Forget chainless...
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“mechanical doping”
She said the bike was borrowed from "a friend"... Who was he, Fabio Cancellara?
Too bad it looked exactly like her regular bike!
Too bad it looked exactly like her regular bike!
She's 19. I know that when I was 19 I didn't know what the hell I was doing...
Ok, so let's assume she didn't know shit about it. The explanation given is just so weird, it sounds exactly like an explanation I would give my father at the age of 19 when he found some, cough cough, nice mags containing pics of women.
A bike she sold to a training partner, at least a year old and probably in old livery, leaning against the team truck after a recon ride and her mechanics don't recognize the different bike and load it into the team truck, where after the race the UCI finds it and the helping device?
C'mon!
The guy would not be looking for his bike? The mechanics would not recognize it as a different bike?
Perhaps she didn't know, but her team must have.
Not to mention the difference in weight between her other bikes and the motorized one. Even when speaking of a device not too powerful and just meant to be used once in a race to give ver an edge over her competitors, her mechanic should have felt it when preparing it along with the rest of her replacement bikes.
We're not talking about your average steel gravel grinder here. These are race machines well in the weight weenie territory.
We're not talking about your average steel gravel grinder here. These are race machines well in the weight weenie territory.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20160130_02100237
Her brother is suspended for Epo usage... I think that she/ her family knows exactly what they are doing.
Obviously not, or they wouldn't have both been busted.
Once again, ebikes ruin everything. If you're going to cheat, at least cheat respectably, Lance pedaled every miles of all 7 tours, cheated his way to the top fair and square, kids these days have no respect for the game.
Edited for my terrible grammar.
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So, umm, if a friend of mine wanted to test one of these dope-mobiles for an enduro race, where would one acquire this new "training system"?
UCI officially terms it "technological fraud"“mechanical doping”
and downtube motors are poor mans doping
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/electromagnetic-wheels-are-the-new-frontier-of-mechanical-doping-claims-gazzetta-dello-sport/
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/electromagnetic-wheels-are-the-new-frontier-of-mechanical-doping-claims-gazzetta-dello-sport/
XOXOXOXOXO! That's exactly what I'm looking for! Per their website:
Bingo! I've always been frustrated that my utter lack of fitness prevents me from keeping up with people who actually ride regularly. Seems unfair IMO.
Aaaaand I even get an authentic ride feel? Hell + Yes
I'm not exactly sure what this is saying, but I like the idea of 100% power and extra adrenalin (pretty sure they don't test for adrenalin)
Hmm, I'm a little concerned about the singular use of "moment", as I'm probably going to have a lot of moments in which my fatty tissue stabilizing cords are straining. Still, it sounds like the nirvana I've been after. Vivax le Revolution!
It won't work on your "friends" megatrail
covered.
rep deniedsomebody +rep him for me.
Lmao
Weird, how did you guess my friend had a Megatrail? Anyway, since it seems the Vivax isn't enduro approved, I was thinking of something a little more robust, if not quite as discreet
Couple rolls of duct tape, and I bet no one would be the wiser.
^ it has a gas tank?
Just blame the beans.
No, but it might as well IMO. It's an electric DH bike, which for the life of me, I can't figure out why you'd want/need that provided you're not racing PMB or something. In my admittedly flabby case, it's usually the "holding on during rough sections/not dying" part of DH that blows me up versus all out pedaling. I have no idea how much that thing weighs, but I'm going hazard to guess (a lot) more than my TR-450, and that's the last thing I need - moar bike mass units.
http://www.bht-bike.com/index.php
EDIT - Well shit, maybe I do actually want that thing, you can pull sweet wheelies!
And it even has a fender!!
I guess if you were "solo-shuttling" something all the time, I could almost see it, but still...just go all djjohnr and man-pedal your freeride EVO up that bitch.
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so what do you put in the tank via the red filler cap, if not gas?
Emergency stop button for if you shred too much gnar?
Beer tank cap?
Teams change their color schemes yearly, one way or another. She would have noticed that.
Her unnamed friend wouldn't have been able to ride a WC course unless they were competing too.
The odds of her friend leaving the seat, bar, stem ect. in the exact position are next to never. She would have noticed something was out of place.
Things change. Her friends bike would have had something changed- different colored cable housing, saddle, brake feel, seat height, tires...
You're timing device wouldn't have accidentally been on a non competitors bike.
Where did her friend get this "concealed carry" motor? The advanced engineering/machining to manufacture that motor, battery, gearing and crank and bb mods weren't done in a garage.
That said- I don't think she did this without the team mechanic and the team themselves knowing. The whole team was in on it.
I don't think a 19 year old girl went on to eBay and bought this contraption, went into the team trailer, removed the seatpost, cranks and bb, drilled, tapped and epoxied all that shit into precise place, wired it and left the trailer without being noticed.
Her unnamed friend wouldn't have been able to ride a WC course unless they were competing too.
The odds of her friend leaving the seat, bar, stem ect. in the exact position are next to never. She would have noticed something was out of place.
Things change. Her friends bike would have had something changed- different colored cable housing, saddle, brake feel, seat height, tires...
You're timing device wouldn't have accidentally been on a non competitors bike.
Where did her friend get this "concealed carry" motor? The advanced engineering/machining to manufacture that motor, battery, gearing and crank and bb mods weren't done in a garage.
That said- I don't think she did this without the team mechanic and the team themselves knowing. The whole team was in on it.
I don't think a 19 year old girl went on to eBay and bought this contraption, went into the team trailer, removed the seatpost, cranks and bb, drilled, tapped and epoxied all that shit into precise place, wired it and left the trailer without being noticed.
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Not to mention the extra ~5lbs from the motor/battery pack *should* have been noticed by her mechanic when he was prepping the bikes for the race. Hell, the guy is responsible for keeping everything where she wants it to be, I'm finding hard he would miss that little detail...
Dude, her whole story is ludicrous, and the whole family/team are obviously cheaters.
photoshop that logo over:
Fill it with Boost®
It really looks like the wheel spins before the crank in that clip
It does, homeboy notices it too and starts pedalling like crazy.
... And things are heading south too fast:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-den-driessches-friend-claims-ownership-of-motorised-bike/
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-den-driessches-friend-claims-ownership-of-motorised-bike/
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