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1.3.004 Except in mountain bike racing, no technical innovation regarding anything used, worn
or carried by any rider or license holder during a competition (bicycles, equipment
mounted on them, accessories, helmets, clothing, means of communication, telemetry
device, sensors, etc.) may be used until approved by the UCI.
So MTB racers / teams / companies can run bikes / components / clothing / etc that are considered "technical innovations" (prototypes) without getting them approved by the UCI before using them in competition. This does not exempt mountain bikes from the commercialization requirements listed in 1.3.006.
From the clarification guide on Rule 1.3.004:
Technical innovations must be submitted to the UCI in advance and approved by the
Equipment Commission before they can be used in competition.
A technical innovation is defined as a new system, device or item of equipment that allows
an improvement of a rider’s performance, adds new functions to the bicycle, modifies the
bicycle’s general appearance or affects any other aspect of the UCI regulations.
If there is any doubt, it is preferable to present new equipment to the UCI which will
determine whether it is a matter of a technical innovation or not. New equipment will be
carefully studied by experts in order to evaluate the benefits and how such equipment could
improve cycle sport as well as assessing the risks and any potential divergence from the
regulations. The most appropriate decision will then be taken in the interest of the sport.
TIME TIME.
the downvotes on my comment are clearly the sheep of the HP squad
If your intention is to confuse people, a) you're doing a good job, b) don't be surprised by the downvotes.
I think the Commencal might have a floating shock though, can’t remember…
https://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/users/2/photos/147651/s1600_Ethan_Craik_s_GT_Fury_90_s_1.jpg
Have a very fit buddy that stalks me on the trails that seemed to struggle a lot more when pedaling on his new HP bike. Best looking bike I've ever seen however.
Just don't think HP's are appropriate for any bike where the rider cares about climbing speed. Although we don't race to the top, we'd all like to be able to stay together.
BTW, I think Ibis DW link bikes do something vaguely similar, if I'm not mistaken the top link rotates over the vertical line, which makes the lower link to rise in the first part, then rotate back down in the second part of the travel.
As for a full floater Commencal design, it's a negative. And if comparing the Commencal to anything, it's actually similar to Felt's Equilink system. Much more so than the Yeti, but it's still similar.
Given the Pinkbike field test and the comments they had there and the overall comments about chains and idlers wearing out and idler bikes being more noisy, I don't think we'll see a lot of them outside 170+ mm travel bikes, so hard core enduro racers and DH bikes. So bikes that aren't pedaled around on full day epics, but if they are, their owners are a bit insane for doing it and know what they're getting into.
This might also go hand in hand with the comments above about DH bikes getting more popular. These kinds of bikes have gotten so race oriented, that for everyday use they are too much. Which is where trailbikes come in and we don't see a lot (except the Druid, any basically) high pivots in this category.
Can we also just acknowledge how good we have it these days when it comes to bikes and their capabilities?
Force's cables exit from TT, link has open windows, main pivot has a pinch bolt.
Easy to see what the link does, very similar in concept to what their pedal only bikes do.
Its bike and ebike.
We don’t need anything more. Not “acoustic”. Not “analog” (or analogue). Not “pedal only”.
Inventing new ways of saying bike just makes us all look like cretins.
Surely you don’t think that anyone is that stupid that they don’t understand the difference.