What is on Hincapie's neck???

[bluehorizons]

everytime you see him on tv, he has some grey thing around the back of his neck -- anyone know what it is? something related to the radios?

matt

[CyLowe97]

The other Disco guys have them too. They look like some kind of radio device, but I'm not sure.

[Hipcycler]

Radio earpiece would be guess one.

I-pod guess two.

Or in his case, anti-climbing buzzer to make him slower and throw away Le Tour in the mountains device?

[Bockman]

The part on his throat is a 'throat mic', activated by speaking or by pressing a button first.

[Cromulent]

He's part Borg.

[POTFH]

Governor device to restrict speed.

[Cranks]

Wife's remote control shock device to keep him away from podium girls. Working well at this point.

[Moochers_Dad]

It's called a Throat Microphone, or a Transdermal Neck Microphone, although calling it the latter is usually for speech loss applications. It picks up vibrations of the vocal-cords through the neck muscle and skin. It cuts out backgound noise that a regular mic would pick up.

Soldiers and motorcycle riders use them.

[james_swift]

His tongue.

[alpe d'issaquah]

Or in his case, anti-climbing buzzer to make him slower and throw away Le Tour in the mountains device?

I bet you that's what it is. I hear Levi got the time trial version...and Mayo got the all inclusive deluxe version.

[Laggard]

Every five minutes it plays a recording of Lance saying "you're nothing without me. you're nothing without me. you're nothing without me"

[Jared88]

Every five minutes it plays a recording of Lance saying "you're nothing without me. you're nothing without me. you're nothing without me"
:D :D :D

[roadwarrior]

He's part Borg.

It's not working. You'd figure a Borg could wax people....I mean, look how Bjorn Borg used to wipe up the tennis courts with competitors...

Being a Borg ain't what is used to be....we humans are catching up!
:D

And about the Borg R&D...that steering tube deal at Paris/Roubaix...:eek: