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ednwireland

anyone watching ?

gunn rita dahle leading she's ben around for like ever !

Mickeroo

ednwireland wrote: »

anyone watching ?

gunn rita dahle leading she's ben around for like ever !

What channel is mtb on?

ednwireland

Mickeroo wrote: »

What channel is mtb on?

bbc red button
its olympic channel 6 on my telly its tuned in as channel 243

its 470 something on a sky box

ednwireland

gunn rita gone now

Lusk_Doyle

Gone where?

RobFowl

Red button not working down in ROI

ednwireland

RobFowl wrote: »

Red button not working down in ROI

red button only on sky and freesat telly box. not on my satelllite tuner built into to the tv just have to find the 8 olympic channels.

dont think virgin media broadcast the extra channels either as far as i know

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Gone where?

out the back

Lemming

Women's cross country race now available on BBC iplayer

Beasty

Lemming wrote: »

Women's cross country race now available on BBC iplayer

Which is only available in the UK

Anyone wanting to watch (live) BBC red button coverage of any events can do so via a Sky Satellite setup and adding channels (details of which can be found via internet search)

ednwireland

Sagañ going to have start from back of grid.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/peter-sagans-bid-for-olympic-gold-just-got-a-whole-lot-harder/

Darkglasses

I'm watching the women's race on rte news now. Course looks like great craic.

Eamonnator

ednwireland wrote: »

Sagañ going to have start from back of grid.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/peter-sagans-bid-for-olympic-gold-just-got-a-whole-lot-harder/

I really don't think, it'll make much difference, where he starts.

CrowdedHouse

Darkglasses wrote: »

I'm watching the women's race on rte news now. Course looks like great craic.

What category of bike are they? The different names I see mean nothing to me

Eamonnator

^^^^^^^^^
Mountain Bikes.
Mixture of hard tail and full suspension.
mostly hard tails

CrowdedHouse

Thanks - but are they xc enduro etc. I presume gravity is downhill only?

Darkglasses

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Thanks - but are they xc enduro etc. I presume gravity is downhill only?

I only saw XC bikes myself

Eamonnator

The winner was on a Scott full sue XC bike.
It weighs about 9.5kgs.
It probably has about 100mm travel front and rear.

Eamonnator

It's a 27.5 and has tubeless tubular tyres, made by Dugast(maybe wrong spelling) who make tubulars for a lot of the top road teams.

moonshadow

Brilliant to watch even the Mrs and daughter were enthralled ....no 1 son still argued downhill is better......
I said downhill was for lazy MTB 's ��

Lusk_Doyle

moonshadow wrote: »

Brilliant to watch even the Mrs and daughter were enthralled ....no 1 son still argued downhill is better......
I said downhill was for lazy MTB 's ��

"No 1" son is presumably no longer enjoying that position any longer as a result of his mistake!

Mr. Grieves

Eamonnator wrote: »

The winner was on a Scott full sue XC bike.
It weighs about 9.5kgs.
It probably has about 100mm travel front and rear.

120 mm apparently. Interesting considering many were on hardtails.

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331797327177/bike-check-jenny-rissveds-scott-spark-xco-mtb

C3PO

Mr. Grieves wrote: »

120 mm apparently. Interesting considering many were on hardtails.

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331797327177/bike-check-jenny-rissveds-scott-spark-xco-mtb

The Scott Spark is almost unique in the XC world running 120mm front/rear travel - just about everything else is 100mm! According to the Redbull article she was also running a 1 x 12 speed drivetrain with a 10-52 cassette!

Wanderer78

C3PO wrote:

The Scott Spark is almost unique in the XC world running 120mm front/rear travel - just about everything else is 100mm! According to the Redbull article she was also running a 1 x 12 speed drivetrain with a 10-52 cassette!

1x12 - diriculous! Wouldn't say no though

JayWalsh

What channel can i watch the race on today lads?

dastardly00

JayWalsh wrote: »

What channel can i watch the race on today lads?

I think the race will be on BBC1 (according to the info provided on the Virgin Media TV Guide).

The bronze medal match in Men's Basketball is on BBC4.

Not sure about RTÉ2 and RTÉ News Now.

Eamonnator

My prediction:
1) Nino Schurter
2)Jaroslav Kulhavy
3) Julien Absolon

Eamonnator

We're in business.

RTE News Now

On now

letape

About to start on rte 2 now too

dastardly00

Live on BBC1 also.

Eamonnator

And BBC1

dastardly00

Does Sagan have any chance? (Sorry I haven't a clue about this)

Eamonnator

Sagan in 8th place already

letape

Great start for Sagan - up to 8th already!

Eamonnator

If his start is anything to go by, he's in with a great chance.

ThisRegard

Well Sagan is up the front already. Awesome moustache on that guy, Spanish is he?

Eamonnator

The hoor is in 3rd place now

ThisRegard

Bad bottleneck on that drop section. Nice course, for a man made one.

dastardly00

ThisRegard wrote: »

Awesome moustache on that guy, Spanish is he?

It looks like a dodgy fake moustache!!

Lumen

BBC commentators really want Sagan to fail.

velo.2010

Some of these guys will question what the fcuk they're doing in the sport if Sagan manages to medal or even win this.

MediaMan

This is way more exciting than today's Vuelta stage !

Lumen

With so little support is Sagan going to have to go back to the team car for his own bidons?

#Ihavenoideawhatsgoingon

RobFowl

Wow Sagz #manlove

ThisRegard

MediaMan wrote: »

This is way more exciting than today's Vuelta stage !

Carlton was even remarking that it was tough going for the viewers.

Eamonnator

The dream is over for Sagan

velo.2010

Sagan punctured.

spock.

Schurter is just unstoppable

Eamonnator

Pit stop for Peter

ThisRegard

No spare bikes in the pits rather than switching wheels?

Eamonnator

ThisRegard wrote: »

No spare bikes in the pits rather than switching wheels?

No, not allowed change bikes

ThisRegard

And what about a bit of foam and CO2, why are we seeing so many with punctures waiting for the tech zone, why aren't they carrying them?