Now the pros are cheating with us...

[JayVee]

The first case of mechanical doping has been discovered at the Zolder cyclocross championships. The culprit alleges that she accidentally took a friend's bike that looked like hers. It coincidentally just happened to have an engine hidden in it. I guess most of us here are educated enough about e-bikes to recognize that her defense is pretty weak.

http://m.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/c...cyclocross-championships-20160131-gmi9vx.html

 

[Jim123]

Good article JayVee. The twitter post has a 1 hr video of a cycle cross race. I have never seen that type of race before, lots of skids and hopping off the bike to walk. This article http://www.businessinsider.com/bike...cycling-world-championships-cyclocross-2016-1 has good videos of tech doping. One shows little motor going into Shimano holotech bottom bracket. Well they found a use for the holo part LOL.

 

[Nirmala]

Another article is on Gizmodo about motors in racing.....that really is cheating!
http://gizmodo.com/how-pro-cyclists-cheat-using-motorized-bikes-1756414521

 

[David Barovian]

How Does Mechanical Doping Work?
http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/news/how-does-mechanical-doping-work

 

[Ravi Kempaiah]

What a disgraceful thing!!
Snobs have another reason to show their disdain towards E-bikes.
Ironically, there is an E-bike called EPO and EPO was the drug used by Lance..!!

Reminds of a great documentary " If you don't take it, you won't make it"

 

[J.R.]

Interesting they're still catching people trying to cheat with e-assist. There is some information on those very small motors in this thread:

http://electricbikereview.com/community/threads/vivax-assist-stealth-to-the-max.1799/

Maybe the answer is to have real ebike races where everyone uses the same motors so the playing field is level.