Team Visma | Lease a Bike's futuristic time-trial helmet given provisional green light by UCI
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The striking helmet used by Team Visma | Lease a Bike in time-trial at Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice earlier this year have been given provisional approval by the UCI.
The futuristic design sent the cycling world into a frenzy when they were first shown off to the world in the individual time-trial at Tirreno-Adriatico, where the likes of Jonas Vingegaard, Cian Uijtdebroeks and Dylan van Baarle wore the look. So much was actually being made of the helmet that the UCI actually announced they would investigate further into the design.
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Sporza are now reporting though, that the UCI has granted Team Visma | Lease a Bike provisional acceptance for the design. This means that the team will be allowed to continue wearing the helmet for the rest of the year as the sport's rule-makers continue their investigations.
The UCI has approved the prototype until a date of January 17, 2025. “After that period, the prototype must be for sale to everyone according to the applicable conditions,” the UCI emphasizes in conversation with Sporza.
I don’t remember anyone making such a big fuss about some past outrageous designs. When it helped him, Cancellara didn’t mind wearing something that looked like he’d bought it for the Venice carnaval and no-one gave him any stick for it. Seems like some men, instead of seeing the interest or even just fun in it, get offended or ashamed by something so penile looking, maybe it stirs up feelings due to comparing with their own manlihood?
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- This from the man that almost destroyed the “essence” of cycling.Djs01-04-2025
- Regarding one point in the article: Vingegaard and Pogacar raced against each other at Monuments in the past - Il Lombardia and Liege, from 2020 to 2022. Pogacar's results are 3, 1, 1, and 1, while Vingegaard's are 84, 28, 14, and 16, respectively in the same races. But Vingegaard hasn't raced a Monument since 2022.RidesHills01-04-2025
- What, no Jay, Jonas. Remco, Primoz, etc.? Hope Cras doesn’t need an H this year.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Interesting, now’s the chance for all those who were grumpy about or against paying for subscriptions. But, if the pay is half decent one of girls from the women’s peloton might beat you to it ;-)Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- In those days the Tour was like Paris-Roubaix 3 weeks running :-)tMistermaumau01-04-2025
- The Dutch are a popular sporting target for foreign criticismMistermaumau01-04-2025
- Completely agree, and that’s in cases where the team even reaches the rider before he/she decides to get up by themself and start chasing. No protocol or rule will solve this perfectly, this is not a sport with a referee putting everything on hold whilst checks are made.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Is it just me or are the opinions of retired pros from certain parts of Northern Europe becoming increasingly Pythonesque? “In our day we had sandpaper chamois and barbed wire for bar tape when we rode Paris Roubaix, it used to be a proper race”……..I’m not even that big a Pogacar fan and I hope he does it just to shut them up.Jezla01-04-2025
- True, but then we've always known that real safety isn’t an objective, just enough for the facade not to crumble.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Oh, this sounds more spicy than I thought. I didn't watch the event.
KerisVroom01-04-2025