The UCI is totally inconsistent.
03-14-24, 06:07 PM
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No link, but gotta wonder a little bit, why would a disc braked TT bike be faster than a rim-braked bike on a typical flat course. Forget the UCI's arbitrary limitations on minimum bike weight for a moment.
03-14-24, 06:10 PM
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If anything, the complaint should be that rules become more restrictive over time not less (limits to aerobar extension length and base bar width, restriction on aspect ratio of tubes, prohibition of telemetry between bike and coaches, etc.).
03-14-24, 06:18 PM
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In theory, a rim braked bike would be faster than the equivalent disk braked one. In reality, development has continued on disk brake bikes and not on rim barked ones so that the fastest disk brake bikes available today are faster than the rim braked ones. A leading reason is UCI relaxed their aspect ratio rules for tubes but only disk bikes were designed to take advantage of it.
03-14-24, 06:22 PM
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03-14-24, 06:23 PM
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03-14-24, 06:33 PM
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03-14-24, 06:41 PM
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Better braking performance, especially in the wet. They really push the limits braking into corners on TT courses.
03-14-24, 06:45 PM
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03-14-24, 06:46 PM
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03-14-24, 07:09 PM
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03-14-24, 07:15 PM
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03-14-24, 07:16 PM
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03-14-24, 07:30 PM
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03-14-24, 07:32 PM
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Pete, seriously, do you just like to argue for the sake of arguing? Isn’t there some Kate Middleton photo you can argue over?
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03-14-24, 07:39 PM
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03-14-24, 07:41 PM
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I think we had an agreement about what you could post outside the 'bent forum, which this seems to violate. I know nobody in the 'bent forum would really want to discuss this, but that doesn't mean it's okay here.
03-14-24, 07:43 PM
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03-14-24, 07:48 PM
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Why don’t y’all just start your own race? “Tour de Rhode Island” perhaps? Maybe would work better than playing the “victim.” Do you think anyone would watch?
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03-14-24, 08:18 PM
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In short form, all I am saying is that no new speed or time records should be honored by the UCI if they are not set on a round tube bike.
03-14-24, 08:22 PM
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