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Your faith in the goodness of human nature is heart warming.
Sadly, in this case I think it's misplaced.
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Plausable, but highly unlikely.
A bike, exactly to match hers, has a motor in it and is in the pits at the very highest level of the sport. Because a cyclocross pit is not chaotic enough without all your family and friends adding their bikes to the maelstrom.
Given how easy they are to detect I doubt we'll see anyone trying to use these again, at least at a high level. Does seem like the sort of thing which could effect lower level races though. If someone's prepared to risk their health and reputation through biological doping I'm sure they'd be up for installing an engine in their bike.
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Does anyone have a link to such a product that one could buy?
I've clicked around on the interwebs and it seems the technology is more mature than I initially thought.Competitions aside, I like the idea of being able to retrofit motors to a bike you currently own, to enable older riders to continue commuting trough periods of ill health for example.
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One of the selling points for these little motors (as I've read a couple of times) is that they allow weaker riders to join club rides and not slow down others or get dropped. So if the bike does belong to a friend who she trains with, the excuse offered is entirely plausible and, I hope, true.
I can't imagine pro-teams chancing it, and I think it would be impossible for riders to do something like this to a bike without their teams/mechanics knowing.
One can hope.