Tour de France Question

[pooks]

I used to messenger in London. And I have done that route to Canterbury too. Can't wait to see it all again.

I admit -- I know nothing about any of the racers, but want to see the route. I'm sure I'll discover the racers during the process of ogling the scenery!

I don't think we have Versus, though. I've never heard of it. But I'll check and see what I can find out!

[NJBikeGal]

I admit -- I know nothing about any of the racers, but want to see the route. I'm sure I'll discover the racers during the process of ogling the scenery!

By scenery, you do mean boys with GREAT legs in tight shorts, right...or were you actually talking about SCENERY?!

I don't think we have Versus, though. I've never heard of it. But I'll check and see what I can find out!

It's likely to be a high numbered channel if you have it. It's 60 for me and 76 down at my in-law's beach house.

If you go to the Vs website, you can punch in your zip code and it tells you the station number if available. Good luck...I hope you get it!

[SouthernBelle]

Versus isn't a premium channel for me as I have basic cable with Charter. & it's Ch 39, lumped in with all of the sports channels.

[pooks]

We've got it!

Looks like Time Warner Cable includes it as basic.

(However, it didn't show up when I put in my zipcode on the Versus site. I noticed that one suburb of Dallas was listed with TW as Channel 31, and that's the only Time Warner there. I went to that channel and sure enough, it's there. So I'm thinking it must be standard in the entire Dallas area.)

[equus123]

Putting in my zip code on the versus website says that it's not avail. in my area. But as my girlfriend and I were scrolling through the channels one evening because NOTHING was on (and mind you this was in June - Giro!) and then bam....146....Versus in all it's glory. My reaction was pretty funny....

"omg. OMG! Versus! "

"I COULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE GIRO ALL THIS TIME?! "

[margo49]

"omg. OMG! Versus! "

"I COULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE GIRO ALL THIS TIME?! "

Another one comes over to The Dark Side!

[margo49]

By scenery, you do mean boys with GREAT legs in tight shorts, right...or were you actually talking about SCENERY?!

You mean there is a diff ???
I have a very wholistic philosophy when it comes to this kind of thing!

[PscyclePath]

Dumb question -- and I'm sure I could look this up, but am pretending that I'm performing a public service by asking here, so that others who are as ignorant as I am can find it:

When is the Tour, and which US network carries it? This is my first year to have access to cable in a very long time, and I can't wait!

Versus (formerly the Outdoor Life Network (OLN)) runs semi-live coverage in the morning, and re-runs each stage a couple of times during the day. You'll see a lot more of the race itself if you watch the first coverage, the evening repeats get edited down to a lot more fluff with the announcers and "special features," and a heftier dose of commercials.

Best coverage I've seen so far is actually the web coverage on Cycling News, http://www.cyclingnews.com. I'll take their play-by-play any day over OLN/VS's village idiot, Al Trautwig, any day.

The race this year is even more wide open than last year, and who would think that Operacion Puerto would still be hanging over everyone's head this year?

Rooting for Levi, but secretly thinking that it will be Vino's year to shine...

Tom

[pooks]

I'm thinking I'll be cheering Levi on, because that was my grandfather's name!

(Um, what is Giro? What am I missing?)

[DDH]

I'm ticked that I have to by digital cable to be able to see this. If Dallas gets it for basic cable then I should too. (throws temper tantram while posting) LOL

[pooks]

Oh wait -- sorry, my mistake. We do have digital cable. I called it basic because we have no extras -- no Showtime, HBO or other extras.

Sorry for the confusion!

(However, I'll ask a couple of friends who don't have digital if they get Versus, just in case!)

[Thorn]

And not to forget that Eurosport, http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/, will broadcast audio over the internet. If you're in Europe you can get the video feed, as well.

Towards the end of last year Eurosport's web site had some serious problems with external hacking. I stopped using their site because of it. They've since switched to using Yahoo. The site no longer causes my browser to enter infinte loops. The Dauphine was covered by a second string announcer who was...uh..just awful. Couldn't pronounce any names right, wasn't even consistently wrong in pronunciation and his color commentar was limited to Rider X is "having a bad/good day at the office" and "let's just watch"....uh...I'm on audio only!!!

Some people dislike their first-string commentators, but I enjoy it as background noise at work, particularly, the British-isms that don't translate so well. DH has dubbed the commentator as "weenie bits" because riders win, lose, and miss by "a weenie bit"

[NJBikeGal]

Discovery has announced the tour team. No surprise that Levi and Big-George-Hincapie are on the roster! Saunier-Duval has also announced their team...Iban Mayo is (surprisingly, considering his recent questionable test result) on the list, as is David Millar.

Yo...BJARNE...get your butt on the ball, here!!! We're WAITING!!!

[RoadRaven]

Sky Sport is showing every stage live plus re-runs... think I will need a baby tv on my desk for those 3 weeks... do you think my students will mind if I take it into the class room???

[kiwi girl]

RR - does that mean you have Sky at work?

The America's Cup has interferred enough with my sleep patterns - I'll only just have a chance to recover before the TdF