Why is the UCI Fighting Time Trial Helmet Innovation? | THEMOVE+
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Lance Armstrong
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin from the Beyond the Peloton Newsletter break down the UCI’s recent controversial decision to ban a key piece of the Specialized time trial helmet's aerodynamic design, as well as announcing a decision to re-examine its own rules, likely it an attempt to roll back the increasingly radical time trial helmet designs cropping up across the top teams. Johan and Spencer attempt to figure out the logic behind the process and speculate if this will deter future sponsor investment/innovation and what the landscape for aero helmets will be when the dust finally settles.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome to the Move Plus. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Spencer Martin here with Johann Bernille. |
| 0:07.6 | Once again, we are dropping in to discuss the, I guess you could say the craziness |
| 0:14.3 | regarding the new time trial helmets that were unveiled at Perry Nice. |
| 0:19.6 | And then the UCI's response to that coming out and banning the specialized |
| 0:24.1 | head sock which has been around for for two years at this point and putting um or visma lisa |
| 0:30.6 | bikes crazy new time trial helmet under review and then also the pock tempore and the rudy project |
| 0:37.8 | rudy project wind green helmet which i guess you could you could just say the darth fader |
| 0:42.7 | helmet you might know what i'm talking about once i say that but joan we want to sit down with you |
| 0:48.6 | and kind of dig in a how did this happen why is the ucii now coming out and deeming these helmets unsafe when they've already approved |
| 0:57.5 | them through their safety process, which is though you can't just wear a, you can't come out |
| 1:02.1 | and wear a helmet. |
| 1:02.9 | You have to have it reviewed by the UCI and they deem it safe and then you can wear it. |
| 1:07.4 | So it's a little odd that now they're coming out and saying, no, these actually aren't |
| 1:10.3 | allowed. |
| 1:10.7 | We need to pull back, pull back the trends on this. It kind of feels like |
| 1:16.9 | people just complained on Twitter that they were ugly. And now they're being potentially banned. |
| 1:22.1 | So to just state where we are, everything was fine. Perry and these time trial rolls around. |
| 1:31.1 | Dezma, the terra, the terrain. Oh, you're right. You're right. Yeah. The Torino time trial was around. Yonis Vindegard comes out with, I mean, this is it, our producer will put in a picture of this helmet. It is, it looks like an alien head. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah. But you do start to wonder, is this safe? That was my first thought of like, |
| 1:50.0 | is this really a good idea? But apparently it has passed safety review. So, so technically |
| 1:55.6 | there's, there's a difference between what it looks like. If you like it or not, that's one thing. |
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