“It was supposed to be an amazing year. Now… well I think the next few weeks are going to be met with blind panic over the set-up of bikes.”
Tim Allen, founder of Avec Bikes and the bike-fit specialist consultancy Soigneur, looks and sounds utterly disconsolate. And little wonder. At Cycling Weekly we’ve been writing extensively about the furore over the UCI’s recent rule changes about handlebar width and wheel rim depth, and British Cycling’s rather muddled messaging about how the regulations would be enforced in domestic races, but meeting Allen really brings home the cost of these events.
