Originally Posted by
roadwarrior
Lack of radios realy does one thing...delays the info the riders get. Race radio will still report the break and chase times via motorcycle and a blackboard. The other thing is that they really cannot discuss strategy, but in depth discussion of that did not happen before because others can listen.
Race radios enable directors to micro manage what their rider is doing. Cyclists no longer have to keep track of who is in a break, if and when to start a chase and when doing so how hard they need to ride. Every single thing they do is because their director told them to. It would be like an American NFL quarterback not only getting the next play radioed to him but the coach telling him what receivers were open and who to throw to while the play was unfolding.
Can we at least agree that televisions should be removed from the directors cars?