>Or throw out the UCI rules and build a fast, comfortable bike for customers who don't care about competing in sanctioned races. You've just described enduranc

>Or throw out the UCI rules and build a fast, comfortable bike for customers who don't care about competing in sanctioned races. You've just described endurance bikes. but the reality is that the traditional bike design is still pretty much the best design, and anything radical has enough downsides and trade-offs to confine it to a niche market, so the endurance bikes still are pretty similar to any other road bike. we've gotten really, really good at building bikes in the last 100 years. This year's model not being wildly different to last year's model isn't anything to complain about.