Originally Posted by
gycho77
no justification at all.
We showed them the UCI rule and they said it doesn’t matter. And they also mentioned that they cannot change it because many athletes already changed their saddle location, so by changing back to 0 setback will be unfair.
That seems to be the situation here, too. Maybe this is just so they can use the same jig/standard as they do at road races? Do they even check bikes for this at road races? It's been over 20 years so I have no idea.