What do you think of the yellow card idea? Let us know! And don't forget to check out GCN KZitem Memberships !
@janneaarnseth738
3 ай бұрын
Stupidity!😂
@feedbackzaloop
3 ай бұрын
Yellow card system is too liberate: current sword of Damocles of imminent disqualification makes up for a better safety measure.
@CMWren87
3 ай бұрын
You could make a video that shows recent/previous controversial races that would earn a rider a yellow card under the new rule. (Ahem, Jasper the Disaster.)
@jukkahyrkas749
3 ай бұрын
🎉 safety first
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
@CMWren87 he doesn't come across well in the Netflix documentary does he
@littlebaus
3 ай бұрын
The UCI should make the cards physical and force every offender to put it in their spokes for the rest of the race. Like we used to do as kids with playing cards to make the bike sound like a Harley brrrrrrr
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
Sounds like a great bit of punishment
@sunshinecycling
3 ай бұрын
Funny. Triathlon does physical cards just like football/soccer. Totally should be physical and waived on the TV cameras.
@joshaalders3029
3 ай бұрын
Yesssss!!
@graemejwsmith
3 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@rnedisc
3 ай бұрын
Modern hubs are already loud as fuck. Can't have even more noise!
@Shellewell
3 ай бұрын
I would really appreciate a middle membership between musette and casquette. I don't think I can justify the mid tier right now but could comfortably do something around the £6 mark.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! We're always keen to hear new ideas
@wizkidcyclist9968
3 ай бұрын
Disheartened that GCN+ Subscription is priced so so high. At £40, we had access to documentaries and live races which was a great deal. But at £168, only for documentaries... - way to expensive. Sad, but can't really justify the expense
@TheJmbf10
3 ай бұрын
Instead of a yellow card, riders should be handed a 2kg stone or something they have to carry in their pocket for some duration. OR based on the seriousness of the offense, they could force them to use a lower-tier bike! I think the threat of the pros having to use 105 or Apex or ride on aluminum would terrify them into shaping up.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
this sounds like something from a Carry On film!
@WaechterDerNacht
3 ай бұрын
On the third offense, they have to switch to a cargo bike...
@AlbionSupreme
3 ай бұрын
They used to do that to those who won races in Touring Cars
@chrisridesbicycles
3 ай бұрын
Just imagine the Alpecin sprint train with downtube shifters.
@thebelly925
3 ай бұрын
On the fourth offense they switch to the official GCN EuroBike.
@trad5790
3 ай бұрын
People obviously want to watch the old content, but with the outrageous pricing tiers you GCN are telling me you don’t want me to watch it. GCN I want you to succeed but with offers like this you are starting to loose me. Find a way to relaunch GCN+ Even if we get 1/2 of the live racing as before . Add in the 200+docs And a sock/shirt,bottle,book a month option and charge us $100 a year. Everyone who had GCN+ previous will come back.
@olih27
3 ай бұрын
They don't have the rights to show the live racing, can't see that ever coming back. Otherwise agree, is too much for 50 videos
@leangrypoulet7523
3 ай бұрын
I'm not sure who chose the monthly subscription packages, but they're pretty steep. Indeed they're steep if that is all an average cycling fan was paying for, but in this day and age most will already have a subscription to at least one of the big streaming services, perhaps more than one, if not all. What's being proposed for £200/yr just doesn't stack up. I subscribed to GCN+ and for that you got videos, a great social community and of course live racing. Now it's just not viable. I can't see many people subscribing, at least not at the top level, even with £10 worth of t-shirt and bidon thrown in. You'll be reviewing this in six months time and would probably have made more money in the interim by adding a couple of quid to the t-shirt prices, a tenner to jerseys, and increasing the production run of both. Anyway, good luck.
@audiostrife
3 ай бұрын
Kind of shocked at how expensive those tiers are.... I'd love to support you and watch the docs but not for 15 bucks. bummer.
@glharlor
3 ай бұрын
Id love to support gcn, but the cost is way more than gcn plus and we aren't even getting full access to all the videos
@Thegisburn
3 ай бұрын
So it's 13 quid a month for OLD content and not even all of it....just seems way out of kilter
@65Swede
3 ай бұрын
For one yellow card make the offender ride on 20mm tires the next day. For the second yellow card make them ride a mountain stage on an 11-23 cassette.
@jasonwear8729
3 ай бұрын
As a GCN+ subscriber I feel I already paid for documentary content. I think previous GCN+ subscribers should get 6-12 months free until new content created. The subscription charges do seem quite high but I also appreciate now you're independent again there are alot of overheads to cover. Does seem steep though.
@pcm9969
3 ай бұрын
$180/year for videos I"ve seen already with GCN+ and no more racing. No thanks. $5/month for Peacock to watch racing PLUS a whole lot more video content.
@rob-c.
3 ай бұрын
You paid for a subscription. You only have access as long as you keep paying. Same with all other streamers.
@qcalsop
3 ай бұрын
Err I might have got this wrong but aren’t the videos free? That’s what they keep saying. The fee is to show support for the channel ( I think)🤔
@mikebutcher2968
3 ай бұрын
@@qcalsop The old GCN+ documentaries will be behind a paywall, the subscription isn't to watch the youtube content
@qcalsop
3 ай бұрын
Ok thanks. I need to listen more 🤦♂️
@windowpain1
3 ай бұрын
I think the Ariane 6 is a European Space Agency rocket
@PaulTomblin
3 ай бұрын
Correct - built by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace Arianespace
@mikhailway
3 ай бұрын
Correct, but they do work closely with NASA in a large variety of ways 😊
@DrGKickAss
3 ай бұрын
Ariane is actually an Airbus subsidiary. ESA is the operator of Ariane, same way as easyjet is an operator of the A320
@mecoollearoyd
3 ай бұрын
I was hoping SOSA would bring this up! 😁
@petebenson5030
3 ай бұрын
ESA not NASA, but definitely Space.
@maddogmtb
3 ай бұрын
I’d love to support the channel as I’ve been a regular viewer for a looong time. However, the subs prices are simply unrealistic, especially the top tier! In a very crowded market it’s terrible value. I mourned the death of GCN+ but my pockets are only so deep to get a fraction of what was previously on offer.
@JIMMYHIBBS1
3 ай бұрын
agree - 2x ++++ the price of netflix .... I love GCN+ - but heck - punchy prices
@jellyjrl6253
3 ай бұрын
They're taking the piss 😡
@paperxray
3 ай бұрын
agree. looking forward to seeing GCN iterate on the tiers and the value in them. right now there's not enough value to justify paying $25/mo. but that may change
@79Batty
3 ай бұрын
The issue I have is we’re now being asked to subscribe/pay to get access to the documentaries we previously paid to be able to watch. Or have I got that wrong?
@BikepackingAdventures
3 ай бұрын
The top tier needs to be replaced with something the subscribers gets on a frequently basis - a one-off book and a water bottle means if anyone doesn't join Tier 3 they will quickly drop back to Tier 2 having got the book and bottle. Maybe something exclusively online discount vouchers at partners something alone those lines - everyone loves saving a little money.
@mjharrisleeds
3 ай бұрын
You want that monthly?. If they were a annual charge then maybe otherwise it's far too expensive
@joshaalders3029
3 ай бұрын
I have not yet seen anyone admit that the previous GCN+ with back catalogue and racing was way underpriced? 😢
@simonstucki
3 ай бұрын
underpriced from whose point of view? I'm afraid the price was unsustainably low from the producing side.
@joshaalders3029
3 ай бұрын
@@simonstucki I just mean compared to other sports streaming services like Eurosport,TSN,flobikes which have prices more similar to GCNs current mid-tier offer
@pcm9969
3 ай бұрын
Yes. GCN+ was a good deal, but that doesn't justify the current prices.
@Stickygoma
3 ай бұрын
Guys, im sure that independence has come with a hefty operational costs in addition to expensive objectives. But both 15$ and 25$ are measurably more expensive than both the Original GCN subscription we used to pay and the MAX subscription I'm paying now... I'm going to be jumping on the 15$ tier because, well, loyalty, but when doing the monthly bean counting this subscription may be a likely first victim of my cost cutting.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
thank you for your support 🤗
@babygerald4645
3 ай бұрын
LOL at the 'Wheel Clock'. Nice one, indeed.
@DadCyclingNetwork
3 ай бұрын
Caption competition: “This is not the rice cake I’m looking for.”
@Seppster58
3 ай бұрын
Thanks GCN for the membership offers. I have now joined (miss the GCN+ app) and feel like part of the family again!! can't wait to watch all that awesome content.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard!
@spencererickson3722
3 ай бұрын
28:44 "Strong with the Force, she is."
@jagrutirathod
3 ай бұрын
"Eating/ate" is now apparently replacing the word slay. E.g. Pogi ate that performance at the Giro, I.e. he performed well. Or he's eating in that outfit when referring to how great he looks in pink (and hopefully yellow soon) 💛
@nigelw8575
3 ай бұрын
So finally a pedal company has come with a design to put Matt Stephens out of years of misery 😂
@magicknight8412
3 ай бұрын
Caption competition "Neve Bradbury uses her jedi powers to grab some food"
@williamm3542
3 ай бұрын
Love both ideas: yellow cards and extending the safety zone from 3 to 5 km. Also, is it my imagination, but is Dan looking bulkier?? Bravo, Dan. Although, bulkier for an ex-pro cyclist only means one can no longer model for the "Feed the Children" public service ads. Nevertheless, Bravo Dan. Now to emphasize the guns, start wearing medium GCN tee's instead of large. We'll all be hitting the gym to keep up!
@mmotpm5237
3 ай бұрын
Hack and Bodge - the wing nut is a good idea as it’s easier to remove. (Or steal).
@ltu42
3 ай бұрын
For me good quality CR2032 batteries last two or three seasons in the heart rate monitor, in the region of 700-1000 hours of use. A spare one always rides in the saddle bag, and another one in the Specialized ANGi sensor on the helmet that I don't use. Having to recharge the heart rate strap every 100 hours sounds like a step back.
@allanfoster6965
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Si for the shout out about Shapps. 😊👍👍👍
@patrikdallmann5648
3 ай бұрын
Slight correction, the Ariane 6 is developed by ESA, NASAs European counterpart.
@Invi_sible_
3 ай бұрын
Hi, teenager here to inform you on "Slay" Slay is a slang word commonly used when someone or something has gone / done very well, for example someone wears a fantastic outfit, you would say: "Slay" or "Slay queen" or "You slay that outift" stuff like that it can also be used when something goes really well, more so a party type situation than a job interview situation, e.g "That party slayed" (P.s, my dad watches your content and he likes it a lot so keep up the good work, I'm not a big fan of cycling [my bikes been sitting in the garage untouched for well over a year lol] but if my dad likes it then you're doing a lot of things right, he's been a fan of cycling ever since he was a kid I think) Maybe When I'm older I will get into cycling like my dad..
@a1white
3 ай бұрын
Also worth bearing in mind, with the membership scheme being sold on KZitem, KZitem takes a massive 30% cut of all the sales that GCN make. Perhaps if GCN could find a platform that is less of a rip-off they could offer better value? I'm guessing the members only videos don't contain the massive amount of ads that KZitem serves us now?
@helion741
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition - I'm not sure what Sram groupset she uses but i bet she is using The Force one way or another. :)
@KevinAxt-om5on
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition - You underestimate the true power of the Dark Side, Lord GelPak. If you will not fuel me, then you will meet your destiny.
@QuickNick2402
3 ай бұрын
Ouff. I was happy about the prospect of being able to watch some of the documentaries, but that pricing is too steep. That is more than what I pay for Netflix, Apple, Prime Video and Disney+ combined!!
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
Cancel the rest, there's not much worth watching on them!
@rob-c.
3 ай бұрын
@@JonCannings Jon, you seem to have really missed people’s point of view on this. Coming in the comments and making jokes on people’s genuine comments about the pricing is a poor response.
@two-eyedRoy
3 ай бұрын
I'd have chortled pretty hard if at the very end Conor, Manon and/or Hank burst in yelling "You bastard!" :D
@keithevans5667
3 ай бұрын
Great to meet Si at the BWC World Championships! 2nd! Should have been first ;-) What a star.
@bikecommuter24
3 ай бұрын
Got rid of my car two years ago, I just rent a car when I need one, I bicycle, walk, take the train and use ride share when necessary.
@roberttell1587
3 ай бұрын
As someone who has been old for longer than even Dan I can confidently say by the time you read it young kids aren’t saying it anymore.
@donaldryder5534
3 ай бұрын
I agree, there has to be actual yellow cards in use. Sport is about entertainment, and actual yellow cards will be entertaining!
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
maybe the commissaire's should dress like American Football referees too?! Make it even more entertaining!
@elrictdb
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition Really psych-out the pack by causally and confidently inspecting your nail polish mid race.
@emersonrezende
3 ай бұрын
Love to support and will continue to do so, watching and sharing the videos (I can watch); purchasing merchandise, books, but this membership structure is not well thought off and amounts are too high. Good luck.
@wspmjw
3 ай бұрын
Y'all are charging people $25 to advertise for GCN??
@jkwest2009
3 ай бұрын
Real GCN Shop question: If the t-shirts are printed on demand, how difficult would it be to do so (also) from a US-based outfit? I love these race-themed t-shirts and would gladly buy multiple styles, but I always balk when I arrive at the $28 shipping charge.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
We've not got any plans but we could certainly look into this 🙌
@jkwest2009
3 ай бұрын
@@gcn Yes, please! 😁
@gordonmackintosh4996
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition: Neaver a srama here just readily ditching the canyon fooder wrapper.
@austinj8335
3 ай бұрын
#CaptionCompetition: Team Canyon-SRAM opted not to use their Red groupset. Instead, they used the Force.
@masonv45
3 ай бұрын
Caption Competition: Niamh ... graduated from both the Zwift Academy and the Jedi Academy.
@MusicInSilico
3 ай бұрын
#CaptionCompetition: When fans blocking the road are beeing asked to CURB their enthusiasm.
@stewartmarler1416
3 ай бұрын
Caption: Canyon Sram riders are using the Force to combat their Darth Vader-helmeted competition.
@theevilspanky
3 ай бұрын
You guys should look up the "Woodlands TX"
@channelbill2933
3 ай бұрын
Arrange the yellow card system so the rider has to pin on a yellow tag or patch and wear it in the race. Consider making some theatre around awarding the yellow cards, like the appropriate Commissaire stops the rider and pins on the card patch. If the infringement happens in the final sprint, the Commissaire gets the rider right at the finish line. In the event that the card is awarded overnight, the rider must report to the Commissaire before the start of the next stage and get the patch pinned on. A good place for the yellow card patch would be in the prime advertising location of the jersey.The would allow easy ID of riders who have infringed. If they get a red card, it could get pinned on so the rider has ride back to the bus with a red card patch attached. Question: Can a rider wear one of the Jerseys, like Yellow Jersey, if they have a yellow card? Could we have some stages where there is no Yellow Jersey wearer because the first placed GC rider has infringements? Could make some great talking points and interesting content.
@sveng5319
3 ай бұрын
Get life racing back on GCN+ and I will sign up. No other presents needed.
@kevinallen4604
3 ай бұрын
I get why the subscription and I get why the cost increase. It’s an expensive business and GCN are top quality in production and presentation. It needs a wider audience other than speed freaks. Older riders, touring, casual etc not with the intention of doing it in fastest time. Not at the expense of existing viewers. It needs other perspective on cycling.
@barkss1
3 ай бұрын
Zwift Academy secretly teaches the force to Jedi Neve
@barkss1
3 ай бұрын
Caption competition above
@TheOriginalStevenH
3 ай бұрын
UCI should make physical cards that they have to stop, install a yellow card on the bike that reduces the aero dynamics of the bike. break the rules then you have so much more harder of a ride to not only catch up but now a penealty... Could also make it in the bike spoke so it's annoying to all the other riders.
@grant0208
3 ай бұрын
I do hope that this is an investment into a return to giving us live cycling races similar to the old GCN+ Just hard to justify a KZitem membership that expensive for documentaries I saw as GCN was shutting down the app. I do hope this improves. I think I speak for the industry at large when I say you guys were the harbingers of the best era of live cycling racing in the history of the sport.
@mariusorcsik
3 ай бұрын
Si' I'm sure that it's been mentioned before, and sorry to disappoint if it didn't, but the Ariane program belongs to the European Space Agency (ESA) not to NASA.
@jagrutirathod
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition "Not now, i'm in the zone - literally and figuratively"
@mommamooney
3 ай бұрын
Per the custom saddle: If you’re an endurance rider, it would be money well spent
@cherriagana
3 ай бұрын
Nobody at GCN knowing the name of the EU space program, guess they really left the EU completely.
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
What's the EU
@McLovin38FFs
3 ай бұрын
Si’s emoji would have to be 🐄
@DoctorDarko
3 ай бұрын
Si 🐮 Old Dan 🍺 New Dan 💪 Ollie 👨🔬 Hank 🃏 Connor ⛰️ Manon 👸
@robglysen
3 ай бұрын
Caption 'May the sram force be with you!'. As it looks like she's using the force to pull the food towards her.
@roysauto7674
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition The Force is strong with this one
@suhdud4646
3 ай бұрын
Honestly the rechargable battery in a HR monitor is pretty gimicky or in any accessory that uses the CR2032 battery. My HR monitor using the CR2032 battery lasted over a year before replacing the battery. Replacing a $1 battery once a year is hardly an inconvinience.
@MrGabrism
3 ай бұрын
"quite narrow...that explains a lot" lol
@tigerandchicken7719
3 ай бұрын
Caption Competition: Pullllllllll!
@panjimoulana
3 ай бұрын
Notice how durable F91w are in 22:19, it would be a match the durability of the hub
@jagrutirathod
3 ай бұрын
Great, UCI can finally they can get rid of Jasper for a bit 🙈😅
@michaeljohnston6898
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition: Accio gel!
@JosephToplon
3 ай бұрын
Is the UCI going to ban telepathy next?
@michaelmechex
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition Five beers, please!
@Jasonhsu928
3 ай бұрын
Caption Competition: Feel the force!
@jcbcreatives
3 ай бұрын
Re the New GCN signup options , for Musette Casquette or Bidon could we have the option to sign up for the year aswell please ? Love the show and all the content . More ...
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
hi! thanks so much for the comment and the support! The membership is a recurring monthly payment, but sadly KZitem doesn't allow an annual membership, not sure why exactly but we will feed back your comment to them.
@jcbcreatives
3 ай бұрын
@@gcn . Hi sorry I meant Global Cycling Network Join this channel section ,Get access to membership perks by subscribing to one of the following levels , Musette, Casquette or Bidon subscription could this not be yearly subscription as well a monthly subscription ?
@rnedisc
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition: I find your lack of bidons disturbing!
@rongurney48
3 ай бұрын
Bring back the Sock program, please.
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
If you come and see us at the office, I will personally give you 50 pairs of socks! Jon
@rongurney48
3 ай бұрын
@@gcn Would love to travel across the Pond to Bath, but not in the cards in my immediate future. Thanks anyway.
@robbchastain3036
3 ай бұрын
Same here and I joined the GCN Club on like the first day six years ago or so to happily get those socks. So maybe sell a bundle of NOS at a discount to charter members, whoop whoop. And I'm being serious, not a wiseacre. 😀
@moblet
3 ай бұрын
Another thing cycling could adopt from football is riders diving to try to get other riders penalised
@jakebrakebill
3 ай бұрын
just me, but I'd like to see all radio communication eliminated. just race the race with no outside input.
@veganpotterthevegan
3 ай бұрын
I'd like a one way from comissaires for warnings of crashes
@Spongeblunt
3 ай бұрын
The Wahoo TICKR Fit has been rechargeable as long as I've been using it, what old boy trackers have you been using!?
@andyvigue
3 ай бұрын
Caption contest: when a Jedi rides she uses the force for snacks
@GoUp_TilUBlowUp
3 ай бұрын
#captioncompetition: Yellow card? I couldn't possibly have another
@markford1646
3 ай бұрын
GCN+ offered excellent content at a price that represented real value for money but these new subscription offerings seem like the antithesis of what we had before. I wish you well with the new venture but I think you need to come up with something different to entice people into full access to mostly old content.
@ChrClausen
3 ай бұрын
#caption Do or do not; there is no try.
@cycletherapyUSA
3 ай бұрын
This is NOT the wrapper you're looking for! ( SW, Jedi) #gcn
@thechristate2010
3 ай бұрын
Even cycling on KZitem getting expensive lol
@mickp3000
3 ай бұрын
Much as I loved watching the GCN films on GCN+, I can't see myself paying £12.99 per month for access to 50 of the 200 or so previously available... many of which I will have seen before. How will we know what's available behind the pay-wall without joining... can we expect lots of 'adverts' for membership only content during the free content? Could there be a 'pay-per-view' option for viewers who want to watch a particular film (e.g. £2.99 for an epic adventure film)... I could certainly buy into that... but would need to know what's available!
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
Hi, there is a rail on the KZitem homepage as well as a GCN+ documentaries playlist where you are able to see what documentaries are available 👍
@jonathanzappala
3 ай бұрын
The last time GCN featured a crowd funded pedal, they took all the money and never delivered a product. I’d stop promoting those things if I were you. I was interested in the 3d printed titanium pedal, glad I passed at the price.
@CharlesRiley-d4t
3 ай бұрын
What shall I do to see Ollie headed towards Davy Jones locker?
@michaelnewman4302
3 ай бұрын
My XOSS X2 Pro heartrate monitor is rechargeable and has internal storage...and is a fraction of the price of the new Wahoo product.
@LonaCunningham-wr6si
3 ай бұрын
trying out my membership perk
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
Love it!
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
@a1white
3 ай бұрын
I’m in favour of a membership scheme, but GCN+ used to be £40 a year with that you got all the documentaries and the racing. For a similar price now, you get… custom emojis. To get 50 documentaries, I have to fork out £168 a year! That’s more than I pay for Netflix. Sorry it’s a no from me 😕
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
You won't get good cycling documentaries on Netflix though 😂 Yeah the price may have gone up, but GCN aren't owned by a $15bn + corporation anymore, it's an independent company that has offered this out to the community. The free content will remain 👍
@Ryan.T89
3 ай бұрын
@@JonCanningsjustify it whatever way you want. In the end people will vote with there feet as Disney is finding out after they put the price up. The main difference is they can take the hit, I doubt GCN can. Good luck with it anyway; il look at it when you’re offering a sale price due to lack of uptake by the public .
@jacobcampbell2837
3 ай бұрын
@@JonCannings buisnesses arent charities, bad deals are bad deals. Tbh I just wish we could get a reasonable price on live racing, never cared for the docs.
@LovetheIPAs
3 ай бұрын
I sincerely appreciate all that GCN and GCN+ has offered. The content and insight has been top-notch. With streaming prices going bonkers and fans needing numerous subscriptions to watch live bike racing, another subscription isn't something I'm keen to add to my entertainment budget.
@pcm9969
3 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly! Love GCN on KZitem, but the membership is not a good value at all. Hard pass. I've seen most of the films already. I"m not going to pay $180/year for a view videos. As to watching racing, it will be available on Peacock in the U.S. for $5/month. That will be my move. Very disappointing GCN.
@grant0208
3 ай бұрын
I do hope that this is an investment into a return to giving us live cycling races similar to the old GCN+ Just hard to justify a KZitem membership that expensive for documentaries I saw as GCN was shutting down the app. I do hope this improves. I think I speak for the industry at large when I say you guys were the harbingers of the best era of live cycling racing in the history of the sport.
@marcobriceno2785
3 ай бұрын
I think we need to sharpen the pencil on this one. A little more than a year ago, we were paying roughly $50 a year for feature length films, amazing race coverage and recaps. Today we are being asked for $300 a year for just the feature films. No race coverage or recaps. That is 6x the cost with much less coverage on what we love, racing. GCN - We want to support you. We are fans and love what you do. We understand that all services have increased in cost ocer the past couple of years but you are offering much less for a lot more. To put this perspective, your viewera will compare 200 cycling films to Netflix's Premiem tier membership.
@lawman1965
3 ай бұрын
Don't forget the app and website, both of which are, or soon will be, gone!
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
We appreciate that some may not be able to afford certain tiers of the memberships, that's why we'll continue to create amazing free videos here on our KZitem channel 👍 The GCN+ documentaries and films in the GCN memberships are feature length films that were a substantial investment for us to create and so we can't make them free to view. We're going to continue to make the best content we can for the cycling community & for those who are able to support us via memberships we are incredibly grateful. We really value the feedback, please keep it coming, this is how we get better!
@ruairidhalexander7631
3 ай бұрын
@@gcnnobody's expecting or asking you to make the films free to view, but at £12.99 a month nobody's going to pay for them so you're not going to achieve anything. Make the monthly price more reasonable, or make them available on a pay per film basis, and people might pay for them.
@denisdonohoe4278
3 ай бұрын
Any chance of reviewing those subs? GCN+ was a miraculous €40 per year, incredible value and I would happily have paid a bit more. A Discovery+ sub is €84, more than double the GCN+ cost but I do get access to a whole bunch of shows I will NEVER watch, unlike the GCN+ videos. However, if I want to watch them now, it's going to cost another €180 at current exchange rates. €40 to €260 in just over 6 months is nuts. Would really like to support but not at that price.
@lawman1965
3 ай бұрын
The pricing is a bit high, ill be joining for the winter, but the pricing is far higher than the old GCN+ app. A much better price point would be £6.99 for the middle tier and £12.99 for the top. Even those are many times higher than GCN+. In these days of cost of living issues, a lower price point could mean more subscribers therfore more income for you. The higher price point may limit the number of people who are willing to subscribe and therefore, your income. I understand that the more revenue you generate, the more new content that can be made or released. But you may be hobbling youself with these price points! Too many of us are already paying into subscription services such as Netflix, Discovery +, Disney+ etc. Personally im looking to drop subscriptions to save money, now I'll have take out another! As for the UCI rules, good and i agree with you. Bike paths, pants near me. Roots pushing the surface up, shared with pedestrians and with street furniture! If they want me to use them, make them safe!
@JonCannings
3 ай бұрын
Good idea, drop Netflix, Discovery, Disney and get GCN membership!
@lawman1965
3 ай бұрын
@JonCannings , a good suggestion until non-cycling household members ask why they can no longer watch netflix. Plus, it's not good enough value. 200 videos compared to thousands of hours of TV for less money per month. Many of those 200 won't be of interest to many! Like I say, I'll be subscribing for the chappy winter months. I'll watch what I want then what? No reason to keep the subscription! They need to give value for money and provide something that will encourage people to keep their subscription open. I bet I've already watch a significant chunk of the videos they have anyway. Don't get me wrong. I love GCN and was an early subscriber to GCN+. I was sad to see it end. And it was huge value for money. All those videos plus live cycling for a small one off annual fee! I'd have paid more for all that. 2.5 months at the new (mid) subscription is one year of the whole of GCN+ for significantly less content. They need to revise the pricing or risk not earning enough to make enough new content to keep people subscribing.
@LovetheIPAs
3 ай бұрын
@@lawman1965 You make an excellent point. GCN+ was extremely high value. Before I read the email that announced the end of GCN+, I had anticipated the email would announce a price increase, which might have made sense depending on the amount of the increase (that never materialized). Instead we're in a disjointed jumble of cycling broadcasts, some races requiring significant research to find out if and where they are available for viewing.
@CourtneyHump
3 ай бұрын
I agree on the pricing tiers. I was excited to sign up until I heard $15/month to get access to the documentaries. Maybe they know people will just sign up temporarily but for $5-7/month I would have gladly signed up.
@GregJC
3 ай бұрын
@@lawman1965devils advocate here but nearly everything GCN puts out I would want to watch, versus very little on Netflix. The price point is still too high for me though.
@dangerfulmind
3 ай бұрын
So excited waiting for the membership to happen so i can watch the gcn+documentaries, feel massively deflated now the prices have been announced. Far far too expensive 😔, so i won't be contributing.
@Madtriboy
3 ай бұрын
GCN+ provided exceptional content for the subscription price. GCN is an amazing contributor to cycling, BUT the new KZitem subscription is outrageously expensive compared to GCN+. GCN may need to rethink the value
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
Hi! We appreciate that some may not be able to afford certain tiers of the memberships, that's why we'll continue to create amazing free videos here on our KZitem channel 👍 The GCN+ documentaries and films in the GCN memberships are feature length films that were a substantial investment for us to create and so we can't make them free to view. We would love to offer live racing again, but this just isn't an option at the moment. The rights for live racing is a huge undertaking that we as an independent business can't provide. We're going to continue to make the best content we can for the cycling community & for those who are able to support us via memberships we are incredibly grateful. We really value the feedback, please keep it coming, this is how we get better!
@pierrex3226
3 ай бұрын
People are commenting on value. Not on whether they can AFFORD to pay.
@AndrewBrown-wg2ji
3 ай бұрын
Sorry you’ve priced your membership way too expensive which is barking mad
@TheJmbf10
3 ай бұрын
Caption Competition: Neve, are you using SRAM Red? ... No. I'm using the Force.
@prestachuck2867
3 ай бұрын
You just beat me to it! 😊
@mariusorcsik
3 ай бұрын
Excellent, but you bodged Niamh's first name (which is somewhat understandable).
@edrayne
3 ай бұрын
Damn. Beat me to it!
@cycleonSK
3 ай бұрын
I was going to enter the caption comp but there's no way this isn't winning. Nice one 😅
@gilescudmore7325
3 ай бұрын
Membership is too expensive, I'd pay 6.99 to access the films but 12.99 feels too much as I've seen all the films to date so unless you are releasing 5/6 a month then it's prohibitive. Will probably just do 1 month in the winter and binge all new films then cancel.
@DiscoStu1970
3 ай бұрын
How about a GCN t-shirt club? Subscribe, pay EUR 20/quarter (or month) and you get one new GCN t-shirt in your size every period. Could get the Giro t-shirt in April, TdF in July, Vuelta in Sept and then either a Xmas or a cobbled classics shirt….
@RadioBirikinaShorts4475
3 ай бұрын
A yellow card
@aixpert291
3 ай бұрын
I used to be subscribed to a “guitar shop tees of the month” club, and every month you were sent a tee from a random guitar shop. We need this for cycling jerseys!
@ghowell13
3 ай бұрын
There was a GCN Club that was a monthly 15 pounds/ dollars/euros. I belonged to it for years. You got socks. All these really, really cool cyclimg socks! Then, one month, it just stopped. Haven't been charged for it, and it happened around the time the whole GCN Plus app stopped. Not sure if that had something to do with it, but it shouldn't, as I was a meneber a couple years at least before I stopped receiving them.
@DoctorDarko
3 ай бұрын
Absolutely nailed the idea. Take my money! 💰
@JIMMYHIBBS1
3 ай бұрын
ummm - twice the price of Netflix for 50 films ... feels punchy ...
@gcn
3 ай бұрын
thanks for the comment. The difference is 100% of ours are bloody great!
@Steve.M
3 ай бұрын
@@gcn Really? I saw many of them on GCN+. They were quite good. Worth paying a little bit extra for. They aren’t £13 a month just for reruns great. Not even close.
@Thegisburn
3 ай бұрын
@@gcn read the room....be interesting to know if you conducted any audience research before announcing these prices? The old price included access to regular new releases. The SVOD market has exploded and is hyper competitive....appreciate this is specialist content but there's only so much per month in most people's budgets and we already pay for Discovery+ for racing
@leightondavies8884
3 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan and love the channel, but £22.99 is way out of the ball park for so many including myself, especially when you look at the price of other streaming services ( as already mentioned ) My TV Licence is £169 for a 12 month and you want me to pay £275 a year for those videos , a bottle and a book?? Now some were super exiting to watch, right up my steet, but a good percentage were of little interest to me and I suspect the same will be true of the majority who used GCN+ I'd love to know your projected uptake of the top tier to actual , after a few months. Sorry GCN, its big NO from me
@blueyhills
3 ай бұрын
The way they tried to sell a bidon and a book to justify the doubling of cost between middle and top tier.
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