Comments on: Pro-Radio’s Missed Opportunity

By: Osteo

Osteo — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:04:51 +0000

There’d obvious pros and cons to radios but I think it may spice things up a lot more if they’re not used. Instead of the boring, unsurprising catchment of the breakaway 1 k out!

By: Cjxizlsr

Cjxizlsr — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:07:53 +0000

grapes art,

By: chris RAINBOW johnson

chris RAINBOW johnson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:47:48 +0000

Try getting up at 12.30 at night, knock over and smash a wine glass, wake the wife, then watch 3 and ½ hs of dismal boredom.
All I can say is that the UCI got what they wanted technically, they have been perusing this Ideal that cycling is about the athlete, not the bike. And what we’ve ended up is a machine without the brain too!
My argument is based on the ‘Obree’ concept. Here was an athlete who could maximise his physical potential, via manipulating his position and bike. Conceived with his, own mind and hands. A more ‘complete’ elite cyclist is hard to imagine. Yet the UCI pursued and banned all his efforts.
So without radios the riders choose to capitulate into indignant arrogance. For the rest of us it was the loss of one best 21 days of the year.

By: weaver

weaver — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:42:33 +0000

why all the fuss if the radios don’t make a lick of difference? i would think you would want to point out the differences and highlight aspects that make radio use better for racing. i for one could care less if they had radios or not. i just want see racers race.

By: Frankielof

Frankielof — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:53 +0000

A BARR, I’m not sure if you are disgusted by the riders lack of solidarity about the no-radio stage, or the fact that they raced at a relatively pedestrian 23.6 mph on stage 10. I have to agree with Cosmo, racing with radios does not take away from the sport. Unfortunately there are many within the ASO and UCI that try to hold the sport back from progress and won’t be happy until five speed cassettes, friction shifters and steel frames can be forced back on the peloton.
Really, the riders should have been a little for vocal. Maybe riding a little slow was not the best answer, but the break was not stretching their advantage so why would a team focused on the sprint want to bring them back any sooner than they needed to?? In the end this stage ended with the same result as any flat, sprinter stage with a radio. The break was caught with 2K to go and the sprinters teams controlled the race to the line.

By: A BARR

A BARR — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:24:09 +0000

Yesterday’s performance was an absolute disgrace! I am completed disgusted by the riders and their arrogance and the arrogance of certain Directeur Sportif’s was smug in the extreme. Lost A LOT of respect for them today!!!