Tour talk -- Spoiler alert

[Zen]

So sad that Frank Schleck is out.

I love those Schleck Brothers.
Next year, next year...

[roguedog]

tour tracker..

yup you can watch later. it's nice bene. i can watch in the am.. or tune it in at work for the replay or later in the evening. allowed me to catch up on prologue and stage 1 over the weekend . pretty nice to watch on the lcd tv in HD at your leisure.

they had this autobahn plugin for hd but it was't working too well and they pulled the plug on it. now the picture looks to be standard but it's a bit less fussy. the autobahn thing kept stopping and i had ahrd time advancing forward and back with it. now with just a normal feed it's less fussy it seems. was replaying it at work this afternoon and allowed me to skip forward but it did keep stopping but i duno if that's due the work network wonkiness or something.

i think it's worth the 30 because otherwise i wouldn't be able to see the tour at all! oh... and no commercials!!

there's also an iphone/itouch app too. got that one since i'll be traveling next week. i think there's a fre version but not sure if it only shows the feed realtime.

[Grog]

We signed up for the Versus online tracker.

The first two days it was not working or almost not, but now it's great. I think they have fixed the plug in and increased bandwidth. If you're interested in watching many stages, I think it's worth it.

[Possegal]

Andy was very popular, so not so easy to get a good picture of.

[withm]

OK I signed up for it - $30 was way cheaper than changing my cable to digital service, new box, and new fees.... I have NEVER seen the tour before so this was a revelation.

But .... what a time suck! 4 hours last night watching - I think I need to explore this better to see if I can watch highlights for 2 hours or start fast forwarding more.

One problem - after some period of time the feed goes blank and I have to restart the viewing (not restart the computer) and then fast forward to where I think I was while watching. Not sure how to fix that?

In any case I learned a lot about the Tour that I did not know, saw beautiful countryside, and even if I only watch 1/2 of it overall, I think I'll have my money's worth out of the investment.

[arielmoon]

I have been catching it live online via links on steephill.tv. Sometimes the Eurosport links freeze and I have to go back to the home page and click another link, but hey I am not complaining.

[Blue_Fedora]

I have been listening online while at work (there's a Yahoo Eurosport live audio feed that is very very very good). The commentators are great and make it very exciting - especially for just an audio portion. Yesterday's stage was great to listen to and today's was fantastic... perhaps because I'm a huge fan of Mark Cavendish and to hear how the train pulled him thru... wow... that was exciting!!!

[ny biker]

BTW, I like Chris Horner's blogs about the tour (and all his races).

http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/index.html

He gives some interesting insights. And you gotta love a guy who eats Snickers bars and Little Debbie brownies while he's racing.

[arielmoon]

I like Chris and he writes very well. I think I will skip the parts about his eating habits.

[Bike Chick]

I love those Schleck Brothers.
Next year, next year...

Agreed!