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Everything about the equipment has been a charade for many decades. All the real improvements in bikes have been banned for a very long time and pro racing is
by ben7799 2y ago
Everything about the equipment has been a charade for many decades.
All the real improvements in bikes have been banned for a very long time and pro racing is used these days to sell all kinds of things which have been sideways moves at best.
- solardev 2y agoDo you have any examples? I'm not a racer but a bike commuter, and I'm curious about what technologies we could've gotten but didn't.
- analog31 2y agoI'm not an expert here, but a lot of aerodynamic improvements were banned, and disc brakes were banned until they weren't. At an extreme, recumbents. Triathalon handlebars in mass-start stages. There are minimum weights. In track racing, the bikes are required to have fixed gearing. The earliest Tour of France required riders to be self supporting, meaning they had to carry their own spare tires etc. One thing I've observed is that for us commuters (me too), bikes are no longer tied to racing. We can have anything we want. The ubiquitous "hybrid" is used in no racing discipline, and the classic mountain bikes that are favored by many computers are largely obsolete for competitive mountain biking.