10.04.2009 10:20 am
Michael Barry: one rider willing to say goodbye to radios
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Michael Barry is best known as a stage winner in teh 2008 Tour of Missouri and the most eloquent writer in the pro peloton. He makes me feel like a hack every time I read one of his entries for Velonews. His latest is on the UCI’s decision to eliminate race radios. He’s in favor of it, and makes a strong case for dumping them.
It’s worth a few minutes of your time.
Barry is reported to be leaving Columbia HTC to ride for the new Sky team, funded by the Brits.
Reading Michael Barry’s view on the Hincapie polemic is quite depressing, although it must be taken into account that Barry is a close personal friend of Hincapie and is not exactly in a position to be unbiased. If there is really this huge feud between Garmin and Columbia and it is not just being magnified in the media, then I wish that the managers involved would just schedule a meeting, sit down, and hash out a peace deal to put this stupid nastiness behind them. Maybe that is unrealistic, but this ugliness is truly distasteful, and it is bad for the sport, bad for the riders involved, and bad for the fans.