Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
This is why races have become so unpopular: people don't enjoy being shown how much faster others are in an objective way.
Bike racing, like most forms of racing, has rules in place to actively control the impact of technology on the sport. But bike racing takes it further, managing any change, whether technology or simply design. Change does happen, but it's slow.
On top of the sanctioning body limiting change via rules, the practitioners of the sport use "conventional wisdom" and "tradition" to fend off change. Those words can be viewed as code for "we have no data, but we believe". They do crumble, but they die hard.
The notion that,
if the pros do it, it must be best, is flat wrong.