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		VikingMiner 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclist... The UCI weight limit still seems to be in place. Disc brakes have been allowed since 2018 it seems.

silon42 7 months ago [–]

It is, but the minimum weight is harder to achieve with the extra weight of the disc brakes...

c0nsumer 7 months ago | | [–]

The Specialized Aethos shows it's not hard to achieve at all. These are regularly built up to less than UCI minimums.

VikingMiner 7 months ago | | [–]

Agreed.

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