Anyone lost Bike channel on sky?

[Celtic Dragon]

As per the title really, disappeared from mine just after 9pm. Was channel flicking and noticed.

[bigandclever]

It's disappeared on virgin too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BIKEchannelUK/status/88...

[interstellar]

They have commented today they have technical issues and will issue an update tomorrow at 12pm.


Could be the end of the ride.....

[Some Gump]

No loss. It's a pity, they never covered anything that clicked with me.

[Celtic Dragon]

interstellar said:

They have commented today they have technical issues and will issue an update tomorrow at 12pm.


Could be the end of the ride.....

Hope not, whilst not a great channel, they did show the Cape Epic, Croc trophy and the XCO World Cup rounds.

[RLE]

Quite a few good documentaries on there too. Let's see if they get back up and running......

[okgo]

They need to sort the picture quality out as a matter of priority.

I wouldn't miss it, its full of dross.

[dogbucket]

The MTB show with Doddy was ok, I believe they are doing another series of that.

I started recording the DH World Cups, but noticed on Vallnord they went to adverts and missed out Danny Harts epic run. So I will stick with Red Bull catch up in future.

[yellowjack]

I hadn't even noticed it had gone to be honest. I tried it, and tried to like it too. But it was hard work. Lots of repetition, and much of the original programming was great as an idea, but looked too much like a college media studies project in execution. I know money is tight on these smaller channels, and making quality TV can be expensive, but if something is going to become successful to the point of sustaining itself, then it needs to pass for something half decent really. It was also stuffed away too far down the channel listings, so I seldom got that far when idly scrolling through the programme guide. I'd be sad to know it had failed, but would have to admit that my indifference to it hasn't helped with viewing figures to be honest...

[Craikeybaby]

Doddy has gone to GMBN now.

I enjoyed watching the XCO highlights last year, but they don't seem to do them now. If I have enough free time to watch the full races I'd rather actually be out on my bike.

[Celtic Dragon]

They use the redbull feed for XCO and Dh, all shown live and highlights are shown at 9pm Sunday and again during the week.

[RLE]

Seems to be back.....