2011 Giro d’Italia, stage 1: a Caley Fretz gallery
Caley Fretz watches the UCI decide what constitutes a proper time-trial bike — and a legal fit to same — as the 2011 Giro d'Italia gets under way.
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The UCI has a book full of rules and regulations specifying not only what a race bike can look like, but also how a rider can fit on it.
For important time trials these rules are strictly enforced, with each rider (or his bike, at least) going through a UCI checkpoint to make sure everything falls within the rules.
That means a whole crop of sparkly TT gear all in one place, pulling tech writers in like magpies.
