Originally Posted by
tobukog
This is Japan. You'd be hard pressed to find an official in the JCF who's ever thrown a leg over a road bike, much less a track bike. It's all about self importance and enforcing non-sensical arbitrary notions according to whatever interpretation they may have come upon -- not about ensuring safe and equitable competition.
Haha, you sound like you've been down this road before! Tobukog, are you in Japan, too? (by the way this was a JBCF official, but I think you analysis holds...)