three brakes on Mikhail Ignatiev's bike

[oaklegs]

Katusha rider Mikhail Ignatiev took an extreme approach to bar padding for Paris-Roubaix.

In this photograph there appears to be an additional brake lever on the handlebars. Is this legal as far as UCI is concerned?

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

Here, let me help you with that "photograph". It's a bar top cross lever, and UCI legal, borrowed from cyclocross. Never heard of it? (see 2nd photo). That ridiculous padding should be banned though.

 

[online-rider]

The padding is a disgrace. But at least its not as wimpy as the cannondale headshock.

 

[ergmonkey]

Might want to change the title of this thread from "three brakes" to "three brake levers."

Sorry, but I had to nit-pick on this one.

Unless, of course, Ignatiev also added a disc brake somewhere...

 

[biker77]

Any pictures of this during the race, or do riders and mechanics take the p**s sometimes?