According to CyclingTips, the UCI will allow disc brakes in professional events in 2016. A few teams tested this technology at the Tour of Poland and at the Vuelta a Espana. All teams will be able to use it at all events on the UCI professional road calendar in 2016. "If the experience is satisfactory, disc brakes will be officially introduced to the UCI WorldTour in 2017. The aim is to eventually introduce disc brakes to all levels of road cycling."

"I think it is such an important part of what we are trying to do, to look at new technology, to embrace it rather than to resist it. Hence we got the new rules for the hour record and so on," UCI president Brian Cookson told. "We have representatives of the manufacturers, the teams, the riders’ association, the race organisers and so on. I think we are very open to this [the introduction of disc brakes – ed]. We may well look at some experimental test events later this year with a view to perhaps wider introduction next year or the year after that."