I'm pretty sure that the rule requiring riders to take up a position with feet remaining on the footrests was there right from my first handbook back in the late 70's,
I have heard commentators recently starting to refer to riders using the leg to 'make themselves as wide as possible' during battles, which I think is not only wrong but is likely to lead to someone getting a leg wiped out eventually!!
Could redesign the bike to have both wheels at the front spaced at the same width as the length of the wheel base of a traditional solo bike to make it wider legally, a sort of two wheeled monocycle.
I have just patented this design along side my 6 stroke internal combustion engine which produces (per cc) one third of the power of a two stroke engine with 40 times the number of components at ten times the production costs. I am in touch with Carmelo Blatter of DORMA (Don't Organise Racing Much Anymore) to replace the 50cc class with a 500cc 6 stroke single where teams will be limited to a 2 billion $ budget.
With the new chassis set up and the 6 stroker I see it replacing F1 as the most boring TV since Ant and Deks 'Saturday Night Scraping The Barrel' and 'Baffin Islands' Got Talent' (*Oh my Dog not another penguin impersonator, singing 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina')
* Those of you knowledgeable enough will realise that Baffin Island is in fact in Canada which is in the Northern Hemisphere whereas Penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere but on Saturday night who cares.
Edited by tonyed, 06 June 2015 - 15:13.