A ProTeam team prohibits the use of potentiometers and pulsometers in competitions

We echo this news published by Iberobike, where they comment that Luca Scinto, the ProTeam team manager Luca Scinto (UCI-Pro Continental)  Vini Zabù â € “KTM  , has banned its cyclists from using potentiometers and pulsometers in competitions.

From the professional cycling environment there are more and more voices that indicate that this type of device should be prohibited. Alberto Contador, Nairo Quintana and even the director of the Tour de France Christophe Prudhomme, have already commented on it on occasion

Some of the reasons for this prohibition is that runners block the real spectacle of cycling, since with the amount of data provided by these devices, they avoid expending forces, controlling rhythms, etc. which make the stages a bit boring.

â € œRunners are obsessed with numbersâ €

Luca Scinto commented  € œI hear the cyclists say â € œI am doing 400 watts but I picked up anywayâ € ™, or â € ˜I canâ € ™ t do more than 300 watts, today I have a bad dayâ € ˜no â € ˜no I can increase my heart rate, I must be tired â € ˜. »

Its leader, Giovani Visconti, winner of two stages in the Italian round, has been one of the cyclists of the team that most supported his manager with this decision. Although other cyclists in the group, not being able to consult these data is bringing them some inconveniences.

The Vini Zabù â € “KTM (formerly Neri Sottoli â €“ Selle Italia â € “KTM) team has as its main objective of the year its participation in the Giro d'Italia.

You have to re-educate the cyclist's mind, return to sensations not to data

«Cyclists are obsessed with watts. They are too influenced by them. During training it is good to use a power meter but not in a race. I want my riders to think freely again.

I don't want to run robots, I want runners to listen to their bodies and control themselves. I know there will be some dissatisfaction at the beginning, and there have already been some. But our leader Giovanni Visconti agreed from the beginning with me. We believe in what we are doing.».

Today they begin their 2020 season, premiering the new measure in the Vuelta a San Juan.