Ban race radios - PLEASE

[bammbamm1961]

Loved yesterdays stage 11 at the Giro and it serves as perfect rationale to banning race radios.

Shortly into the race Vino, Basso & Crew and Cadel (who I really support) should have put the hammer down. They say nobody had "good information" on what the race status was... Tell you what folks, if I am them, I am looking around and saying, geez... seems like a lot of people are missing, we are down from 100 to more like 40, wonder where everybody went? Oh, and Bradley, Carlos, Tondo are missing- Maybe we better pick up the pace and sort this out along the way.
It must have been priceless for guy from other teams (with leaders in the split) to watch these guy slow to a crawl while they tried to figure out what was happening to them.
Instead, the trolled along at 30kph and within 30 minutes were 10 minutes down.

I Love it............. Grow a brain, ride your bike and HTFU........

 

[frenchfry]

Froome and his irritating habit of spending most of his time yapping on his radio or adjusting his earpiece in the middle of killer climbs is a persuasive argument for banning race radios. Riders should be able to go 10 meters without contacting their DS or teammates.

 

[cineteq]

Ban race radios - PLEASE

 

[maxmartin]

They should at least ban radio in some stages of the GT, see what the outcome and fan's reactions would be.

 

[Frosty]

Why they cant they follow formula 1 and let us hear what they are saying?

 

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

Why they cant they follow formula 1 and let us hear what they are saying?

That wouldn't play well on TV. Have you ever answered the phone and its a fax calling? that what sky race radio sounds like.

 

[Afrank]

Froome and his irritating habit of spending most of his time yapping on his radio or adjusting his earpiece in the middle of killer climbs is a persuasive argument for banning race radios. Riders should be able to go 10 meters without contacting their DS or teammates.

That, along with looking down, and his horrendous looking climbing style are the most annoying things about how Froome rides.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

they should at least bann them for riders who constantly use them like froome.

 

[Moviefan1203]

Some riders use them more than others. There is nothing wrong with that.

 

[Rosedale]

Ban the use of radios by directeurs sportif. Riders could keep radios so that the organisers can communicate danger, crashes, changes of route etc. Riders would then have to read the race and decide what to do.

 

[dwyatt]

Don't have a problem with them personally, i enjoy the racing we see in the grand tours these days with them.

 

[Warhawk]

Froome and his irritating habit of spending most of his time yapping on his radio or adjusting his earpiece in the middle of killer climbs is a persuasive argument for banning race radios. Riders should be able to go 10 meters without contacting their DS or teammates.

IMO he's not even talking to the guys in his team car, he's probably just calling in to a sports radio program as Fris Croome and talking about how that Chris Froome guy is totally awesome.

 

[Christian]

Froome keeps his radio on when he's on the podium, at dinner, even in bed. I think by the end of the Tour it might have grown to his body

IMO he's not even talking to the guys in his team car, he's probably just calling in to a sports radio program as Fris Croome and talking about how that Chris Froome guy is totally awesome.

Lol! He is actually commentating the race for Kenyan television...

 

[sienna]

Race radios should be banned at least in the TT's. It's supposed to be the Race of Truth or the Race Against the Clock or some other bullish*t,

 

[ElChingon]

I would agree to the Ban Race Radio's if this forum banned the annual "Ban Race Radio's" thread.

 

[forkboy84]

Ban the use of radios by directeurs sportif. Riders could keep radios so that the organisers can communicate danger, crashes, changes of route etc. Riders would then have to read the race and decide what to do.

Probably a reasonable compromise. Though people using the tools available doesn't really bother me. May as well ban power metres too. And while we're at it, ban all bikes made before 1913.

 

[_nm___]

this is 2013, race radios ought to be a thing of the past by now. they should be replaced by live television feeds on the bike computer screens, coupled with transponder data from the riders' main rivals (to enable you to up the pace at the right time) as well as from the riders' team mates (useful in situations such as sprint trains).
dangerous road spots, best sides for roundabouts, should all be programmed into the bike computer and played back at the adequate time.
and what the ds speaks should be able to appear as short text messages at the bottom of the bike computer screen.

also there should be a way to hack into your rivals power data and read what they are doing or even maybe mess with their power display to confuse them

 

[Warhawk]

also there should be a way to hack into your rivals power data and read what they are doing or even maybe mess with their power display to confuse them

Prepare yourselves for Adam Hansen: GT Champion

 

[auscyclefan94]

The use of radios by Sky last night was in excess. It shows why they need to be banned from the sport.

 

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

this is 2013, race radios ought to be a thing of the past by now. they should be replaced by live television feeds on the bike computer screens, coupled with transponder data from the riders' main rivals (to enable you to up the pace at the right time) as well as from the riders' team mates (useful in situations such as sprint trains).
dangerous road spots, best sides for roundabouts, should all be programmed into the bike computer and played back at the adequate time.
and what the ds speaks should be able to appear as short text messages at the bottom of the bike computer screen.

also there should be a way to hack into your rivals power data and read what they are doing or even maybe mess with their power display to confuse them

i like where your heads at but i think a high definition display would be distracting. Im thinking google glasses. lets give them a heads up display. wifi in the team car and certain skybots in newer models come with bluetooth wireless access points. Definitely a camera in the back of your helmet so you can bring up a rear view. porte can play angry birds when hes bored. Wigans could surf the web, generally be distracted. Froome could use the calendar notifications: mid-race time dont forget to eat! EBH can watch youtube clips of himself winning tdf stages in 2011.

 

[TheBean]

I am typically a peaceful man, but I am afraid if I were ever on a ride with someone wearing Google Glasses I might slap them across the face before I know what was happening, like an instinct.

Getting old is good in ways, but dealing with the "next thing" becomes more and more annoying.

 

[Echoes]

The radio ban should favour the Belgian riders whose tactical skills are just natural, I mean innate. Just have a look at the Texan guy who constantly needed to resort to the tactical advice of his Belgian DS, Bruyneel.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

i like where your heads at but i think a high definition display would be distracting. Im thinking google glasses. lets give them a heads up display. wifi in the team car and certain skybots in newer models come with bluetooth wireless access points. Definitely a camera in the back of your helmet so you can bring up a rear view. porte can play angry birds when hes bored. Wigans could surf the web, generally be distracted. Froome could use the calendar notifications: mid-race time dont forget to eat! EBH can watch youtube clips of himself winning tdf stages in 2011.

HAhahaha - "EBH can watch youtube clips of himself winning tdf stages in 2011" - just genious idea!

 

[Boeing]

The Orica Green Edge Bus incident has forever sealed the radio ban debate.

It wont happen.

 

[Master50]

First of all radios are banned in general. There are 28 races that the rules allow elite men's races to use them plus all the TT's.

In North America only the 2 World Tour races in Quebec allow radios. That is all.
Radios for TTs must be horrible for the rider but it is a blessing for the people on the race course where DS use loud hailers to constantly yell at their rider.
In a race like Paris Roubaix the radios are often useless for much of the race and especially for the leaders where they are too far from the cars.
All UCI races have radios in the caravan for race radio so the DS have been getting tactical information for decades. That is not new Getting the information to riders outside of these 28 races is hard to do but there are a lot of tricks and a lot of traffic at the back of the caravan.

I love radios for management and safety reasons and even tactical now that teams seems much less capable of riding chase for hours.