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There's some discussion here:
https://www.lfgss.com/thread37903-2.html#post1412019 -
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Ah, LFGSS obviously full of Guardian readers :-)
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Like I read every thread!
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• #8
Chris Boardman talking sense as ever
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/boardman-warned-the-uci-of-risks-of-bike-doping
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• #9
video here explaining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nd13ARuvVE&feature=player_embedded
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• #10
Repost.
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• #12
He bunny hops traffic islands at 30mph on >£10k TT bikes. Short of popping a wheelie at the same time I don't know how I could like his riding more. Only reason I will watch a TT.
@45s
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monster
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• #14
I'm not gay but...
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... But it got me thinking, if it was true, how would you do it? Something driving the BB spindle perhaps, hidden in the frame tubes? What about the extra weight and noise? What would power it? Electric, petrol, nuclear?
How about a fuck-off long rubber band wrapped around the front or rear axle and attached to the forks? It would be like a rubber band powered model aeroplane.
Or, a slightly larger diameter hub which would contain a hamster and treadmill.
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He bunny hops traffic islands at 30mph on >£10k TT bikes. Short of popping a wheelie at the same time I don't know how I could like his riding more. Only reason I will watch a TT.
@45s
Great Vid - i reckon he could have a good career in Couriering when he retires
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• #18
He bunny hops traffic islands at 30mph on >£10k TT bikes. Short of popping a wheelie at the same time I don't know how I could like his riding more. Only reason I will watch a TT.
@45s
He clearly has secret springs built into his tyres that enable him to do this.
The thing with Cancellara is that he rides a time trial and gives a victory salute. I don't know if he was last man off in this one and was told by his DS that he had won, but if not that's quite something.
I sometimes think that if Ullrich hadn't doped early in his career and won the Tour, he could have had a career much like Cancellara's (assuming Cancellara is clean, of course, I have no idea either way). Perhaps he would have had more focus on his best discipline, time trialling, and would have been happier without that constant weight of expectation on his shoulders to win Grand Tours, forcing him to train for things he wasn't quite as good at. Cancellara can just take it easy in the mountains and wait for the TTs. Ullrich could perhaps have done that and still been a very successful rider, although obviously not as famous, of course. They seem like similar riders in many ways, although Cancellara is either advised better or has more of an athlete's head on his shoulders, or both.
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Ha! UCI seem to be taking this pretty seriously ...
bloody comic in a way
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• #21
what.... really?
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• #22
Woah. That's pretty clever.
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• #23
UCI taking it ever more seriously.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/uci-establishes-sanctions-for-motorised-bikes-168892
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• #24
Someone I know who spoke to someone who should know said that it definitely did happen. #startingmaliciousrumours
What he said did sound pretty credible.
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It's breaks the heart that people would stoop so low, motors in bikes just seems so much worse than Poe and blood bags, oh and sketchy TUEs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/may/19/cycling-motors-mechanical-doping
This has got to be one of the strangest stories of the year. No, it's not April 1st .....
But it got me thinking, if it was true, how would you do it? Something driving the BB spindle perhaps, hidden in the frame tubes? What about the extra weight and noise? What would power it? Electric, petrol, nuclear?