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Leopard Trek's Je💯n Voigt is calling for the peloton to boycott th💟e World Championships if the UCI continues down the path of banning radio contact between team cars and riders.

"If nobody will listen, then we must make it pain-filled, so people think: It hurt. Maybe we should listen next time," the German veteran told Sporten.tv2.

Cycling's world governing body began the roll out of the ban last year in 1.2 and 💎2.2 level races (including all U23 races and women's stage races), and has been extended in 2011 to cover all races ranked 1.HC/2.HC and below, and will continue to World Calendar races in 2012.

"If we just get a single fatal accident, the price is already too high for something that someone thinks will make the sp💃ort more interesting," Voigt warns. "I would rather have a boring race where everyone is hap🍒py and alive, and [a rider] can come home and embrace his parents and say, ‘Hi mum and dad. I'm alive.'"

Voigt's discontent follows the International Association of Professional C🌼ycling 𒈔Teams' (AIGCP) protest against the UCI's ruling by trying to use radios at the firstꦦ race of the Challenge🌳 Mallorca series earlier this month.

Numerous riders turned up for the first race in Mallorca wearꦺing radios, sparking a stand-off between race judges, the riders and their teams. The start of the race was disrupted.

Voigt drew comparisons💝 between cyclists and journalists, as a 🌱way of explaining that radios were merely a tool of the trade.

"Imagine all the world's journalists were ♈suddenly told: From now on, do not use laptops, the Internet or pencils. Would you consider taking it seriously? Of course not!"