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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.
They are available off the shelf, though.
"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
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.
Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?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.They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail
Water cooling via Camelback?Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?
Cool down is fairly rapid once its no longer under power. Thermal scanning wouldn't work.They scan the bikes with a heat sensor at the finish, so your idea - while brilliant - would ultimately fail
Bike frame!Right. We just need to design in a massive heat sink. Couple it to a water bottle maybe?
Thermal scanning is how our protagonist was caught. But during the event, not at the finish.Cool down is fairly rapid once its no longer under power. Thermal scanning wouldn't work.
Steel then, not carbon obviously.Bike frame!
Maybe somebody already has.Let me know when you come up with an absolutely foolproof design...
Why anybody would put a motor in his bike to cheat is beyond me - and for an amateur race
Ha ha, brilliant. My Mrs is very much like that, I've always wondered if they teach them that in school.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..