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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Howes and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toms Skujins of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cannondale-Drapac team started Strade 🥂Bianche on disc-brake bikes, as the debate in the peloton and the sport continues about the use and safety o🙈f the new braking technology.

On Friday world c✨hampion Peter Sagan confirmed he wo🙈uld not use disc brakes due to doubts about a mixed peloton of riders on different kinds of brakes.

“I agree with using disc brakes if everyone in the peloton uses them - not only a few people," Sagan said. Asked if it was for safety reasons, he said: "No,ꦆ not for safety. Safety left cﷺycling a while ago..."

Sagan later explained to Cyclingnews tha📖t the risk of ༺losing time - and perhaps a race - due to a slow wheel or bike change was his biggest concern.

In recent weeks Tom Boonen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marcel Kittel have both used disc brakes in races and have both won races. However, Kittel opted to stop using disc brakes at the Abu Dhabi Tour after he c🙈rashed♉ with Owain Doull of Team Sky and the British rider suggested Kittel’s disc rotor cut his shoe.

Cannondale-Drapac rider used dis💟c brakes at the Ruta del Sol but the crash at the Abu Dhabi Tour sparked debate in the peloton about the safety of disc brakes and the procedure followed to allow the trials during the 2017 season.

The CPA riders association is firmly against the current disc brake trial despite taking part in the process that lead to their approval. The rider have called for covers to protect against injuries during crashes and many believe it is wrong to have a mixed peloton of some riders on disc brakes an🐓d others on traditional rim brakes. The UCI have so far refused to change their stan🥂ce on the disc brake trial.

Howes opted to use disc brakes at Strade Bianche, convinced of the advantages they could give on👍 the dirt roads. Rain also began to fall as the race rolled out of Siena. He said it was a “group decision” at Cannondale-Drapac.

“It might p💧ay off it rains here,” he said at the start. “There’d be more predictable braking, better clearance and such.”

Asked if there was pressure from fellow riders not to use disc brakes, Howes said: &ldqꦦuꦓo;There’s pressure in both directions, so...”

When asked what the other direction was, he said: “We’re sponsored by a team that makes disc brakes. It🙈’s kind of necessary to push things forward in the sport but we’re trying to do it in a conscientious way.”

Quick-Step Floors confirmed that they would not use disc brakes at Strad💧e Bianche. It seems that the Belgian team only has the Venge ViAS aero bike eqꦕuipped with disc brakes, which is not best suited to the dirt roads of Tuscany.

Under the UCI rules for the trial, the team are not obliged to inform race organisers if they will use disc brakes. However, Vittoria, who provide the neutral ser💎vi🥀ce at most Italian races, will carry three sets of disc brake wheels in every vehicle it has in the race convoy.

Vegni calls on the UCI to act

Race organiser RCS Sport has seen the debate about disc brakes overshadow a stage at the Abu Dhabi Tour and Mauro Vegni, the head of cycling at RCS Sport, called on the UCI to answer the doubts and questions that continue to surround the use of disc brakes.

“At the moment there’🐼s a risk of having a neutral service that is actually of little service. It’s pretty clear for everyone that there are still some technical problems to resolve. It’s complicated for us as race organisers and for the riders and teams.”

“There’s a risk that it becomes a much wider question about safety. Sadly this has somewhat been put aside because of economic reasons. I know that some brands want to promote disc brake bikes but I think that the governing body has to be very careful how it deals with things. First they have to resolve all the problems linked to disc brakes and then give the go ahead for everyone, all at once. Letting everyone do what they want isn’t the way to do it.”