Cavendish won the World Championships wearing an illegal helmet!!

[William H]

Would simply riding in a helmet without holes be illegal too, or is it just adding covers which was objectionable?

 

[Winterfold]

bavarian rider's new helmet

 

[issoisso]

I propose we ban Cavendish for life for his awful awful illegal helmet. It make my dog cry.

 

[euanli]

It is a pretty poor rule and there are examples in every race where the rule is not followed.

ie the rule is unmanageable unless the UCI are notifying riders when it is too hot for them to use shoe covers.

Other examples of similar helmet covers include use by Kelly Benefits in the ToC for the TT.

Curious though Bavarianrider, where are the other examples of the British being favoured by the UCI?

 

[cineteq]

He deserves a two year suspension in my opinion. He's killing the sport with that kind of behavior.

if that's the case Cobo should follow suit

 

[issoisso]

Seriously this calls for a photoshop of him wearing a penguin suit with the caption "cavendish skinsuit alleged illegal"

 

[bobbins]

So anyone racing with a Sportful rain cape on should be disqualified as they aren't waterproof.

 

[Master50]

Illegal is illegal. And at those speeds, such an helmet can easily have a benifit of 1 or 2 km/H

Sure it can! At 70 KPH I suppose the effect would be most pronounced but maybe his very small profile was cheating too! TRY 0.1 to 0.2 kph. Truth is you don't have a wind tunnel to verify your wild exaggeration. Just from memory I think Cav was going more than 1 or 2 KPH faster than anyone else and that helmet cover isn't the reason he won.
They should not have allowed it. To that I agree.

 

[Afrank]

Something like this is not redeemable, I say we ban him from ever riding a bike again, and lets take his wolrds victory away from him as well as his milan san remo win and green jersey, who know what other pieces of aero equipment he was using in those sprints.

Useless
Corrupt
Incompetent

 

[Moondance]

Storm, meet teacup.

 

[Cooper]

Don't understand why it took this long to be questioned.

Nick Legan pointed it out just after the race.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011...initials-on-the-maillot-jaune-and-more_194001

 

[c&cfan]

thanks to bavariantroll, i can say that i hate tony martin.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

He was also wearing a skinsuit (as was Greipel at the TDU) so are they going to outlaw that as well, as that clearly falls into the 'designed to influence the performances of a rider such as reducing air resistance or modifying the body of the rider' category?!?! The phrase 'storm in a teacup' springs to mind...

No, they won't outlaw wearing skinsuits in road races. But they should. It's as offensive as doping in my book.

Don't care about the helmet issue.

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

Don't understand why it took this long to be questioned.

Nick Legan pointed it out just after the race.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011...initials-on-the-maillot-jaune-and-more_194001

So did lots of people on here, but I think the general conclusion was that it was Sky/Team GB's marginal gains stuff, hence the skin suit and the helmet cover.

 

[Andy99]

No, they won't outlaw wearing skinsuits in road races. But they should. It's as offensive as doping in my book.

Don't care about the helmet issue.

Quite right. They look Bl00dy awful.

 

[Magnus]

Quite right. They look Bl00dy awful.

The 3/4 sleeves are horrible. I didn't mind Vansummerens 'speedsuit' in P-R.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

whoever said he should get a lifetime ban, that was funny

 

[BillytheKid]

Illegal is illegal. And at those speeds, such an helmet can easily have a benifit of 1 or 2 km/H

The UCI has history of (TT Saddle Position) never going retroactive. They just decide to start enforcing what got by them in the first place.

 

[simoni]

If he was allowed to start the race then no problem. It the UCIs fault for introducing rules that they don't have the competence to enforce.

 

[happychappy]

I also read somewhere that Tony Martin won the TT at the worlds using an illegal amount of aerodynamic saliva. He's been using that stuff for quite some time now.

What gains he gets aerodynamically from anything are surely wasted with that gormless trout pout!

 

[SirLes]

I'm sure he was wearing it to prevent flies and other insects getting in his hair. I hate that as well, totally understandable.

If he had worn a different helment that didn't have vents would that have been fine or do helmets have to have vents in them?

 

[scullster46]

if that's the case Cobo should follow suit

Absolutely, their is no way that his forehead isn't an illegal fairing

 

[PCutter]

I think Lotto were probably just stopped from wearing them by over excited aussie officials who worried it might give them an edge against their greenedge team.

As per usual you have the facts wrong, it was a UCI official not an Australian official. You need to get over it. Your anti Australian/GreenEDGE posts have made you one of the most boring/repetitive posters on the forum, and that is saying something.

 

[Andy99]

As per usual you have the facts wrong, it was a UCI official not an Australian official. You need to get over it. Your anti Australian/GreenEDGE posts have made you one of the most boring/repetitive posters on the forum, and that is saying something.

Might have been somewhat tongue in cheek, I reckon?

Either way GREENedge get what they deserve.

 

[Swabian Lass]

Ok this is totally unacceptable, standards must be maintained.

Banning is too good for him, I think he should be hung, drawn and quartered. And then banned for life. And beyond.