Two and half years since UCI first announced the trial of disc brakes in racing, the trial will continue into a fourth racing season for 2018, and a lack of firm and finalised regulations regarding the technology remains.
On 14 April 2015, the UCI announced that the initial introduction of disc brakes to professional road racing would take place during the months of August and September of that year.
In the same press release, the UCI noted that "if the experience is satisfactory, disc brakes will be officially introduced to the UCI WorldTour in 2017. The aim is to eventually introduce disc brakes to all levels of road cycling." The trial was put on hiatus after a crash at the 2016 Paris-Roubaix saw Movistar Team rider Fran Ventoso sustain injuries, but the trial resumed in the 2017 season with little or no amendments to the initial trial.
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For 2018, the trial is set to continue "under exactly the same conditions as 2017," where 160mm rotors are the common agreed specification and will feature rounded or chamfered perimeter edges. Two and a half years of racing should be enough to trial a product within competition and finalise both the safety and technical standards, but implementing disc brakes is complicated for a variety of reasons.
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While Shimano and SRAM have had hydraulic disc groupsets for some time now, Campagnolo only released its range of disc brake equipped groupsets in May of this year.
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