A little while ago, my CW colleague Andy Carr wrote a piece with the central idea that maybe it’s time the UCI stopped manufacturers from selling World Tour spec bikes to amateur customers.
The bikes are, he pointed out, vastly over specified for most people, yet a lot of us feel short changed by riding anything less. So we pay a £12,000 price tag for the bike we feel we need. If we weren’t allowed to actually have such a thing, and couldn’t feel jealous of mates who did, we’d all be richer and happier.
