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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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302 points cf100clunk | 3 comments | 31 Mar 25 15:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.499s | source
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islewis ◴[31 Mar 25 16:09 UTC] No.43536621[source]▶
I've always wondered what the technological development of F1 would look like in other sports. This feels pretty close.
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1. gadders ◴[31 Mar 25 16:38 UTC] No.43536971[source]▶
The Aluminium Cricket bat was controversial in the 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComBathttps://en.wikipedia.org...

I guess other (banned) examples would be the LZR swim suits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZR_Racer) and the Nike Vaporfly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Vaporfly_and_Tokyo_2020_O...)

I think I am also right in saying that you can buy a road bike that is better than the ones permitted in the Tour de France.

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2. lapetitejort ◴[31 Mar 25 16:57 UTC] No.43537176[source]▶
> I think I am also right in saying that you can buy a road bike that is better than the ones permitted in the Tour de France.

Recumbent bikes have been banned since 1934[0]! Remarkable machines. I'd love to ride one in a civilized location one day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recumbent_bicycle

3. soared ◴[31 Mar 25 21:16 UTC] No.43540067[source]▶
A very small number of teams aren’t well funded, have sponsorship issues, or whatever else and actually run less than top end components. I don’t recall who but there were bikes at either TDF or vuelta maybe last year with group sets which you could’ve just gone to the store and bought better ones.