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Caveat what I'm about to say with the fact that I know almost nothing about racing.
Is it generally accepted that banning innovative machines was a bad move by the UCI? It's a problem in F1 (for example) that you simply can't make any meaningful comparison between Fangio's and Schumacher's accomplishments. Appreciate that, despite the banning of machines like the lotus, technology has moved in the past 20 - 30 years and that the bikes are utterly dissimilar, but I quite like the idea that people are at still competing in something that is recognisably the same sport and comparisons can be drawn (for example, hasn't the hour record only moved by a few hundred metres since Merckx's?)