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Andy Carr

‘Turning pro cycling into F1 or MOTOGP won't improve things for anyone’ – here's what you told us about pro cycling’s funding problem

Bike on top of an F1 car doing a burnout.

I was provocative this week when I wrote a piece about WorldTour team funding and equipment. I didn’t anticipate how viscerally some of you would react to the suggestion that “the UCI should ban selling pro bikes to customers” – but perhaps that proves the point that pro cycling and ordinary cycling are still deeply wrapped up in one another.

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