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Your Way Into Cycling
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| Naxela |
Posted on 15-06-2015 02:30
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My story is almost identical to johnnyjur, i think the main reason is the Norwegian commentators who commented the tour for me.
I lived a couple years in Norway and it was in start of Hushovd's career with Credit Agrecole in 2002, after he started to get results Norwegian TV started broadcasting the Tour so i loved watching sprints in the beginning but didn't care too much about the climbers at that time, so i rarely bothered to watch Ullrich and Armstrong going at it but i have watched every tour since then. It wasn't until i first played PCM i actually started to love cycling as a sport, i think it was around 08-09, it was first then i understood the tactical part of cycling, how teammates worked and so on.
Now i'm so hooked on cycling i think it might actually be bad for me, i even put on replays of cycling races so i can fall asleep to it.  I have at least watched all the stages of last years tour 4 times and the vuelta 2013 even more.
Edited by Naxela on 15-06-2015 02:32
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| CountArach |
Posted on 15-06-2015 02:40
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Like a lot of other people here I watched the TDF growing up. Of course it was just the daily highlights package that was shown around dinner time given that I live in the worst time zone for children to watch the sport imaginable. I remember Pantani at his peak and quite a lot of the Armstrong years. I think Pantani was my favourite back then because he was my father's favourite rider. I was of course too young to know anything about his personal life but I always liked the way that he attacked. I would also cheer on McEwen, O'Grady, Cooke and all of those guys from the golden age of Australian cycling.
I stopped watching for a few years until I picked it up in 07/08 maybe (where I also got PCM, which revealed to me that there was this whole world of cycling outside of the TDF), and then I started watching the TDF live in 2009 and by this point I had more time to dedicate to the sport. I don't think I watched the Vuelta that year but I did watch a few late-season races. Then in 2010 I watched just about every race for the whole season, meaning that I have really vivid memories of the 2010 Giro (the greatest GT in the last decade IMO). I've basically stuck with it ever since though I didn't have much time last year or early this year with other (more important) commitments.
Still only seen one race in real life, the 2014 Roma Maxima, won by Valverde after a late attack.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 15-06-2015 03:50
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baseballlover312 wrote:
I was flipping through the TV channels in July and was captivated by the 2008 TDF. The rest is history.
Similar, expect I got hooked during the 2007 TDF (13 years old at the time). Mostly because it was different from what I had seen before and I didn't understand what was going on right away. Yet, I could tell there were a lot of moving parts and hidden tactics to what I was watching. I was curious and wanted to understand. So, afterwards I convinced my mom to buy me Cycling Manager 4 off Ebay for like $5-10.
I realized a couple months later that Cyanide made an annual game and what I bought was outdated (although I have fond memories of playing CM4 for hours on end), so I saved up and bought PCM2008 on the cheap right after PCM2009 came out and that's when I found PCM.Daily. because I was searching for a realname db because I couldn't understand why they would name Armstrong to Neilstrong (and other popular misspelled names that I won't have otherwise noticed if I didn't watch the 07' and 08' TDFs).
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 15-06-2015 06:50
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Vino got me into cycling, i think 2008. Astana placed a guy in the break, Vino attacked and used him as relay station. I just discoverd tactics in cycling. After 3 years I bought PCM10(used for 5€) and I loved it.
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| Roextro |
Posted on 15-06-2015 07:27
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Well, Le Tour was on every year and I remember The Schleck brothers vs Contador. So when Nerd Cubed uploaded a video about PCM 13 I decided to buy the game. This led me to watching the 2012 tour and I have been hooked ever since. |
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 15-06-2015 07:52
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I have always been interested in sports and knows the name of players in all kinds of sports. PCM was one of the first game I had ever played and when looking through the selection of games, I chose Pro Cycling Manager 4, which still remains my favorite game of all time.
Years later I still played PCM and I brought every edition each year. I was also fascinated by the Schleck brothers vs Evans. Since then I have watched the big races each year and truth is that PCM got me into cycling.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-06-2015 11:19
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A certain Robert Millar was my inspiration to get in to cycling, i was always fond of tackling the hills around where i lived and watching him in the Tour de France would really benefit my climbing style  |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 15-06-2015 11:25
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I had a well-timed illness during the 2011 Giro. First stage I watched was Weening winning, and I since then watched the rest. Didn't understand it all yet, but that came very quickly throughout the race. The 2011 Tour made me a definitive fan.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 15-06-2015 11:44
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Nice thread.
I got into cycling when my father decided i am old enough to ride a bike.
I got into watching cycling via Tour de France, 1995 was my first when i saw maybe half of stages on Eurosport. I was fascinated by Indurain and saw his fifth consecutive title. Since then i rarely missed a single stage from three GTs and i also watched other monuments. I was still deaf and blind to all the doping controversy and i remeber to be angry on officials when 1998 Festina scandal happened (i was big fan of Virenque). Later i was getting more and more knowledge about doping,yet i was still a fan of Armstrong and his story, i thought that man who had to fight so much in his life cant be a cheater and his seven Tour wins made me a fan of cycling forever.
I also started to visit a CX races in Tabor around year 2000 and that brought me to this discipline.
Later ,when PCM4 was relesed, i got even deeper into professional cycling and learned all the names and started watching also smaller races. When i discovered PCM Daily, it was a first time i could actually dicsuss pro cycling with other people, who knew something about it, as nobody in my real life cares about it much.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 15-06-2015 12:47
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It all happened in late 2008, when Armstrong announced he was coming backing to cycling. I watched every year the Volta a Portugal, and my dad watched the Tour, but I didn't care much about it. When Armstrong came back, my dad was really excited for it. When Armstrong was annoucing as riding the 09 Giro, I decided to watch it. And what a competition I watched. The Menchov vs Di Luca duel was bloody incredible, and with what happened in the last day, with Menchov falling in the TT, and almost losing it, made me explode with joy, when I saw that Di Luca could win.
I watched the Tour then, and it was incredible, and the Vuelta, which was pretty good. I become in love with cycling. In 2010, I watched my first full season, with Paris-Nice, and the classics. Also in 2010, I found out that there was a game called Pro Cycling Manager 2010, and I imediatelly went to look for it in the piracy websites (yes, I was one of those  ), and found it. Downloaded it, and spend hours learning how to play it at first, and when I did, I enjoyed it. Still remember a Giro with Liquigas, using the original Cyanide DB (which I used for over a year), when with Nibali, I fell in one stage, and lost 3 minutes to Cunego, and spend all of the Giro recovering that time, until I lost the Giro in Zoncolan, whenthe day before with an attack from 100km to the finish, which worked, and it emptied Nibbles, who died in the last km in Zoncolan, losing the Giro by 20 something seconds. In 2011, I asked a guy who did PCM videos why he had a DB that had real names, and he pointed this site to me. The rest is history. |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 15-06-2015 15:19
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Naxela wrote:
My story is almost identical to johnnyjur, i think the main reason is the Norwegian commentators who commented the tour for me.
I lived a couple years in Norway and it was in start of Hushovd's career with Credit Agrecole in 2002, after he started to get results Norwegian TV started broadcasting the Tour so i loved watching sprints in the beginning but didn't care too much about the climbers at that time, so i rarely bothered to watch Ullrich and Armstrong going at it but i have watched every tour since then. It wasn't until i first played PCM i actually started to love cycling as a sport, i think it was around 08-09, it was first then i understood the tactical part of cycling, how teammates worked and so on.
Now i'm so hooked on cycling i think it might actually be bad for me, i even put on replays of cycling races so i can fall asleep to it. I have at least watched all the stages of last years tour 4 times and the vuelta 2013 even more.
it is scary how close it is to my story.
Beside I started with cycling game about 2003-2004..2005 I noticed that these are actual riders.. ..after that all GT's ..other races. Is must see events for me
most scary was last part..I have hard drive full of old cycling races. I do not know better way to go to sleep.
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| Naxela |
Posted on 15-06-2015 21:07
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Guido Mukk wrote:
Naxela wrote:
My story is almost identical to johnnyjur, i think the main reason is the Norwegian commentators who commented the tour for me.
I lived a couple years in Norway and it was in start of Hushovd's career with Credit Agrecole in 2002, after he started to get results Norwegian TV started broadcasting the Tour so i loved watching sprints in the beginning but didn't care too much about the climbers at that time, so i rarely bothered to watch Ullrich and Armstrong going at it but i have watched every tour since then. It wasn't until i first played PCM i actually started to love cycling as a sport, i think it was around 08-09, it was first then i understood the tactical part of cycling, how teammates worked and so on.
Now i'm so hooked on cycling i think it might actually be bad for me, i even put on replays of cycling races so i can fall asleep to it. I have at least watched all the stages of last years tour 4 times and the vuelta 2013 even more.
it is scary how close it is to my story.
Beside I started with cycling game about 2003-2004..2005 I noticed that these are actual riders.. ..after that all GT's ..other races. Is must see events for me
most scary was last part..I have hard drive full of old cycling races. I do not know better way to go to sleep.
I'm just glad i'm not alone haha. But yeah something about cycling is so relaxing.
Edited by Naxela on 15-06-2015 21:08
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-06-2015 00:26
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Nice topic 
Like lots of Dutchies, I used to only watch the TdF(and in background mostly) supporting mainly Dutch riders ofc, like a true Dutchie
Family(not cycling-crazy) had the TdF on most of the time and I liked to watch some of it.
It got more intensive by the year, and after TdF 11(mainly from the start of 2012) I actually started to follow more races.
After I almost bought PCM 11, a year later I decided to actually pick up PCM 12, a few weeks after release, during Le Tour, I believe. I got kinda addicted to that game actually. It didn't exactly get me into cycling, but it helped with getting even more into it.
About, what should it be, 1200h of PCM later, here I am
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| Strydz |
Posted on 16-06-2015 01:53
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Naxela wrote:
Guido Mukk wrote:
Naxela wrote:
My story is almost identical to johnnyjur, i think the main reason is the Norwegian commentators who commented the tour for me.
I lived a couple years in Norway and it was in start of Hushovd's career with Credit Agrecole in 2002, after he started to get results Norwegian TV started broadcasting the Tour so i loved watching sprints in the beginning but didn't care too much about the climbers at that time, so i rarely bothered to watch Ullrich and Armstrong going at it but i have watched every tour since then. It wasn't until i first played PCM i actually started to love cycling as a sport, i think it was around 08-09, it was first then i understood the tactical part of cycling, how teammates worked and so on.
Now i'm so hooked on cycling i think it might actually be bad for me, i even put on replays of cycling races so i can fall asleep to it. I have at least watched all the stages of last years tour 4 times and the vuelta 2013 even more.
it is scary how close it is to my story.
Beside I started with cycling game about 2003-2004..2005 I noticed that these are actual riders.. ..after that all GT's ..other races. Is must see events for me
most scary was last part..I have hard drive full of old cycling races. I do not know better way to go to sleep.
I'm just glad i'm not alone haha. But yeah something about cycling is so relaxing.
I am the same in this regard, watching replays of races does help me relax and yeah also get to sleep at times
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 16-06-2015 08:48
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Jesleyh wrote:
After I almost bought PCM 11, a year later I decided to actually pick up PCM 12, a few weeks after release, during Le Tour, I believe. I got kinda addicted to that game actually. It didn't exactly get me into cycling, but it helped with getting even more into it.
So you have never played PCM11? Now i get it all, if PCM12 was your first one.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 16-06-2015 08:59
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For me it was watching the Tour in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They were such great races. I remember seeing Frank Schleck in yellow and on the Alpe d'Huez Carlos Sastre attacking and winning the Tour all in one day. And the fight between Andy and Contador in 09 and 10. Just wow!! I started cycling in 2010 because of that...Just never stopped. Gotten more and more into it as well.
Especially last years Giro when Quintana and Hesjedal were in the breakaway and they stayed away. Quintana won the Giro in that one day.
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| wisdow23 |
Posted on 16-06-2015 09:18
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It was it 2005. I remember I was watching some of the TdF stages with Arsmstrong....Mayo, Basso, Rasmussen. Then I remember some of the Vuelta' stage.. battle of Heras and Menshov and the world Championship. In 2006 I remember Paris-Nica and Landis' win.. The "born" of Cancellara's legend in Roubaix.. and TdF. Prologue in Strasbourg, Valverde' fall...as a favorite for the GC (was he ? At leat the commentators said.. ). I remember Landis' crack when he lost many minutes and his AMAZING attack the next stage...When the commentators were really critical to CSC's tactic... The intertesting thing is that..they said back then that most probably Landis will be DQ'd and "battle for the second" in the last TT is really battle for the win....
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 16-06-2015 10:02
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Nexala and Guido: Haha, I do that sometimes as well. Have you seen the 2004 and 2005 TdF-disc on youtube? Gotta see those ones.
Jesley: Serious question - are dutchies more nationalistic than other nations? |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-06-2015 10:53
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@Avin
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Difficult to say, but there's definitely a culture here of supporting every team of your nation that does well, in any sport. Doubt we're worse than Norwegians and Portuguese though
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| Rob81 |
Posted on 16-06-2015 13:09
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