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With the tour being such a priority for Sky, afterall that's the one that actually gets any non specialist coverage, surely all a salary cap would do would mean sky would have fewer top riders across the roster, but keep around 10 top riders who would be the tour squad, with lower paid riders riding the other events?

I think Kwiato's point is pretty on the money, it may be the style in which sky win, but quickstep's dominance in the classics could be seen as pretty dull too, they can field such strong teams for those events that it's a bit of a surprise when they don't win.

Sky have dominated the TdF and thats about it really. 

They win stage races and the odd one day / classic race but dont dominate them nor do they dominate the other 2 GT's so why do the press and other bodies persist in their belief that a salary cap will stop Sky winning everything and employing all the top and up and coming riders when its blatantly obvious they dont win everything. 

As others have said there needs to be more done to help the smaller teams through sponsorship and greater returns when they enter races. 

I assume, if they did set a salary cap, the riders could easily challenge it at court by saying "look at football, basketball, f1 etc etc no cap in these sports so why should we be punished".