Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
UCI is like Red Bull soap box racing when WHPVA are F1.
I dont think the UCI is as pure as they claim to be
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Time Waster
Veteran
What? WHPVA are corrupt, carry out whitewashed investigations with just about no sense that any other racer could win but the one with the biggest budget (allegedly hidden in fancy accounting)? Or so it seems. Of course I don't watch and haven't since Mansell and the young upstart Schumacher.
Sorry, I'm not a fan of F1 because it just seems that one driver / team wins for awhile. Then another driver and team takes over for a few years. All the rest are just taking part to fill the race out. IT doesn't really seem competitive racing. If WHPVA are anything like F1 then who cares about them, so boring. I can't really believe that WHPVA are as bad as F1 as a sport.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
F1 technologically without all the bullshit mentioned in your post. But you knew that, and grasped the wrong end anyway 😁
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
The UCI come in for a lot of stick, but sometimes you have to admire their quick decisive action when a threat arises to the very existence of cycling as a competitive sport.
Such as Tadej Pogacar's dastardly attempt to wear purple shorts with the Giro pink jersey. The bounder.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ju...tone-maglia-rosa-skinsuit-with-purple-shorts/
Such as Tadej Pogacar's dastardly attempt to wear purple shorts with the Giro pink jersey. The bounder.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ju...tone-maglia-rosa-skinsuit-with-purple-shorts/
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Ian H
Ancient randonneur
You have to remember it's the Giro - special rules apply to non-Italian riders.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Put everyone on Peleton or similar - then it would be :-)
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
You jest, but e-racing is a thing, and it's only likely to grow more.
Hell they even have e-doping - or something like that, I don't understand it. https://road.cc/content/news/267266...title-because-he-didnt-earn-tron-bike-he-rode
Punkawallah
Über Member
Probably got the bus part way round!
recumbentpanda
Guru
Seems to me the sailors solved this problem a long time ago. You have ‘one design’ classes where everybody races the exact same boat. You have ‘rating rules’ classes similar to ‘formula’ cars, where design innovation is allowed within a fixed set of parameters. And finally you have open classes like Americas cup where anything goes and we end up racing carbon fibre hydrofoils. No reason why cycling can’t do the same, and enjoy the best of all these approaches. Some are a test of racers purely, and others are a test, to varying degrees, of designers and builders. Do we want all these things under the same regulating body? Perhaps not, but no reason why the international body couldn’t be a forum and a point of recognition and record keeping for all of them.
Every boat in a class have exactly the same specifications, the difference in the results come down to the crew, and many boats now have motor driven winches. In my races (24 Hour time trials), there are standard, recumbent and enclosed trike divisions classes and every division has age levels - and all are required to be human powered. I think that is all the divisions one can expect in cycle racing. Whether the bike is carbon, steel, aluminium, titanium or any other fancy material is immaterial.
Jameshow
Veteran
That sounds exactly like pro cycling one rider rides away with the silver for years in end...!🤣
