Originally Posted by
aclinjury
The UCI's 6.9kg weight requirement is antiquated. Rim brake bikes are forced to add on weight?
They need to lower this limit down to 5.5 kg. Then we'll revisit this debate again?
Exactly. Quintana in the example starting the thread paid no weight penalty for using discs.
Those of us not subject to UCI weight limits do.
You can debate the significance of the weight penalty.
However, the UCI weight limit takes weight out of the debate for Pros and for much of a market that wants to ride what the pros ride