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themosquitoking
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According to bus stops around here they also only drink stuff for breakfast.
Mechanical doping
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themosquitoking
Guru
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I'd like to try a bike that had been doping.
Hont
Guru
- Location
- Bromsgrove
When this first became mooted (after Cancellara's dominant Flanders win) an ex-rider tested a unit that was capable of producing 50 watts. That's the difference being dropped and being able to attack.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Canch has been world TT champ a number of times so riding off the front was no surprise
MisterStan
Label Required
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The unit in the linked article is said to be capable of producing double that.
classic33
Leg End Member
Rated at 200w, 250w being the Australian limit for electric assist.
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themosquitoking
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200w is more than i can put out for any great amount of time.
MisterStan
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Sigh....
The Vivax assist motor is rated at 200 watts (the maximum for e-bikes in Australia is 250W, beyond which they are classified as motorbikes) but in reality, we were told, the unit provides somewhere in the vicinity of 110W to the driveshaft. This is in addition to whatever the rider is pushing through the pedals.
oldroadman
Veteran
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- Ubique
Two words: Gruber Assist. Check it out. The commissaires can do random scans now on bikes, and so far all the scans have produced - nothing.
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
I think Gruber Assist and Vivax Assist are the same thing - either Vivax have taken over Gruber or they are marketing it as Vivax.
Never mind scans, the commissaires stripped a lot of bikes after one of the classics - seatpost out, pedals and crank out - and found nothing
It doesn't seem to me that the 'stealth' kit as advertised would really hide the equipment to the level necessary for mechanical doping - some details would still be visible to an interested party even on just a close look round the bike. It wouldn't be difficult to genuinely stealth it though, particularly if you have tame frame makers etc.
Looking at the kit I wonder how reliable these would be (for a leisure rider) in the long term, and whether you'd run out of battery if using it a lot in one day - the motor mounting doesn't seem particularly secure, and the batteries aren't big. Still, won't be long before someone adds regenerative braking or finds a way to charge it on the downhills...
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
They also quarantine and strip down spare bikes, or at least have in the past, and I suppose on a major event it'd be difficult to drop out of the caravan enough to quietly lose a bike.
