Mechanical Doping

Not sure about motor capacity to carry you ..

Nope. Because if you have a cheat bike in your possession, that's enough. You don't even need to use it.

"in keeping with the new UCI regulation, which states that: "Any presence of a bicycle that does not comply with the provisions of article 1.3.010, within or on the margins of a cycling competition, constitutes a technological fraud by the team and the rider.""

Slow clap

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/zipp-404-nsw-faster-more-stable-and-coasting-on-magnets-46268/

I can't find the quote I'm thinking of so maybe I misread it.

I'm sure they said it was her bike and she'd ridden it for a lap or something along those lines.

Fairy nuff, then she is bang to rights

At virtually all levels of motorsport, the scrutineers are volunteers. they just follow a rule book written by the FIA (professionals). So for cycling, the UCI would administer the professional scrutineers would conduct the hologations (they already do this http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/Rulesandregulation/16/60/87/ListofApprovedModelsofFramesandForks_English.pdf) at the season beginning while accredited volunteers would check the bikes at races.

At virtually all levels of motorsport, the scrutineers are volunteers.

When I was racing with the 750 Motor Club the scrutineers were the only officials who got paid. All the others (stewards, race admin, marshals, paramedics) were unpaid, but the scrutes got paid. They were often not very good.

There's a difference between checking a production sample - which I assume is how that tech doc is produced - and checking every bike destined to be used in competition, no?

Otherwise I don't see the point in the increased up-front scrutiny.

If the labour can be had free, great, I'd imagine the logistics will still kill you in the wallet.

That said they kinda do something similar at the start of TTs?

My old man used to do the odd night of scrutineering at the Speedway (cars not bikes). Not sure how legit it was but he was an engineer so he might have spotted dangerous shit but unlikely to notice if someone had bored out the engine on their shit box stock car.

I think we can all agree that bikes are much simpler than cars - even shit box stock cars.

for example, if there was a LFGSS scrutineer team (that's a big IF) I'm pretty sure that there would be enough mechanical experience to check bikes thoroughly enough to spot a motor/under weight/illegal tire width etc

Gets micrometer aaaaat

Where do me and my multi-tool sign up?

about 1 mille-second after posting that, I just thought about how we would impose porn/anti rules and confiscate all Zipps for 'further testing'

for example, if there was a LFGSS scrutineer team

A lfgss scute team would - I would have thought - be about 90%+ riders, Have you been to a UCI event? Have you seen the size of some of the comms, judges, etc? There's some that come to the track here that'd probably have a heart attack just trying to say "bicycle".

UCI had told CyclingTips in December they had a new testing method and they were going to use it first time at the CX champs

We are changing the way we test. All I can tell you is it’s based on magnetic resistance. There is a lot of work to be done. We’ve done our first trial and we have more trials in February. Its first outing, fingers crossed, will be the World Cyclocross Championships.

I personally think it’s more a problem at Gran Fondos [ed. which the UCI actually holds a World Championships for] and that level of racing. The testing we will have will be so easy to use that every commissaire will be able to use it. So [testing] will be able to go on far beyond the WorldTour races.

We’ll probably do our first test in women’s racing next year because we need to extend. We now have the ability to test more bikes more often.

http://iconosquare.com/viewer.php#/detail/1174804949010742363_8427558

^ could you give direct instagram link.

Luguss 'scrute team to competitor:

"Is it a Foffa?"

Yes-"Disqualified and GTFO, fecal freak"

No-"Welcome, enjoy the race"

#notmotorsports

A video posted by Tom Hopper (@tqhopper) on Jan 31, 2016 at 11:14am PST

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBNvuByJ_xb/?taken-by=tqhopper

Sporza have found the friend; Nico Van Muylder ex -pro and pigeon fancier.

Is he 6 inches taller?

Fucking ornothologists, ruining the sport of cyclocross with their sneaky doppelganger bikes and illicit hidden motors. He probably puts that weird 'Lightest' mayonnaise on his chips, you know, the semi-translucent stuff that looks like clotted jizz.

As an aside to the recent discussions. Has any one considered the madness of putting a motor in a bike in a cyclocross race. It seems like you're tempting and far higher chance of failure when you factor in mud, grass sand, jet washing and the general abuse that cx bikes get.

You stomp on the pedals on a muddy incline and find you have an extra 250 watt.

What could go wrong?

In this interview she claims the friend bought a bike 'that used to be hers' last year. He then had the motor installed at some point after that to be able to tag along on training rides. On race day he brought it and leant it against her van, the mechanics mistakenly thought it was hers cleaned it etc and afterwards put it in the van. Which she and her dad knew nothing about at the time.