Timeline for Why does the Tour de France have a minimum weight limit on the bicycles?
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 14:07 | vote | accept | RoboKaren | ||
| Jul 19, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | Jamie A | Along with power meters and other gadgets, the weight limit has also shifted focus onto aerodynamics, like deep-section wheels and oversize/non-round frame tubes, since there's very little tradeoff if you're bumping up agains the weight limit anyway (though tube shape has it's own UCI imposed limits) | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 14:42 | comment | added | Chris H | @Kibbee there's commercially available and commercially available. Put a price tag of $1000 on a single chainring that will last one race (and that only 99% of the time) and no shop will stock it. Very few customers will order it specially. The same applies in car racing. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 13:04 | comment | added | Kibbee | Isn't this somewhat mitigated by the fact that all parts used must be commercially available? I'm not sure when that rule was introduced, but with a few exceptions, the parts used in UCI races must be commercially available. Very few manufacturers would be willing to produce a product for the general public that isn't rigorously tested for durability and safety. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 8:28 | history | edited | R. Chung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 8:20 | history | answered | R. Chung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |