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Road bikes are limited I think in wheel size, they have to have a double diamond frame, the tube cross sections are defined to prevent them being too aero, there are limitations as to the position of the handlebars relating to some other point on the bike, etc. Some of these might be for time trial, but triathlon bikes are MUCH looser when it comes to regs and it shows, those things are wild.
EDIT: seems this covers all disciplines. But...
"Upon an order being placed, the order shall be
confirmed within 30 days and the relevant equipment shall be made available for delivery
within a further 90-day deadline. In addition, the retail price of the equipment shall be
publicly advertised, shall not render the equipment de facto unavailable to the general
public and shall not unreasonably exceed the market value for equipment of a similar
standard."
Nobody said anything about the number of bikes being sold. And what is unreasonable? If you have the chance to buy for example a fully custom DH bike, developed 'just for you'? Unno is selling 5k € carbon frames, to me a fully custom bike from a big brand for 10k is far from unreasonable, when only say 20 are existing in the world. Or if there are only 5?
Remember the GT class of Le Mans. There were two Nissan R390s made, one was sold to a Japanese Nissan collector, the other is in Nissans' warehouse. Same for Toyota GT-One, the sole example is in Cologne in the TMG factory. And the trunk that was required by the rules 'doubles' as the fuel tank (it's big enough to fit a suitcase, if you can get it in of course). There are something like 20 911 GT1 Straßenversions and/or AMG GTRs out there. Lancia supposedly showed half the cars of the Delta S4 to the FIA commissars in one location, took them to lunch and showed 'the other half' in another location. Peugot supposedly doctored the pictures showing the ~300 cars they needed for the 205 T16 to be valid for racing. BMW made 3 M3 GTRs (E46 version with a racing V8 engine) where allt three are also supposedly in Munich in one of the cellars. And so on. In motoracing this is called a homologation special
I can assure you, I have no need for a DH bike, but a homologation special? Well that's damn interesting!
The 303-DH bikes from Yeti are still pure porn just because they have rails
regarding things like custom links, dropouts, etc - the regulations aren't explicitly clear about that, but i would venture a guess there's some leeway there as those are being used on frames that are commercially available - as opposed to c'dale bike which was a full prototype. and some of these items are to adjust the sizing of the bike itself (for taller guys like Greg), it may be implied that size variations are allowed as long as its a commercially available model. for things like the links to adjust suspension rates, that may still fall under the prototype provision.
also - i wonder how they initially handled the Atherton bikes brand since a lot of those are custom, but the same customizations are now commercially available for sale.
As for Atherton bikes, forget the racing, what I'm wondering is how can they sell them all custom like that. How do they get all the ISO/EN/CE certification when it's possible for not even 2 bikes to be the same?
This year finally delivering some mtb goodness
Besides, it's only been 3 pages.
I would guess that 500 to 1 ratio is off, too... I bet it's even more..
Boy I really want to see some concrete numbers regarding this, this is way too unsure and the numbers too wild to take it at face value...
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Hart has wanted out of Saracen for a long time.
Kade steps down from racing continues with Trek but moves into a Freerider role and what not. It's not as if him and Kaos are gonna stand on the podium in DH but you bet your ass they could stand on the podium of an event like Rampage. A guy like Kade has a hug social media following and that's a big sales strategy for bike companies now adays. So kade is gone but still on payroll.
Luca takes Kade's spot and works harder than ever to give himself a full revamp results wise. Trek moves Ethan Shandro into Reese's spot and Charlie Harrison resigns keeping the young Gun vibe going. And they can milk the shit out of the Shaw and Neff relationship as we all know they will.
But where does Reece go? Oh he goes to the newly formed Nukeproof Factory team and slaps the shit out of tracks on a mullet bike next year.
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