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He's holding the hoods though. I took that rule to mean you can't have your arms on the tops and hands on the floating in space in the middle of the bars (aka puppy paws).
When I'm riding on the hoods of my road bike with a 90 deg arm bend my wrists are touching the bars and I have very short bars. He's got longer bars. Where else are his arms supposed to go when holding the brake hoods?
hippy-
When I'm riding on the hoods of my road bike with a 90 deg arm bend my wrists are touching the bars
Yeah, so are mine, but the contact doesn't go back very far.
As far as these extreme reach "road" bars with forearm support go, the proposed CTT rules committee (approved at the last AGM, but I've heard nothing about any appointments, terms of engagement, or requests for comment yet) will have to decide to what extent they want to regulate them, by for example defining a bounding box, given that there is currently no process for scrutineering and no resources to carry it out.
If people are going to rampantly take the piss like this, they'll kill the road bike class because it will be indistinguishable from the TT bike class by any meaningful measure of the various reasons given for creating a separate road bike class.
gbj_tester
Looks at this, looks at the photo.