If you preferred the way cycling looked about five years ago, great news. The Union Cycliste Internationale has your back. They have announced some forthcoming rule changes that are designed to take us all back in time just a little. As the world's foremost slightly-sarcastic appraiser of UCI rule initiatives, naturally it falls to me to run the measuring tape over the un-innovations. (Unnovations?)

The new rules have a simple purpose. They are designed to make road bikes and riders a bit less aerodynamic, and hence a little more old-fashioned.

First, wheel rims can be no deeper than 65mm, although few currently are. They're going to do something about time trial helmets being used in road stages but haven't really worked out what. Most interestingly, handlebars will have to be a min

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