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"Has the UCI always been a thorn in the side of cycling?"
The UCI are concerned with the safety aspect of bicycle developments. When you have 200 chaps tightly packed doing 30 mph or so on some narrow European road or hurtling at 60 mph plus down the back end of a mountain the designs and materials need to be tried and trusted.
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Also why is cycling so far behind in some respects?
In the 80s in F1 racing they were using turbos, ECUs, super aero body shells and a lot of carbon. Cycling was still using steel and down-tube shifters. The only explanation I can think of is the bike manufacturers wouldn't be able to throw that much money into R&D as a F1 team but surely there's enough money from winning a TDF to make the bikes more aero and lighter even back then. Has the UCI always been a thorn in the side of cycling?
And why are most of the rides in the late 90s/early 00's using alloy seatposts, bottle cages etc when some early 90s mtbs are?
So many questions, so little time....