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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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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.
I imagined she was using the bike because she had mechanical issues with her own. But you guys are probably right.
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A bike, exactly to match hers
Is the 'it's not my bike, m8' excuse as ridiculous as it sounds? Could a punter get their non-sanctioned bike in to the pits at a world champs?
Basically looking forward to seeing some photos of this thing.
Howard
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.