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Road Racing Bikes Are Going to Get Weird (www.bicycling.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Paywalled link :( guess I’ll go read about a gas guzzler instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're basically going to end up with Graeme Obree's bikes being made UCI legal aren't we?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Based on the article, I think so. He was clearly a man ahead of his time.

Side note: I freaking love the weirdness of '90s bike design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If it was modern I suppose his centre of mass would be basically over the front wheel but otherwise, yeah, the UCI have robbed us of a lot of cool bike designs!

Though the TT scene has truly produced some absolutely unbelievably ugly bikes, so maybe it's for the best.