I just heard that bladed wheels like Spinergy's are not legal this year.

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Permalink Reply by Echappe Equipment on August 11, 2008 at 12:39pm

That should be true since we're running mass start road rules now. It might just be specific to categorized fields, or even just larger events.

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Permalink Reply by wood booger on August 12, 2008 at 1:21pm

Interesting, about 75% of the field in every mass start road race I have ever done has been on bladed spokes.

Is the West (good) Coast exempt?

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Bramhall on August 12, 2008 at 2:04pm

There's a distinction between bladed wheels and spokes. Standard spokes should be ok, but wheels like these - - will be banned.
It's all USA Cycling administered events that are covered by the rule change (if it's the one I'm thinking of).

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Permalink Reply by Josh on August 13, 2008 at 2:53pm

Correct, all mass start events governed under UCI rules require at least 12 spokes per wheel.

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Permalink Reply by andrew on August 13, 2008 at 4:38pm

Thanks to EyeBob's question and Josh's research, we've done a story to clarify this matter.

You can view it here: http://cxmagazine.com/uci-usa-cycling-rules-banning-spinergy-wheels...

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Permalink Reply by GeWilli on August 14, 2008 at 7:01am

well ya should be able to score some rev x wheels on the cheap for your TT bike now ;)

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