CTT pushes through new road bike rules

Governing body’s AGM agrees on new regulations to limit bike and rider position modifications

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Cycling Time Trials has pushed through a new set of regulations for its road bike time trials as part of a raft of changes to the sport and the way it is run in the UK.

The proposals were voted through at its annual AGM, which took place in Northamptonshire over the weekend.

The bulk of the changes relate to differences in the limitations on road bikes and the way they are set up. These rule changes had been widely anticipated, following complaints made at last year’s Road Bike National Championship about eventual winner George Fox’s bike and position; Fox had to wait seven weeks to be awarded his title.

According to a CTT delegate, who did not wish to be named, the new rules are based very closely on the proposal put forward by the CTT’s own, newly created, Regulations Advisory Group.

The key changes here mean that riders will no longer be able to use a frame marketed as ‘for time trials or triathlon’ and build it into an aero road bike. It also means the rider will have to use a standard grip on the bar tops, drops or hoods, and will now be forbidden from resting their wrists or forearms anywhere on the bar.