Can You Hear Me Now?

Race radio is sucking the suspense and drama from professional cycling. The directeur sits in the car monitoring the radios and TV coverage telling the riders what to do and when to do it. There was a great video that Nike put out a few years back that followed the postal team, in which Christian Vande Velde is talking about the radios and how you can be racing with your brain switched off and don't really know what to do without someone telling you. What if the UCI banned radio communication? Wouldn't that make the racing more exciting as the racers would have to assess the race and decide when to chase and when to attack and when to hold back. In any case, can you imagine listening to that drone all damn day!? Imagine Manolo Saiz screaming "Venga! Venga! Venga!" in your ear 10,000 times. For a little taste of the race radio experience, Cervelo has some great podcasts from the last tour, one of which includes some actual race radio audio. To subscribe to the Cervelo podcast, or to listen to individual audio segments, visit http://www.cervelo.com/mediacentre.aspx