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>The rules, written or not, are about trying to adjudicate a competition of people Wouldn't this be best done by having one group make a bunch of identical bik

• ianferrel 2y ago
  This wouldn't work because people aren't all the same size. Just like you couldn't make footraces fairer by making everyone wear the same shoes.
  • eru 2y ago
    You can provide the official bike in a range of sizes.
    • ianferrel 2y ago
      You could, but you'd still have a similar problem. Imagine that footraces all had to be run in the same model shoes, in whatever size. Human body variation far exceeds any kind of standard sizing. There's a reason that anything that fits a body often has hundreds of different competing designs and materials and size specs and different people are more comfortable with different ones. It's bordering intractable to try to make a "standard" bike that fits the full variation of human bodies. Making that a requirement for a race would favor people who happen to have bodies more congruent with whatever your geometry and materials and sizing quantum are.