Bob Schwartz wrote:
> Off The Back wrote:
>
>> Re this NRC-vs-UCI discussion: I know that USA Cycling has changed a
>> bunch of USCF rules to align better with UCI rules (e.g., TT bikes
>> must conform to UCI rules), but that doesn't mean an NRC race follows
>> *all* UCI rules. I'm pretty sure you could find something in the UCI
>> rulebook that is not enforced by your local NRC crit, for example, or
>> even Nature Valley GP (which is underway as I type this). Besides,
>> they don't let hacks like me ride in a UCI event but I can ride an NRC
>> race.
>>
>> I think Magilla is technically correct. Bob is playing a semantics
>> game, teasing a gorrila in his cage, and I for one appreciate it!
>
>
> The statement was made that NRC races do not follow UCI
> rules. They do. No, not all of them. But there are numerous
> references to UCI rules.
>
> For example, one of the guys working the NVGP has a UCI
> bike jig, used to quickly and easily tell if a bike conforms
> to the UCI bike regs, as specified in the USCF rulebook.
>
> Bob Schwartz
Hey asshat,
The NRC rule for bikes is a USCF rule that simply says that bike
standards will conform to the UCI definition. That's still a USCF rule.
All NRC races are run under USCF rules. The fact that a very small
minority of those rules MIGHT adopt a UCI definition does not make it a
UCI rule.
Nor does it mean that NRC races are run under UCI rules, as you falsely
claimed.
Thanks,
Magilla
