The Professional Cycling Association union (CPA) is threatening legal action against the UCI if any riders are hurt due to disc brakes being used on bikes.
Team Sky's Owain Doull had his shoe ripped by Andre Greipel's disc brake during the Abu Dhabi Tour and the CPA has said in a letter to the UCI that by having a disc brake trial without the brakes being covered, puts the UCI in a position where it is “inevitably responsible…for any damage or accident that should happen to the riders.”
The union has called for safety covers to be introduced and said that if measures to protect their members whilst on their bikes was not introduced, that the CPA would take “all the necessary legal actions to safeguard the health and safety of its members, who, as workers, must be guaranteed the adoption of all the appropriate preventive measures required by the legislation on the safety at work.”
“With the Equipment Commission we tried in every way the path of dialogue through the repeated letters and meetings we had,” CPA President Gianni Bugno said to Cycling Weekly.
“Now we feel compelled to act in a stronger way to be heard. As we have always said we are not against the disc brakes but against the non-implementation of the security measures that the majority of the riders asked before making the tests on the disc brakes in the races. ”
Source: DSG
