Road Bike Racing - Jittery Joes "The Bean Team" show?

Anybody else catch this on Vs. this week? My Media Center picked it up for me and I got around to watching it tonight. It just covered the first half of the team's season, on a fairly personal level. Showed how they live, lose, win, etc. Pretty cool look inside domestic pro cycling.

It really makes me wish I'd had the talent to have a go at it for a couple years back before I burned out. Sucks to have that longing feeling for it -- any of you guys who are young and upgrading fast, keep at it if you have the opportunity :beer:

I'm also now thinking about asking my wife if we can host a team sometime for a training camp or a race :)

Is it going to be replayed or is it a one time view?
~Nick

Media Center didn't find any airings in the next two weeks :-/

Wow, they had a whole hour to say something cool, but instead...

Extremely embarrassing and hard for me and my wife to sit through. Maybe some newb might think it was cool, but they never really showed the realities, just a lot of fluff.

Good to have somehting about cycling on the boob though. Bad promotion is better than nothing at all.

What was embarrassing?

I may be guilty of liking shows too easily, but I'm no noob... ;) My wife liked it too, and she was following me around in a car 16 years ago when I was racing hard.

What was embarrassing?

I may be guilty of liking shows too easily, but I'm no noob... ;) My wife liked it too, and she was following me around in a car 16 years ago when I was racing hard.



It was very amateurish. They were trying to reach a larger audience. Not just a few purists. I give them credit though for actually getting that aired on VS.

Oh, yeah, I see what you mean. Dude, everything is like that these days. I recorded a couple of "The Universe" on The History Channel, and I can't believe how much they've dumbed that stuff down. It hurts my head.

Still, on the Jittery show, they were throwing around terms like "GC" that only people familiar with racing would have a clue about. I thought it was cool to get inside the host housing and sponsor relationships a little. The claim that they came in with the winning group for the US Open was annoying -- the front group nearly caught the break, but they weren't the winning group :rolleyes:

Still, I thought it was just cool to see them distributing kit at the training camp, waking up to eat early, bouncing snow off the bikes, washing the car, etc.

I enjoyed the show. Made me curious on how much it would take to open a JJ franchise.

Beats watching morons stuff 60+ hot dogs down their throat.

I enjoyed the show. Made me curious on how much it would take to open a JJ franchise.

Beats watching morons stuff 60+ hot dogs down their throat.

But you have to admit that eating 66 hot dogs in 12 mins is one hell of a feat. I don't know if i could eat 6 hot dogs + buns in 12 mins.

But anyways. I enjoyed the jittery joe's documentary as well.. I wish that they had extended it to be a little longer so that it could include more race footage. I also thought that it was a tad bit too home videoish.

<snip>I also thought that it was a tad bit too home videoish.
For some things, that would be o.k., for this I was a little less than impressed. I was waiting for the program, really looking forward to it actually, and ended up somewhat let down....I suppose I need to get out and: race more, start my own team, etc..., then I'll be able to put a documentary together, that ya'll will be impressed with, I'm looking for cast members...

My little rant just that: a "little rant". Good for the JJ team. They've all worked hard to get there. We can nit pick; I'm sure the slowest guy on the team can still hand us our arse as we attempt to keep up while they are doing a recovery ride.:o

Cesar (sp?) is a hard man, riding w/ that separated shldr. Hard to gauge time w/o dates, the titles just said what race they were in, but he seemed to be out there soon after, and was still using a sling off the bike. Lots of tape on that shldr to get him out there, had to still hurt bad.

I enjoyed the show. Made me curious on how much it would take to open a JJ franchise.

Beats watching morons stuff 60+ hot dogs down their throat.

Hey I loved that. I watched it dozen times over. It was a rush.

Hey I loved that. I watched it dozen times over. It was a rush.
Take it easy Alice...go back to Wonderland.:rolleyes:

OMG, I've been lured into the "f" trap...well done who ever you are, ya got the whole cyc-iling com-une-i-tard-y into your grasp, we are all helpless by your spell...to show my loyalty, I'll be riding a Cinitarury Satarday, -->on a wheelie, with a 28mph averag3ee...if the pros can keep up.

Take it easy Alice...go back to Wonderland.:rolleyes:

OMG, I've been lured into the "f" trap...well done who ever you are, ya got the whole cyc-iling com-une-i-tard-y into your grasp, we are all helpless by your spell...to show my loyalty, I'll be riding a Cinitarury Satarday, -->on a wheelie, with a 28mph averag3ee...if the pros can keep up.

Dude, who are you talking too? There's nobody there.

This was the worst thing that Versus could have put on the air. I love cycling and will watch anything to do with the sport, but this was the most boring, pointless show I have seen. How do you think the non-cycling public viewed this show.
If we want to see more cycling on television they should put on shows that will draw in non-cycling fans and get them interested in the sport. This show did the complete opposite.

BTW the Hot Dog eating contest on ESPN was a lot more entertaining, but they actually knew how to make a more interesting production.

If we want to see more cycling on television they should put on shows that will draw in non-cycling fans and get them interested in the sport. This show did the complete opposite.

Yeah, 'cause the other cycling shows are doing a great job of that :rolleyes:

Yeah, 'cause the other cycling shows are doing a great job of that :rolleyes:
Its called growing the sport, believe it or not I first became interested in cycling when I watched a Bud Greenspan Documentary on Eddy Merckx, try to tell someone who is not interested in cycling to sit down and watch that Jittery Joes special and see how interested that will get them into cycling.

Its called growing the sport, believe it or not I first became interested in cycling when I watched a Bud Greenspan Documentary on Eddy Merckx, try to tell someone who is not interested in cycling to sit down and watch that Jittery Joes special and see how interested that will get them into cycling.

My wife won't watch 5 seconds of Tour coverage, but she watched the Jittery Joe's documentary. It wasn't intended to make people want to cycle. They wanted to get bike racers to tune in so they can sell ads for that time.

You can't grow the sport substantially through TV unless someone donates a bunch of money. The TV coverage will grow with demand, as the sport pulls the TV coverage along with it, not the other way around. As it is now, only people already interested in the sport are going to dig down to channel 470, watch the end of some Ultimate Fighting show, and then watch a bike race get butchered by scheduled commercial breaks.

EDIT: I'm not trying to make anyone like the show -- we all like different stuff, and that's fine. I'm just addressing the growing the sport issue

Dude, who are you talking too? There's nobody there.
Is there an Ignore option on here? No not to use for you, but maybe for the fool I was talking to...:o

I enjoyed the show. Made me curious on how much it would take to open a JJ franchise.

Beats watching morons stuff 60+ hot dogs down their throat.

was RAAM on as well?

Is there an Ignore option on here? No not to use for you, but maybe for the fool I was talking to...:o
Top-right: User Control Panel -> Miscelaneous -> Buddy/Ignore lists

Not quite sure how it works, but there it is.