> For example, if the tour de france allowed recumbent bikes the course would need to change massively to support anywhere near that speed safely. Not just for

> For example, if the tour de france allowed recumbent bikes the course would need to change massively to support anywhere near that speed safely. Not just for speed, but recumbents are terrible at cornering and are terrible for going uphill. Half the fun in large cycling races are the mountain stages where people go slowly uphill and then really fast and technical on downhills with many corners taken at high speeds. Recumbents would be terrible for that.