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Spartacus' Bike Had a Hidden Motor

4xBoy

4xBoy

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So is the hole frame filled with lithium?

What is the power source, and I can show my bike in the air freewheeling pretty easy, under load not so simple.


But his pull away in that vid. is f-ing amazing.
 
splat

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All they would have to do is weigh the bike . Batteries and Motors aren't Light.

thinking about it I guess you'd put the batteries in the Tubes of the bike , and some sort of motor in the Hub ( which would be obvious ) or in the Bottom Bracket.
 
OGRipper

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Well, the weight and noise arguments are easy. Bike companies have been working with the UCI weight limit for years - there are ten pound bikes out there, right? As for noise, it's electric, and could be very quiet.

Plus there is no way they would do all that work if it wasn't real.

I believe.






:D
 
James

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splat said:
All they would have to do is weigh the bike . Batteries and Motors aren't Light.

thinking about it I guess you'd put the batteries in the Tubes of the bike , and some sort of motor in the Hub ( which would be obvious ) or in the Bottom Bracket.
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Well, he did switch bikes, at least at PR, before the finish...

THE PLOT THICKENSSSSSS
 
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splat said:
All they would have to do is weigh the bike . Batteries and Motors aren't Light.

thinking about it I guess you'd put the batteries in the Tubes of the bike , and some sort of motor in the Hub ( which would be obvious ) or in the Bottom Bracket.
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Well, they must weigh the bikes at sometime to enforce the 15lb minimum weight limit, but it seems less likely at the kinds of races that Cancellara excel at.
 
James

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loco-gringo said:
Nope...switched at Flanders. I suspect it's because he broke a chain last year and wanted a fresh ride. :think:
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Must've been mistaken then. That's where he rode the new black prototype Roubaix SL3, then swapped for a white painted on before the end of the race, yeah?
 
MtnbikeMike

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In the first shot of him 'turning his motor on,' you can clearly see the shifter paddle move. In the second one, it's too grainy to really see anything. There the last pic of him with his hand hooked around the top of the lever and they call they suspicious? I've used that same position when using SRAM levers.... uh oh :panic:
 
OGRipper

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You all can go on believing in your heroes and their so-called natural strength. My illusions have been shattered so many times I have no problem believing this is real. It's no more or less plausible than the notion of an un-enhanced athlete just riding away from the best in the world - twice - in the hardest one-day races of the year.

Has Lance ever denied mechanical doping? He passed all those drug tests all those years - did anyone ever check his bike?

For that matter, have these guys been x-rayed for bionics?



:D
 
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On serious note:

I'd think any motor capable of producing enough power to help a guy like Fabian out would have to be very powerful (too powerful to hide inside a bike) . When he's mashing, I really doubt that motor is turning with enough power or speed to assist.
 
Toshi

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blue said:
On serious note:

I'd think any motor capable of producing enough power to help a guy like Fabian out would have to be very powerful (too powerful to hide inside a bike) . When he's mashing, I really doubt that motor is turning with enough power or speed to assist.
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Wind it properly for the rpms required and it'll add in an extra N watts over a pretty wide range. It's technically possible.
 
loco-gringo

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MtnbikeMike said:
In the first shot of him 'turning his motor on,' you can clearly see the shifter paddle move. In the second one, it's too grainy to really see anything. There the last pic of him with his hand hooked around the top of the lever and they call they suspicious? I've used that same position when using SRAM levers.... uh oh :panic:
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I was turning my motor on this morning.

I thought the same thing. Me thinks they never rode Red. :think:
 
4xBoy

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Well I believe th e report after all Samuel Tilley was caught doing 205mph on a RC-51 in MN a few years ago from a helicopter.
 
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