Radio use for transmitting safety info, mechanical problems, accidents, etc. is a good thing. Radio use for transmitting tactics/orders, no good.

to indicate if they have a mechanical… Safety is endangered when DSes are telling the guys that rough pavement is ahead so they go 60k and hour and dive into corners to get there first whilst not even caring about the guy next to him. Crashes will happen and so will untimely mechanicals…It is part of the sport. If Merckx had a radio then he would have probably won 1/4 more of the races he entered because of getting “proper” info instead of just using your head.

but to me, it will be more usefull if wasn’t allowed for example the heart measurings, like Polars, or even that who calculate the power of pedaling, cyclists have to know their body, not only look for the data…

but they don’t give you any choice, ‘cause they think that it’s treason. But you had better do as you are told—you better listen to the radio.

But I don’t get why a test was necessary. The peloton rode for a whole century without radios … New things need testing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHm54RMyoy4

but at some point cycling will have to realize what year it is. Hell in 2009 radio’s are even seen as out-of-date. Cycling will eventually have to get as high tech as the world around it is, every sport does. Baseball and Tennis now have replay’s to see if a call was correct or not for instance. The sport isn’t the same as it was 50 years ago, so yes they managed without radios but that was also a different time. They couldn’t use the tech, it’s like John Wooden saying dunking is stupid because when he played no one dunked, yeah because they couldn’t, time’s change. But again, I don’t mind the ban and I wouldn’t mind seeing no radio days, just not on a permanent level because in 2020 I guarantee you there will be ways for the riders to communicate with the DS’s without having to go to the car. The ban won’t last.