Eurosport player was half price last weekend - £20 for 12 months access which will get me through next years classics season and the Giro if the calendar is back to normal by then. Plus they have the past 3 years Tour/Giro highlights, the classics calendar and some Vuelta stages available to rewatch. If at full price that is a bargain compared to something like the NFL game pass.
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If you follow the subscription link there is a ‘What Can I Watch’ link for each region. For the US it looks like the grand tours are excluded.
For me in the UK this is great value and I’ll be getting it to watch Strade Bianche and onwards. Assuming they happen of course.
I’ve gone for it.
Looks good value for here in the UK 
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I would like to watch cycling and see if I can get into it as I have never watch it previously and am relatively new to cycling.
I also noticed the lack of races for us here in Canada.
My plan was to subscribe to NBC gold previously so I signed up for a VPN for 3 years only to then find out I cannot sign up for NBC gold, yet anyway. I am not sure if cycling passes will go on sale soon?
Then GCN race pass comes out and I was excited and thought I wasted my money on the VPN.
I am wondering if I can use my VPN with GCN race pass?
There doesn’t seem to be a setting that denotes me in Canada during the sign-up process (does everyone globally pay teh same price regardless of the amount of content available to them?).
Do you just sign up and then later, based on your phone’s IP, only the country specific races will be available to you?
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Hello @THowe, how are you watching cycling in Canada?
Hello @funkinslick, I am looking for a solution to start to watch some cycling and am in Canada. Are the races listed on Flo bikes available to you regardless of what country you are in?
I don’t know the names of many of the races, however, the list on flobikes seems more comprehensive that what is available from GCN race pass in Canada (unless there is a workaround with a VPN?)
Thanks for any suggestions as I would like to try and start watching some cycling.
Side note, I had tried to sign up for nbc gold (after I signed up for a vpn), however, I only then learned the cycling pass was not available for purchase (not sure if it will be available to purchase soon?)
Right now I have a eurosport subscription but the old workaround seems to pay for it seems to no longer work unfortunately.
I am hoping that the race pass will work with a VPN but ill wait to test that once my Eurosport sub runs out.
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We also have flobikes here as well, I think they cover a decent amount of racing.
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It’s completely unclear what races will be available in Japan (and will we be able to choose which commentary stream we listen to?), but I figure for 5000 yen, it’s probably much better than what I currently have access to (which is nothing, except for free livestreams of domestic races). I am almost 100% certain it won’t include the Grand Tours as those seem to only run on satellite TV, AFAIK.
Many of the races seem to list being viewable in both US and Canada. The criterium du dauphine, tour de france and the vuelta are all viewable in canada on flobikes but not the US. I think the same goes for cyclocross world cups since those show up on nbc sports gold. I think there are even a few track events that are only viewable in Canada but we’ll see how that goes this year. The giro is viewable in both countries as are many other of the italian 1 days. I didn’t look too much further than that but it does sound like a good choice for you to be able to see a bunch of races. You might shoot them an email just for further clarification before you drop the money if you want.
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Strada Bianche this weekend, that’ll be us all out on the gravel bikes afterwards!
I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the subscription. Keeping my fingers crossed now that races aren’t cancelled due to the pandemic and resurgences in infections.
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Im in Canada and bought Eurosport instead. Was not perfect but still pretty good.
This looks like a solid option I’m going to look into. I have done NBC Cycling pass ever since it came out. I think I will for sure do FLO Bikes for the Giro since NBC Sports doesn’t carry it.
I cannot stand the NBC commentators, and would only watch on Gold to avoid all the ads.
The GCN or Eurosport direct with VPN is my preference (for US). Gets me my preferred commentators. So I’ll do one of those, or just do Youtube highlights if life is beating me down.
It would be great if the Cycling PodCast hosts could do live video coverage. I find them very easy to listen to.
The first content just went up for subscribers on the GCN race pass - ‘The World of Cycling weekly update’. I actually really liked it. Summary of 2020 so far, Dan Lloyd and then had Tom Southamn as the in studio guest for discussions a little game - a take off of the top gear leaderboard but for how fast can you change a tube. Heap of pros with their own segments and video diaries - Mitch Docker, Tom Skujins, Ben King, Eli Viviani/Elena Cecchini, Nibali. Chromecasting from the app to TV worked perfectly. So far so good.
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Hi. Which one would you recommend? It seems Flobikes has more coverage and additional material, but is more expensive.
Thanks
The unfortunate answer is both to get full race coverage. Each service has exclusive race coverage, so if you want to see a specific race (e.g., Tour de France) to have to subscribe to the service that has it.
Between the two, I think FloBikes is a better service, but I have both.
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Thanks for the info!
I signed up for the subscription in the app, but it still says i need to buy to watch, but obviously google play wont let me subscribe again! Keen for some Strade tomorrow night
Have tried a login and logout in the app already
Anyone else had this happen and managed to fix it?