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I tried you guys, I wouldn’t have told though 🤞🏽

Important to note that this list from UCI is incomplete. Look up Frameworks for example, it is just Neko and Colin. Bex is still on Yeti as a rider. This is not unusual, the UCI list is often wrong. Either they didn't update it properly (likely) or some teams are not completely settled yet.

I had a plate with 11 screws on the collarbone. I removed it after a year because the doc said that if I crash on it (which is likely to happen when you ride mtb) I can bend the plate and destroy my collarbone and everything around. The second operation to remove it is just a 2 weeks healing process so it’s not so bad and it’s worth it.

Left mine in based on two Dr. rec... Broke my clavicle in fragments so the plate was necessary. Unfortunately, I was riding about 6 weeks after surgery, crashed and landed on shoulder again and bent the plate! So now I have a bump on my collar bone where its bent. Dr. was admit about leaving in it in. He does a lot of extreme athletes from around the world and has seen too many reinjure and need to put another plate back in, in some cases, several times !

Still have it in (collarbone), but that's because its only been in there since august 2023. Doc's 2 cents are "leave it in unless its severely bothering you.". So far so good on that. Have 2 plates and 16 or so screws. Bone was in 2 very pronounces pieces with a number of fragments. Damn road bikes. Very glad i got the hardware and didn't leave it to heal on its own. Following to see what others experiences.

I had mine removed because of where it was placed: it sat high enough on the clavicle that the strap on my running pack severly chafed the skin. (The surgeon who removed it was quite critical of that placement).

i work for a company that designs & manufactures these kinds of implants (internal fixation / orthopedics). there's really no hard or fast rule, but "it depends". location & type of implant / injury are generally the primary drivers of whether or not an orthopedic surgeon will recommend removal. some implant types cannot be removed.

Think it's case by case on how invasive the surgery is. I had one removed from lower leg/ankle that was right under the skin, but there are a couple in my pelvis behind loads of muscle etc that will be there forever. But yeah, if you have the same crash the bone will shatter all over the place in a shardy mess.

Had a plate in my elbow for three years, never considered taking it out. One day it started giving me pain any time I rested on my elbow, had it taken out shortly after. Recovery was short and simple.

my Dr. told me we have to take hardware out, because if I would fell of the bike and crash bone with hardware, there would be not a single breakage, but life threatening multiple breakages with a huge amount of fragments. it did hurt and for more than half a year, until bones get joins properly and without holes in them.

Seat post diameter, rear axle width, bar clamp diameter, bottom brackets... hard to pick one.

I run stfu myself, great product, I’ve been running them for about 4 years and wouldn’t build a bike without stfu now, makes a massive difference

I turn 47 in a few months, no plan to get one anytime in the next 3-4 years. Live on the Shore with Fromme as my go to riding straight from home and have two kids. On paper I am the ideal e-bike buyer but it's not happening. I do love my e-cargo bike for hauling the kids to school and errands. Current riding goals are to be fitter and faster now than I was a decade ago.

I think this forum (and industry in general) makes too much fuss about the frame design. I think the fork is as or more important than frame, your front wheel has to steer and do the majority of the braking. Id rather race a good fork over a good frame if I had to choose. But to answer the question- it’s 90% rider 10% bike. And any rig out on the circuit can get you 7-8% with proper setup and tuning.