed it, nice to be able to pause live coverage, but then they make you watch the adverts when trying to catch up. Channel 5 for when I was working, alright, less chat. Seemed to use the tnt virtual studio. Already cancelled, of course, but will be catching the TdF femmes until I'm booted off. Even though I could watch the commenwealth games I haven't, I hope the games have done well securing the rights because their viewing figures will be right down, such coverage benefits being on the BBC.
Mr Blackbird 48 minutes ago
A goat has a carbon fibre fuselage, Pratt and Witney jet engines, hydraulic retractable undercarriage and in flight movie screens, but that doesn't make it a Boeing Dreamliner.
Mr Blackbird 53 minutes ago
Didn't we do this earlier in the week?
AidanR 54 minutes ago
If you come to road.cc only to read road bike articles, why do you keep clicking through to the other ones? Seems a bit daft
Terry Hutt 1 hour ago
It's not the riders, it's not the equipment, it's not the clothing, it's not the nutrition, it's not the training. All those factors together probably allow for no more than 10% of the total improvement. Hmm, I wonder what the rest could be? It must be the tires ;-)
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
Just wait 'till you hear about the latest Mondraker Dusty e-gravel bike which ditches Mahle in favour of the more powerful TQ HPR60 mid-drive motor!
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@mdavidford while some may be grizzly about land issues and others there on a black bear lives matter protest most had come for the spectacled.
enjoyingtheride 1 hour ago
Looks good, and ideal crash protection for the likes of a weekend warrior. Let's hope it all does well on the market..
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
It was a simple typo - they were referring to Thoir; thundering their disapproval and suggesting road.cc's ratings will get hammered.
9 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Giant inhaler chases Froome up a mountain”
WHAT?
specialise in “sketch comedy”
Yet this video contradicts that.
dreamy wrote:
Was it the Pear Dream again?
Nothing new about that Enve
Nothing new about that Enve stem, Specialized have been selling the same system for almost a deccade.
No spoilers here, but tonight
No spoilers here, but tonight’s Giro highlights should not be missed
That guy must be curing his
That guy must be curing his aching posterior with that huge inhaler now that Froome has won the stage so dramatically
JF69 wrote:
That’s saved me from wasting an hour and a half this evening….. Dildo!
No offence but if you’re
No offence but if you’re really wanting to avoid any spoilers about a cycling race, then best to avoid a cycling website until later that evening!
I avoid most websites when the F1 is on, but then I normally watch about 3 minutes after the lights go out and then get bored.
NorthEastJimmy wrote:
Probably better not to put spoilers up there so blatantly, it’s normally possible to avoid the headline spoilers that webs put up, strange as it sounds, but one is prepared to divert ones eyes without registering the final details. Putting up a spoiler like that is a is just that, to spoil it for others. And, in my opinion, people who put up spoilers like that are dildos.
I also feel that dildo is an under used word that was apt for this thread and that person.
No offence taken…
It’s beyond silly to even
It’s beyond silly to even peep at the interwebs if one wants to watch a replay of a sporting event, especially a potentially phenomenally dramatic one at that.
Not just beyond silly, it’s plain idiotic, especially expecting a forum to abide by your whims, lest you kick up a tantrum of entitlement issues, labelling what is just a comment in a thread as a “spoiler”.
So idiotic that even a dildo the size of the giant inhaler portrayed in the pic is not enough to soothe the butthurt & fill in the mental void one has to even consider the possibility of entertaining the very thought of looking at the internet other than to watch the replay, if one has such entitlement issues.