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Love that this is on Hacker News! INRNG has some of the best commentary about professional cycling online, as well as book reviews and travel pieces around famous climbs and races. If you are a fan of professional cycling, it’s a must-read.

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I’m building a non profit cycling website, perhaps you are interested: https://cyclohub.cc

It is still in the early stages. i want to gather news from across all channels and make a place for cycling fans, without all the ads.

Also check out my dad’s biography at https://championwillpower.com

Great to see cyclist fans on here!

We’ve interacted on r/peloton before - your father is a giant and I am glad the biography is out. :)

Ah great! and thank you for your kind words.

I like the concept of pooling news together with the rankings. Everything is in dutch so I cannot comment on the content, but I think it is a good idea.

However, what I think is missing in online cycling is something better than pcs for live races. At the moment, there is no central place when you can follow all races (not only WT) understanding what is currently happening. At most you get a feeling of the groups there are and the distances, but even that is many times not accurate (e.g. in PCS they say "peloton" when it is a group of 30 people).

Of course, doing this is not easy and time consuming...

hey I am building this! check it out and let me know what you think. Still in the early days and lots to improve on, but we are trying to improve the experience for cycling fans!

https://radial.racing/

What I'd really like to see is a spoiler-free mode.

I can watch a race on catch-up, but if I'm doing that then I can't open PCS to check profiles or standings/time-gaps until I'm fully caught up

Exactly this.

On top of that, when catching up it's great to have an indication of _when_ to start watching a race. For that I've been using the info provided on the HowFarOut[1] Twitter account.

[1] https://nitter.click/HowFarOut

We are looking at ways to indicate ahead of time when you should start watching (and sign up for push notifications) as well as ways to do this based on what is happening in the race (crosswinds alarm!)

We have that! It is not perfect but is improving. By next season we will have catch-up mode too so you can tune in when you can and get caught up on the major events that got the race to where it is

I grew up in Idaho, so I know well the pains of trying to follow the sport from another timezone

I've given the app a go, but one thing I'm wary of is how much bluesky stuff is in - and that's likely to have race spoilers too

It's a shame Lucas' cycling blog isn't on that platform, that's a great source for news and updates

We will be labeling spoilers from bluesky as well before next season starts so they stay hidden. Work in progress but it should be getting better at a pretty quick pace!

Wanted to say thanks for making this app, makes following races so much easier rather than looking at estimated finish time and setting alarms every day of a tour lol.

So happy to hear that! There is a lot more I plan to do to make it better. I feel like what we have now is just the bare minimum. Looking forward to next season!

I understand there's probably just not the data in API you're pulling from, but it'd be cool if smaller races like the Philly Classic could also be tracked in your app. When you're at the race, it's a little hard to find where the peloton is at a given time so I was using your app to try to find it, but no such luck.

Totally agree and this will be solved in time! I am actively working on this now

the daily digests on the "HUBS" section are already in English, and you can sign-up for automatic message (per e-mail or push notification). I'm considering translating all news headlines into English using AI. working on that.

And yes, proper live races would be great with content from people along side the road as well. Currently i think sporza.be is best in this (live race report), but it is all in Dutch.

Thank you for your feedback!

hey, I'm also building something for cycling fans, maybe we should connect? seems like we are thinking about similar problems! https://radial.racing/

kristo at radial dot racing : )

edit: I'm also in NL too

This is kind of underselling some important details:

For those who don't recognize the name, he is the brother of a top professional cyclist, Matteo Jorgenson, who just last weekend played a key role in the US winning the world cycling championship road race.

great! I e-mailed you

How do you plan to finance the infra and moderation?

infra, for now, is relatively cheap. Eventually i hope the community will contribute to maintain the website. Moderation will be interesting, hopefully partial automated, partially by the community, partially my own time.

it is truly my intend to keep it ad free and true platform for the cycling fans.

I registered a non-profit company to make sure those believes are captured and part of the website.

Second this - I've been reading it for years, and it goes beyond "who won" and has a lot more in-depth analysis, including the business side of cycling.

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