Visma-Lease a Bike ‘utterly astonished’ as UCI issues wheel tech ban just two weeks before Paris-Roubaix

With just days to go until Paris-Roubaix, UCI has reported banned Visma-Lease a Bike from using self-inflating tyre tech, angering the team’s Head of Performance, Mathieu Heijboer, who has called it “no coincidence”.

The system, known as KAPS (Kinetic Air Pressure System), was developed by Dutch company Gravaa and was first used in a WorldTour race in March 2023 by Edoardo Affini.