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drumon
drumon Posts: 175
edited July 2008 in Pro race
What are the yellow tabs hanging from the left chainstay on all Le Tour bikes?

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    They're transponders put on by the race organisers to get the positions and times of the riders at the finish quickly.
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  • drumon
    drumon Posts: 175
    cool. 8)
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Obviously not linked into the results they show on telly though, as they had Kirchen as 3rd a couple of days ago, having seen the Green jersey come in 3rd.
    - except it was Freire, as KK was in Yellow and so Freire was riding in Green
    That must have been done by Mk1 eyeball I think.


    I bet the results up by transponder isn't that quick either.
    Presumably they have transponders on all the spare bikes on the team cars and Mavic, and it must take a bit of sorting-out if a leader crashes and a domestique gives them their bike. How many times did Rasmussen swap bikes in the TT a couple of years ago - 7, 8, 9 ?

    But yes, it'll be the only way to give proper results when a bunch of 90 come in at the finish.

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