Tour de France 2011 talk

[withm]

Withm,
We could not get Versus to work on Firefox or Chrome either, but finally with Explorer.

You might try that...

I'm using IE 8 with XP Pro and SP#3. And made sure I had Silverlight installed, but still can't get anything to come up. Except for all the Radioshack commercials at the top of the screen.

Catrin - it's only $29.95 for the month of Versus coverage on your computer. That is IF IT WORKS! Just one month - no contracts - when the tour is over so is your access.

Tonight it looks like my cable company has dropped the NBC affiliate from our coverage - which is almost enough for me to cancel the cable entirely. I live in an area where there is no TV coverage anywhere without cable. If the sun and wind are in alignment you can get one station, and sometimes a PBS station but mostly it's snow. If you want to even watch local news you have to have cable.

[azfiddle]

I wrote and complained to nbc sports. But I suspect we aren't the only ones!

[withm]

I wrote and complained to nbc sports. But I suspect we aren't the only ones!

Please post if you get a response. Without the internet feed, nor NBC coverage I'm feeling like a fish without a bicycle. LOL!

[Koronin]

We watched the live coverage on VS. Well actually hubby watched the whole thing, I only saw the last about hour and a half or so. We didn't see the NBC coverage.

[Catrin]

Catrin - it's only $29.95 for the month of Versus coverage on your computer. That is IF IT WORKS! Just one month - no contracts - when the tour is over so is your access...

Sigh... dam*** emergency room bills...

[Crankin]

VS is NBC.... they bought them last year.

The improvement in the high def pictures since we started watching in 1999 is incredible. While I don't sit glued to the screen for 3 hours (yesterday, I managed to see the whole thing in pieces.. a bit in the AM, some at noon, and the finish at night), I love listening to all of the details, the history, tidbits about the riders as I am going about my business in the house.

We watched part of the Giro on Universal and the video just sucked compared to the Tour. I stopped watching it on TV, and just looked at little pieces on the computer.
Funny, even though I watched some of the spring classics, with Phil and Paul, and Bobke, it doesn't feel the same as hearing them do the Tour.

[Bike Chick]

I love the Tour and day one has already proven exciting. Team time trial is beginning now. I am so glad they brought it back this year. I love watching the teams working in a group.

Has anyone else seen Fabian Cancellara's TT bike? It's the coolest bike I've ever seen.

[pll]

Sigh... dam*** emergency room bills...

Go to the Steephill site I linked above. There is an unrestricted Versus feed and also a free feed from French TV. Just tested them and they work. Of course, it's only the live version.

Correction: the Eurosport feed works, French commentary (not the channel 2 from France).

[gabriellesca]

SO HAPPY that Garmin rocked the TTT today - I've always loved Christian and David Millar and I'm pumped they had this victor and Thor is in yellow! Yea!!!

I keep posting my Tour excitement on my FB page to crickets - none of my friends are into it and could care less. Find it so much more exciting than football or baseball.

[PinkBike]

i love love love love the tour!
check this bike out:
team sky's pinarello in their new kit colors.
i am also pulling for anybody but contador.
i like fabian and jens voigt and tom boonen and philipe gilbert and sylvain chavanel.
have to admit i really like cavendish too (he signed my bike!!!!)
anyway, we get up early to watch the coverage, also DVR it, also have it on all day so we catch glimpses as we cruise by.
my whole month of july belongs to le tour!!!

[PinkBike]

oh, and i read tour de schmalz every day of the tour. its not the tour without schmalz commentary! someone else already posted the link (nyvelocity).

[malkin]

If you're wondering, "What's that they're waving?" Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_o...ions_of_France

If nothing looks like what you're looking for, scroll down to the blue outlined Lists of Flags. You can search by animal, shapes, and of course country. My favorites are "special and fictional" and "unrecognized."