bhilden said:Actually, Motorola introduced radios in 1993. I was one of the first, if not the first, to write about how I felt they would negatively affect the sport. When I was at the Tour that same year, I got a pretty stern dressing down by the Team Motorola management. Motorola corporate execs had read what I wrote and were none too pleased.
ps - funny you should mention Phil Anderson. His teammates told me that he could read a race like no other. He's one person who never needed a race radio.
Indeed this is yet another example of how the corporate world is dictating the way in which our lives are to be lived.
Their gadgets, irrespective of their actual worth or benefits they provide, simply need to be sold. Anybody that thinks otherwise is simply branded a heretic by this establishment and risks being burned at the stake of modernity.