cycling.tv so nice!

Got to watch the Ventoux stage of the Dauphine Libere this morning (6/8) on Cycling.TV. It's great to have an available source for LIVE coverage of Euro races (other than OLN TDF coverage). The race for those that don't know is a great prepartory race for the TDF. It's a good indicator in most cases of where your form is for the beginning of July. Although that's a source of debate these days due to Lone Star (Spaceballs voice!). Lance decided to contest the race in 2003 and said that's where the trouble started as he went to far into the red; he won both in the end, obviously. In 2004 Iban Mayo blew Armstrong out at the Ventoux climb, winning the race convincingly only to find himself taking a walk up the first real mountain stage in the Tour. I really thought that he was going to hurt Lance that year, but he turned out to be a big bitch and hasn't done a thing since! He is however looking a little better this year, but his team is treating him like a mental patient out on leave waiting for him to go awol and stick him back in the white van!

Back to Cycling.TV. It's well worth the money subscribing to the Premium Channel as the free content suffers from MASSIVE bandwidth problems (more than likely on purpose!) You can go back and watch all the races that they've covered including Roubaix, Het Volk, and others. The archived material is available at any time.

I'm still getting used to the commentators voices, but that's because we're so used to the dynamic duo of Phil Ligget and Paul Sherwin. They do a good job, and have some good insight to the racing. Anyway, racing on your computer when you want it; can't ask for much more!