What did you think of “The Cycle Show”?

Thought the 2nd was pretty
Thought the 2nd was pretty good, although a bit of a background piece on Eddy would have been good. Hopefully they will be able to include that sort of thing when they move to an hour for the show.

but other wise pleased as
but other wise pleased as even if it is a bit wet, it will evolve and improve im sure

Just watched it on the
Just watched it on the itvplayer. Really badly edited version on that, with the ads in the middle of a sentence and the show cutting off early at the end.

Definitely much better than last week, especially wrt the sound. If it is going up to 1 hour later in the run then that sounds like a positive – as long as it doesn’t result in lots of padding which would be almost as bad as the current rushed nature of it.

There was clearly a lot of unused material so they might like to consider putting “full-length” versions of some of the reports or interviews online. For example the report on the megavalanche was entertaining enough but I wasn’t bothered about seeing much more, while I might click into the full length version of the Merckx interview. Others might feel the exact opposite.

The second episode did seem
The second episode did seem to be an improvement on the first, but that’s not difficult. I still can’t see how they can deal with the breadth of cycling disciplines they are purporting to cover in only 30 minutes in anything other than a superficial way, although I read somewhere that it is going to be 60 mins long from episode 4. If true, it might develop into something good.

I thought the features were
I thought the features were ok but the links, and the chat on the couch, were a bit cringe-inducing. Obree was under-used – his comment after the Box Hill feature was quite illuminating, and the show could have done with more of that. Not a bad start for a show trying to cater for all cyclists though.

And Nigel Mansell is a dick.

I was tremendously excited to
I was tremendously excited to hear of this new programme and its trailing throughout the tour de France only served to heighten this excitement. I spoke to many during the Tour who were really starting to get into the event and seemed to spend much of it explaining how things worked and what was happening for this army of new fans to this great sport. So it was difficult to imagine a better time to launch this new series. So how did it go?

The biggest problem for me was the length. I see countless programmes that are stretched out painfully over one hour where as you enter a commercial break you have a lengthy foretaste of what is to come followed by an equally lengthy reprise after the ad break. This programme would easily have filled an hour and perhaps allowed a little time to educate some newer and younger fans. Graeme Obree’s heroic exploits were in the mid 90s and could have been explained with a brief vt biography. The same is also true of Gary Fischer. These two visionaries, notwithstanding their eccentricities, seemed to be struggling to get a word in over the hubbub behind and presumably some producer pointing to his wrist as they attempted to cram everything in.

Cycling is enjoying its greatest growth for decades on the back of olympic and tour success and people just getting out on to the road. Could ITV not release another half hour for this show? Having seen some of the other offerings on ITV4 I would venture yes.

A long overdue effort but let’s seize the opportunity and make this the must see offering it could be

Dull, disappointing and
Dull, disappointing and amateurish. Was there anything in it that a cyclist wouldn’t already know?

A complete turn-off for non cyclists, like my wife. It just confirmed her opinion of cyclists as boring obsessives 🙁

The Brad Wiggins prog is
The Brad Wiggins prog is still on ITV Player for another three weeks (although there are some technical issues at the moment)

http://t.co/e5oXzDT6

If that link doesn’t work, try going to ITV Player direct or youtube

http://youtu.be/syqLaLR73Vc