UCI legality
Why we built Aercover the way we did
The name reflects what closing a pedal cavity may achieve, but the product was designed around UCI regulations from the start. UCI Article 1.3.024 prohibits aerodynamic devices. The UCI Clarification Guide to the Technical Regulation provides for authorized covers that close an object without artifices in shape, content or volume, and without constituting an excrescence.
One design principle governed everything: fill the existing cavity only, introduce no independent aerodynamic geometry, create no excrescence beyond the pedal envelope. A more aggressively shaped product might generate more aerodynamic benefit — and we deliberately didn't build that product.
Our regulatory reasoning
This is our reading of the relevant provisions — and the reasoning behind our submission to the UCI Equipment Unit for formal confirmation.
The cover fills an existing structural cavity that exists as a construction consequence, not an intentional design feature. Its shape is determined entirely by the cavity geometry and surrounding pedal surfaces — no independent aerodynamic geometry is introduced. It does not protrude beyond the pedal envelope and constitutes no excrescence.
The Look Kéo Blade is a UCI approved pedal already featuring a closed continuous underside as an integral design characteristic. Aercover brings open-cavity pedal systems to equivalent geometry through closure.
A question we're asking directly — and a direction we're already developing toward
We are seeking formal confirmation from the UCI Equipment Unit. Athletes deserve clarity, not ambiguity. We believe the product is correctly designed — and we want that belief formally confirmed. First steps have been taken. This is an honest acknowledgment of where we are, and a confident statement of where we're going.
We are also actively developing toward an integrated closed-body pedal system — a complete pedal with a natively closed underside — for which the regulatory path is cleaner, and which we intend to submit for formal UCI approval in a subsequent phase
For athletes racing in UCI sanctioned events
Until formal UCI confirmation is received, athletes competing in UCI sanctioned events should know: Aercover removes in seconds, without tools, at any point before or during an event. That's not a limitation — it's by design. We built a product that gives athletes the choice, every time
We built the most UCI-considered pedal cover possible. The rest is a conversation we're actively having with the UCI.