Originally Posted by
Laggard
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?
If I were a director I'd hate the idea of losing my TV. And I think they are justified in a way. Sort of unfair for everyone second guessing them to actually have far more information than they do.
I have second thoughts about doing away with race radios also. Mainly because of how the trailing cars are determined. No radio serves to increase the advantage of the leading teams.
Going back to football. They have radios, but only for one player. Why not the same for cycling? For a second I was thinking that would be bad as defensive communications mioght be better, and that is sort of true, but communicating to the team car when in a break is not that difficult.