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For those who don't have Foxtel or who don't do the torent download thing.
Moto GP starts this weekend and is on channel 10 and 1 HD at 9am-11am tomorrow morning (that is Monday).

nice one mate [thumbsup]


paul.

Thanks Matty.  Was having trouble finding it on free to air.  [thumbsup]

I think I'll pass on the Foxtel/Optus 3am!!  [roll]

Although getting up for it would prepare me for night shift on Monday night. Blah  ;)  [coffee]

Thanks for the reminder Matty....  [thumbsup]

Recorder set for 3:00am.... Will watch when I arise tomorrow morning....  [popcorn]

already watching the free practice and qualifying - 125, 250 and the big game!

bring it on!

OOh Nicky must have a sore arse (amongst other bits?) after practice.  [roll]

some may construe the above to be a spoiler...
Matty, maybe this thread should have a spoiler alert in the title, just in case  [thumbsup]

for those not sure what I am on about, here's a link in the racing section of the DMF
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=121.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=121.0)

stuff the spoiler alert whats has happened for those of us that hasnt ,seen or heard of any thing cause our free to air wont televise nothing if you dont want too tell me some one pm with what has happened so far please , pretty please with spiders cherry on top [laugh]  [bang]

Bazz my reminder is for free to air televising of the Moto GP
on channel 10 or the new sport channel from 10 called OneHD.
It can been seen on 1 or 12 on digital tv.

out here in the banjo country we dont get none of that city slicker stuff  [cheeky]

well if your not on digital tv, as in using a set top box in the next 2 yrs you won't have tv anymore.
By 2011 there will no longer be an analog tv signal. 

there's a replay on fox at 03:30 tuesday. which is supposed to have the race after the rain delay.
cheers,
paul.

Yep same on channel 10 or one HD.
It is on at 3:45am Tuesday morning provided the rain stays away.
So reset your recorders for tomorrow morning.  [thumbsup]

Despite Hobart being a capital city we don't qualify for One HD. We do however get TDT which has some 10 and 7 coverage. I suspect you can't get any digital tv Bazz. Would you get a signal with a set top box?

I'm not confident TDT will run Motogp tomorrow at 3.45AM. Even at that time it will probably get bumped by golf or something.  [roll] I'll get out of bed to see and if it's not on, Austar will get a reluctant subscriber. The only reason I'll get it is the bike coverage.

cmon!! 1st race of the year.. wife and I have the alarm set 3.50am..
 [coffee]mic

What a snorefest.... :(

Thank god for SBK & WSS [thumbsup]

Ita

agreed about the MotoGP (so far!), but did you check out the 250's.... anything but a snore!

The 250's have always been great racing... 

As for the motoGP, it's turning into F1 on two wheels!!!  They have mucked with the formula to much..  The field is to small and the difference in lap times is vast...  1 second covered 7 bikes in Qatar MotoGP qualifying compared to 17 bikes in Qatar SBK Superpole 1....

Regardless of that I hope Casey has a great year and regains the title...  But I want him to fight for it with more than just Valentino...

Ita

Agreed! I'm waiting for the spec ECU announcement....
I think there's a real risk of motoGP fading away with interest in wsbk gaining in popularity...

I too hope that motogp is more than a vale / casey show, time will tell... jorge has promise, just needs to stay on the bike this year!

thats right techno no digital signal out here and never will be so we are being told , bazz

Thats the trade off for living so close to great roads. A small price to pay.

BTW you have PM.

OK, so I set the recorder for the first race - rained out  [roll] Took the advice given by channel ten guys and set the recorder again for this morning, and what do I get - three hours of tele marketing, self help and God botherers  [bang] Bazz, you aint the only one who lives far enough from civilisation to be in the dark  - Wollongong doesn't get channel one until August this year... :'(
I know the result of the race - ironically thanks to Channel ten news  [roll] And no, I won't spring for Foxtel cause its just offensive to have to pay to watch most of the cr@p on tv.

Thanks, I feel better now. ducsport

it helps some times to have a rant , im with you austar can go and get well you know i rather put the money into broad ban wich i hope too get soon this dial up is killing me  [bang]

come on Bazz go the broadband then we can really have some fun

Guys....

If you go here....

http://www.justin.tv/azoto (http://www.justin.tv/azoto)

You can watch the race and all practice and qualifying live.. [thumbsup]

The quality is OK but the commentary is in German!!!!

I only found it on the week-end so I'm not sure if they do the SBK as well....

Ita :-*

Thanks Ita - Zer Gut! ducsport [thumbsup]

You can negotiate with them... well in my case i was going to council foxtel all together and i did, sadly as would miss some races. but that's all we watch. anyhow they rang back and asked 'what's the problem' and I said we only watch the gp and wsbk so couldn't justify bla bla...
....so they offered me min package plus all sports for free....so fox is back on!!


anybody try the motogp fantasy league?

mic

I know how you feel Bazz. I was down in country Vic (not far from Heather) visiting my family for Easter. They have just only got 7 and 9 (actually the country equivalent) digital signals, with no sign of ONE HD as yet. Southern Cross 10 is only broadcasting 1 signal, so we couldn't even get the SD version of ONE HD. (is that Digital 12?)

I tried to keep my ears closed about the race hoping a mate recorded it. I only found out yetserday is was delayed and my (so-called) mate deleted his recording of it.

And we didn't get the delayed version out here either.  Buying a set top box won't fix it (although I have just bought one for the ABC2 programs)  We will not be getting ONE HD in the near future.  I don't watch enough tv to warrant getting Austar and don't know if that help me anyway.    And not geeky enough to do the bit torrent thing (sorry geeks  :-*) ;D

It disappoints me that motorbike sport supporters are shown so much contempt by TV companies.   Used to happen in the West too.  My boyfriend at the time used to love the scathing letters I wrote to WIN TV about their uselessness.  Didn't get me anywhere though.

Sounds like it wasn't a very thrilling race though so I'm not losing any sleep about it.  Will just be thankful for any of the races we may be lucky to receive.  But I hope that someone (Rossi included) can challenge Casey just to make it interesting.

heather if you can handle the delay, we can post you some DVDs (after the fact of course!) to help with the long night shifts!!

I did not get to see it either the b@#$%^ds I didn' t know it was happening the second time around just saw it on the news highlights the next day grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................anybody got a copy for mr to see pretty please ;D

yeah sure, I'll PM you egas...

Hi Nick.

Yeah I can handle a delay in seeing them on DVDs.  Better that not seeing them at all. 

Thanks

have you guys gotten onto www.racingunderground.com (http://)
they are a bit torrent site that has EVERYTHING! handy for missed races and motorsport from all over the world, i use it for the IOM TT mainly.

paul.

RU has gone invite only as of about Feb, thus no new users unless you get an invite...

Also, for any current users, be aware that they run a Gb difference scheme, so if you download and don't seed, once your past -100Gb they are saying they will delete your account...

Qatar on now...

Ita

http://www.justin.tv/azoto (http://www.justin.tv/azoto)

Ha I can understand German.  The German for Casey Stoner is....... Casey Stoner.    [clap] [clap] [clap] [bow_down]

I really shoould get more sleep  [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

I'm on night shift...

This will be my 7th night straight...   Then 3 weeks leave!!!!  ye ha..

Ita

Night shift ! (twitch) I've just finished my (shudder) stint (tic)!  :P

Has no, (blather) noticable effect (tremble, shake) on me at (errfffft, uuhhhnnnn) all?   [bang]

7 !!!! [bow_down]

I 'm on 2nd of 3 and that's bad enough.

Enjoy your hols.  [thumbsup]

take it easy guys and rest when you can night shift is a bugger

i reckon that's fair enough, must check to see i'm still registered.

paul.

yep, agree.

I told Dos (who mised it) that the race wasn't that good.....(seriously)

but...

I did tell him about Paul Keating joining as a wildcard entrant for Repsol and placing in the top 10.

so.....when are we actually allowed to discuss the results of this race and what they mean for the season?

You can talk about it any time you want.
Start a thread, and mark it with a spoiler alert in the subject for people to avoid if they don't want to know the results...

You can also check our the racing and track days section of the DMF, where there is always plenty of racing debates going on...

oh boy! my RU account got kicked off - clearly I wasn't seeding enough, although I thought I was, but maybe the ratio was out too much.

Anyone got an invite code they can send me ? I promise to seed. I generally try to stay on the upside of even. Even more so now that the Pirate Bay boys have been lynched by a kangaroo court. F(*K the RIAA & MPAA.

well thanks too a good person on this site i got too see , and what a race it was the new gp9 with the carbon bits looks a lot better in the corners than last years model and casey,s fitness was not a issue , but be for all you people say it was boring just think about this for a minute , for a family italian brand too take on the big japenese four and beet them with all there resorces and money , that in its self is the holly grail of gp bikes if you want close racing watch the australian superbikes or the wsbk cheers bazz   [thumbsup]

Yeah, pity I missed an old lanky guy hanging off Pedrosa's bike telling everyone else they're bastards  [evil]

Funny that he's sorta relevant again now we suffering the recession Gen Y (is that what we're up to?) had to have.....

Don't get to carried away Bazz, it's very early in the season and if Casey wasn't on that bike, Kawasaki (or wahtever they are called now) would probably clean the Ducs up!!!!   Have a look at last year and the year before....   The Gp8 or the Gp7 was clearly not the best bike....   It was the Casey factor!!!

Ita

(Grumble) Someone should blow recessions up (Grumble)

Ita