>>1502817I know, and that's what makes it gay. It's not the pinnacle of what humans can do, it's just fitting designs to arbitrary rules that are constantly changing to prevent one team from having an advantage over the others.
>>1502790There are tri bikes that look like this. Companies realized they could do better than the conventional bicycle and took it upon themselves to do the R&D, even though the bike could only be sold to a small subset of the cycling market.
It's an objective fact that bikes would be at least marginally more aero, more comfortable, and possibly lighter if the UCI didn't have arbitrary constraints stemming from the overly conservative road racing tradition.