No, the article says that way back in time some French guy showed up to a big bike race with a recumbant and kicked everyone's butt, and then went on to set records, etc. so the Bike Union banned them, just like cats an the AC back in 1867. I'll try to cut and paste it.

Here: Something similar happened in cycling a half-century later when a second-class rider, Francois Faure, showed up for races in Europe with a recumbent bicycle on which the rider sat in a reclining position.

Faure soon was hammering first-class pros in major races and set world speed records for the kilometer, mile and one hour. Predictably, the International Cycling Union followed the line of the sailing establishment and wrote new rules that banned recumbents from its events.