Tadej Pogacar's purple shorts made illegal! Giro d'Italia leader threatened with disqualification

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Wrong, the reason they are not mass produced is because the public has taken an aversion to cycling since cars dominated the world. You can offer free e-bikes and the vast majority still won’t use them to go to work or shops. That whole question has NOTHING to do with the UCI just like F1 banning jewellery doesn’t stop women doing their make-up in the car mirror.

Humans are notoriously bad at making risk assessments hence the degradation in health and longevity in many developed countries due to inability to assess risks from tobacco, alcohol, drugs, pcbs, asbestos, pfas, nanoplastics and dozens more ubiquitous products.

They are no more control-freaks than parents towards children, governments towards society or industry towards customers.

But yes make your risk assessment and get disqualified. You come to my house you play by my rules, don’t like it go somewhere else or convince me to change. Don’t waste your breath here, if even you won’t make the effort to lobby them, no-one is going to join you.

If your claim were true, then 2 triangle upright bikes wouldn't be $400!
Also, compulsory helmet laws hurting cycling (and health), and would likely be less necessary in a full fairing bike.
The UCI isn't regulating children!
Governments are the ultimate control-freaks!
Cycling isn't the UCI's house, they didn't build it. I race, but I haven't raced a UCI event in years, not just due to cost and incompetence, but due to their stupid rules.
I can see that the concept of "emergent order" isn't taught in government schools. Too bad they specifically avoid teaching that ...it would be bad for their power, after all.

Jeez, mixing up and supposing a lot of things out of anger and frustration.

The cycling industry is, as you say almost completely independent of the UCI, they are free to engage with buyers as they want and buyers can boycott or grab the products they want, popular products will always end up getting mass produced,

Bmw (amongst others) made a motorbike with seatbelt and rainroof for a while with no helmet obligation, it was kind of popular, for a niche for about 5 years. You don’t see ANY anymore, or spin-offs or copies or improvements. Not enough people want the same as you, accept it because you are starting to sound like a control freak, trying to impose on industry and the UCI to adapt to YOU.

The whole reason we have governments is because no-one wants to grant their bad neighbour or enemy control over their life, then rather a supposedly neutral party without real conflicts of interest.

The people against governments never have better alternatives and never remember how much in life is due to the collective. Hardly anything would have come into existence if mankind had developed with total freedom for each individual, in fact we’d probably have all killed each other a long time ago.

Yes, the industry can do what they want, but the UCI controls most professional cycling, and therefore what the industry advertises. People want what professionals ride, not what is actually fast.
The motorbike didn't reflect any real advantage, save gas mileage. It couldn't go any faster (legally) than anything already out there. Therefore, this isn't a good analogy.
I don't want the UCI to adapt to me. I want the organization to cease existing. It makes cycling more expensive and destroys innovation. It's best replaced by nothing at all.
The reason we have governments (the State) is because cartels realized it was easier to pretend to "serve" and "protect" people than to make it obvious that they are robbing us. It makes us more likely to submit. Do you honestly think that the State is neutral and has no conflicts of interest? Open your eyes!
And there are governments that aren't States, things that demand a monopoly on the use of violence and tax. But control-freaks like States because they have ultimate control of our lives, and States lie that they are necessary.
And you believe them!

And, for anyone interested on if a State is necessary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0Qkhnt6bQ&t=71s

Or, maybe just don't be control-freaks?

Easy to say when you have no responsibility for the consequences. You know exactly how it goes, give a little finger and soon someone is taking an arm. That’s the whole point about rules, if everyone follows the current ones there is never an issue. No-one has ever said change can’t be discussed, but then ask!

Oh, no! The terrible consequences of purple shorts with a pink jersey! I'm sure people are dying in the streets right now and only the UCI can possibly save us from this!
I'm so glad that UCI races are dying off in the US ...while non-UCI races are flourishing!