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The Limitations of the Handlebars
The Tour de France has banned sitting on top of the top tube. The handlebars are considerably narrower now than they used to be, right? Maida: Is there a limitation that maybe needs to be put on how narrow those bars can be? There's other things they could do and I'm not suggesting that some just chucking ideas out. They could restrict the size of the front chain ring,. If you limit that to 48, they're not hitting 100, they hit 90. Does that save the risk? Maybe. But then it would be really interesting to say, okay, but we care a lot about a crash like the one that took made us life because we must.
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