Tag: Lugano Charter

  • Come on UCI…it’s time to allow innovation in the Hour Record again

    Come on UCI…it’s time to allow innovation in the Hour Record again

      I wrote a bit about my confusion with the UCI after Jens Voight set a new athlete’s (or unified, or whatever we are calling it now) hour record in September of last year. After watching Bradley Wiggins ride an impressive new distance Sunday, I am excited to see that interest in the hour record is…

  • Is TJ Tollakson the Graeme Obree of triathlon?

    Is TJ Tollakson the Graeme Obree of triathlon?

    Admittedly, I don’t know much about the sport of triathlon, but I was very interested to see the bike setup of pro triathlete (and engineer) TJ Tollakson. A reader, Phil, sent me a link to a post about Tollakson’s recent win at Ironman Lake Placid using a 1996 Zipp beam frame bike for the cycling…

  • Is the UCI just misunderstood?

    Is the UCI just misunderstood?

    I have been critical of the UCI a few times in the past  (here, here, and most recently here), but I now know it was only because I have been woefully uninformed. In a video posted today by Carlton Reid, UCI president Pat McQuaid explains that his organization is often treated as a ‘punching bag’…