The 6.8kg weight limit is daft.

Quite the opposite IMO.

It makes for an effective level playing field. This isn’t motor racing, where the manufacturers are competing for honours as well as the drivers. This is cycling, where it is supposed to be all about the rider. The UCI weight limit helps in this respect.

Besides, how much faster do you think they would be on a 12lb bike rather than a 15lb one?

This’ll tell you the average speed for every tour.

It’s not got much faster since the early ’90’s – but then again drug use is slightly less prevalent nowadays.

How much lighter are today’s bikes than those of 20-25 years ago?

weight makes little difference to speed!

Oh and **** me what is Bauer riding 😀

It makes for an effective level playing field. This isn’t motor racing, where the manufacturers are competing for honours as well as the drivers. This is cycling, where it is supposed to be all about the rider. The UCI weight limit helps in this respect.

Except that’s not the point of the weight limit. When most manufacturers are adding heavier parts then it’s not reducing the budget either, we’re not seeing some teams struggling desperately to achieve 6.8kg, it’s easy.

I think it’s good in that it’s driven innovation in aerodynamics, and perhaps things like Di2/EPS and power meter technology wouldn’t have come in the same way if the weight limit were scrapped, but I’d happily see it taken down by a couple of pounds to see what happens.

It makes for an effective level playing field. This isn’t motor racing, where the manufacturers are competing for honours as well as the drivers. This is cycling, where it is supposed to be all about the rider. The UCI weight limit helps in this respect.

So how is it fair, or a level playing field that Emma Pooley has to ride a bike which is just as heavy as the one Fabian Cancellara rides?

A few years ago that Cancellara was using cheaper (heavier) FSA gossamer cranks rather than carbon. I guess this helped with the weight and stiffness.

Apparently that was down to their stiffness.