Traurige Nachricht von Mike Burrows

Naja, die UCI hat sein Rad 92 ja zugelassen. Burrows hat den Erfolg laut Artikel selbst nicht gefeiert, sondern die Wettbewerbsproblematik gesehen, dass ein 3. Welt-Olympionike eben nicht auf einem Burrows-Lotus starten kann.

Aber mehr Technologieoffenheit bei "reichen" Veranstaltungen wie der TdF wäre sicher nicht verkehrt.
 
The UCI is hypocritical because there are no 3rd world bicycle riders able to buy a racing bicycle. Even from Decathlon...

Mechanical sport is the ideal place for research. There should be more experimental bicycle racing, it is called progress.
 
Well, the reason the UCI often communicates is, to have the competition between riders and not the technologies. There would be an easy solution: multiple classes, like in sailing. There you have technology driven classes like IMOCA that see dramatic changes in the boats every few years and there are classes like ILCA (Laser) that are one design with strict rules. Many manufacturers that all have to produce within these strict rules with certification from the class organisation, so every sailer has the same opportunitys within a regatta and theoretically an old boat can also win a race.
But that would take changes within the UCI and I don't think a board full of old men will approve this. Apart from that: Japanese Kairin shows that strict rules do not directly correlate with low prices. The NJS stamp on every part is extremely costly.
 
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