GCN+ subscription, anyone?

Has anyone signed up for the GCN+ subscription?

I signed up for the race pass last year and will let it run over. Not that bothered about the adventure style stuff at the moment (although I expect I will watch some of them) but £20 for all the racing seems a pretty good deal. I had racing on when working from home when the season was on and it was great

Is there any reason to get it over Eurosport? I usually get Eurosport for £20 a year and it has an Apple TV app.

Yes, signed up for it yesterday. Twenty quid for a year is a bargain.

It is an incredible bargain at £20. Was actually going to PSA it.

Is there any reason to get it over Eurosport? I usually get Eurosport for £20 a year and it has an Apple TV app.

+ve there are no adverts whatsoever during the racing, and they really do cover the whole race.
+ve Like post race analysis and the pundits (even Brad is OK).

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-ve Watching on a web browser wasn’t possible last year (it may be now though). You had to use the app itself or Chromecast. They (GCN) are now saying that they allow you watch over all your devices, which suggests that they’ll be picking up Apple TV and maybe browsers too. Worth checking.

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There’ll be some extra bike content which is likely to be at least OK too. The GCN YouTube stuff (for free) is mixed as far as I’m concerned, but if they do a couple of exclusive docs or factory visits as part of GCN+, then probably worth it over Eurosport for the same price.

Eurosport do no advert feeds via the app.

I quite like the look of the adventure & documentaries etc. I have given up on netflix AKA sh!tflix!

I signed up for race pass, watching all the cross races has been brilliant.

I was on race pass but stopped it. I will get the 20 quid for the year thing as I liked the look of the longer format stuff.

Bought Race Pass when it first came out – total bargain

I’ve got the race pass so will be upgraded as I understand it. Seems like a bargain at £20 (I paid full whack).

I like the CX so it’s good for that. Generally a fan of the channel and the cost seems reasonable to support the content and coverage.

I’m interested more for the long form content than the racing, but I’m very tempted. I signed up to Eurosport for a year a couple of years back for the racing and ended up watching hardly any so that was a bit of a waste even at half price.

An Apple TV app would definitely swing it for me.

I get Eurosport on Virgin on the telly – having no ads would be good but is there any racing shown on GCN that isn’t on Eurosport? Thinking the non-World Cup CX series.

How is their coverage of the Grand Tours compared to ITV?
Personally, I don’t have the inclination to sit thru 4-6 hrs worth of racing over multiple days and the daily 1hr highlight that ITV put together suits me (and I think Gary, Ned and David make a good team)
I’m hoping this won’t change!

I’d consider GCN+ if ITV drop out of the tour coverage but that might be academic for me as I live in Canada and the coverage may be geo-blocked anyway. (I can circumvent this on ITV using a VPN…not sure that will be possible using the GCN app)

signed uop a few days ago and looks good so far, racepass@gcn etc then sign in also coming son on fire stick, but if you cant wait down load firefox ap then watch in via racepass@gcn.

The quality of the filming is excellent and the editing of the previews must have took ages, a lot of stuff going live on the 15 feb this year. and its £19.99 for the year/

@ mark Eurosport (and I assume gcn as it’s the same people) highlights of grand tours are 90 mins as opposed to ITV’s hour. The extra half hour is good as they can tell more of the story of the race as well as showing the finale of the stage in near to real time. With itv they sometimes almost kick the show off on the final climb and just show that.

Would swap from Eurosport to gcn but if you can’t watch it in a browser then that’s a deal-breaker. Eurosport also extended my subscription by quite a bit during the pandemic as there was no sport on.

-ve Watching on a web browser wasn’t possible last year (it may be now though)

Yeah, racepass works on a browser now

I’ve just signed up. Don’t watch nearly enough cycling and now I’m really getting back into it all so for £20 why not 🙂

How is their coverage of the Grand Tours compared to ITV?

I prefer ITVs coverage for the Tour and Vuelta, but they don’t cover the Giro or the classics. I love watching both of those things so for me the Race Pass is very worthwhile.

Made sense for me….down under used to get Eurosport on fetch box but the option got cancelled…get some excellent coverage tdf and some spring classics on state SBS but little womens and no Vuelta so for price a no brainer for me just need to remember to cancel if dont use much

Thanks for the reminder, I was thinking this weekend that I’d like to watch the Spring Classics so might give GCN a try over Eurosport.

I can’t imagine not watching the Tour on ITV4 though so probably will stick to that in June/July.

If GCN feature documentaries too as I think someone says up there ^^ then that’ll clinch it for me I think.

Just found the Firestick app is now available and seems to be working perfectly so far. Last chance for the half price subscription this weekend I think.

Enjoying some of the documentaries and other pieces that are non-YouTube available. Can’t complain for £20. Will I renew next year if it goes to full whack? Possibly – will have to see how much I watch the live races etc…

I subscribed last week,been catching up on the CX season.I plug the HDMI lead from the laptop into the TV. No problems so far,looking forward to this weekends one day races.
£20 for a years subscription,bargain

Started working my way through some of the adventure films, really good

I just got it in the hope of watching the Spring Classics. It’s a bit of a pain, as there is no app for my Fire Stick, but I can bring it up through Firefox.

I like supporting GCN as I think it’s a great resource, with generally fantastic content and decent folk making it work.

Last night I watched the last of the adventure films, I have to say they were all pretty good viewing.

It’s a bit of a pain, as there is no app for my Fire Stick, but I can bring it up through Firefox.

You can play it on the Firestick now, the app was added today I think. Just search for GCN app. Works perfectly!

Does this have any MTB stuff on it?

Does this have any MTB stuff on it?

From what I have seen so far, hardly any mtb stuff.

I’m wavering – really dithering on it.

I like the adventurey stuff but tbh I’d should probably be doing it, rather than watching it.

I’m not at all techy. Does Racepass work on a Chrome / Safari browser? Just open it and watch on a laptop / desktop? If so I might be able to manage that.

What’s the GT coverage like on GCN race pass/+? Is it just highlights or full stages, or both?

Just watched both episodes of “Chile – the longest descent” on the fireTV app. For me, that’s the cost of the annual sub recovered in 2 1/2 hours.

@corroded

I’m not at all techy. Does Racepass work on a Chrome / Safari browser? Just open it and watch on a laptop / desktop? If so I might be able to manage that.

I’ve just subscribed via to GCN+ via the Google app on my phone but you can also watch content via your web browser at
https://plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com were you can sign in with your Google/Apple/Facebook account.
Looks like you might be able to create an account directly from that website but, IIRC, you can’t pay that way (or maybe you don’t get the 50% discount). Anyway, try it…

I subscribed up via the app and no problem logging on an viewing content on my MacBook via Safari. For £20 a bargain IMO – I’ve been waiting years for Mark Beaumont’s 80-day ride.

I have had more than my 20 quids worth of viewing already, some good stuff to watch during the lockdown.

Its also the last day for the half price subscription.

In just before the offer ended.

Managed to install and log into the fire-stick version of the app too so I can watch it on a proper telly hopefully, rather than via a phone or browser…

I’ll be looking later to see if they’ve ported it to the (Samsung) TV in the lounge (not that I often get to choose what’s on that one)…

They really need to publicize which devices the app works with better (IMO) I was still a bit on the fence until I checked for the fire-stick app…

Yeah they need to fix the app so it works, keeps dropping out during the racing and that’s really annoying. The half price deal was worth a punt but if they don’t sort it out I won’t renew.

I had a look for a firestick app but didn’t see one. Must have another look later, have just subscribed so being able to watch on the tv would be good