Allegations have been floating around since 2010 Tour of Flanders when Fabian Cancellara "motored" up a hill (1:20 in this vid)

The big deal is that after years of allegations, someone was actually busted. She'd been under suspicion since last Nov. when she, at 19, motored away from a bunch of elites and her bike this week in practice was noticed to have an odd seat tube.

You can buy a motorized bike like hers for 5000 euro: https://www.salden.nl/en/wilier-triestina-e-cycl-ocrosser-met-trapondersteuning.html

So you may ask, if it weighs a couple of kilos, wouldn't it be too heavy to race on? It's not uncommon for pros to switch bikes in a race, say to a bike with lighter wheels before a climb. A lot of pros have been having suspicious bike changes in the last few years which has fueled the gossip further. Plus, most pro bikes are under the 6.8 kg weight limit so they end up having bits of chain, etc in the frame to get the bike up to weight. In cyclocross, where this girl was busted, elites and pros may have 3 or more bikes in the pits and may switch bikes every lap as they pick up a lot of mud in wet conditions. Someone in the pits washes the bike for the next switch. The other bikes will have different treads depending on conditions.

Greg Lemond was complaining about the chances of doped bikes last summer: http://cyclingtips.com/2015/07/hidden-motor-demonstration-with-greg-lemond/ From same website, how it works: http://cyclingtips.com/2015/04/hidden-motors-for-road-bikes-exist-heres-how-they-work/

Yeah, it stinks.

Now, as to our applications, mind you these things put out a heck of a lot of power (150 watts for up to 30 minutes) in a package that adds only a couple of kilos. If you could just get a jet underwater to get you planing, that would be pretty cool.

Since cyclists obviously must carry an enormous cheating gene, why not just make it an unlimited, open class sport. Then they could proper bike races. Like these.

http://www.motogp.com/

BTW - where did they hide the motor?

webguy wrote:

how it works: http://cyclingtips.com/2015/04/hidden-motors-for-road-bikes-exist-heres-how-they-work/

Randy, all you need to know.

Saw this and thought of windlord. It's a failed bottom bracket but I thought he could conjure up a better explanation.

Then saw this and thought of Peelskid who told me about this move at his dock party.

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Riders "scrub" the jumps by leaning like that and converting upward motion to forward motion allowing them to actually accelerate through the jump and land sooner, instead of slowing down when done the old way. The move is so hard that only about half the pro's even do it, but when done right it's almost like cheating, by having superhuman skills.

What makes the scrub in the GIF in fact, fucking sick, is that normally the scrub starts by dropping the front tire off the lip of the jump but this guy starts half way up the face of the jump.
Basically he turns the front wheel to the left while leaning to the right dumping the bike and hoping that the ground will disappear before he hits it. Just amazing

Saw this today: