David

Thanks for your comments. I’ll try to answer each question here and I’ll send you an email follow-up.

As for CyclingNews, I totally agree with you that the content is top-notch and that they provide some of the best all-around cycling news available.

My problem with them is exactly what I stated on the show, namely that their site is so incredibly cluttered that it is impossible to find the information you’re looking for. The stories and the links are so mixed up and jumbled together that you have to fight just to find what you’re looking for. Once they re-design the site, I have no doubt that this will become my first stop every morning as I begin my surfing day.

Finally, I have to agree with Carlton that they are way behind the times in that they don’t provide RSS feeds. Many of us use news readers to stay up-to-date and the lack of RSS makes it all the more difficult to read their stories. Plus is makes them appear behind the times.

As for Skype, we agree with you 100%. We’ve been working on a solution and hope to roll it out in a show in the very near future. Unfortunately, Vonage is not the solution for us (I’ll explain in my email to you).

And while Skype has been annoying, you have to admit that the outtakes are funny, right?

Thanks for your comments and for listening. Stick with us a little longer and you’ll hear the improvements.

All the best.

David

Velonews is, sadly, a distant also-ran. They only generally cover male road races; anything else just isn’t covered. Even in North America, they’ll skip an event like the Tour de Montreal (a UCI 2.1 event) and not cover it at all, while cyclingnews.com has daily results with excellent pictures.

And while we’re on the topic of form versus function: Skype isn’t working. I very much enjoy your podcast, and really want to continue listening; but the continued dropouts are getting so annoying I’m about to just stop listening. Vonage is $25 a month, provides free long distance almost everywhere (USA and the UK included), and has none of the issues you’re finding with Skype; and I’m sure there are other choices. Hey, when you end a show with funny Skype outtakes, you KNOW you’ve got a problem…..

It was a fantastic PR job for cycling.

And so good to see that it was the spectacle that got newspapers excited, not raking up d*ping stories.

Re Cyclingnews.com. I agree that some sites change for the sake of it and much hard info can be lost in fancy redesigns but is it really asking much to have some RSS feeds?

Thanks for your comment, but I don’t think I agreed about Velo News. I think I said that it was the first place I personally stop for cycling news. At least I think I said that. I’ll have to go back and give a listen!

Anyway, thanks for listening!

David

I am a pretty web savvy guy…not a 75 year old tring to figure this internet thing out. I just hope that the new site won’t be too flashy. Sometimes the new sites just stumble over themselves.

Anyway, great show. I take it the uk boys were pretty surprised by the turnout this weekend for the tour.

Keep Rollin

I’m currently sat watching the live coverage of the second stage of the tour and feel compelled to write after some of the comments made in the last podcast.

I was amazed to hear the rather negative attitude Carlton and Joe had about the two English stages of this years race. They seemed to be believe that the British public wouldn’t take much interest in the race, and at the time thought they were talking nonsense!

25,000 people to watch the rider presentation, 1 million for the prologue and another million (poss. 1.5 million) for the stage to Canterbury.

I’ve watched lots of cycling events in Britain over many years and the crowds have provided fantastic knowledgeable support. I hope that the undoubted success of the Tour’s visit will give race organisers the confidence to stage more events in Britain.

I look forward to your comments.

Simon