Ha ha. To my table tennis compatriots, Rule 33 for road cyclists requires one to shave their legs. Believe it or not, people have argued that there is an aerodynamic advantage to removing hair on the legs. Pretty much every pro road cyclist does it. Mainly though it is better for when you crash so when you remove the bandages it doesn't hurt so much and the mangled flesh stays cleaner.
No, I don't follow that rule. I use my small ring too (also against the Rules for road cyclists). Road bikes typically have two chain rings on the front with the pedals, and the heroic road cyclists of the 1970s, like Eddie Merckx, tended to stay in the larger one with 53 teeth and just push harder. Nobody does that now when climbing, rather the best riders tend to go into a lower gear and spin faster, with Chris Froome taking that approach to an extreme, and with great success.
Half the fun of rules is knowingly breaking them. It is odd that the Rules for cyclists, which were always intended to be tongue-in-cheek, started to taken seriously by some people!
Of course,the other half of the fun is writing them.
