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6/19/2025, 3:20:24 PM
>A UCI memo, first reported by Daniel Benson, suggests that, come August, the UCI will begin trials of gear limits on competition bicycles for road races. Time trials, for now, are exempt, as it appears the UCI is focusing on mass start rider safety.
>The trial rules appear to base the restrictions around a specific maximum number of ‘meters of development’, a numerical figure for how hard a gear is, rather than on a specific gear ratio of chainring X sprocket. The trouble is that the UCI has based its new rule around an increasingly outdated tyre size - 28mm - meaning that modern setups with tyres of 30mm in width or more could technically fall foul of the new regulations.
>Furthermore, the new rules will impact SRAM-sponsored riders disproportionately, and will mean the 10t sprocket on their cassettes may have to be mechanically nullified by the mechanics, and the proliferation of wide range 1x setups such as we saw so often at the Spring Classics would also come to an abrupt end.
>The trial rules appear to base the restrictions around a specific maximum number of ‘meters of development’, a numerical figure for how hard a gear is, rather than on a specific gear ratio of chainring X sprocket. The trouble is that the UCI has based its new rule around an increasingly outdated tyre size - 28mm - meaning that modern setups with tyres of 30mm in width or more could technically fall foul of the new regulations.
>Furthermore, the new rules will impact SRAM-sponsored riders disproportionately, and will mean the 10t sprocket on their cassettes may have to be mechanically nullified by the mechanics, and the proliferation of wide range 1x setups such as we saw so often at the Spring Classics would also come to an abrupt end.
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