FREE LIVE STREAMS & RACE TALK - Lenzerheide Mountain Bike World Cup 2023

Seems like GoPro got the rights to POVs as part of their deal. They're pushing them out on their channel - https://www.youtube.com/@GoProBike/videos

Wow - no kidding. Is their YouTube bike channel just going to be race runs posted up? 

I guess they got envious of racers having their own youtube channels and wanted to grab it

nothing ickier in all my days than watching GoPro employees rush to grab cameras off hurt Rampagers' helmets...

Same here - I watched part of the juniors race on my phone via the GCN app then watched the rest of the race on my computer via the GCN+ site. The footage was great - no problem at all on my side. I cannot wait for tomorrow...it's going to be an early start. 

Cathro out w/ a compression fracture in his spine (apparently he's OK though, whatever that means).

I spent the whole video trying to look further up track

I cant login to my newly created GCN+ account to subscribe. Total Shitshow. I'm trying to give these guys $64 and I cant lol

Another guy who should consider retirement.  I like Ben and his team/project but he has a young family and a few very serious injuries in the last few years.
 

Stressing me out 

Looks like something is wrong with the live stream, there are no presenters for the women's race and they are just streaming pre recorded clips... Stress

I'm using the GCN web page and it's working perfectly fine - but at time I wish there was no commentating 
https://plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com/watch/5125470

What? My GCN+ app was configured by default in "Ambient Sound", crazy!

I changed the options to English and it's totally fine.

Thanks!

Odd...glad you got it sorted out. 

Enjoy! So cool to watch racing live again. 

I have to say, after my initial scare, that the stream is quite good in general. Quality image, acceptable coverage of the track, and commentators that know their sport.

Overall, everything is good... But it is not better than before, and RedBull gave it to us for free. I feel bad for them, maybe I will buy a six-pack every race weekend in their honour

The big names in the b final, crazy how competitive the racing is.

The footage is good but let's be honest, they aren't showing us the most exciting parts of the track. I want to see the fast/steep tech sections not just the wide open sections. 

Agree, but sometimes the coverage is a matter of just where the good parts are on a certain track. You obviously have to show the start and the final 30 seconds, and one or two key sections in between. Plus the 5 seconds drone shot, which in my opinion is amazing to watch.

That doesn't leave much time for other sections, specially if they are close to the top. Maybe in the top10, when the gap between the riders is bigger, we will ser more.

They have cameras on the off camber section at the top, my guess is they will show at least a bit of that

Yeah your dead right, johns footage in the woods really showed how fast they were going, scary. Probably would have taken 2 more cameras.

Amaury Pierron DNS in Semi.

Anyone knows anything about that, from what I heard yesterday he had a crash in practice and was just cruising in quali, but DNS also means he isn’t able to start finals is he?

stream was stable and quality was good, but would love to see the remaining riders list inbetween. also didn‘t catch any mention on amaury not racing!

but it was a really good experience overall for the first race IMO.

He still wasn’t feeling good this morning after yesterday’s crash, so the team decided to play the long game instead. With a DNS in semis he also can’t race the final.

Have anybody found any pirate livestream from finals? Just asking for the future I don't want to pay those rich cocksuckers from Discovery for the broadcast without good camera coverage of the track, no Rob Warner, even no this kinda ,,timeline" with the distance between first rider and the one on the track, that was on the RedBull. I also don't want to support their stupid rules about GoPro and stealing riders right to publish the recording straight after. A lot of things suck and I'm surprised riders don't oppose against it. 

Semis was a laughable production.  Not even in the same ball park as RedBull.  With them charging for finals viewership is going to be hard to keep

finals wasn’t bad. Some errors, graphics need work, and commentary was a mess.  But the racing was good and cameras were decent.  But certainly not a step above the last couple seasons of Red Bull.  And that’s with a very short track!!!  

I managed to log in after about 5 hours of trying. Ended up the only device in the house that would work was my 4 year old ipad. So she was stoked that dad had stolen it off her for the night lol.

I watched the semis on youtube, was pretty good.

The finals was excellent coverage, seemed like they showed a lot more of the run and arguably better camera work. The stream was of extremely high quality as far as resolution, I'm presuming 1080 at a minimum. Timing was heaps easier to see on the Ipad.

Commentary was OK, I was warming to Cedric a bit more by the end of it. Rick is knowledgeable but just doesn't have the charisma and energy I feel.

I never pay for streaming stuff, but I feel over the course of the year this will be worth my $60 Aussie Dollarydoos.

My favourite new commentator was Reece. 

Ha ha - at one point I was telling myself #whysoserious 

But yes he was great. I shook my head when that women commentator said Goldstone was from the US. 

But regardless - I'm grateful we can watch live racing. I remember the days when we couldn't watch and lets be honest, when Freecaster first got onboard we missed more footage than we got to watch. GCN did great in my book

Ok so they did better in today.  Cedric is still WAY TO French.  Was disappointed to go find the semi finals this morning PDT and see Rachael won 40th race on GCN.  Thanks aholes. So before I watched the Semi's I already knew the winner.  Still they are horible about update of how many riders left, who is left to drop ect.. 

Not sure I agree that you are protected all the way to finals.  Guaranteed a spot in Semi's sure but both Semi's and Finals?  

Rachel Atherton coming back first race after three seasons off, major injurys, a baby and starting a bike company with her family. Legend.

It was great. Swapping practicing for racing ain’t too bad (for me, at least).  
 

loved it.