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    THE RULES

    Apr 30, 2020 4 minutes
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    AMBIGUOUS RULES CAN GO ONE OF TWO WAYS: THEY CAN CREATE A STRICT REGIME OR ALLOW A LIBER AL DEGREE OF FREEDOM; AND THINGS DON’T GET MUCH MORE AMBIGUOUS THAN GUIDELINES DEFINED BY ‘SPIRIT’.

    “Bicycles shall comply with the spirit and principle of cycling as a sport,” says the UCI’s Principle 1.3. “The spirit presupposes that cyclists will compete in competitions on an equal footing. The principle asserts the primacy of man over machine.”

    Over the years, the ‘spirit claxon’ has sounded on multiple occasions, creating a history book of outlawed bicycles and endless clarifications to the guidelines within the UCI Technical Regulation.

    The evergrowing Clarification Guide of the UCI Technical Regulation is now so expansive that

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