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They're notorious for regs like sock height. Banning the supertuck and "invisible aerobars" is pretty recent (last 2-3 years IIRC).
by andreareina 4y ago
They're notorious for regs like sock height. Banning the supertuck and "invisible aerobars" is pretty recent (last 2-3 years IIRC).
- petre 4y agoThe last ones are unsafe. Regulating sock height I do not get it, maybe they had to do it to prevent the cyclists from using ridiculous knee high socks. Anyway, roads bikes are pretty efficient even without a peloton. On roads. I've recently built a vintage road bike and only managed to burn 350 kcal on an 1 hr, 18 km ride. Most of it was in HR zone 2, easy. Almost flat, but still. Imagine what a velomobile could do.
- chrisfosterelli 4y ago> Regulating sock height I do not get it, maybe they had to do it to prevent the cyclists from using ridiculous knee high socks. Yeah this rule was ostensibly designed to prevent everyone from racing in knee-high, very tight compression socks. Shortly before this rule went in place some teams had found they had a subtle aero benefit by reducing profile and were planning to race in them. However, you get hotter.