É relativo a bikes de estrada, mas não deixa de ter a sua piada.
"A new problem has emerged in the professional cycling world: bicycles are too light! Indeed, absurd as it may seem it´s real: the UCI has set the minimal authorised weight for bikes at 6.8 kg. Manufacturers are going to much trouble, for they have been producing ultralight carbon fiber bikes below that limit.
The SAUNIR DUVAL-PRODIR team has to face this problem as well, for SCOTT, who supplies the team´s bicycles has been developing new highly sophisticated technologies in carbon fibers for three years, which has placed the company in a leading position in the ultralight bicycle manufacturing sector. The company´s CR1 frame weighs 880 g. The SCOTT bicycles and CR1 frames have been tested at the laboratory to assess their strength and rigidity, key factors in road bikes. The SCOTT products have yield excellent results in the tests and have got the highest rate, but they are too light!
There is a further absurdity in this regulation: it is applied equally to all riders, regardless of the differences between, for instance, a 1.90 m, 90 kg rider and a 1.72 m, 55 kg rider like Piepoli. Therefore, mechanics have to weigh down bikes. So the general public can buy the same frame as professionals do, but the latter have to weigh it down!
In order to comply with the UCI regulations, the mechanics working for the SAUNIER DUVAL-PRODIR team have to modify elements in the racing bikes: add lead plates on water bottle cages, for instance. And Piepoli must leave his carbon handlebar out: it`s too light! So, a few grams have to be added here and a few grams there!
In sum, a big problem for mechanics and manufacturers to solve, and an unexpected disappointment for riders who want to benefit from technological innovations as the public can do. "
in http://www.scottusa.com/news/article.php?UID=164
"A new problem has emerged in the professional cycling world: bicycles are too light! Indeed, absurd as it may seem it´s real: the UCI has set the minimal authorised weight for bikes at 6.8 kg. Manufacturers are going to much trouble, for they have been producing ultralight carbon fiber bikes below that limit.
The SAUNIR DUVAL-PRODIR team has to face this problem as well, for SCOTT, who supplies the team´s bicycles has been developing new highly sophisticated technologies in carbon fibers for three years, which has placed the company in a leading position in the ultralight bicycle manufacturing sector. The company´s CR1 frame weighs 880 g. The SCOTT bicycles and CR1 frames have been tested at the laboratory to assess their strength and rigidity, key factors in road bikes. The SCOTT products have yield excellent results in the tests and have got the highest rate, but they are too light!
There is a further absurdity in this regulation: it is applied equally to all riders, regardless of the differences between, for instance, a 1.90 m, 90 kg rider and a 1.72 m, 55 kg rider like Piepoli. Therefore, mechanics have to weigh down bikes. So the general public can buy the same frame as professionals do, but the latter have to weigh it down!
In order to comply with the UCI regulations, the mechanics working for the SAUNIER DUVAL-PRODIR team have to modify elements in the racing bikes: add lead plates on water bottle cages, for instance. And Piepoli must leave his carbon handlebar out: it`s too light! So, a few grams have to be added here and a few grams there!
In sum, a big problem for mechanics and manufacturers to solve, and an unexpected disappointment for riders who want to benefit from technological innovations as the public can do. "
in http://www.scottusa.com/news/article.php?UID=164