[jyl]

Does anyone know how the riders' radios work? I see them having to take their hand off the bars to transmit, and there's often comments that the radios didn't work well that day. It seems like there could be voice activation or handlebar controls, and the radios could operate in a mesh network and point-to-point so at least the team members in the bunch can talk to each other even if they can't reach the team cars. Today at 3 km Morkov and Bol lost Cav on a bend and didn't realize it until the 2 km point - a costly snafu which suggests they didn't have radio communication. Rider radio in the Tour appears to function more like glitchy group text chat than the seamless realtime radio we see in F1.