Originally Posted by
Chombi
I don't know why the rules excludes the use of clipless pedals on the eroica bike as clipless Look pedals were available to the cycling public before the 1987 cut-off qualifying year. I would think the circa 85 PP76 Look clipless pedals are definitely period appropriate for my 1984 Peugeot PSV......
Chombi
As I understand it, they want to evoke the spirit (and challenges) of 1930s/40s/50s bike racing, but without requiring a bike quite that old. Technologies overlap so much that it's hard to make rules that will please everyone -- they probably should have used a cut-off year OR specific prohibitions without trying to combine the two.
If it helps, I hear that the rules are sometimes
bent for L'Eroica if the overall spirit is preserved.
