Motor doping thread

[Billie]

Never saw a team of riders miss braking points in so many corners like the white whales yesterday

 

[Escarabajo]

Re: Re:

Thats some wimpy motor given it didn't move at all after he put the back down..

Noted the same. If it was a motor the bike would have moved forward when the wheel hit he ground. This one is fake news.

It is still hard to believe it can move that way. What is the explanation?

He hand cranked his chain onto the ring, swings the bike to the pavement, wheel still spinning and drops it. Pretty common.

Oh. Ok. I guess I've done it but not like that. But I understand now.

La Flor those videos are always block in my computer. I wonder if there is another source somewhere else.

 

[HelmutRoole]

Re:

Never saw a team of riders miss braking points in so many corners like the white whales yesterday

Saw that too but it’s a GT squad on a flat World Cup course.

 

[HelmutRoole]

Re: Re:

Thats some wimpy motor given it didn't move at all after he put the back down..

Noted the same. If it was a motor the bike would have moved forward when the wheel hit he ground. This one is fake news.

It is still hard to believe it can move that way. What is the explanation?

He hand cranked his chain onto the ring, swings the bike to the pavement, wheel still spinning and drops it. Pretty common.

Oh. Ok. I guess I've done it but not like that. But I understand now.

Not say there’s no motor doping. Riders have been caught so there is; how pervasive is the question.

 

[deValtos]

Just goes to show how badly people want there to be motor doping to highlight something with an incredibly obvious explanation.

What was even more bizzare was Armstrong on his podcast couldn't make sense that someone would lift their bike up when they put the chain on and spin the cranks. He was baffled.

 

[lartiste]

My mistake, you are clearly correct guys.

deValtos:

You can trust me, that I really do not want motor in the race since it would mean destruction of my loved sport. On the other hand there is no explanation for some performances ... .

 

[thehog]

Re:

Never saw a team of riders miss braking points in so many corners like the white whales yesterday

It was so dry and dusty it just looked like that.

 

[Bolder]

Just goes to show how badly people want there to be motor doping to highlight something with an incredibly obvious explanation.

What was even more bizzare was Armstrong on his podcast couldn't make sense that someone would lift their bike up when they put the chain on and spin the cranks. He was baffled.

I thought that was lame on LA's part -- he clearly knows it wasn't a motor but was just trying to stir sh** up

LA should stick to race tactics on his podcast and avoid discussing anything to do with doping, pharmacological or otherwise. His credibility is permanently compromised.

 

[glassmoon]

Just goes to show how badly people want there to be motor doping to highlight something with an incredibly obvious explanation.

What was even more bizzare was Armstrong on his podcast couldn't make sense that someone would lift their bike up when they put the chain on and spin the cranks. He was baffled.

I thought that was lame on LA's part -- he clearly knows it wasn't a motor but was just trying to stir sh** up

LA should stick to race tactics on his podcast and avoid discussing anything to do with doping, pharmacological or otherwise. His credibility is permanently compromised.

He kinda acknowledged his error in yesterday's podcast though... So it seems he really couldn't explain it initially.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Even a team-mate's wheel won't go on Froome's bike - which of them has the wheel motor? Video.

 

[samhocking]

Neutral services in the end.

 

[CTQ]

https://twitter.com/N_Squillari/status/1019225724232687616

No Sky team wheel for Froome - took his chances with Mavic neutral. At least this time it wasn't a bike requested.

 

[jmdirt]

Re:

Put his chain back on and spun the crank with his hand

Video from another angle
https://twitter.com/TomEnthoven/status/1018751837766340608

This video makes it pretty clear what occurred.

 

[JosephK]

Thank goodness the UCI have looked closely at the issue of tech fraud and finally put it to rest:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-finds-no-evidence-of-mechanical-doping-at-the-tour-de-france/

Lots of increased trust in the cleanness of cycling promoted by the UCI and WADA this year. It's all about transparency, figuratively and literally.

 

[MartinGT]

Cant remember any attacks at 2000+ RPM, I wondered why he was quiet. Not tired from the Giro at all. Just a tip off

 

[proffate]

Thank goodness the UCI have looked closely at the issue of tech fraud and finally put it to rest:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-finds-no-evidence-of-mechanical-doping-at-the-tour-de-france/

Lots of increased trust in the cleanness of cycling promoted by the UCI and WADA this year. It's all about transparency, figuratively and literally.

'The objective is to eliminate suspicion' says Lappartient

as opposed to, you know, catch cheaters...

 

[wrinklyvet]

Thank goodness the UCI have looked closely at the issue of tech fraud and finally put it to rest:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-finds-no-evidence-of-mechanical-doping-at-the-tour-de-france/

Lots of increased trust in the cleanness of cycling promoted by the UCI and WADA this year. It's all about transparency, figuratively and literally.

'The objective is to eliminate suspicion' says Lappartient

as opposed to, you know, catch cheaters...

Lappartient has figured out that in this race they were not being used. I don't believe he ever thought that at this level they were. In those circumstances what else can he say?

I can't figure out why on this forum many are willing to give him a free pass. He screwed up about the Froome inhaler case just before the Tour and may have been implicated earlier in the leak. He stirred up public opinion and nearly caused a crisis. Now he's spent a fortune on Xray equipment that would find motors if there were any but the usual brigade are not impressed, so what was the point?

 

[rick james]

Re:

Even a team-mate's wheel won't go on Froome's bike - which of them has the wheel motor? Video.

maybe the guy/girl filming could have picked them wheels up, they just got tossed away, first rule of hidden motors don't chuck the motors away

 

[Benotti69]

Looks like motors are a thing after all.

https://www.velonews.com/2018/09/news/uci-to-organize-e-mtb-world-championships-in-2019_479427

quelle surprise...........

 

[Puckfiend]

What? No comment on Barguil ditching his whole bike (keeping just his front wheel and gps), then washing out on the right hand turn at the top of the climb?

 

[DanielSong39]

If Barguil had won the race by 2 minutes I'm sure he'd be getting a lot more attention.

 

[Benotti69]

Tafi.

If Tafi wanting to ride Paris Roubaix as a competitor at 52 doesn't tell you motors are commonplace then nothing will!

 

[fmk_RoI]

Tafi.

If Tafi wanting to ride Paris Roubaix as a competitor at 52 doesn't tell you motors are commonplace then nothing will!

I guess I'll have to take nothing. Oh, hang on a moment, the moon's just come out, wow, that's it, that's proof that motors are commonplace. I'm a believer!

 

[markene2]

Tafi.

If Tafi wanting to ride Paris Roubaix as a competitor at 52 doesn't tell you motors are commonplace then nothing will!

I guess I'll have to take nothing. Oh, hang on a moment, the moon's just come out, wow, that's it, that's proof that motors are commonplace. I'm a believer!

:lol:

 

[Parker]

Tafi.

If Tafi wanting to ride Paris Roubaix as a competitor at 52 doesn't tell you motors are commonplace then nothing will!

Absolutely. And if me wanting to win the Black Reels best actor award despite not being black or an actor tells you nothing about racism in Hollywood then nothing will.