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cesnja
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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclist...
Not any more - nowadays being aero is more important and that adds quite a bit of weight. And disc brake sets are also heavier than brake pads used to be.
VikingMiner
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The UCI weight limit still seems to be in place. Disc brakes have been allowed since 2018 it seems.
silon42
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It is, but the minimum weight is harder to achieve with the extra weight of the disc brakes...
c0nsumer
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The Specialized Aethos shows it's not hard to achieve at all. These are regularly built up to less than UCI minimums.
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Agreed.
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