{"id":202382,"date":"2025-06-21T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202382\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:15:10","slug":"the-ucis-handlebar-rule-is-even-stricter-than-initially-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202382\/","title":{"rendered":"The UCI’s handlebar rule is even stricter than initially feared"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Gruber Images, UCI<\/p>\n

The UCI’s announcement last week of new equipment rules in elite road racing set off a furious debate. There was criticism that the rules unfairly penalized smaller riders<\/a>, in particular women. There were questions how the industry would respond to the new rules. And finally, there were questions about how all this would actually work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The UCI attempted to address that with a new statement on Friday<\/a>. But the missive raises fresh questions even as it answers existing ones, and based on the new measurement specifications, it could essentially make a broad range of current handlebars illegal for UCI use.<\/p>\n

Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n

\n \ud83d\udc4dYep
\n \ud83d\udc4eNope\n <\/p>\n

Read<\/p>\n

Comments<\/p>\n

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