I'll ask my yoga teacher what's the Sanskrit for pose #7
Does anyone know why UCI bans the use of aero bars? (I was mighty glad they were allowed for PBP 2019)
Cos in a group of riders they are a bloody hazard.
Aero bars are great, cycling in .NL without them is hellish. But they do slow how fast you can apply the brakes, which in a big bunch is a problem. I use aerobars, am proficient enough to go round round abouts while my arms on on them. But in a group I don't use them because it's just Not Safe™.
It's worth noting that for your ride to the seaside, the rules re what you could have for aerobars were more strict than what the UCI allows for a TT. They took the rules from Draft Legal Triathlon.
"What about Team Time Trials?"
Someone is no doubt wanting to ask. Well that's on a closed road, in a controlled environment. The team are working together, as a SINGLE team, and they are communicating. The peloton is not a single team, and while there is communication and a certain element of working together, it's a long way from the poetry in motion that is a TTT.
J