FMTRI banning aeorbars

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Does anyone know anything about this? I haven’t found much about it on FMTRI but asdeporte question section has a request for clarification (not answered). Anyone know when this came about? Is it only for the national circuit? I’ve already entered triatlons and can’t believe tri bikes are now banned from triatlons (except WTC).

all i can find is that aerobars aren’t allowed if they are longer than the bars the brakes are on. (from FMTRI rule 5 http://www.triatlon.com.mx/reglamento_5.html

Manubrios y aerobarras
Se permite el manubrio tradicional de ciclismo, curvo hacia abajo.

http://www.triatlon.com.mx/img/manubrio_ciclismo1.jpg http://www.triatlon.com.mx/img/manubrio_ciclismo2.jpg

Se permitirán las aerobarras siempre y cuando no sobre pasen la línea imaginaria de las palancas de freno.

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As I am reading it, it is describing bars for use in draft legal racing, in the section above where those pictures are, it describes the aero bar rules for non-draft racing.

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yeah, this is going around our local FB though and i’m trying to figure out what their source is. i’m not seeing it from the official site… i guess i’ll find out one way or another this weekend… :slight_smile: