Posted on 02/01/2016 2:09:40 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
An elite-level cyclist getting busted for a motor in a bicycle is perhaps the goofiest scandal ever
Anyway, during the weekend, news broke that a competitor in the women’s under-23 competition, a Belgian rider named Femke Van den Driessche, had been flagged for what the UCI termed a “technological fraud.â€
“There was a concealed motor,†the UCI’s president, Brian Cookson, confirmed at a Sunday news conference.
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You just need to bring the cadence way up, then you can coast for a minute or two! (on rollers with secret motor) Also knowing where the secret switch is hidden helps.
Had a small gasoline motor on my bike my second tour in Korea. Came in handy.
I can picture it now, Juicing up the scooter while juicing up the veins.
I spend too much time on the road and rollers, when all I need is the right kinds of juice!!!
Femke
Huh.
The windshield fluid trick was among the very best!
I smile just thinking of it; and the better ones that got away!
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynLMfzLTc8M
How it (hidden motors) works article here... I found it interesting...
http://cyclingtips.com/2015/04/hidden-motors-for-road-bikes-exist-heres-how-they-work/
The athlete that got caught sounds like the Hillary Clinton of the competative cycling world. Claims the bike was ‘switched out” with someone elses. You know, like with a cloth.
There’s a fine line between exploiting holes in the rules and cheating.
NASCAR has a unique history of both. I think DW’s most well known was when his crew chief noticed that the rules defines the weight of a car at the beginning of the race, but made no mention of weight at the end. He outfitted the roll cage with a little door and filled the cage with led shot. This was at Bristol. During the parade lap, DW said “Tally Ho” on the radio, opened the door and dropped over 100 lbs of excess weight. Of course he won the race. Cheating? I don’t know. Smokey Yunich making a 9/10 scale race car, absolutely cheating.
what’s that one?
I used to roller race back in the early 80’s. No hands wasn’t a problem, and could ride standing up. Now the real wizards could ride standing up with no hands, like Bobby Phillips from Baltimore. Here’s a video of him riding. Thing is that the max gear for roller racing was a 51x14, so to go that fast your cadence needed to be up near 240.
http://www.centuryroadclub.com/rider_profile_phillips_bobby.html
Larry Black was another one who was a great roller rider, with a fixed gear he could actually take off a pair of tights while riding.
Smokey was great! Inflating a basketball in the fuel tank to make it appear to only hold the allowed amount of fuel, then deflating it before the race? Brilliant!
Using large diameter fuel lines and snaking them all over the place to again cheat on fuel? Wonderful! But the 9/10 scale car was the ultimate! NASCAR was a lot of fun back then! I don’t even follow it anymore. The cars are virtually identical.
The headline is ‘off’; its MOTORCYCLE on bike!
It appears that the rider will be spinning the motor and the bevel gear set at all times?
Unlikely to be a positive gain in a long ride?
And likely, a permanent magnet motor, the eddy current drag would be an issue.
The bitch set me up!
I have an ‘air head’ BMW, but put more miles on my bicycle each year, not even counting rollers in winter.
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