Re: Cycling editorial

On 4/21/2024 10:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:00:19 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 4/21/2024 4:54 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:24:56 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

I don't believe there's a rule against mounting a water bottle on the
bars. I could be wrong.

>
You're wrong:
<https://road.cc/content/news/49519-uci-sets-sights-drinking-bottles-next>
"The new rule Article 1.3.024 will only allow bottles to be positioned
on the down tube and seat tube."
>
<https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/7s1ma6mVAVlFwi8rRgy0Iw/1bef531dd9e9f534c34ff016c68e3c72/Clarification_Guide_of_the_UCI_Technical_Regulation_-_20211005_-_ENG.pdf>
See pages 49 to 51.
>

 

heh heh heh
>
Riders used to complain that the 'white sox only; must cover
the ankle' rule was silly. And also the official with a tape
measure checking distance between hem of shorts leg and knee
back during the 'black shorts only' rule era.
>
But as they say all is change. A new era with even more
arbitrary and ridiculous rules.

 In the interest of not starting a political discussion, I'll just
mention that the problem has been well known for many centuries and is
commonly known as the Chinese version of legalism:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)>
Legalism can be made to work, but does not scale easily to large
numbers without using coersion.
 "Change everything"  (I have a rubber stamp with those words).
 

It's universal to bureaucracies as Hayek brilliantly explained.
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Andrew Muzi
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