Recent content by fishtacos

Re: The doped bike (DON'T) exist! Dear Dave, Let me help you with some reading comprehension. From the Park Tools advice on external bearing cranksets: "Push from right side until spindle comes out left cup. Fit is snug, and in some cases gentle use of a mallet may help." "Next, loosen and...

Re: The doped bike (DON'T) exist! Sorry, just had to jump in here after reading that - "without proper mechanic training" - That might be why you don't know that many cranks have to be 'persuaded' with a rubber mallet. It's standard procedure to remove or install both external bearing and...

Using Firefox on a mac, the picture galleries at the top of an article display as full images rather than thumbnails, requiring one to scroll halfway down a page to get to the actual article text. Chrome displays the galleries correctly. At least on the last version of the site I could read the...

Oh, I agree that that's perfectly technically possible, IMO it's just much, much less likely. I think that it's far easier to build in a motor that drives the cranks. That's what we've seen from Vivax and the other website RaceRadio posted (even though they don't actually show any product, which...

I thought I remembered seeing pictures of bikes being x-rayed, but when I quickly searched I could only find the following information about x-ray scanners (similar to airport scanners - that oughta be effective! :rolleyes:) or of cameras inserted into frames...

I think you might want to think about that statement. Occam's Razor and all that.

Unless you have an external battery source, there's (probably) no way you're going to get a hub motor that's small enough to do any good without someone noticing that your hubs are strangely oversized on only some of your teams' wheels. And, if you have an external battery source, you're gonna...

Just looked at the infamous "Gruber Assist" motor again: http://www.vivax-assist.com/en/produkte/vivax-assist-4-0/vivax-assist_4-0.html And asked a couple of EEs who specialize in electric motors what they think of scaling down a motor like this. 40W would be plenty for 10 minutes... all...

No, but A "desiginer"/engineer... ;) Don't worry - in a totally different sport. I was just very impressed with that "bike" after having seen some of the e-bike junk that's on the market for a couple thousand dollars. It's not my cycling cup of tea, either, but if I was a bike-commuter, I'd...

The motor/battery/switch/connections don't have to give much power to be helpful in a pro race - but it has to be essentially invisible. That's the problem with a hub-based motor, which is what this thread was originally about. I'm not saying it's impossible, but for no-one to notice...

@Granville57 - referring to the Turbo as a "contraption" is pretty pejorative. I've ridden them, and they're awesome. By far the best pedal-assist e-bike I've ever seen or ridden. Try riding it next time instead of not giving it much attention. But - see that black section of the downtube...

You're gonna have to go on the slippery side of that Coefficient of Friction, given that Garmin tires slide out on pretty much any surface known to man. Wet, dry, flat, downhill, uphill (cough, Dan Martin, cough), on a curve, in the straights...

And righteously p!ssed off! I think even the interviewer was taken aback by his candor. No holding back, there. Thanks for posting the interview links.

Let me know what planet you're on... so I never, ever make the mistake of going there.

Mad props for Sauronaranch! :D