Do StW posters not like Downhill ?

Discovery plus has got all four categories from Loudenvielle scheduled tomorrow starting at 10.30am

Watched all four categories today. Well worth it

Caught the mens finals, tricky conditions for sure..makes for a good watch though!

Great racing – watched the Juniors live then caught up with the highlights later.  Shame about Tahnee getting the rain/fog as it would have been good to see her win again but the men’s race was pretty spectacular.  Good to see Reece Wilson back to form.

I was getting more than a bit frustrated with Ric however just call it Loudenvielle FFS – no one one needs you to say Peyragudes every bloody time.  We get it, you did your research but the race is Loudenviele, just ****ing leave it!

Surely it’s an obligation to use the official name for the venue every… single… time, because they’ve paid to host the race?

I get that its probably not Ric’s fault having to say the name, in fact Warner probably had the same rule and just forgot.

Ric could probably work on doing it more subtly though.

Charlie Murray I thought improved greatly on just his second (?) time in the booth. Seemed more natural and despite having both Loic and Finn to talk about, he wasn’t awkwardly plugging Specialised (his sponsor) as hard as at Worlds.

Charlie Murray would be fine is he didn’t go “aaaauuuuwwwwwwrrrrrr” 7x per run

I quite like his inability to keep that internal!

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Surely it’s an obligation to use the official name for the venue every… single… time, because they’ve paid to host the race?

I was about to say that the Peyragudes bit doesn’t feature on any of the UCI info but checking the UCI website it seems that it does.

Doesn’t change the fact that it was annoying and should have been dropped for 90% of the times he said the venue name. I shouldn’t dislike him, he’s very knowledgeable and has been around a long time but, by god he’s dull.

Gwin does a good job in the booth.

Ric can do one.

Tiz cycling FTW.

After a quick squint at the forum a couple of times since posting this I should have added

– Oasis

– Grand Tour / Top Gear

– Cars – unless electric, a camper van or lightweight 2 seater sports

– Rob Warner

– Sam pilgrim

– anything new and / or expensive – unless it’s obscure slippers, toothbrush, coffee press etc

– any popular music – unless it’s Coldplay

– having fun

– any comedian unless it’s Stewart Lee

– Uplifts

– anything with more than 120mm travel – as why would you need anything other than a Planet X hardtail

– any bike industry innovation – as these private companies are just trying to sell us new w product – imagine !

– prime time tv

Welcome back from under your bridge.

Having accidentally started a thread about downhill mtb650 is back to try to turn it back towards his original topic: negativity about STW.

I’m not that bothered about downhill, as it happens. I think the coverage desperately needs more wide shots mixed in as all the tight ones they use make it look flatter and slower.