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Can confirm it works fine through an NZ VPN from Europe. Been using it all season without issues. The subscription comes out to about 12 NZD/month (~$6–7 USD), which is a lot easier to swallow than the official options available where I am.
Spends thousands on irrelevant bike parts, hours on forums debating racing, and $40/month to actually watch the races is the limit. Oh boy.
$40 per month is a ripoff, idk what you're on about. The season lasts from May-October (6 months), which is $240. Each elite race is about 3 hours. 10 races per season is 30 hours of racing. That is $8 per hour of livestream, more than minimum wage in 20 US states. It costs WBD almost nothing to distribute the stream to each additional viewer, yet they are charging more than they would be willing to pay somebody for manual labor for that same time period. I know biking is a fairly affluent sport but it sickens me to see these modern day robber barons extracting wealth from the populace on both ends of their balance sheet.
(I know the $40 is in Canada but I didn't feel like dividing by 0.72 and figuring out CAD min wage by province.)
Anyway, hopefully Larry Ellison knows the truth about the perfect chainstay length at dynamic sag in Lenzerheide, which is approximately 467mm, based on Finn Iles riding a S4 with S5 rear triangle, assuming 35% dynamic sag.
Agreed. Last week was clearly to match the women's field going last.
This week I'm not sure why. Other than to use the crescendo to sync with Goldstone's tabletop boost.
I keep stumping for them to use Trent Reznor's cover of Supernaut. Pace, lyrics...speed. All go with a World Cup. And it's not a song like "Sail" that's been pumped a 1000 times over.
Wish @Sleeper.co would put a weekly poll on here to let us pick the theme music from a top 10 list. 😁
I kind of agree that the music hasn't hit as hard lately, but that is based on my personal preferences. Also I like Vital polls. I do however, disagree that a poll should decide their music. Part of what makes Sleeper so good, is you'll never know what video style you're going to get, and that is based on the filmers knowing the vibe and the shots they got. Democracy is cool, but art decided by democratic votes won't be as good. That's how you get grey paint on walls and only silver and black cars. They are the least offensive (in a taste sense), but are not good as art can be without the convergent selection. Sleeper is good because it is curated art, not because it is the thing that the most viewers in a focus group have decided they will like.
It turns out the answer is: It has never happened before.
[I have to admit I found the answer in an article on the "other site." h/t to Ed Spratt]
It’s $40 a month if you go monthly but something like $20 if you pay for the whole year. I know I wouldn’t have paid $480 for a year. your breakdown only works if just DH is your thing which is fine but Flo gives me the whole cycling package across many genres of cycling which I also watch. On top of the xc, I’ll catch some of the cycling grand tours, spring classics, some cyclocross in the winter and even the BMX world cups.
In the US road cycling streaming rights are too split up. HBO gets you DH and certain road races, but NBC have the TDF and some other big races, and then some of the smaller stuff is only on Flo. If there was a streaming service like GCN+ that could get me all the cycling in one subscription without funding the Elllison family I would subscribe.
Oh I know we'll 100% get :grey" music.
Nobody's picking my song choice at a party either. :D
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