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Originally Posted by pierrej
You can enquire, so maybe?
Institut für Forschung und Entwicklung von Sportgeräten (FES)

Watching the IP at the euros I've always been amazed at how thin the FES pursuit bike is. They make the bike and wheels to work best together and they look nothing like any other manufacturers.

Handlebars would be cool to try if they worked with anything other than the FES bayonet
As you probably know, the UCI made a rule that all equipment that's used in events must be made available for public sale within 1 year of use. I suspect this is because of companies/teams like FES and Team GB would have big budgets and engineering teams making things that were simply on another level from smaller countries.

The UCI coudn't go all NJS on everyone, so they simply said that the riders should be using commercially available gear and that gear must be approved by the UCI (hence the UCI sticker program).

So, as a way to just barely comply, FES, Team GB, Felt all have "inquiry" pages for their super bikes with outrageous prices that they know no one would pay to keep competitors from buying, say, a Team GB super bike and cutting it up to see and copy it the way companies buy a $1,000 Louis Vuitton bag in order to cut it apart and make patters to copy and sell it.

That way, they can say, "It's for sale. You'll pay through the nose and likely help finance our next technological leap. But, it's for sale."
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