Originally Posted by Bikewer
Didn't the Rockshox road suspension do sufficiently well at Paris-Roubaix that the UCI promptly banned them?
That was a few years ago...
I have taken the opposite tack and am in the process of building a recumbent. Still needs a bit of refining, but even at this stage it's remarkably comfortable.
I don't think UCI bans them. I think that the weight outweighed actual performance of the shocks, and teams chose not to use them.