The UCI is totally inconsistent.
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Round metal tube frames were used in UCI races up until about 2000 (aluminum), and some aluminum bikes had aero-shaped frame tubes (Trek's "hydroformed" tubing comes to mind) but a lot of other features on bicycles have changed since the 1920s, too. You can still buy a metal-framed bicycle but its not going to have the cutting-edge components on it you'll find in more modern bicycles. For comparison, have you ever tried to drive a 1920s car versus a 2020 car? It's a world of difference. If today's cars were made like those of the 1920s very few folks would be driving them.
lots of production titanium, aluminum and steel (all metal framed) bikes out there with disc, electronic shifting etc
that is not even taking into account custom frames (I ride a custom steel with R8000....that was a choice I could have gone disc and di2)
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The notion of a pack of 'bents in a sprint, climbing the Alps or circling the Champs is amusing.
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Round metal tube frames were used in UCI races up until about 2000 (aluminum), and some aluminum bikes had aero-shaped frame tubes (Trek's "hydroformed" tubing comes to mind) but a lot of other features on bicycles have changed since the 1920s, too. You can still buy a metal-framed bicycle but its not going to have the cutting-edge components on it you'll find in more modern bicycles. For comparison, have you ever tried to drive a 1920s car versus a 2020 car? It's a world of difference. If today's cars were made like those of the 1920s very few folks would be driving them.
A 1920's car you could repair with a hammer, screwdriver, and crescent wrench, 2020 not so much
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And you had to repair them often. Sometimes every other weekend. I'd even say the cars of the 50's and 60's had us doing lots of DIY often or taking them to the shop often.
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A couple of things spring to mind that I would take great pleasure in repairing with a hammer and a screwdriver
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I really thought this was going to be about those hideous helmets, entertaining nonetheless, didn't know Louis XVI "headed" the UCI...
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Especially true for crash survivability. Rotten crumple zones, tempered glass, automatic emergency braking and air bags. Must be satan’s spawn. 👹
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It really is a rules-of-the-game issue. Look at UCI cyclocross. That is an entire category of bike that exists solely because of arbitrary rules-of-the-game. 33mm tires? But (some) people love the game made by the rules.
If you don't like the rules, start a company that runs gravel or endurance races.
If you don't like the rules, start a company that runs gravel or endurance races.
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My current car is 10 years old, and in 130,000 miles has never failed me. It goes in for service once a year. It doesn't even need oil added over that year. I can rely on it to get me wherever I want to go without carrying a toolkit with me.
I still sometimes have a nostalgic pang for my MGB, but I think all I'd need to do would be to drive one for a few miles, and that would go away.
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...in the 1920's, I'm pretty sure the retro grouches would have still been praising horses. Cheaper to buy and you can run them on hay from the back 40. Try that with your Hupmobile, buddy.
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I think it also depends on if you like to tinker with things. I enjoy working on all aspects of my bike, luckily.
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I owned an MGB when I was younger. Perfect example of "able to fix it with a few simple tools". The problem was how often I had to deploy them.
My current car is 10 years old, and in 130,000 miles has never failed me. It goes in for service once a year. It doesn't even need oil added over that year. I can rely on it to get me wherever I want to go without carrying a toolkit with me.
I still sometimes have a nostalgic pang for my MGB, but I think all I'd need to do would be to drive one for a few miles, and that would go away.
My current car is 10 years old, and in 130,000 miles has never failed me. It goes in for service once a year. It doesn't even need oil added over that year. I can rely on it to get me wherever I want to go without carrying a toolkit with me.
I still sometimes have a nostalgic pang for my MGB, but I think all I'd need to do would be to drive one for a few miles, and that would go away.
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...spoken like someone who has never had to diagnose a non obvious networking problem in one of the current models.