rb-misc In the News

Per UCI rules, racers must purchase comercially availble bicycles and
components. Experimental parts not permitted. Sizing to a customers
size is permitted.

Thornhill said:

http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/business/57981

in part...
"And the remarkable thing about Trek is that they give me the same
frames for the sales floor that Lance rides in the Tour," said Mike
Jacoubowsky, a bike retailer in Northern California.

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:28:18 -0500, Mike Schwab <[email hidden]>

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Per UCI rules, racers must purchase comercially availble bicycles and
components. Experimental parts not permitted. Sizing to a customers
size is permitted.

If "experimental" parts are prohibited, then why are the guys in the
peloton sometimes riding components that you can't buy (yet) at your
local shop?

-Luigi

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Subject: Re: rb-misc In the News
From: Mike Schwab [email hidden]
Date: 7/14/2004 3:28 AM US Eastern Standard Time
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Per UCI rules, racers must purchase comercially availble bicycles and
components. Experimental parts not permitted. Sizing to a customers
size is permitted.

What exactly does that mean if you don't mind me asking?

"Luigi de Guzman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:28:18 -0500, Mike Schwab <[email hidden]>

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Per UCI rules, racers must purchase comercially availble bicycles and
components. Experimental parts not permitted. Sizing to a customers
size is permitted.

If "experimental" parts are prohibited, then why are the guys in the
peloton sometimes riding components that you can't buy (yet) at your
local shop?

Would you say there's a difference between "experimental" and "next year's
model"?

Mike

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Per UCI rules, racers must purchase comercially availble bicycles and
components. Experimental parts not permitted. Sizing to a customers
size is permitted.

Show me that rule, I don't believe it exists.

Chris Neary
[email hidden]

"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could
you ask of life? Bicycling combined all the elements I
loved" - Adapted from a quotation by Charles Lindbergh

http://velonews.com/tech/report/articles/5262.1.html
Finally, received this letter from Steven Sheffield of Salt Lake City,
Utah who keenly noticed that Oval Concepts was successful in getting its
JetStream fork approved by the UCI after it was initially banned when
team Saeco ran it during the Giro. Hopefully this will give those
manufacturers fighting to get disc brakes legalized on =91cross bikes a
bit of hope. =

Dear VeloNews;
Hey, look ... the system works!!! Oval Concepts didn't play by the rules
when outfitting the Saeco team's time trial bikes with their Jetstream
Aero forks during the Giro d'Italia, and got spanked when notified that
the forks were banned as new technology ... but instead of whinging
about it for months on end, they submitted their designs for approval,
and wonder of wonders, the UCI granted their request!
So much for everyone's comments that the UCI is trying to keep American
technology and innovation out of road racing (and cyclo-cross) ...
because the Oval Concept forks are certainly one of the most innovative
designs I've seen being introduced in a while.

Steven L. Sheffield
Salt Lake City =

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http://velonews.com/tech/report/articles/5149.0.html

UCI bans disc brakes from 'cross events
By Andrew Juskaitis
VeloNews Technical Editor
This report filed October 20, 2003
A new technical edict from cycling's international governing body has
sent professional cyclo-cross racers scrambling for new equipment... and
maybe grasping for an explanation. =

According to a technical updated posted to USA Cycling's website,
professional cyclo-cross racers will no longer be able to run disc
brakes in UCI sanctioned events. According to the report, the ban will
take effect on November 1, 2003, forcing riders and sponsors to quickly
re-equip bikes. =

In some cases, that replacement doesn't come easily. According to Chris
Peck, Cannondale's director of research and development, "it's a big
problem for us because our sponsored cyclo-cross athletes are running
our disc specific =91cross bike which can only accept disc brakes, the
seat stays are too light to accept cantilevers. This means we're going
to have to build six new =91cross bikes by the November deadline which is=

possible, but is cutting it kind of close. I can't understand why the
UCI made this decision. It doesn't make any sense to us here at
Cannondale. Were certainly going to try and change the minds of the UCI
so we can continue to race the latest technology." =

Calls and e-mails to UCI officials remained unanswered as we posted this
article, but manufacturers have eagerly responded to questions about the
new rule. =

Craig Wright of Redline Bicycles (which recently introduced a disc
specific =91cross bike) responded, "We find this news to be disappointing=

as we wait to hear the reasons for this ruling. With all the recent
improvements in disc brake technology we knew it was just a matter of
time before disc brakes ended up on =91cross bikes. Disc brake work bette=
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in adverse conditions. We listened to many riders who wanted discs, and
after trying them, felt like they had improved control. We know that
discs are not for everyone, we never planned to make our bikes a
100-percent disc, but the UCI's decision to ban the use of disc brakes
seams a little overboard." =

Stu Thorne, owner of cyclocross.com and sponsor of a handful of
UCI-competing =91crossers, said the decision might just be an
over-reaction to an influx of largely American technology in solidly
European sport. =

"I think it's typical of the UCI to make a decision like this," Thorne
said. "I think they're just afraid of technical advancement. The
Europeans are years off from adopting disc brake technology on =91cross
bikes, so it's really no surprise that the UCI would want to squash any
development of this mostly American-based technology. I think they want
to keep the bikes very traditional, which is to say, with
cantilever-style brakes. Other than being sticklers for traditionalism,
I can't understand why they'd make such a decision." =

The rule, however, is not in effect for USCF cyclo-cross events that are
not on the international calendar, including other non-UCI categories
run in conjunction with a UCI-sanctioned event. =

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