Bicycle racers are the only cyclists with great interest in technological improvement and willing to pay for bicycle innovations. Thus, innovation by bicycle manufacturers is limited by what competition regulations in bicycle races accept as standard and legal.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?

A - Expansion of the traditional bicycles market is limited by that of the high-technology racing ones.

B - There is no strong demand for bicycle technologies forfeited by competition standards.

C - Innovations in high-performance bicycle models are more likely to be created by small market players than by the larger ones.

D - The major concern of bicycle manufacturers is producing models that can be traded worldwide with no need for adaptations. Hence, they show outstanding technological conservatism.

E - Innovative bicycle design is not a concern of committees and authorities who organize and standardize high-performance bicycle races.