Originally Posted by rydabent

It appears to me that the UCI are a bunch of hypocrites. They ban recumbents, but they allow all the new plastic CF bikes with their streamlining. If they really wanted to remain pure they would decree that all frame tubes would be round, just like in the past.

The UCI was on the take from big bike mfg back in 1934 when they banned bents, and now appear to be on the take from all the big bike mfg now, so they can sell their extremely high priced plastic CF bikes.