"Why would you not retain the 120deg elbow angle limit to prevent superman?"
because you can famously, easily, game the test.
"I just grabbed a bunch of recent tri/tt fit data and created another sheet to test. Only a handful of those riders were UCI constrained. Most of the fails are the quite forward positions."
that's not my experience, or the typical experience, once a rider gets to 6' tall. even with the ME. this is a big problem for a lot of riders on a lot of teams. and, if you get that ME you don't get the other, which means saddles have to be 5cm behind the BB.
"TT attendance dropped massively here when they started enforcing UCI rules"
that's the thing. it does involve a LOT of riders. no way could i ride in any way comfortably if i had to ride according to UCI rules.
because you can famously, easily, game the test.
"I just grabbed a bunch of recent tri/tt fit data and created another sheet to test. Only a handful of those riders were UCI constrained. Most of the fails are the quite forward positions."
that's not my experience, or the typical experience, once a rider gets to 6' tall. even with the ME. this is a big problem for a lot of riders on a lot of teams. and, if you get that ME you don't get the other, which means saddles have to be 5cm behind the BB.
"TT attendance dropped massively here when they started enforcing UCI rules"
that's the thing. it does involve a LOT of riders. no way could i ride in any way comfortably if i had to ride according to UCI rules.