python said:but before applying the model to the uci it needs to be thoroughly burnt down...
That seems to be the recurring theme indeed.
What never seizes to amaze me is that the riders themselves are tolerating this organisational cluster**** hanging over their heads. You'd think by now one of them would have initiated a riders' union of sorts, and pressed for things to be a bit less stacked against them.
The only real riders organization I have ever witnessed was a sit-down at the Tour to protest against the sudden doping clamp down.
I can see where they came from (then), but surely they must be frustrated enough by now to muster support for an organization that starts to argue the real riders' cases. It's not like there aren't any issues that don't impact their daily lives and income certainty too directly.