Tour of Beijing - October 11-15, 2013 - General Thread **Spoiler Tags Required**

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

I think that is the first time I've ever heard anyone picking Phil Ligget over any other commentator.

I remember watching the Tour de France on channel 4 in the late 80s and early 90s, and to this day it seems weird to hear anyone else commentating on a bicycle race. But if your from a younger generation and have been listening to the newer commentators then I can understand why you would prefer them to good 'ol Phil. Each to their own. Phil's commentating just takes me back and I associate his voice with cycling. It would seem strange if he was actually talking about anything other than cycling!

spoke2cun wrote: »

I remember watching the Tour de France on channel 4 in the late 80s and early 90s, and to this day it seems weird to hear anyone else commentating on a bicycle race. But if your from a younger generation and have been listening to the newer commentators then I can understand why you would prefer them to good 'ol Phil. Each to their own. Phil's commentating just takes me back and I associate his voice with cycling. It would seem strange if he was actually talking about anything other than cycling!

Oh yeah. I remember his voice from watching the tour as a young lad on holidays from school in the 90s too and would consider him part of the furniture in that regard. My main gripe with him is to do with the "double-cross" he was waffling on about on the chasing legends film about HTC when George Hincapie missed out on the yellow jersey. That and some other more recent stuff too. Each time I hear him saying something I just get irked!

Back on topic though - nice local report vis-a-vis the lay of the land over in China from pprenderville. Interesting to have that aspect of it having heard so much in the recent past about how great it is (was) from the UCI and how bad much it is despised by the teams being forced to go there.