Road bike recommendations

Personally I wouldn't believe anything Pat McQuaid says, that quote is so that they can make money getting frames registered with them as safe to race and they can make money off it.

UCI don't make money from product cerification. It costs them. The major problem with their testing is that its wholly insufficient. Wheels are only tested for their impact.

On impact, no element of the wheel may become detached and be expelled outwards.

• The rupture must not present any shattered or broken off elements, or any sharp or serrated surfaces that could harm the user, other riders and/or third parties.
  
• The rupture characteristics must not cause the hub to become separated from the rim in such a way that the wheel becomes detached from the forks
  
  

UCI has devoted funds to other kinds of testing--- for example, rider safety--- but the above is really the only kind they have managed to mandate. It was in reaction to a number of high visibility incidents involving a few non-standard wheels in the 1990s. One of the brands most associated with accidents was Spinergy--- and they liquidated in 1999. The major players at the time greated the testing since most did not have product offerings at the time. It was time when a number of small vendors were getting the limelight--- Ulrich, Riis, Pantani, VDB, Cipollini, Hamilton etc. riding ADAs, Zabel, Armstrong etc. riding Lightweights, often under foreign flags--- and before the dopping scandals put the teams on sponsorship alert.