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I want to know what the UCI is smoking. Who cares what the elite athletes bikes cost? Nobody who needs one has to pay for it, and national federations who can't afford their own bike development programs are in an even worse position on non-bike costs vis-a-vis the top countries, whose fully professional athletes, coaches, nutritionists, physiologists, psychologists ad infinitum consume much bigger budgets than the secret squirrels. Meanwhile, consumer bikes keep getting better and cheaper as the aspirational machines of the pros drive demand, and therefore economies of scale, in the mid market.
Even if the UCI were right about bike costs causing a distortion of competition between the heavy hitters and the third world (which they certainly aren't), there is a colossal problem with creating, maintaining and enforcing homologation rules which the far greater brains and resources of the FIA have struggled with, often unsuccessfully, for decades.