2 stages without the famous 'ears' in Le Tour..
Spoiler: Link is Dutch.. Dutch is a language only spoken by few. They only have the privilege to the language. Everyone else who want to know what's going on among those very few people has to rely on inner sources.. So far the warning.
The UCI didn't say why but the stage Limoges - Issoudun (14 juli) and Vittel – Colmar (17 juli) going to be ridden without ears..
Of course we know why.. They want to experiment.. Measure the result from those things and they hope the course will be more open. I will post the stages below in the comment box, thing
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14 juli
17 juli
Woow.. That second stage… It’s huuuuuge.. Mmm. I’m on the UCI’s site.. Don’t like the organised peloton.. But.. Riders who fell of cliffs are the other site.. They can not warm the VDS as quick as they used to can(?).
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
good grief
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Is that supposed to be Dutch?!
Dit is een drama!
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
Lool.. It was a nice try ;) Give it a shot now en than and you will be okay
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
transitional stages
The best place to try the no-radios thing. If I understand the purpose, at least part of it is to stop the peloton from gaming the breaks so they always get caught in the last 2km. Both of these stages will be fine opportunities from breaks — one putting the sprint teams in a dilemma, the other messing with the climber teams.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 18, 2009 4:03 PM EDT reply actions
meh
start of week three, right before the Alps and Ventoux. The big names won’t contest this, or at least not at any great cost.
Oh, and it’s July 17 — but it’s stage 13.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 18, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Call it a transition stage
and then one must mock the Tour de Suisse ;) but agreed
sometimes life is a false flat
oh, my bad! assumed it was st.17, d'oh.
I read somewhere Bert saying St. 17 being the queen stage, though this stage (13) looks hilly enough to shake the peloton…
just a tad
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Ve haf vays
The DSs in the cars will continue to receive race radio, I guess, and will stay in direct contact with people who monitor the race situation closely on TV. It’s not very difficult to get that information across to the riders, especially if some or all teams cooperate.
Lol.. They are going to yell at each other? But you're probably right..
Don’t know how much the regulation is from the cars behind.. But nice they will try it.. Only I think they must have one for emergencies.. Don’t know how to regulate that but they need it sometimes.. A flat isn’t an emergency but someone who fall..
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
It means
some poor domestique will be riding back to the car even more than usual to get info.
by australopithecine on Jun 18, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Plus
A while ago I heard that they won’t allow TV’s that the drivers of the cars can watch, only in the back seat.
Bork, bork, bork!
Well I'd f'ing hope so...
Driving in a support train requires your full attention… Dear God!
Horner deserves to be there
and this development might just secure this spot on the Tour squad.
by Spot of Bother on Jun 19, 2009 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Awesome
The Vosges stage four years ago was a chaotic classic even without the radios. And the one four years before that — the Simon/Kivilev breakaway — was completely weird.
No radios with Cats 2, 1, 3, 2 in quick succession? Dude…
Oooohhh. This will be fun.
I am a fan (at this point) of getting rid of riders having radios in their ears.
Yahoo has it...that's where I saw it first, courtesy of Mr Moerenhout on Twitter.
Not that it says a lot…
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-tourearpieces_brief&prov=reuters&type=lgns
Adrenalina Italiana!
Ooops, no, it wasn't. It was cycling2009, who appears to have changed his name to something else...
Adrenalina Italiana!
No radio on that 14th of july stage
Will probably hurt Cavendish’ green jersey prospects. He is the absolute favorite for that stage. No radio will make it harder for THR to launch him properly.
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
There's no guaranteed result from no radios
A. The riders could be so freaked out that none of the sprinter’s teams let anyone escape
B. The break could be caught too early, allowing only solo suicide attacks afterwards
C. The pack might split in two, and the top sprinters might end up in a classics-style selection, with the GC teams just limiting the gap a few minutes back
nah...
the riders will have the updates times from the organization by the motos. With their experience, they should knew the time a rhythm to catch the breakaway. The lucky of Cav, is that will have Hincapie in their team for this calculations.
by semprenaroda on Jun 19, 2009 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Lionel Birnie seemed a bit surprised
when he rode in the Columbia team car during G-W that Brian Holm wasn’t micro-managing the race over the radio:
The economy of his instructions was surprising, particularly when the consensus is that having riders and managers in constant radio contact means predictable racing. In the main, he let the riders make their decisions, offering only information that could help them make those decisions. "Two kilometres to the cobbles." "Okay, we gonna change direction in three kilometres, then the wind will be from the left." "Keep eating and drinking, guys. It’s gonna be a hard day. Don’t forget to drink, even though it’s cold." "Gentlemen, we’re going to drop back now, so if you puncture, you have to take neutral service."Probably varies a lot from team to team, but sounds like Columbia might be okay without radio.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
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