There is no data’ – SRAM launches legal challenge to UCI gear restrictions

September 19, 2025

US Component brand SRAM has announced a legal challenge to the UCI’s impending gear restriction test and rules, which will come into force shortly at the Tour of Guanxi, claiming the rules unfairly disadvantages SRAM-equipped teams as well as disparages SRAM in the road drivetrain market.

SRAM argues that there is no sound evidence that higher rollout rations (harder gears, in common parlance) relate to an increased risk of crashing.

The US component rans made their challenge via the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA). The BCA said the “investigation will seek to determine whether the adoption of the ‘Maximum Gearing’ technical standard by the UCI amounts to an anticompetitive decision.” Cycling News