slcbob

Yup. User error. I just didn't dig deep enough through the lists. The organization in the Roku app is pretty sketchy.

Shadco 

Thanks for the Smits link but they are really pale compared to Ant, Rob, and that Dutch chick who has been covering some of the Eurosport races lately. One wonders who they think their audience is? I lived in Belgium for 5 years and never heard pronunciation like hers.

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MoAlpha

Jose Been. Wife and I just look at each other and giggle when she starts with the gutturals or gets "Groenewegen" out in 2.3 syllables. McCrossin can barely say "Uijtdebroeks."

Chicago Al 

Just subscribed to Peacock; it was only I think $2.99/mo with the TV package we already have. However it doesn't seem to have the Tour of Flanders, nor does Max, so we're going to miss out.
Also, Peacock has the same issue as Max in that you really have to look for the cycling content on the sports page, and it's not well labeled. Last night we wanted to watch the daily highlights of Paris-Nice, which we hadn't seen live. But only certain days had highlights clips; some were Christian and Bobke in some post-race commentary vlog thing, and some of the highlights weren't labeled as such. On MAX, they'll show as UPCOMING races that happened several days prior, as if they don't have the feed yet. However if you click through, you'll get that white-screen-with-blue-paintbrush thing for a bit...and then the program will start. Took us a while to realize that.

As with everything media related these days, you have to pay more but you are still going to get less.

spinconn

I only found GCN+ last year butI loved the racing, the commentary and the rest. Being retired, I was able to have a race on as background noise, but good noise, pretty much non-stop while in my house. This was terrible news to me, so I have read all of this thread and see there are some options now. But, I am not good with technology, hate computers and don't know how to live stream. I read in this thread about things like Tiz, Euro, TDF, Flobiker, Peacock, Max, Flosports, VPN, etc, but don't know what any of it is except Max and Peacock.

Can someone help me by just telling me which of those options are the easiest to find and watch? Not the best, or the cheapest, but the easiest. If I can just get started, I can watch some racing while I take the time to figure out which might be better.

slcbob

Peacock or Max are easiest but you miss a lot of events and the far better commentary.

If you can pay with European coin of the realm, set up a Discovery + or Eurosport account and VPN to it. It's far better (quantity and quality) and still pretty easy except for the money laundering.

Watching highlights on YouTube is easy too.

Chicago Al 

Hi, spinnconn. I and I'm sure others will try to get you set up somehow. If you were able to access GCN+ then you are able to manage at least some technology.
First question though: where are you located? I think most BF membership is in the US or Canada, but not all, and if you're in the UK or EU, that would be very different.

spinconn

Hi Chicago Al, I am in South Carolina. I just found some stuff on Utube, and I have the 2023 UCI Road World Championships saved to watch. So, I can figure out Utube for prior races at least. Looking at Max next later tonight to see what I can find there, especially for live coverage. I hope to get set up in time for Paris-Roubaix. My favorite is the Giro, so I have some time before that to figure it out.

Chicago Al 

Okay, cool. I figured you were likely in the US. If you already have a Max subscription (WHY did they change the name from HBO???) then you've already got some cycling available, and it's the same Eurosport feed we were used to on GCN+. However it's only some races, and not Paris Roubaix, unfortunately.

On Max, just scroll along the top bar to 'BR Sports,' I think BR stands for Bleacher Report or something. Once there you'll have to scroll down to find cycling events, and they don't make it easy. This is apparently going to be 'free' with the Max subscription until later this year, maybe before or after the Giro (which they will have). Hopefully by that time it'll be better organized, because as I noted above they'll show races as 'upcoming' though they happened days earlier.

For most of the French races (TdF, Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Nice, etc) AND the Vuelta, you need a subscription to Peacock. You might find as I did that adding it to the package I subscribe to was only a few dollars per month.

Chicago Al 

RE: Tour of Flanders

Last Sunday my wife and I really wanted to watch this though we unavoidably had spoilers during the day. Since it was not on Peacock or Max, I thought of trying Tiz for the first time. Tiz is a pirating site with lots of cycling coverage from all over and multiple mirror sites so you can stream it on your device. I was able to find the Eurosport/English feed for Flanders and mirrored it from my iPad to our Apple TV, but I couldn't get it to go for more than a couple of minutes without freezing.
Second choice was to download the whole race, and for that I fell back on cyclingtorrents.nl, which I had not used in a few years. It was not hard to get it downloaded as we have fiber and there were lots of peers sharing it. I was able to get it on the TV via screen mirroring, with a bluetooth speaker as screen mirroring doesn't send audio. It was only 1080 resolution but looked fine on our 55" TV. The 6+ hr race comes as several discrete files, and each time you have to choose the correct audio track, but that gave me a chance to annoy my wife by choosing say the Dutch or Italian commentary. ;- )
It was a spectacular race!

slcbob

You Peacockers are lucky ASO bought La Vuelta. And unlucky RCS is still independent.

It's a pity Flo still has a flohold in the classics.

GrainBrain

Good thing I didn't cancel my VPN because Flo is restricting viewing of Basque to Canada