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Equipment doesn't have to be on the market already, it just has to be offered within 9 months of being used in races. So, Pro teams get the initial objects off production tooling (see the latest Campag groupset with 4-arm crank, for example), not prototypes, and the manufacturer then has 9 months to ramp up full rate production for the general market.