Masters competitor busted for hidden electric motor

[Yellow Saddle]

They are available off the shelf, though.

Now you tell me. All these years I've been struggling along trying to beat Johnny next door. If only I'd known.

 

[Levo-Lon]

My mrs got all upset the other week after a chap buzzed past her going uphill on a leccy mtb.

She was in eco on her leccy mtb ..that bloke must have been in bloody sport mode she cried..Not that she's competitive
He was cheating in her view..i just gasped air while giving it my all on my pedal powered mtb and said its shocking what people will de to beat the opposition dear..

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Might be a bit of a giveaway

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If that old geezer had any fighting spirit he would have painted that battery to look like a saddle bag. He could even have stuck a zip around it with glue and painted it to look like canvas.

 

[classic33]

Might be a bit of a giveaway

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"The basic vivax Assist package costs in the vicinity of AUD $4,300(£2,178) and comes with a battery pack, a saddle bag for housing the battery, a charger, a seatpost for housing an electronic control unit, the motor itself and the adapters necessary to connect the motor to the crankshaft of the bike."

AIGLE, Switzerland — Caught using a hidden motor at a world championship race, cyclo-cross rider Femke Van Den Driessche of Belgium has been banned from cycling for six years.

The sanction imposed Tuesday by the International Cycling Union is a first using its rules on technological fraud.

The UCI banned Van Den Driessche through Oct. 10, 2021, stripped her of the Under-23 European title she won last November and fined her 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,500).

She must return all prize money and trophies, including her Belgian national title, won since Oct. 11, the UCI disciplinary tribunal ruled.

The 19-year-old rider had said she would skip her disciplinary hearing at the UCI's Swiss offices and retire from racing.

The motor was found using magnetic resonance scans of bikes in the pits area at the women's world under-23 cyclo-cross race in Belgium in January.

"The motor was a Vivax which was concealed along with a battery in the seat-tube," the UCI said Tuesday. "It was controlled by a Bluetooth switch installed underneath the handlebar tape.

"(T)his new method of testing has proven in trials to be extremely effective in locating hidden motors or other forms of technological fraud as it quickly detects motors, magnetic fields and solid objects concealed in a frame or components," the UCI said.

The ruling followed 10 days after a French broadcaster and Italian newspaper alleged it used thermal cameras to detect suspected motors in bikes in two men's road races in March.

Cookson said last week the claims were based on "inconclusive" evidence, and expressed confidence in the UCI's detection methods

http://beta.pe.com/articles/driessche-801105-year-gets.html

 

[Cronorider]

If that old geezer had any fighting spirit he would have painted that battery to look like a saddle bag. He could even have stuck a zip around it with glue and painted it to look like canvas.

They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail

 

[winjim]

They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail

Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail

But I have a cunning plan for that. I'm designing a fan as we speak.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?

Water cooling via Camelback?

 

[classic33]

They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail

Cool down is fairly rapid once its no longer under power. Thermal scanning wouldn't work.

 

[classic33]

Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?

Bike frame!

 

[winjim]

Cool down is fairly rapid once its no longer under power. Thermal scanning wouldn't work.

Thermal scanning is how our protagonist was caught. But during the event, not at the finish.

Bike frame!

Steel then, not carbon obviously.

 

[Cronorider]

Let me know when you come up with an absolutely foolproof design...

 

[winjim]

Let me know when you come up with an absolutely foolproof design...

Maybe somebody already has.

 

[Lee_M]

Why anybody would put a motor in his bike to cheat is beyond me - and for an amateur race

a team cheated in the 3rd place tie break of our local pub quiz last week.
the prize was a 1/4 bottle of prosecco - between 4 of them!

 

[Slick]

My mrs got all upset the other week after a chap buzzed past her going uphill on a leccy mtb.

She was in eco on her leccy mtb ..that bloke must have been in bloody sport mode she cried..Not that she's competitive
He was cheating in her view..i just gasped air while giving it my all on my pedal powered mtb and said its shocking what people will de to beat the opposition dear..

Ha ha, brilliant. My Mrs is very much like that, I've always wondered if they teach them that in school.