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A racing bike must weigh at least 6.8 kg
The UCI set the floor in 2000 to keep the sport from becoming a spending race The rule means a bike used in road racing under UCI rules cannot be lighter than 6.8 kilograms, even though carbon frames could be built well below that. The limit has been reviewed several times but kept. Track bikes and time trial machines are also covered by equipment rules on shape and size. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A racing bike must weigh at least 6.8 kg: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The UCI set the floor in 2000 to keep the sport from becoming a spending race. The figure is taken from Union Cycliste Internationale, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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