Hurray, radio protests rumble on

andyp

I imagine RCS and ASO are being kept abreast of events. The AIGCP know who pays the piper.

afx237vi

Ooh, "drastic action" sounds exciting. Maybe some kind of breakaway league formed with the race organisers to exclude the UCI? The teams were caught on the hop with regards to insurance at Het Nieuwsblad, but they could sort that out themselves between the race organisers and the insurers. Paris-Nice a few years ago proved that races can be organised and successfully held without the UCI being present.

andyp

The only drawback to that would be exclusion from the Olympics.

Only the Brits and the Aussies would consider that a blow wouldn't they?

afx237vi

Yeah, the Worlds would be affected too I suppose. Cycling could be like darts with two world championships in the space of a few weeks!

iainf72

Looks like they're going for civil disobedience

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... races.html

blazing_saddles

The war esculates.
Now the won't ride the World Tour in.......................clenbuterol land! Confirmed.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/race-ra ... ng-boycott

Clearly a safety issue now, eh?

dave milne

I find the UCI's seeming unwillingness to engage with the riders in debate as more than a little odd.

Tom Butcher

Hope the UCI sticks to its guns on this one - even if it is a team sport once the flag drops it should be the riders who make up the team not the DS who makes the decisions. Having had their bluff called on the safety issue the likes of Vaughters and Voight are looking a bit silly now imo.

andyp

Mr McQuaid wades in;

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/ENews/ENewsDe ... LangId%3D1

The most interesting aspect is the blowing of Bruyneel's secret project.

eiger30

Tom Butcher wrote:

Hope the UCI sticks to its guns on this one - even if it is a team sport once the flag drops it should be the riders who make up the team not the DS who makes the decisions. Having had their bluff called on the safety issue the likes of Vaughters and Voight are looking a bit silly now imo.

So let the riders have radios to talk to each other and nothing in the team cars.

Though, Paris-Nice didn't seem to affected by radios. the racing was way up on Oman, Qatar or TDU.

afx237vi

afx237vi wrote:

Ooh, "drastic action" sounds exciting. Maybe some kind of breakaway league formed with the race organisers to exclude the UCI? The teams were caught on the hop with regards to insurance at Het Nieuwsblad, but they could sort that out themselves between the race organisers and the insurers. Paris-Nice a few years ago proved that races can be organised and successfully held without the UCI being present.

What do I win?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/11-majo ... om-the-uci

Tusher

afx237vi wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Ooh, "drastic action" sounds exciting. Maybe some kind of breakaway league formed with the race organisers to exclude the UCI? The teams were caught on the hop with regards to insurance at Het Nieuwsblad, but they could sort that out themselves between the race organisers and the insurers. Paris-Nice a few years ago proved that races can be organised and successfully held without the UCI being present.

What do I win?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/11-majo ... om-the-uci

A pixellated lady monkey, afx.

afx237vi

A Google image search for "lady monkey" is... er... yeah. Wow.

Tusher

Enjoy

afx237vi

Not wow as in "wow, that's amazing". More like "wow, my eyes, they burn, where the $£%^ is the bleach!" That kind of thing.

Tusher

Hah! Call yourself a man monkey?