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Tour de France radio ban?
I hear that the TdF is banning radios next year. What do you think of this? At first, I thought it was a terrible idea. However, cycling is a technologically pure, and banning radios is a way to keep this purity. Of course you can use that logic to propose bans on certain bicycles, food supplements, and lycra. Cycling is evolving - thank God. Instead of fighting it, we should just embrace it... Cullen |
Tour de France radio ban?
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... Jason Locklin wrote: I hear that the TdF is banning radios next year. What do you think of this? At first, I thought it was a terrible idea. However, cycling is a technologically pure, and banning radios is a way to keep this purity. Of course you can use that logic to propose bans on certain bicycles, food supplements, and lycra. Cycling is evolving - thank God. Instead of fighting it, we should just embrace it... Radio's lessen the need for support cars and motorcycles to follow really closely. If anything, they should be placing more limits on support vehicles to open up the road, rather than taking away the rider's radios. Who is racing anyway? Are those just puppets out there on the bicycles operated by remote control from the manager in the team car? Part of a bicycle racer's skill is keeping abreast of what is occurring in the field and any break aways. All the commo has reduced action and interest to viewers by reducing the complexity of the race to essentially that of a race with few riders, all actions monitored by motorcycles, helicopters, and cars. Even radio commo among team members has this effect when they are not together. Jobst Brandt I'm not sure where people get that idea. Are chess moves more interesting when you have a clock that requires rapid decisions without being able to analyze the board more fully? Radio changes strategies, but how does it make the race less interesting? The decisions of an intelligent or stupid Director Sportif have become more relevant than the decisions of the individual rider, but we're just substituting one for another. It's possible that radio might be responsible for breakaways always being caught just in the nick of time, but even there I have my doubts, given enormously-successful breakaways in the recent past, including the one that put Periero into Yellow after Landis was thrown out. What we have seen is less differentiation in ability, on a given day, between the top GC riders. Do you really suspect radio is to blame here? Or have we gotten to the point where training & equipment issues are leveling out among top riders? --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReactionBicycles.com |
Tour de France radio ban?
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wrote: I hear that the TdF is banning radios next year. What do you think of this? At first, I thought it was a terrible idea. However, cycling is a technologically pure, and banning radios is a way to keep this purity. Of course you can use that logic to propose bans on certain bicycles, food supplements, and lycra. Cycling is evolving - thank God. Instead of fighting it, we should just embrace it... Cullen My wife and I were watching last night and we saw and heard what sounded liked team car communication with a cyclist. The previous night we saw a cyclist wearing an earpiece with a coiled wire coming out of it. I doubt that this was for an iPod. What gives? Is there a radio ban or isn't there? Larry -- Be polite when e-mailing me. Rudeness will get you nowhere. |
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