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    Posted: 17 Jul 17 at 12:07pm
I was thinking more about the elite levels of the sport
I'm sure that there are lots of experienced cyclists on this forum. How much does the best time trial bike cost that the top pros would be riding? How many people will directly support a top pro rider (pit crew)?
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Originally posted by Riv

Bikes are virtually a box rule. You can muck around with the components but the UCI defines what a "bike" is and frankly it's very dull. However everybody seems happy with the arrangement and happy to go along with the UCI for the sake of the sport. I 'spose the Laser is the nearest thing to this in the dinghy world. Maybe most people just want certainty in their sporting activities.........
I think it's more that we want convenience and we don't really care for speed per se. I don't find it dull at all - I'd find it terribly dull if the guy next to me won because he spent $30,000 on a carbon streamlined recumbent that needed a periscope to steer by and a pit crew to get ready.

Given the success of cycling, the western world's #1 equipment-intensive sport in many ways, it's hard to see how it can be getting it wrong. Surely it is a lesson in doing it right?
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Hmmm, Swimming, how can we bring swimming into the 21st Century ?


If you hadn't noticed there are full body swim suits featuring 'nano' tech, to make them super slippy in competition.

Plus web gloves, swim fins all manner of modern updates.
And they are banned for the vast majority of events.
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Sport or pastime impossible to update/modernise ???
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Originally posted by Riv

Bikes are virtually a box rule. You can muck around with the components but the UCI defines what a "bike" is and frankly it's very dull. However everybody seems happy with the arrangement and happy to go along with the UCI for the sake of the sport. I 'spose the Laser is the nearest thing to this in the dinghy world. Maybe most people just want certainty in their sporting activities.........

To a great extent it's because the basic layout is right. Recumbents have their advantages but for racing they could only win in a very specific set of circumstances. 
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Originally posted by 423zero

Hmmm, Swimming, how can we bring swimming into the 21st Century ?


If you hadn't noticed there are full body swim suits featuring 'nano' tech, to make them super slippy in competition.

Plus web gloves, swim fins all manner of modern updates.
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Foiling swimming? Just the hands and feet dipping in the water.
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Bikes are virtually a box rule. You can muck around with the components but the UCI defines what a "bike" is and frankly it's very dull. However everybody seems happy with the arrangement and happy to go along with the UCI for the sake of the sport. I 'spose the Laser is the nearest thing to this in the dinghy world. Maybe most people just want certainty in their sporting activities.........
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Come on JimC, to put it nicely a 505 is as quick as an L4000 any day, any where which was my point.

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